# Media Totally Dropping the Ball (Super Bowl)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-totally-dropping-the-ball-super-bowl/342423>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 31, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-totally-dropping-the-ball-super-bowl/342423 "2006-01-31T22:43:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-totally-dropping-the-ball-super-bowl/342423/41 "2006-02-02T20:08:07Z")

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Quite frankly, it’s refreshing to see someone like Bettis getting all the attention. Here’s one athlete who’s a stand up family man, rather than some spoiled brat spending all his money on hookers and blow.

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**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-totally-dropping-the-ball-super-bowl/342423/42 "2006-02-02T20:12:26Z")

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> [@Walter Windchill](#):
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> Speaking of unexplored storylines in sports media, what happened to Terrell Owens? Was he injured or something? I didn’t hear his name at all this season.

That Drew Rosenhaus…he really knows how to manage his athletes. I wish he was my agent.

> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Quite frankly, it’s refreshing to see someone like Bettis getting all the attention. Here’s one athlete who’s a stand up family man, rather than some spoiled brat spending all his money on hookers and blow.

a) There’s nothing wrong with hookers and blow.  
b) Everyone thought that about Eugene Robinson, too. Let’s just hope Bettis doesn’t proposition a Mountie in Windsor.

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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-totally-dropping-the-ball-super-bowl/342423/43 "2006-02-08T13:32:47Z")

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> [@Freddy the Pig](#):
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> \***– Sarcasm alert –  
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> Warning – Sarcasm is coming.**  
> Somebody ought to start a GQ thread about that. I wonder why nobody ever asks about that in GQ.
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> **End sarcasm alert.**

No need to get sarcastic. I don’t read GQ on a regular basis, nor do I follow sports talk (especially football), I just noticed that all the sports bars had “Big Game” signs instead of Super Bowl signs. I had no idea it was a well-worn, sarcasm-able subject with football fans. I thought it was something that was taken for granted. I’d go search for some GQ threads, but I only had a mild interest anyway and shouldn’t have even posted.

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-totally-dropping-the-ball-super-bowl/342423/44 "2006-02-08T15:51:22Z")

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> [@An Arky](#):
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> I have never seen SB coverage biased towards one of the teams as much as this one. All you ever hear about the Seahawks is that you don’t hear much about them because they are located in the upper left corner of the country.

When the Dallas Stars won the, whatever it is hockey players win at the end of the year, Sports Illustrated didn’t put them on the cover of their magazine which pissed of a lot of fans. A lot of people felt they were biased against the Stars. Well, a lot of Dallas fans but I don’t follow hockey so I didn’t care.

Marc

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