Postcard from Miami: A colorful scene for a Super Bowl

Dear Sonoma County,

Super Bowl Opening Night was a blast. They used to just call it Media Day, but you wouldn’t believe how it’s grown.

Now fans pay actual money to watch NFL players answer the same questions over and over at podiums.

Monday night’s event was at Marlins Park, where a terrible baseball team plays, and it was quite a colorful scene. I saw a very pretty young woman - most of the beautiful women in the world were at Opening Night - wearing football antennae and speaking Spanish. She had customized Loteria cards, and she gave one to Kansas City safety Tyrann Mathieu that read “El Honeybadger.”

I also saw a man dressed in a full throwback Rams uniform, imitating Chiefs coach Andy Reid in that famous Punt, Pass & Kick video, and a man wearing a Miami Vice flamingo jacket, shorts, sunglasses, an oversized faux-gold chain and, possibly, a black wig. I even got to hold a Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots set while KC tackle Sam Erving played against a TV interviewer!

I’ll write again this week.

Phil Barber