Highlight of the night came toward the end. Someone came up to me with what I thought was some major league dirt. “Yo, that’s Bryce Fisher of the Seahawks.” In my head, I'm thinking that I may have to break the "Eugene Robinson" story of Super Bowl XL. I was upset to hear the news. Holmgren's had these guys do disciplined all week, what a shame this would be. And from what I gathered, Fisher was one of the good guys of the league.
I checked it out. Over on the side was a guy 180 pounds tops, sipping on a bottle of water. Hmm ... Bryce Fisher, eh?
I found it odd for three reasons. A) It was the night before the Super Bowl and he had a game the next morning; B) the guy looked 40-years-old. Bryce Fisher is 29; C) Faux-Fisher was 200 pounds max. I’ve met Bryce Fisher. He’s a 272-pound defensive end.
The whole thing was weird.
Sure enough, the guy was shaking hands, being told “Good luck,” and using words like “focused” to describe his mindset.
Chris Hetherington
Then it all hit the fan. I’d been talking to San Francisco 49ers fullback Chris Hetherington for the greater part of the evening. Hetherington’s one of the cooler guys in the NFL. He went to Yale, has played on a myriad of teams, and has seen it all. He also looks like a cross between Hulk Hogan and Chris Jericho. The two of us were talking about Connecticut high school football for about five minutes, when a young man in a suit interrupted us.
Suit: “Chris, meet Bryce Fisher.”
Hetherington: “Huh?”
Fake Bryce Fisher: “What’s up man.”
Hetherington: “You want me to embarrass you, man?”
Fake Bryce Fisher: (Stepping back) “Okay ...”
Hetherington: “Get out of here.”
Hetherington turns to me, “Bryce Fisher and I were teammates in St. Louis. He lived on my couch for two weeks. That’s not Bryce Fisher.”
I entered the building during a “Cold Pizza” segment where producers encouraged fans to cheer loudly after host Dana Jacobsen and Matt Leinart did some sort of box step dance. I stuck around and watched the piece. At the very end of it, I witnessed this exchange:
Jacobsen (to Leinart): "If you’ve ever watched this show, you know I’m a terrible dancer."
Random Steelers Fan in a Tommy Maddox jersey, mullet, and mustache behind me at the top of his lungs: “Don’t worry honey -- no one’s ever (expletive) watched this (expletive) show!”
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