Media Mess

Leading into Super Bowl XXII, Doug Williams was asked how long he'd been a black quarterback. Right there, the NFL should have canceled Super Bowl Media Day and never brought it back. It's a circus and always has been. You have players from two teams preparing for the biggest game of their careers and they have to deal with this idiocy. The biggest problem with Media Day is that everyone's invited. There was a member of the Danish press dressed as Waldo at this year's edition of Media Day. Another member of the media was dressed as Mozart. They had a super hero. I'm not sure which one. It doesn't really matter. It's a circus and I can't imagine a team dealing with it and preparing for a Super Bowl. I can't imagine Bill Belichick dealing with it five times as a head coach. His having done so is newsworthy right there. No real news comes out of Media Day. With around the clock coverage of the NFL and social media, there no mysteries out there. Those truly interested in the Super Bowl have been learning about the players, coaches, and teams all season. There's nothing more to ask. Maybe that's why we get so many stupid questions. Here's a few from Tuesday:

"How many cavities do you think Marshawn Lynch has?"

"Who on the team has the hottest wife?"

"Do you go with the seven-layer dip or the salsa for the tailgate party?"

"Are you single?"

I would not miss a thing if I never heard the answer to any of those gems.

How about this one:

"Is this a must-win football game?"

And the NFL mandates that every player has to provide an hour of their time for this sort of harassment.

Marshawn Lynch, never a fan of the media, gave the gathered horde six minutes. That's all that he could handle. I don't blame him at all. He's been fined by the NFL for not making himself available to the media all season. Six minutes from Marshawn Lynch is like a couple of days with other players. He did allow an entertaining interview with Deion Sanders. The Pro Football Writers of America weren't pleased with Lynch's six minutes.

"The PFWA, the official voice of pro football writers fighting and promoting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public, is extremely disappointed in the lack of meaningful access to Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch at the Super Bowl XLVIII media day on Tuesday," the PFWA said in a statement issued by president D. Orlando Ledbetter.

I wouldn't feel any more informed if Lynch provided a total of zero minutes to the media. D. Orlando Ledbetter is out of his mind if he thinks that more than six minutes with Marshawn Lynch is truly serving the public. The PFWA is not the bridge to the public that think that they are. Even when he was at Cal, I always preferred watching Lynch play football than answer stupid questions from reporters. Media Day is a waste of time. I wish that we could go back to the days when the championship game mattered most.