Super Bowl week can be tedious stuff for your favorite media horde. Rise at 5:30 a.m. to catch a bus, to catch another bus to a team press conference, then another bus to the other team's hotel and still another back to the media center.
All to cover one team in its fourth Super Bowl in seven years, and the other from the media capital of the world. We kinda know these people.
So you'll have to forgive those a little eager for anything resembling a fresh story, or controversy. Super Bowls is the kings of overblown stories, and this year's offering is Giants receiver Plaxico Burress.
Burress was swarmed by the media again Wednesday, still hammering him for his prediction that the Giants would win 23-17 Sunday.
``We're only going to score 17 points?'' said Pats quarterback Tom Brady. ``Is Plax playing defense?''
Mostly the Giants seemed to shrug off what the media was eager to interpret as a guarantee. Like there'll ever be another Namath.
``You ask the question, `Do you think you are going to win the game?' '' Giants defensive end Michael Strahan said. ``What am I supposed to say? No, we're going to lose?''
Said the unrepentant Plaxico: ``What I said is what I said.''