practicing<\/a> at The Farm on Monday. As the sun set on Monday, hundreds of fans lined up at the convention center hoping to get a glimpse of their favorite player. The night kicked off with Scott Hanson, the host of NFL RedZone, setting the stage for New England\u2019s one-hour window with the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cLooking for a record-breaking seventh Super Bowl victory, please welcome the AFC Champion New England Patriots,\u201d said Hanson as the team took the stage to Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s \u201cCrazy Train.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AFC Champions, donning fashionable Nike Techs, were then surrounded by the press. The more popular players, including quarterback Drake Maye and wide receiver Stefon Diggs, had their own designated press booths.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Daily\u2019s own Joanne dePierre \u201925 M.A. \u201926 interviewed New England\u2019s tight end Austin Hooper \u201917, who is the only Stanford alum participating in this year\u2019s Super Bowl. A conversation with Hooper was a hot commodity among local reporters, given his Bay Area roots.<\/p>\n
After the Patriots obliged in their one-hour media session, the Seattle Seahawks followed with the same format. Countless interviews, wide-ranging in nature, took place throughout the night. Of course, reporters were asking the traditional questions about game plan, but reporters also asked the more hard-hitting questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Lightning McQueen have car insurance or life insurance?\u201d asked a reporter to Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba.<\/p>\n
Smith-Njigba, through laughter, answered adamantly, \u201cCar insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the best in the business at bringing the fun to press conferences was in attendance Monday night. Guillermo Rodriguez, a comedian best known as Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s sidekick on his late-night program, brought his light-hearted antics to Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold\u2019s booth. Rodriguez presented Darnold with a foam ham hat and an accompanying poster that read, \u201cHam for Sam.\u201d Smith-Njigba was lucky enough to be gifted a \u201cHam for Sam\u201d shirt from Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
The entertainment came to an end after the 60-minute period with the Seahawks. The opening night ceremony was the last, and only, time to see both teams together at the same venue until the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Although the players and coaches have a few other media obligations throughout the next few days, the focus now shifts to practice. The Seahawks will be training at San Jose State University while the Patriots prepare for Sunday at Stanford Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Super Bowl is back in the Bay Area for the first time since 2016, and it is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23325,79647,79648,60491,949,79649,34456,79650,78293,17322,88,90,89,11599,202,494,79651,11730,11191],"class_list":["post-164902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-acc","tag-austin-hooper","tag-cardinal","tag-drake-maye","tag-football","tag-guillermo-rodriguez","tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","tag-joanne-depierre","tag-opening-ceremony","tag-patriots","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-seahawks","tag-stanford","tag-stanford-cardinal","tag-stanford-football","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-lx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}