Hello, gang.
I came across an article about the game and saw that FD was mentioned for dumping water on Howard Cosell years ago. The FD part is underlined.
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The article -
Sports
Posted on Wed, Feb. 02, 2005
Super Bowl week a circus within a circus
By SAM DONNELLON
Philadelphia Daily News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The big glass doors rolled up promptly at 10 a.m. Packed inside a restaurant atop ALLTEL Stadium, the mass of reporters, cameramen and assorted nuts cascaded down the concrete stands toward the Eagles players below.
"A stampede," Nate Wayne said.
A stampede? Really? We looked that threatening?
"Like something out of `Jurassic Park,' " Matt Ware said. "Or, `I, Robot.' "
Hey, like, cool. Any or all of these descriptions beats the hell out of what it felt like coming down those stands, as the players gazed upward.
"One giant roll of body fat," a colleague of mine, Ian O'Connor from the Journal News, in Westchester County, N.Y., uttered self-consciously.
Yep. That's what it felt like.
"A herd of cattle," Hank Fraley said. "Coming down to graze."
Yep. That's how it must have really looked.
But thanks for trying, boys.
Welcome to the annual theater of the bizarre, the circus within the circus, the NFL's answer to burlesque. Important players and coaches sit in elevated booths to answer anything and everything from the swarm. Lesser ones sit in the stands to do the same. One hour for the Eagles, one hour for the Patriots, a little grazing at the buffet in between.
Fraley wasn't far off.
This being my first media day, I was a little disappointed. No one mooned the helicopters swarming above.
No one dumped a bucket of water over an interviewer the way Fred Dryer once did to Howard Cosell.
A man with a mask, who looked a lot like Batman's sidekick Robin but actually held an important job choosing which cartoons to watch on Nickelodeon, was trying to ask funny questions. Former Chicago Bears defensive tackle William "Refrigerator" Perry, on behalf of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was actually being fed such questions by a producer and assistant.
"Jevon, let me ask you a question," said the Fridge to Jevon Kearse. "Do you think Brad Pitt and - what's her . . . "
The producer whispered the name.
"Jennifer Aniston - will ever make up?"
"Man, I hope so," Kearse said. "I just heard about that last week. What happened with that? I don't even know what happened with that. They made a beautiful couple, man. They need to get back together."
Looking relieved, Perry moved on to the next stand, where he asked Donovan McNabb what his weirdest dream was.
"I don't know," McNabb said. "I just keep dreaming about holding that trophy up when it's all over. When I was in Chicago, I would see my dogs go out there and hold that trophy up and lift up Mike Ditka. And I saw you run in a touchdown as well."
The Fridge beamed.
"Y'all can do it!" he screamed.
"I know we can do it!" McNabb screamed back.
And then he continued discussing how to attack the 3-4 defense and stupid stuff like that.
Perry, who played for the Eagles in 1993 and `94, moved on to Jeremiah Trotter. "If you were a candy bar, which one would you be?" Trotter was asked.
After much thought - way too much thought - Trotter said, "A Baby Ruth."
There was no follow-up from the Fridge, but I for one wanted to know why.
That's a big problem with the burlesque act. There's no meat, nothing to graze on. I for one would also like to know what McNabb's weirdest dream was. But Fridge, despite his media credential, was too busy celebrating that Super Bowl victory 19 years ago to pursue it.
The problem is the people attending this session to poke fun and ridicule are more ridiculous than anything the NFL can conjure up. How about rigging one of those interview booths - which look like dunking booths - so that they're really dunking booths?
Then, any time Bill Belichick starts on about how great the Eagles are, or Freddie Mitchell starts on about how great he is, we could throw a Danish at a hole and if we hit it, down goes Freddie into the drink.
Now that would be funny.
This? This is old. And tired. And should be stopped, or at least licensed more carefully. I'm a big Jimmy Kimmel fan, but if he wants this to be funny, he ought to be here himself.
Or at least send his old sidekick from "The Man Show."
Back in the stands, some helplessly unfunny guy from "The Tonight Show" was trying to get Eagles reserve quarterback Andy Hall to lie down on the concrete.
"Being the quarterback - that means you get sacked and then you're under a big pile of men," said the unfunny man.
"I don't know," responded Hall, squirming uncomfortably.
"Can I get on top of you?" asked the man.
"No," Hall said.
"C'mon. I want to know what it feels like to sack you."
Thankfully, an announcement came that the Eagles' session had ended. Leno's sidekick finally gave up. Hall high-tailed it out of there. The media took to grazing in the restaurant above.
Later, when the Patriots took to the booths and the stands, the dance started up again. But many Patriots had seen it all before, a few as many as four times.
"Does it get increasingly bizarre?" I asked linebacker Mike Vrabel, a Patriot for three Super Bowls.
"I just know," Vrabel said, "that in 30 minutes it will be over."
Looking up at the scoreboard clock that counted down the session, a Boston reporter assigned to Vrabel sighed.
"Actually," he told him, "it's 43."
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I'll be fair and post the link to the newspaper site.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/10799173.htm?1c
