SUPER BOWL MEDIA DAY: A CRAPCAM&trade PERSPECTIVE
I'll have a column tomorrow providing a detailed report on Super Bowl Media Day. But here are some CrapCam&trade photos I took today.
I drove up to the stadium with my sportswriterette wife, Michelle, and we expected it would take forever on Interstate 95, but we got behind the Chicago Bears buses, which were being escorted by motorcycle police, so we zipped on up there. Michelle took this exclusive photo out the window:
Inside the stadium we could interview the players. I generally do not do this, because they scare me. This is as close as I wanted to get to Brian Urlacher.
By federal law, whenever you get large numbers of sports media persons together, you have to have food.
you got brunch?
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 05:52 PM
first?
Posted by: Roller Gramma | January 30, 2007 at 05:53 PM
Dave, look like a blast. Was there beer?
Posted by: mm | January 30, 2007 at 05:54 PM
Ok, so not first...but I may have been if I did not have to try and figure out what those stupid letters and numbers are that show up every time I post. AARRGGHH!
OT: My fifth grandchild, Hewitt, was born this morning.
Posted by: Roller Gramma | January 30, 2007 at 05:54 PM
So, do the Bears make some sort of donation to the police payroll? or is this your tax dollars at work?
Not that I'm bitter about wasted tax money or anything.
Posted by: The blog reader formerly known as matt | January 30, 2007 at 05:55 PM
Dave, good thing you didn't get any closer to Urlacher than that. Had you been closer, he would have sensed your fear, then ripped you arm out the socket and beaten you senseless with the bloody stump. That's just the kind of guy he is.
Posted by: random thunking | January 30, 2007 at 06:02 PM
Any bowl game without the SF 49'ers in it just isn't that super. This might be a good weekend to catch up on waxing the PirateMobile, since there won't be anything worthwhile on television....
Posted by: PirateBoy | January 30, 2007 at 06:05 PM
Congrats Roller Gramma!!! I cede my "first" to you
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 06:08 PM
Keep 'em Rollin' Gramma.
Blog, we hear the Press Box hotdogs are traditionally very good. Please check this out for us.
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 06:14 PM
PirateBoy, it may be a long while till any worthwhile Super Bowls occur again, considering. At least they are geting closer to the point of winning half the games. ... sigh
Posted by: Prairie Dog | January 30, 2007 at 06:18 PM
Totally off topic, but I just got an email from a guy in Ghana offering to give me 20% of 25 million. I'm not interested in that, who needs money? What I am interested in is his request that I "please forgive me for my idignation". Should I forgive him?
Posted by: casey | January 30, 2007 at 06:32 PM
casey, he was taking a dig at the nation? That's unforgivable.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 06:38 PM
Home now! Congrats Roller Gramma!!
Dave, did Michelle take those crapcam photoes in the locker room the we gals requested???
Posted by: Siouxie | January 30, 2007 at 06:43 PM
and photos too!!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 30, 2007 at 06:44 PM
random: I made a joke very much like yours about Urlacher in my column for tomorrow. Great minds think alike! Also, our minds.
Posted by: Dave | January 30, 2007 at 06:45 PM
so, about those locker room photos...
Posted by: crossgirl | January 30, 2007 at 06:54 PM
I-95 NEVER looks that empty!
yeah...how bout the locker room photos???
Posted by: Siouxie | January 30, 2007 at 06:56 PM
casey - nice to see Darren's working for the Nigerian consulate.
I like media day. They have these cute little booths that huge guys sit in, one in each, like at the zoo. But I always feel sorry for the guy sitting there with nobody around him, like he's the really lame sloth exhibit.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 06:56 PM
Dave, i don't know where Urlacher hails from (i could easily find out but i'm lazy and way too busy drinking beer) but he has all the qualities of a segment of the Chicago boys i went to college with we called the "WEO Boys" real Chicago (sha COH go) guys. guys who would chew the hood ornament off a Mercedes just 'cause it resembled a "peace symbol"
the "WEO" stood for "Where Economy Originates" the slogan of a Chicagoland supermarket of the early 70s, and was taken as sort of a battlecry by, as some others called them, the "dese dem and doze guys." guys who loved to fight and had no need for weapons, hey had fists, and feet, and, in a pinch, (some) teeth.
how the hell these guys ever ended up in a private college in Dubuque Iowa was beyond me, except that it was a Catholic school and well, their dads must have been "conected"
Posted by: rickh | January 30, 2007 at 06:58 PM
OMG!, I've been Darrenized! In my first post, the should be THAT.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 30, 2007 at 07:00 PM
Ducky,
He wasn't taking a dig at the nation. He said, "I dig nation." I.e. He really likes our country.
