The Grand National Championships

January 29, 2008

It seems as if…

 

Bizarro Stephen A. Smith here. It seems as if the blogosphere or “blogfrica” as you some have lovingly called it has taken issue with the Super Bowl preview event that is called “Media Day.” And while your Stephen A. Smith has castigated bloggers in the past for not being nearly as important as his own self? I must admit, I do see a point.

What initially was an event for the media to get stories for their home paper has become more of an anachronism than America’s popular fascination with church. If you do not believe me? Let me go get some cheeto’s and I shall return with my logical proof.

If you will wait?

Anyway, I am back. And the reason why Media Day is obsolete is simple. With two weeks to prepare for a game and the sports media on much the same cycle as a CNN or MSNBC, what legitimate stories, from the sublime to the ridiculous, that could have been culled from the participants has been found long before the game week Tuesday. What is left is nothing more than a three-ring circus. A theater of the absurd for posers and fools, if you will.

It does need to be abolished. The teams have better ways to use the time, and it would actually force the more bovine of my brethren to actually use their journalism degrees. It is good for the NFL. It is good for the sports media.

I dunno. I guess this wasn’t important. 

Sent by Verizon Wireless Blackberry.

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