Inside the wacky world of Super Bowl Opening Night
CNN
An inside look at opening night of the Super Bowl week which features players and coaches being asked wacky questions.
The music is booming, the lights are turned down low. The series of customary hype videos have played, and the crowd is being egged on to cheer by the stadium hosts. A marching band takes the field as the tension rises. Finally, the players take the field and it’s time. The press conferences can finally begin! Opening Night at the Super Bowl, the event formerly known as Media Day, is what happens when a usually dull press gathering becomes an audience-friendly spectacle. What was once a Tuesday afternoon event full of reporters asking about football with the occasional silliness is now a full-blown Monday night event, complete with all the trappings of the build-up to a NFL football game.. What was once a Tuesday afternoon event full of reporters asking about football with the occasional silliness is now a full-blown Monday night event, complete with all the trappings of the build-up to the NFL’s biggest game. Except, you know – it’s basically a press conference. Super Bowl Opening Night is a bewildering sight of grandeur, spectacle and the mundane business of people asking other people questions. And yet, there were still thousands of screaming fans inside of the cavernous Caesars Superdome hoping to get a glimpse of their heroes and maybe score an autograph or a selfie.
