What is a team owner to do under pressure from the president of the United States?
This was not your usual Super Bowl mob scene. It might have looked like it at first, on what the National Football League calls opening night, when it kicks off the holiest week of its year. The annual event has metastasized into a sprawling tumor of reporters yelling out questions — whether the Atlanta Falcons running back Devonta Freeman has a favorite fish (yes: tilapia), whether the New England Patriots center David Andrews has a favorite breakfast cereal (yes: Cap’n Crunch, Crunch Berries) and whether the Patriots coach Bill Belichick knows about “Bill Belichick Underwear,” a pair of which one TV reporter from Alaska claimed to be wearing (no: “Guess I missed that one,” Coach mumbled).