Super Bowl LII week officially kicked off on Monday, with the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots are preparing to play for the NFL title on Sunday.
The stakes, of course, are high. But players and coaches had a very different sort of gauntlet to run on Monday night, before even lacing up their cleats and slapping on their pads.
Super Bowl Opening Night. The week’s first media availability.
Or, a complete madhouse in State Farm Arena, where a handful of stars are propped up onto podiums and hundreds of writers, camera crews and even late night television co-hosts pepper them with questions.