We already have our first piece of Sunday NFL pregame quotage and it comes from NFL Network. It’s from First on the Field where Sterling Sharpe talks way too much and this is a guy who never talked to the media when he played.
Anyway, here’s the quotage.
NEWS & SOUND BITES FROM SUPER BOWL SUNDAY EDITION OF FIRST ON THE FIELD
Quotes from First on the Field
On Super Bowl Sunday, NFL Network was First on the Field at 7:00 AM ET, with host Melissa Stark and analysts Sterling Sharpe, LaDainian Tomlinson and Heath Evans from inside the NFL Experience. Additionally, Darren Sharper provided analysis from Café Beignet on Bourbon Street, and NFL Network reporters Albert Breer and Aditi Kinkhabwala provided live reports from both team hotels. Steve Wyche provided the first reports from inside the Louisiana Superdome.
– “Joe Flacco has realized it’s OK for him to be the leader of this Baltimore Ravens football team with Ray Lewis retiring…Joe Flacco is making plays and he’s now the leader.” – Sterling Sharpe on Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco
– “Colin Kaepernick is a passer by birth and he runs by choice.” – Sterling Sharpe on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick
– “He’s going to be the key to stopping this San Francisco pass offense.” – LaDainian Tomlinson on Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed
– “If this game is close and it comes down to a kick, I don’t want David Akers kicking the football for me.” – LaDainian Tomlinson on San Francisco 49ers kicker David Akers
– “He not only wants the game to come down to a field goal – he’s hoping that the game comes down to a field goal.” – Sterling Sharpe on Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker
‘Sunday Sitdown’ – Jack & Jackie Harbaugh
Before their two sons face each other in Super Bowl XLVII, Jack and Jackie Harbaugh sat down with NFL Network’s Melissa Stark.
On if they wished their sons did not have to make the Super Bowl in the same season:
Jackie: “It doesn’t matter if we wished it or not because this is where they are. So now they have to handle that situation.”
Jack: “Twenty-six weeks, one half of a year. These guys have worked hard, and to see them both here is exciting.”On having both sons facing each other in the Super Bowl:
Jack: “The scariest thing for me – and this is really scary – is if you’re in a situation where there are cameras on you and you’re watching the game, something happens and there is a reaction, a smile on your face, your hands or whatever you do emotionally, your eyebrows – that could be interpreted as maybe favoring one over the other. That just scares me because the last thing I would ever, ever want is to give any kind of feeling or impression that you favor one over the other.”On if they will attend the Super Bowl parade of the team that wins:
Jackie: “I have no idea what we’ll do.”
Jack: “We need to be invisible. We need to be so proud of their teams and how they’ve gotten in this particular position right now…But this is their moment, this is their platform.”On a conversation he had with John Elway’s father, Jack:
Jack: “That was one of the turning points in my life really as a parent, Jack Elway telling me they are going to have a lot of coaches; they are going to have a lot of coaches as they go through their career. But they only have one dad. Since that moment that he made that point to me, my life literally has changed. I think I’m a much better dad because of that now.”First on the Field Super Bowl Picks
Melissa Stark: Baltimore Ravens; MVP – Joe Flacco
LaDainian Tomlinson: San Francisco 49ers; MVP – Colin Kaepernick
Sterling Sharpe: San Francisco 49ers; MVP – Aldon Smith
Heath Evans: Baltimore Ravens; MVP – Joe Flacco
That’s it.
