MIAMI — The circus opened on Monday.
Whales, jackals, peacocks, and flamingos were all in attendance at the outrageous, over-the-top — so… quintessentially Miami — NFL Opening Night brouhaha at Marlins Park.
And that was just the media contingent.
The Chiefs and 49ers showed up, too. In all white, no less.
Welcome to Super Bowl week, which is far closer to Inside Edition than Inside the NFL.
Add in the siren’s call of Miami — a locale far more desirable to travel to than Houston or Minneapolis — and you had a truly ridiculous tone set for the week.
This Opening Night event used to be the Super Bowl’s media day — a chance for reporters to ask questions of every coach, staffer, and player on both teams ahead of the biggest game of the year. At some point, the sideshows — and the smokeshows performing them — turned into the main event. Football, which is, ostensibly, the reason people crammed into this stadium, is now a tertiary topic of conversation, if that.
Amid the televangelists (there were many), shock jocks, and a woman in a sailor’s costume asking players to play the child’s board game “Let’s Go Fishing,” here are some real questions I heard asked on Opening Night:
• “If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?”• “What would you do if you were the king of England?”• “Which Florida Man headline is real?”
Oh, and Nick Bosa was asked to send a message to the people of the Wuhan region of China, as they deal with a coronavirus outbreak.
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“To all my Chinese friends, wash your hands and stay clean, because there’s a virus going around,” Bosa said. “And just, hang in there and enjoy the Super Bowl.”
I can only imagine what else I missed amid my quixotic quest around the infield to talk about the most intriguing matchup in recent Super Bowl history.
The whole show happened for the hundreds of television cameras in attendance, but there was also a live studio audience. For $25, fans could come in to watch press conferences. The crowd, comprised of both die-hard fans and curious casuals, was roughly as large as a typical Marlins game, which is to say that there were plenty of good seats still available.
It’s good to know that the fans and the good people of South Florida were wise to the shenanigans.
All last week, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said that he wanted to make sure that his team was fully prepared to play the Super Bowl before they left for Miami.
“I’ve been through the process before. Knowing what’s down there. Knowing how it goes, media-wise. The extra commitments you have,” Shanahan said. Adding: “We had a normal week. If we had to go play on Sunday, we’d be ready.”
Was that just a bit of over-diligence from a coach that’s described by his assistants as OCD?
Nope. And it only took a few seconds of chaos Monday to make that clear.
Several 49ers — who had never been to a Super Bowl before and clearly didn’t understand the warnings given by Shanahan and veteran teammates — expressed their gratitude that Shanahan went all out last week.
It really is all fun and games around The Big Game.
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