From the Rose Law Group Reporter Growlery
By Phil Riske | Senior Reporter/Writer
Super Bowl Prison is a small, corporately owned facility along the banks of Hype Lake in San Francisco. It’s where sportscasters must serve a week if they want to continue to conduct interviews with former and current football stars.
For the week leading up to Super Bowl 50, to get broadcast interviews with players, the NFL requires the sports networks allow the players to pimp their favorite product, service, charity, whatever source is paying them to represent it.
In other words, the Almighty NFL is a hostage taker.
It so ruins sports journalism when you hear something like this:
“Boomer” Berman: “Some people say the Super Bowl is just like any other game. Is it?”
Brett Favre: “What knucklehead said that? Hell no, it’s not like any other game. By they way, when I played in the Super Bowl and was on the sidelines after getting drilled into the turf, I cleaned my hands with Handi-Wipes. They’re great for removing dirt, grime and sweat from your body.”
Imagine if the TV networks carrying presidential debates were under the same requirement by the political parties’ national committees.
Woof Bluster: Madam Secretary, the State Department recently classified some of your private server e-mails as top secret and therefor withheld them from public release. What’s your response to that?”
Hillary Clinton: “ Woof, I have said all along I didn’t violate any law or regulation with any of the e-mailing I did on my private server. So it’s time to move on to other matters, speaking of which, I want to give a shout-out to the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Student Challenge, which provides students registered at historically black colleges and universities with a unique opportunity to demonstrate their analytical, creative and strategic thinking by presenting innovative solutions in response to one of three small business challenges.”
Megyn Kelly: “Mr. Trump, You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”
Donald Trump: “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” And speaking of pigs, I’m representing Jimmy Dean Delights tonight, and I begin each morning with his fully cooked maple and brown sugar chicken sausage patties.”
(Disclosure: Today’s Rose Law Group Reporter Growlery was brought to you by Col. Sanders. It’s finger-lickin’ good.)