Posted by: Brian | January 30, 2007 at 07:00 PM
Why is journalist food always a make-your-own-sandwich bar, muffins in flavors people don't like (rubber cement/bran, anyone?) and lukewarm pasta salad? And yet we devour it like it's haute cuisine. Probably because we are poor. And by poor, I mean that I usually eat lint. Mmm, lint.
Posted by: writer132 | January 30, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Dave, excuse me! The locker room photos!!!!!!
Posted by: Jeannie | January 30, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Gee, Dave, I sure wish Mrs. Layzee were a sportswriterette. You owe Michelle big time for this perc. Perhaps she'll take it out in trade. It's your duty to repay her, ya know.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | January 30, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Dave....do you really call her 'sportswriterette' to her face?
"Damn the Tancredos - full speed ahead!"
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Thanks for clarifying, Bryan.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 07:04 PM
Look carefully at the first picture - to take it, Michelle had to lean out the passenger window and aim a shiny object (camera or gun?) at a couple of highway patrolpersons.....is that cop roulette or what?
Dave - I now know why nobody messes with you - Michelle's got your back.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 07:06 PM
rickh: probably the same company; in NC that WEO stuff came from Foodtown, which became Foodlion.
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 07:07 PM
So did you and/or Michelle do the gracious Queenie wave out the window to all of the lesser beings as you passed them on 95?
Posted by: JaniceG | January 30, 2007 at 07:07 PM
Off topic - We need some one funnier than me to respond to some recent posts in the "Stinging Rebuttal" thread.
Posted by: Patrick O | January 30, 2007 at 07:07 PM
*zips in*
WOW!!!
I'm in heaven. Dave *zipped*.
I feel like I've made a contribution to the betterment of society.
Color me happy. :)
Posted by: Cookie | January 30, 2007 at 07:12 PM
*snork* @ damn the Tancredos!
Patrick, apparently those cold winters spark some hot tempers! And Loafer-Wearing Sissies would NOT BAGNFARB.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 07:12 PM
*rummages through Big Box of Crayolas® looking for one marked "happy"*
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 07:22 PM
It's 12 degrees below 2.308 feet of snow - what else are ya gonna do in Denver in January but blog nasty stuff at the Post?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 07:25 PM
Hey, Annie, belated congrats to your son and his spelling bee performance! (Stoopid judge)
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 07:28 PM
Thanks. Maybe someday he'll be writing for the...(wait for it)...Denver Post.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 07:30 PM
Perhaps not so great for him, but the Post would be better off.
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 07:38 PM
Annie...congrats to the little guy. Same thing happened to me in 4th grade in a state capital bee. I got hosed by a judge who trusted his own memory instead of the cheat sheet with the correct answers in front of him. The kid who beat me broke his leg the next day. Near as I can remember that was my very first SNORK.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | January 30, 2007 at 07:56 PM
Layzee, did you have a buddy named Jeff Gillooly?
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 08:00 PM
That was SUPER, Dave!
Posted by: Punkin Poo | January 30, 2007 at 08:01 PM
SuperDave?? Where??
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 08:03 PM
up in the sky?
Posted by: crossgirl | January 30, 2007 at 08:08 PM
I't a bird..........(next)
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 08:10 PM
On top of Tancredo,
All covered with goo
I lost my respect,
for Coloradooooo.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 08:11 PM
It's a plane...
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 08:11 PM
"I't a bird"....I speak not well so tonite, huh?
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 08:11 PM
Whatever you're drinkin', Jazzzz, I'll have some!
Posted by: Just Ducky | January 30, 2007 at 08:12 PM
It's...............?????
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 08:13 PM
Is this Super Dave I see before me?
Crash suit gouted with blood?
Duck, let you miss me
Tumbling cycle aimed towards my thighs.
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 08:20 PM
never mind jazz, i'll have what cj's having!
Posted by: crossgirl | January 30, 2007 at 08:25 PM
*snorks* all around
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 08:36 PM
Annie - Sorry to hear about your son. Glad to hear that you are sticking up for him and helping him move on after this little battle was lost. Very unfair, but The Fair is where we ride rides and eat cotton candy. Reality is not fair.
A very wise woman told me recently that I was empowering my children by being involved. Kudos to you. Your boys will take 1st and 2nd place next year.
Posted by: Meditrina | January 30, 2007 at 08:37 PM
cg, I hope you're pulling our legs, but you really know that the great Super Dave was..., well he was that thing between Evel Knievel and Jack@ass!
Although I had a discussion with a youngster, recently, about demolition derby cars, because the youngster asked, and the youngster said, 'You mean they crash into each other?' Of course!
Danged MTV and videogames!
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 08:37 PM
Look at that lovely, non-third world highway. That reminds me, I just wanted to take a moment to share these
Anagrams for "Tom Tancredo":
Not Democrat
Tom Cared Not!
