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There are approximately 4,600 accredited media in Phoenix for Super Bowl XLII. AP

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PHOENIX -- I'll have a Five Things I Think at the Super Bowl today through Friday, then a quick analysis of the Hall of Fame voting Saturday afternoon -- late, probably an hour or so after the 4:30 p.m. EST scheduled announcement of the Class of 2008. So here are today's Five Things, followed by two notes and then your e-mail:

1. I think Plaxico Burress wasn't shy about backing up his prediction of a Giant victory. And his teammates loved it. "I'm glad he's thinking positive,'' said Antonio Pierce.

2. I think the Redskins would be smart to inquire about both Josh McDaniels and Steve Spagnuolo after the game. The Pats' offensive coordinator and Giants' defensive coordinator both are direct, smart and have the strength to know what they don't know.

3. I think the nuttiest thing of what is always a pretty nutty Media Day was the female "reporter'' dressed in a white wedding gown -- without a lot left to the imagination -- who asked Tom Brady, Deion Sanders and I'm sure six or eight others if they would marry her.

4. I think the Giants had a swell time out here, but a few of them seemed miffed that, apparently, there are pre-orders of a 19-0 Patriots book being taken on some book company websites. "All I know about it is we'll have a chance to write the last chapter in that book, and I think we're going to write a good ending,'' Pierce said.

5. I think there was nothing whatsoever uttered today that will have a damn bit to do with the outcome of Sunday's game. And I marvel at how big this has gotten. There are some 4,600 accredited media. It used to be about 3,000 per Super Bowl week, but let's face it: Brady's ankle is pretty darned important. We need 1,000 extra people to document what won't be any kind of story come Monday

Downtown Phoenix is as locked-down around the convention center -- the media hub -- as I've seen a Super Bowl game site. Security outnumbers the media, from the looks of it. And the roadblocks are everywhere. If you're coming, and you plan to do anything downtown, plan to walk a lot.

The teams are fairly far flung here, the Giants 30 miles away in Chandler and the Pats 25 minutes away in Scottsdale. The stadium's 30 or 35 minutes away. All those distances are non-rush-hour. In recent years, the traffic here has begun to rival New Jersey's.

Aggravating Travel Note:

"I don't want to be part of your travel note,'' Cris Carter said to me as we strode through the Salt Lake City airport Monday afternoon, killing time. By chance we'd ended up on the same Delta connection, he from Fort Lauderdale, me from Newark. And we weren't going anywhere for a while. It was snowing sideways in the Wasatch Valley. The airport was closed.

This was the second consecutive Monday I'd waited out a travel delay at a shuttered airport -- last week in Milwaukee, this week in Salt Lake City. I guess I should have known better than to connect through Utah on the way to the Super Bowl, but who thinks of these things when the travel agent is searching for low fares?

We finally arrived in Phoenix late in the afternoon. It was chilly -- high of 59 scheduled for Tuesday -- and it's not supposed to hit 70 all week. So much for the Valley of the Sun.

The new grass favors the Patriots

The Patriots are going to be very glad to hear this.

The new grass surface at University of Phoenix Stadium, laid down the day after the Fiesta Bowl was played here Jan. 3, looks clean and immaculate and ready for a fast-track game Sunday -- even though it's going to be the most unique surface in Super Bowl history.

"Our groundskeepers tell us the playability of the field will be excellent,'' Frank Supovitz, the NFL's vice president of events, said around noon today. "I have no worries about the field whatsoever.''

You can expect New England to benefit more from a fast track than the Giants.

With the exception of Giant scatback Ahmad Bradshaw, the Giants are more of a power team than the Pats are. The one place New York will be helped: speed rushers Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora should be able to get around the edge efficiently -- but the Patriots are sure to have double-teams or chip-blockers on them to help out their offensive tackles. So you could argue the Giants will get an edge too.

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