FORT LAUDERDALE -- If one more person apologizes for the rain that attackedSouth Florida on Monday, I think I'll pick up a chair and whack em.
Ditto for the next person who sees the media pass, reads the word "Minnesota," makes a cold-weather crack and takes pity on me for living there.OK,I'llgive the latter a break sincethey kinda havea point.
The sun isback out and the most ridiculous day of the week -- Media Day! -- is set to begin.Fearingmore rain, the league movedmedia day inside the concource at Sun Life Stadium.
For those who don't knowthe media cliche by now, it's the day theNFL opens up the interview session to, well, anybody and everybody, basically.So you see all thecrazycharacters in whacky getups asking the most ridiculousquestions for an hour.It's stupid, but it's harmless since there's more than enough access to go around for everybody this week.
I spent some time Mondayin the Super Bowl security meeting. And I'm here toreport that, yes, there will be security for the XLIVth year in Super Bowl history. Butas a personwho will be inside the stadium, it was nice to see Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department ofHomeland Security there. I didn't know who she was, but I gotthe feeling she was a big-wig when Milt Ahlerich, the NFL's vice president ofsecurity, called her "Maddam Secretary."
Some of the best trash talking of the week came from that news conference:
"ThereWON'T be any problem," Ahlerich said.
"We do this stuff weekin and week out, and we're good at it," said James Loftus, interim director for the Miami-Dadepolice department.