ABSTRACT
Stories of all kinds spring from the Super Bowl. The media tell most of the tales people see and hear. Every year sports reporters converge en masse on the Super Bowl host city to cover the game. A reporter from the Rocky Mountain News provided an idealized description ofthe Super Bowl sportswriter's task for readers of his newspaper: "It's 7 a.m. It's 67 degrees. Palm trees are shaking outside my window, a Pacific breeze coming in through the open patio door. I spend the morning doing my job, which, at these Super Bowls, consists of turning monosyllabic grunts into sports poetry, then spending the afternoon spraying golfballs along the greensward of some local public links.'"
