When Todd Gurley climbed up to his podium seat on the opening night of Super Bowl celebrations in Atlanta on Monday, lights exploded all around him.
Cameras clicked, television brights flashed on and off and music thudded over the loudspeakers at State Farm Arena as Super Bowl week’s messiest, most excessive night unfolded — and unraveled.
Gurley was peppered with questions for an hour, in rapid-fire succession. Some were about football. Some were wacky, planted by credentialed personalities, and Gurley fielded those with good-natured clapbacks. He even bonded with actor and comedian J.B. Smoove over Eastern North Carolina barbecue’s superiority.