There's such a convergence of media covering the Super Bowl that you feel like a super nova could occur and swallow up half the Western Hemisphere.
Radio Row is cooking with former players, coaches, broadcasters, writers, Hooters girls and just about anybody else you can imagine. It's very special to be involved in the biggest media event in the country and it all culminates with an actual game on Sunday...but no one is talking about that much yet.
Andre Johnson and many of his Hurricane alums have an event at a Miami Beach hotel with Jimmy Johnson. Andre has pretty much wrapped up the "best wide receiver in the NFL" title based on our unscientific poll of the media. He looked good Sunday night catching a TD pass from Matt Schaub who picked up the game's MVP award.
Rocky Bleir who won four Super Bowls with the Steelers joined us and talked about how Schaub has emerged into one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL.
Bleir took handoffs from Terry Bradshaw who, if you can believe it, was only plus two in the TD-INT ratio for his career. And if you're thinking that's just because of the lean early years you're only half right. He was plus one (26TD, 25INT) in his Super Bowl winning season in 1979.
Today such numbers would be unacceptable but clearly the eras have changed. If a QB can't complete 60% of his passes, alarm bells go off.
Bill Brenner of the Indy Super Bowl committee admitted to us that attendance at the tiny (by NFL standards) RCA dome was lacking before Peyton Manning got there. Will Lucas Oil Stadium be tough to fill if the Colts suffer a drop off in the post-Manning era? The Hoosier thinking is that Indy is a football town now and the folks have pro pigskin spliced into the DNA so they'll show up regardless. We'll see.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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