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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
The Super Bowl: Say what?
By Kevin Fischer
Monday, Jan 28 2008, 06:38 PM
Tuesday is Media Day at the Super Bowl, the single largest gathering and collection of stupid questioners and questions of the entire year.
Some are the result of the NFL allowing just about every news outlet, including Nickelodeon and Animal Planet, to participate. Others are clearly intentional.
Internet sources list some of the dumbest inquiries in Super Bowl history.
· Reporter to Kurt Warner before the 2000 Super Bowl: "Kurt, two questions: Do you believe in voodoo, and can I have a lock of your hair?" Warner: "No.
· St. Louis Rams receiver Isaac Bruce was in a car accident in early December 1999. Before the 2000 Super Bowl, he talked to reporters about the accident, saying, "When I flipped in my car, I called on the name of Jesus. That's the name that I know saves me. And when I did that, I knew everything would be fine."
Reporter: ''Did you say 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus?' Or just 'Jesus?' ''
Bruce: ''It was one Jesus. That's all it takes.''
· At the 2000 Super Bowl, a reporter asked St. Louis DE Jay Williams, "Is Ram a noun or a verb?"
· At Dodger Stadium in 1993, Troy Aikman of Dallas was asked, “Troy, does it seem a little strange answering football questions in a baseball stadium?" Aikman: "Not really."
· A reporter asked Oakland Raiders quarterback Jim Plunkett, "Is it your mother who's blind, and your father who's deaf, or the other way around?"
· Denver’s John Elway was asked, “Are you going to listen to Stevie Wonder perform at halftime?"
· The Tennessee Titans’ Jevon Kearse wore a religious symbol around his neck. Reporter: "What's the significance of the cross?"
· At the 1996 Super Bowl, Dallas guard Nate Newton was asked if he noticed that the Pittsburgh Steelers wore helmets that are "missing" a logo on one side.
"I really don't care about the Steelers -- what they are missing or what they have," Newton replied. "I'm more interested in when they run a 3-4 defense or send a corner on a blitz. Other than that, I don't care what their uniform is, how they smell or what they look like. I don't care."
· At the 1994 Super Bowl, Buffalo's Cornelius Bennett was asked, "Do you believe you can win?" His response: "What kind of question is that? What kind of question is that? What kind of question is that? That's a (expletive) stupid question. I'm (expletive) you asked me that question. I didn't come anywhere to lose."
· At Super Bowl VI, Dallas RB Duane Thomas refused to answer any questions before the game. After the Super Bowl, he was asked, "You're fast aren't you?” Thomas looked into the camera and said, “Evidently."
· In 1990, a reporter asked Denver RB Bobby Humphrey, "Why do you take your earring off for the game?" Because he preferred not to have a diamond "to be pushed through my ear to the middle of my brain."
· In 1994, Buffalo’s Thurman Thomas replied this way to a question about how he got psyched up for big games. Thomas said he "reads the newspaper and looks at the stupid questions you all ask."
I did like this exchange in the press at the 1984 Super Bowl between the Raiders' DL Lyle Alzado and the Redskins' RB John Riggins.
From thehogs.net:
After the Raiders won the American Football Conference title, Lyle Alzado talked about ''tearing off'' John Riggins's head if the opportunity develops. When the Redskin fullback was reminded of that threat yesterday as he stood at the lectern in his only public appearance this week, he smiled.
''Over at the stadium yesterday at photo day I was looking for a nice soft spot on the grass, so that when he knocks my block off, it won't bounce too far,'' John Riggins said. ''I hope he's enough of a gentleman so that when my head falls off, he'll hand it back to me.''
Told later of John Riggins's response, Lyle Alzado laughed.
''I'll put his head back,'' the bearded Raider said, smiling, ''as long as he takes the cleat marks out of my chest.''
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