Patriots Media Day Thoughts, News and Observations

Media Day at the Super Bowl is an absolute circus. Rich Eisen goes into great detail in his new book about exactly what goes down there. NFL.com is streaming the whole shebang live and it looks exactly like Eisen describes it. Some things that have stood out to me so far today...

- File this one in the "Just Happy to Be Here" files... the New York Giants getting off the plane with a majority of them holding video cameras recording it all for posterity. "This was the highlight of the Super Bowl for us, kids, getting off the plane". Most of them took Antonio Pierce's advice and wore all black suits. Did it not occur to them that it looked like they were arriving at their own funeral? I will point out many of the Patriots had cameras at Media Day, just not getting off of the plane. Still, I think it says something about the Giants.

- I've become a big fan Michael Strahan this week. Always respected him as a player but even more so after hearing him talk so much this week. The guy tells it like it is and has a great sense of humor. I can't get enough of him.

- When asked who would play him and Randy Moss in a movie, New England Patriots quarterback said Mel Gibson then changed it to Tom Hanks for himself and Denzel Washington for Randy. Who's he kidding? Brady's such a pimp he would probably play himself.

- Randy Moss said that he would like to finish his career as a Patriot. Now he just has to take a below market offer or put his money where his mouth is. I know there are a lot of teams out there (Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers) that would love to snag him.

- The Patriots will wear their Blue Uniforms in the Super Bowl. The Giants will wear their whites. The Pats wore the blues in Super Bowl 36 and 38, they wore whites in Super Bowl 39.

- A woman in a wedding dress proposed to Tom Brady today. He turned her down, saying he was a "one-woman man". And oh, what a woman he's got...

- American Idol dimwit Kelli Pickler is at Media Day interviewing people. She cornered Patriots rookie Brandon Meriweather, saying she really liked his long dreadlocks. I'm sure she's adding a lot of interesting commentary to the proceedings. She is there for Jay Leno's Tonight Show. When you don't have writers just unleash a moron and give her free reign.

- Yes folks, Tom Brady confirmed that he does drive a hybrid and even threw in a plug for Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". Okay, even I'm starting to get a little sick of how pefect he is.

- Patriots Special Team Captain Larry Izzo keeping it classy with a fat dip in while Steve "Mooch" Mariucci was intervewing him.

- Tom Brady is definitely excited to be out of the cold weather and even hinted in his presser that it affected how the team played later in the year. That wouldn't be good if you're the Giants.

- For what it's worth, one of the absolute best football websites on the internets Cold, Hard Football Facts makes an argument that Super Bowl 42 could be the "mismatch of the century". Of course, much of this is due to the fact that the Pats stats were so astronomical but still, none of it bodes well for New York.

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_2117_Mismatch_of_the_Centur

- I just have to give serious props to the NFL Network and specifically NFL.com for broadcasting all of Media Day on live internet streams. Five live cameras showed every moment of it all, it's like heroin to hard-core fans like me.