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I read on PFW this week that in a stunning turn of events for some the JETS at Miami game had not sold out.
However, apparently the press box at Dolphins stadium is another matter. Had to be reconfigured to accommodate the overweaning media interest. Also necessitated a shift of broadcast teams with the #1 tandem relocated from Foxboro to So. Florida. I always chuckle when sports mediots insist how they don't set or drive agendas, they just give us what we want...
From Mike Reiss' Football Notes:
"The veteran Miami Dolphins media relations chief simply couldn't accommodate the throng of reporters expected for today's season opener, so he ordered all the large chairs in the press box removed, replaced by smaller, banquet-style chairs to seat more members of the press.
This for a team that was 1-15 last season? Has the Bill Parcells Era really generated this much excitement?
Greene can't recall an opener that has generated such buzz in South Florida...and Greene isn't naïve enough to overlook the reason why. While he believes optimism has been building in the area since Parcells was named executive vice president of football operations - and he's correct about that - he also realizes that today's media frenzy is centered around one of the game's iconic figures, Brett Favre.
What else could turn a season-opening game between the Dolphins and Jets - teams that combined for five wins last year - into a must-see event?
Greene said reporters he hasn't seen in Miami in 10 years are scheduled to be in attendance, mainly to capture Favre's new beginning with the Jets. It will be all-Favre-all-the-time, which was what much of July and August seemed like..."
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/articles/2008/09/07/packing_em_in_for_opener/
However, apparently the press box at Dolphins stadium is another matter. Had to be reconfigured to accommodate the overweaning media interest. Also necessitated a shift of broadcast teams with the #1 tandem relocated from Foxboro to So. Florida. I always chuckle when sports mediots insist how they don't set or drive agendas, they just give us what we want...
From Mike Reiss' Football Notes:
"The veteran Miami Dolphins media relations chief simply couldn't accommodate the throng of reporters expected for today's season opener, so he ordered all the large chairs in the press box removed, replaced by smaller, banquet-style chairs to seat more members of the press.
This for a team that was 1-15 last season? Has the Bill Parcells Era really generated this much excitement?
Greene can't recall an opener that has generated such buzz in South Florida...and Greene isn't naïve enough to overlook the reason why. While he believes optimism has been building in the area since Parcells was named executive vice president of football operations - and he's correct about that - he also realizes that today's media frenzy is centered around one of the game's iconic figures, Brett Favre.
What else could turn a season-opening game between the Dolphins and Jets - teams that combined for five wins last year - into a must-see event?
Greene said reporters he hasn't seen in Miami in 10 years are scheduled to be in attendance, mainly to capture Favre's new beginning with the Jets. It will be all-Favre-all-the-time, which was what much of July and August seemed like..."
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/articles/2008/09/07/packing_em_in_for_opener/