The thing about this audacious promise, which would constitute the biggest of all Super Bowl upsets, is that he’d better be damned right. Otherwise, he comes off as an all-time doofus, the football version of “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN,’’ courtesy of Chicago’s less credible daily newspaper. - Jay Mariotti

Is there a less credible press conference than the NFL’s much ballyhooed annual Super Bowl PR hype machine dubiously labeled “Media Day”?

Yesterday afternoon must have been hellish experience for Jay Mariotti.  Even worse than being routinely outed as a fraud and hack by the Chicago Tribune and this rather Internet creaturish blog. Compound the crushing revelation of having a member of the opposite gender rival threateningly vying for Tom Brady’s affections along with the arid climate alarmingly dehydrating and chaffing the pundit’s chaps, it seems that Geno’s favored son decided to live dangerously in a non-vinyl fetish manner and experiment with peyote.

After all, what other plausible explanation exists for today’s rather juvenile hyperbole diatribe against Plaxico Burress’ off the cuff assertion that the Giants will win the game 23-17?

The dumbing down of the sports media culture is never more apparent than this charade perpetrated by the NFL prior to the Super Bowl. It is ironic that a league normally paranoid over its image allows itself.... check that....., actually encourages to be annually defecated upon in public by certain degenerates of society that have no business being issued press passes for the NFL’s crown jewel season ending event.

Thank God that the lovely Inez was able to restore some legitimacy and badly needed sanity towards the uber-important Media Day.

On a day when football players and coaches are hounded with inane questions concerning choice of undergarments, opinions over public displays of nose picking and toilet paper ply preferences, this event has long ago surrendered any attempt to field sensible and topic appropriate questions and truthful answers. All parties involved apparently are in on the joke and the players are hardly expected to be accountable towards any claims or assertions. This is as much of “Media Day” as the WWE is a legitimate sports competition.  It is simply cheap exploitive entertainment at the expense of true journalism.

One would have to be on drugs or mentally deranged to believe otherwise.