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Welcome to the Super Bowl, where football is an afterthought [Kurtenbach]

MIAMI — The circus opened on Monday.

Whales, jackals, peacocks, and flamingos were all in attendance at the outrageous, over-the-top — so… quintessentially Miami — NFL Opening Night brouhaha at Marlins Park.

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And that was just the media contingent.

The Chiefs and 49ers showed up, too. In all white, no less.

Welcome to Super Bowl week, which is far closer to Inside Edition than Inside the NFL.

Add in the siren’s call of Miami — a locale far more desirable to travel to than Houston or Minneapolis — and you had a truly ridiculous tone set for the week.