A few seconds before noon today, Mike Tomlin will sit down at his news conference table, take a cue from the TV folks, lean into the microphone and speak the same two words he always does: "Good afternoon."
It's at this point that the angry citizens expect the two dozen reporters to rise up in unison and storm the table with pitchforks.
And the citizens never get that.
And they get all the angrier.
So in lieu of the standard football talk to open this week's Takes, let me instead offer some background into a professional sports team's news conference, this based on a lifetime spent at these things:
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