Every year, the extra week between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl seems worse and worse. There's only so much to analyze, and so the national media picks up on any hint of a story and runs wild.
When else but Super Bowl week would "news" of a disagreement over a team photo get so much air time?
The Packers have handled about as well as a team could the so-called controversy about who will and will not be in the team's Super Bowl photo. Sometime last week, the earth-shattering story broke that the 16 players Green Bay has on injured reserve wouldn't be in said photo because they'll arrive too late to the Dallas area. Angry Twitter posts from some of those injured players caused a big-time hubbub that actually had some opining that this kind of distraction would be detrimental to the Packers' chances of winning the game (yes, there is a game at the end of all this nonsense).
Luckily, with some intervention from players who aren't on IR, this potential catastrophe was averted. Yet somehow, it remains the most talked-about team photo shoot in the history of team photos.
If it's not the Packers team photo, it's whether Troy Polamalu or Clay Matthews has the better hair. If it's not hair, it's Ben Roethlisberger dodging questions about his sordid offseason or assertions that the Steelers' wealth of Super Bowl experience gives them a decided edge. As if 45 professional football players are going to curl up in the fetal position and start crying in terror when they take the field.
In the unlikely event that those non-issues die, we'll probably have to listen to how Aaron Rodgers shaving his beard before the Super Bowl spells doom for the Packers, because Steelers defensive lineman Brett Keisel didn't shave his and that somehow gives him an advantage. Perhaps James Harrison got new contact lenses and will better be able to locate Rodgers. What if Greg Jennings bumps his arm on the podium during media day? What ramifications might that have? Unnamed sources within the Steelers organization indicate that Mike Tomlin and Hines Ward got into a heated discussion about which Dallas-area restaurant has the best mashed potatoes.
Sunday night can't come soon enough.
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And the lead story on the local evening news last night after Snow-nami? All footballs to be used in the Super Bowl are handsewn by Jane who works for Wilson. She will stitch the footballs inside out and then pass them to a co worker who turns them leather side out. Then the coworker inserts a bladder inside the ball. Another worker puts the laces in and inflates the ball. Wilson will make 100 balls for the Super Bowl. And yes, I watched this whole segment.
The media is really reaching this week. Why is there an extra week in between? Seems like the players would just like to get to the game as well.
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