NEW ORLEANS — Considering the parade of celebrities, coaches and NFL greats — past and present — here for the build up to Sunday’s Super Bowl, you wouldn’t normally expect much media interest in the “rules analyst” for the network broadcasting the game.
Yet even with Rob Gronkowski, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and others present at a Fox Sports media session Thursday, it was Mike Pereira who drew a crowd of cameras and microphones awaiting his arrival.
“Why is everybody here? We don’t have anything to talk about,” Pereira joked. “We know there is something wrong.