Is covering a Super Bowl hazardous to your health or what?

do that for two more weeks straight and you have an Olympics

 

The logistics are harder at the Olympics, but at least you have results to write about much of the time. The Super Bowl, you spend 7/8ths of your time there building up the hype for something that hasn't happened. It's hard in a different way.

 

Super Bowl if your team isn't in it is not so bad. Your paper only wants the school figures, the stories with which they figure the readers have heard, your Tom Bradys, your "is Belichick a prick?" your Tony Dungy-Lovey Smith, Black Coaches?" stories. Even someone with my wretched organizational skills can manage those duties to allow for rest and recreation, or recreation and more recreation.
Super Bowl with your team in it is just an ass-whippin' from start to finish. Write morning, noon, and night, many times reprising the stories one did for the special section published before the playoffs started. Plus, the Pats have a nasty habit of never going to the Super Bowl without creating some story on top of it, like Parcells leaving, or Matt Walsh. That way, the game isn't over even when it's over.
Nothing, however, compares to the Olympics in terms of workload.