NEW ORLEANS -- A-hem. If we can have your attention, please. We are about to begin the slide show entitled "Our Week At The Super Bowl" or "Get That Cigar Out Of My Face You Ugly Denver Mutant." This is a close-up view of the life of a sports writer, and should not be confused with the TV show "Wild Kingdom," although parts may look the same.
Before we begin this year's debate I want to inform my boss that Curt Sylvester has been working much too hard lately, and we should send him on a nice vacation for six months, or as long as the doctors think it will take.
NEW ORLEANS -- "Hello, Doc.""Why, Mr. Elway. You're back.""Yeah.""Something wrong?""Kind of.""Want to talk about it?""Guess so.""Lie down on the couch. Now then, is the press bothering you again?""A little bit.""You feel suffocated.""Well, I--""You are overwhelmed.""Well, I--""They're asking what kind of Halloween candy you gave out. They're interviewing your milkman. They're picking through your trash, hoping to find what brand of toilet paper you use."
SAN FRANCISCO -- Well, I'm sure the Denver Broncos were very happy to make it back to the Super Bowl. But had their AFC championship been played after the NFC title game, instead of before it, they might have changed their minds. They might have told Cleveland, "Listen, uh, you guys go instead, OK? We have a dental appointment."
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
