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Tuesday, February 2: Ah, Media Day

Well, it’s Super Bowl Media Day, when every reporter for every news outlet on Earth gets to ask really stupid questions of the players on the two Super Bowl squads. Should be even more scintillating now that it’s being broadcast live via TV, Twitter, NFL.com, and everything else.

But there are certain stories that need to be told at certain times every year, almost ritualistically. Like the Passover seder, or telling the story of Christmas, or watching Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day, only for football. If you’re a Redskins fan, that means that it’s time to go back to the Media Day before Super Bowl XXII, when Redskins quarterback Doug Williams wasn’t actually asked one of the stupidest questions of all time.

People came close, of course. Heck, it made up most of the opening four grafs of Paul Zimmerman’s game story in the post-game issue of Sports Illustrated:
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