Media make big stink over Super Bowl.

Byline: Michael Hunt

MILWAUKEE _ Kind of like barroom louts beaten into submission and tossed into public view, the first real pieces of Super Bowl hype have yet to be Vienna-sausage processed for the world's queasy digestive system.

Oh, but they will. Starting Sunday, when perky representatives of E! and MTV and Comedy Central and HGTV begin mingling among the hard-boiled football writers to form the weirdest press-corps amalgamation on the planet, the lack of news will not necessarily be a deterrent.

So it's best to get the neuron stomping over with right now instead of painfully dragging it out over the entire week. As a Band-Aid-ripping public …