Tater Condom!
Mod Acne Trot.
To Rodent-cam.
or
Tent Odor-cam.
Don MacOtter!
Mo' Rotten Cad
Nerd MacToot
Tomcat Drone
Taco Nerd Tom
Demon Arc-Tot
Da Corn Totem
Re: Dam Cotton
Damn Rec Toot!
Random Octet
Doormat Cent
Cod No Matter
Co-Ed Matron T.
Ted, Moron Act
My personal favorite is tater condom.
Posted by: Patchy the Squirrel | January 30, 2007 at 08:49 PM
geez, kids these days....
no leg pulling here. somehow i missed super dave. probably too busy watching stupor duck.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 30, 2007 at 08:50 PM
Patchy, I'm partial to Taco Nerd Tom. Meanwhile, East Coast, Get Ready; House in 6 minutes!
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 08:54 PM
cg, I'm sorry to hear that. Here's a brief on Super Dave.
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 09:03 PM
House just tripped a running, screaming patient with his cane, then paralyzed him. You don't get action like that on '24!'
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 09:06 PM
"Nerd MacToot"? sounds like a great name for the lead character in a new Dave Barry or Carl Hiassen book
Posted by: Sooska | January 30, 2007 at 09:09 PM
CJ....Are you moving tortoises tomorrow? Torti...Tortilinni...Testortirone...Tancredoses...??
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 09:26 PM
I am always wrong about these things, so lets make it a streak. I think that young actress is Marisa Tomei's daughter. She just seems to have her eyes.
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 09:33 PM
Hey Dave, They mentioned your presence at Media Day on SportCenter, by saying "Even the American Idol rejects and Pulitzer Prize Winning Humor Columnist Dave Barry were there." That's high praise...
Posted by: Matt Morrison | January 30, 2007 at 09:39 PM
Dave was on American Idol? Who knew?
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 09:42 PM
"WEO" stood for "Where Economy Originates" the slogan of a Chicagoland supermarket of the early 70s,
Huh. I sooooooooooo don't remember that. Jewel? Dominics? But then, I was a newlywed at the time and had other things to deal with; like whose turn it was on top.
So, Dave, still waiting on those locker room photos.
Posted by: slyeyes | January 30, 2007 at 09:45 PM
Jazzzz, to make thing's more interesting, I'm not. Just a great day, today and Thursday became more compressed. Now, Thursday, I get to do that and a dog and pony show. The good news is that I don't have to face Brian Urlacher.
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 09:49 PM
Correction - Dave was on "American Idle." But then he moved to Miami and got a job.
/OT - btw - my son's teacher asked him how he did in the spelling bee, and he said, "3rd, but they misheard what I said."
Her reply - "Life sucks and then you die."
To a 4th grader. /OT rant
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 09:53 PM
YAY Michelle!!! An action shot!!!
(I'm thinking an article from you about what it's like to be a female sportswriter would be a really fun read. How 'bout it??)
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 30, 2007 at 09:53 PM
And you can tell us ALL about the locker room. We won't look, we promise! ;-P
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 30, 2007 at 09:56 PM
Well, maybe a peek but we won't ogle.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 30, 2007 at 10:08 PM
I've always wondered why they always put dogs and ponies in a show together. Why not say, rats and alpacas....or parrots and weasels, or snakes and politicians??? I get tired of watching dogs and ponies, ponies and dogs, gheeeeesh!
Posted by: Jazzzz | January 30, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Annie - that teacher might just as well have said, "I don't give a sh!t about you or how you feel." end rant
Posted by: mm | January 30, 2007 at 10:15 PM
annie! i didn't know our kids went to the same school. small world!
jazzzz, i'm pretty sure in tijuana you can see the rat and alpaca show. oh wait, no, no, nevermind.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 30, 2007 at 10:20 PM
The dogs are for security and the ponies are for pulling the tent-poles up. I just wanted to say something before I go into Wednesday mode.
This blog is haunted by writers and if I'm indoors, I have to write many hours a day. I watched an amazing program tonight and I think those writers knocked it out of the park. My congratulations to the writers for House. If there are other television programs that good, I don't want to know about them. I have books to read!
Posted by: CJrun | January 30, 2007 at 10:21 PM
OK Dave, you're saving it all for the column, aren't you? Anybody might think you were a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist who likes to get paid now and again. Hmmpf.
And for The War- I like Nerd MacToot.
Posted by: mm | January 30, 2007 at 10:23 PM
I say we sic (sic) CJ on Darren.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2007 at 10:29 PM
*snork*
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 30, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Another Dave column?! Can this be? Is Dave coming out of "retirement'? Does this mean he'll be rejoining the media spotlight? Will he be wearing underpants while making the social appearances? (Good lord we can only hope so.) Someone alert the pundits. And Tom Tancredo!
