Sportswriters Chronicle the Agony of Super Bowl Opening Night

Counting the seconds at Houston's Minute Maid Park

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It’s tough when the NFL Network turns the basic tenets of a journalism profession into three hours of televised mockery, selling tickets to fans for $20 a pop and credentialing an Austrian TV reporter in a dress.

CBS Sports national correspondent Bill Reiter writes what was once known as Media Day has most definitely jumped the shark. He entertainingly spends most of his piece applying a “Media Day Translator” to comments uttered by athletes, coaches and team owners.

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