But at some point enough is enough. The problem isn’t the fan experience or the parties or events. The problem is the hype machine that inundates you with the most inane perspectives, opinions and interest pieces for the week leading up to it.

Really? (Matthew Emmons-US PRESSWIRE)

I can’t blame the NFL for selling out its biggest stage to make money. That’s their right and they do it to perfection. But I also don’t have to like it. I understand why after nearly six-months of die-hard support from a ravenous fan-base the NFL pushes them out of the way and caters to a less interested, but larger mainstream audience for their championship. I get it.

I just think on some levels it ruins the Super Bowl.

First of all two weeks between the championship games and the Super Bowl is too long. Nobody cares about the Pro Bowl, especially when none of the Super Bowl participants are at the game, so the extra week is pointless from that standpoint. Just play the game.

Second, the 24-7 sports cycle is out of control. There used to be one, but now there are two channels that cover the Super Bowl non-stop with NFL Network joining the fray.

That’s two channels that have to fill at least a week up with nothing but one game. ESPN had overdone it by 2 PM on Monday of Super Bowl week. That’s not even a slight at the channel, there are just a finite number of ways to discuss a football game and those don’t even fill up a whole day most times, let alone a week.

"Quick! It's the All American Rejects! Get their Super Bowl picks!" (Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-US PRESSWIRE)

So that’s why you get predictions from Snooki, Shaun White and Dirk Nowitzki. You have entire segments devoted to chefs (that clearly don’t watch football) teaching people to make sandwiches and tailgate snacks. You see every story ESPN has run on either team during the course of the regular and post season re-heated and served up at least three more times. You get an interview with any quarterback that finished the season with a passer rating over 80 or has a name that rhymes with Slim Slebow. There’s a press conference with Madonna, they interview anyone with anything to do with the event or the host city. And have you see what media day has become?

At some point it becomes about anything but football because all the good football-related talking points were made on Monday, reiterated on Tuesday and beat into the ground by Wednesday.

It’s gotten to be too much. On Sunday they’ll have a red-carpet so you can watch celebrities arrive at the game. They’ll take 31 minutes for the halftime show and you’ll be getting celebrity tweets and predictions read to you all day.

And the sad part? There’s a really great football game happening on Sunday.

After being absolutely blitzed with coverage, stories, images, pictures and more inane garbage than you can shake a stick at you slowly become numb to the fact that at the heart of all this is a rematch of one of the greatest Super Bowls ever, a game that is likely to be a real joy to watch.

The media, ESPN, NFL Network, they may try to tell you that there are some truly great stories this week at the Super Bowl. They’re wrong, there were some great stories. But those were all already told, several times in most cases.

To me, the only real story is that all of this, all of the glitz and over-produced glamor, are only detracting from the game at this point.

Gerald McCoy will be on the other side of the microphone working for OCNN at Super Bowl media day. (Jeff Griffith-US PRESSWIRE)

Obviously I’m kidding, but for the second time the Buccaneers’ very own Gerald McCoy will be working for OCNN and covering media day. You can follow Gerald McCoy on Twitter (@Geraldini93), or if you are not an avid user of Twitter, you can check back periodically throughout the day and read McCoy’s tweets and coverage of the circus that is Super Bowl media day in the box below.

It’s nice at least one of the Bucs got to attend the Super Bowl this year, though the early part of the week is a little bit much. ESPN had already overdone the coverage by 2 o’clock yesterday, and media day is an outright bonanza. It features normal media as well as international media and attention-seeking fringe media. They clearly credential anyone because some of the stories from media days in years past are pretty wild.

Case in point McCoy and Jaguars’ running back Maurice Jones-Drew will be walking the floor and questioning their fellow players as well as just drinking in the atmosphere.

Hopefully one day it will be the other way around with McCoy sitting at a media stand surrounded by throngs of reporters with Chad Ochocinco trying to interview him.