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | January 31, 2007 at 12:55 AM
Slightly confused, here.... (which is an improvement in itself, usually I'm really confused)
I thought the votes were in, the recount done, all hanging/swinging/pregnant chads (personally, I think the swinging chads are responsible for the pregnant chads, but I digress) were accounted for, and the decision was made... for an underwear-optional blog, social appearances or not. *sigh*
And Holy Tancredo! Another Dave column! *bliss*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 04:32 AM
It's Superbowl. In Miani. An irresistable temptation of the magnitude of say an exploding whale right in the neighbor's backyard, where it can be seen but you, personally don't have to clean up the mess.
coffee's on! What do we want for b'fast?
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 05:36 AM
mm - I'll have the waffles, hold the spam.
Oh, and Mot: sorry, didn't mean to cramp your style! Propose to as many blogchicks as you like. We can all compare notes later on your style and creativity.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 05:54 AM
waffles sounds yummy. OK, we have waffles, I only have the Belgian-type iron. To go on top we have syrup, cinnamon honey, fresh sliced fruit, and whipped cream. Sorry, it's the can kind, but real. Alongside, we have the ever-popular bacon, spam for Hammie, and for those of us from the Philly area, scrapple, the Habbersett's&trade kind.
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 06:13 AM
For all the purists out there (ok, it's me) there's whipped cream (non-canned) at my place. And I have a belgian waffle iron too, so maybe we can keep up with the hungry bloggers! :)
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 06:16 AM
oooh yum, thanks NT. So now the canned whipped cream can be saved for backup. Or other activities best left unmentioned.
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 06:19 AM
I think we can trust someone on this blog to mention those activities, mm. NNTAWWT, really.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 06:22 AM
"NTTAWWT" Sheesh... after a lengthy nap and tons of chocolate, I still can't type.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 06:30 AM
Oh, and I forgot - hot cocoa in addition to coffee. With Nurse Tammy's real whipped cream. Made with *gasp* whole milk. Yes, you can have both.
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 06:37 AM
*looks in pantry*
We can even make that hazelnut cocoa made with whole milk, topped with whipped cream, and chocolate sprinkles.
My, aren't we decadent this morning?
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 06:45 AM
Siouxie should be checking in soon, and possible Meanie and Steve. As well as Mot, but for an afternoon snack. Maybe we can put together a BLT for Mot.
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 06:49 AM
NT, you've hit on my weakness. Heaven! And we aren't even going to consider ex... the e-word later to burn it off. This is blog breakfast and everything is full-fat and full-flavor with no calories. So dig in.
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 06:55 AM
Hey, since blog calories don't count, why don't we make the cocoa with half-and-half? Yum.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 07:05 AM
even better, NT. And we might consider augmenting it. Brandy or rum? Frangelico? Kahlua?
Posted by: mm | January 31, 2007 at 07:08 AM
Frangelico for mine. The hazelnut really appeals to me for some reason this morning.
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 07:11 AM
Good morning ladies!! I brought some spinach quiche for the veggie portion of our breakfast. I'll have one of each (except the Spam™). Hazelnut cocoa for me, thanks! It's nippy here in Miami. And the weather's cool too!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 31, 2007 at 07:17 AM
Mornin' all, just got back from seeing clients in a gold mining area called Springs (go figure). It used to be a city in it's own right but has been gobbled up by Johannesburg's urban sprawl. mmmm "Urban Sprawl" WBAGNFARB.
I see nothing's changed on this blog, everyone's still waffling. NT yesterday I promised to try to refrain from proposing, but it's nice to get your official sanction nevertheless.
Anyway I'll have mine with syrup and cream, oh, and a large latte would not be frowned upon.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | January 31, 2007 at 07:18 AM
Mot, did you want that latte "augmented"?
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 07:24 AM
Mot, did you bring anything shiny (gold) for us gals???
Posted by: Siouxie | January 31, 2007 at 07:24 AM
hrmph. i'm insulted that mot never proposes to me AND no one called me for breakfast. any waffles left?
Posted by: crossgirl | January 31, 2007 at 07:26 AM
sounds like dave had mucho fun yesterday at 'Media Day'. unfortunately, there are no locker room pictures acompanying the article. dang, more coffee is required.
Posted by: witchlesa | January 31, 2007 at 07:26 AM
*gives crossgirl stack of waffles fresh off the griddle*
*gives witchlesa an augmented coffee*
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 31, 2007 at 07:28 AM
cg, plenty of stuff left! (don't worry..he hasn't proposed to ME either..ditto on the hmmph!)
Posted by: Siouxie | January 31, 2007 at 07:29 AM