Super Bowl week is one giant set of meetings and celebrity-studded parties attended by the stakeholders of the game: owners, players, networks, sponsors and so forth. By the end of the week I always find myself thinking, Wait, there’s actually a game? By the weekend, the on-field business seems secondary.
Here are some thoughts about the two teams as well as the surrounding news at Super Bowl 51:
Falcons’ Management
General manager Thomas Dimitroff has surrounded himself with other former GMs—Scott Pioli (Patriots, Chiefs), Phil Emory (Bears), and Ruston Webster (Titans)—and shown himself to be secure and unworried about where credit is given in a business known for territorialism and insecurity.