The NFL’s annual Super Bowl Media Day was “pretty tame” despite 5,082 media members being credentialed for the event. SI.com’s Richard Deitsch ran a running blog of the goings-on, and noted there was the “usual over-the-top dressed reporters from TV Azteca and guys dressing up like freaks on Hollywood Blvd.” SI.com’s Don Banks said, "This Media Day was low key and laid back. It was extremely cold in the stadium with wind and a meat locker feel. But overall, nothing remarkably memorable coming from today's session" (SI.com, 2/1).
The length of players’ hair turned into a running storyline during the day. Packers LB Clay Matthews “allowed reporter Maria Menounos to stroke his hair” (HUFFINGTONPOST.com, 2/1). Packers LB A.J. Hawk “had to answer several questions from other reporters about his hair.” Hawk called Matthews’ hair “girly” and his own “ratty” (NYTIMES.com, 2/1). Several Steelers players, including WR Hines Ward and DE Brett Keisel, tried on a wig resembling S Troy Polamalu’s hair (NFL Network, 2/1).
NFL Network broadcast the entire Media Day festivities live, and the N.Y. TIMES’ Mike Tanier writes the broadcast team of Rich Eisen, Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, Rod Woodson, and Kara Henderson “took a jokey, winking approach to their coverage, a wise choice that livened up an otherwise dull cavalcade of predictable interviews” (NYTIMES.com, 2/1). The Daily Oklahoman’s Mike Sherman posted on his Twitter feed, “NFL Network's coverage of Super Bowl media day is making an absurd event look even moreso.”
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