So I will be sharing a blog throughout the week at NBCSports.com with Tom Curran. I am going to try to post in both places, but already today I've fallen behind with a few posts over there that never made there way here in the afternoon. I'm posting them now for posterity.

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As Tom mentioned earlier, radio row has a toned-down feel to it this year.  That is partly because it's Monday, the quietest day of the Super Bowl week.  But it's also a smaller area because fewer stations are sending crews.  The few that are left were fighting over the right to talk to Michael Irvin when I walked through.

The main hall of the media center is an odd-looking mix of sloppy-looking writers like myself walking past red and cream-colored leather couches.  A pool table is set up, along with video game systems on monstrous HDTVs; I have not been able to confirm that any writer knows how to play. (But I did see the "intern" from The Tonight Show chugging beers on the couch in the late afternoon. I once was an NBC page in LA and sat people at the Tonight Show. You don't know pain until you've heard Jay Leno say the same 6 warm-up jokes in the same exact way for three months.)

The whole Media Center shebang is set up right on the water; NFL Network put their main set out there.  Since I feel naked without actually mentioning, you know, football, here is point I've been meaning to make that the Cardinals and Steelers highlight: running the football is overrated.   

Also I can confirm based on NFL Network's breathless reporting: The Steelers have landed! We'll be talking to the teams at their hotels later this afternoon. 

-- Gregg