5 Funniest Super Bowl Media Day Moments of All Time

Next Sunday, we'll get to see Patrick Mahomes lead the Kansas City Chiefs against Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV in Miami. This Monday, however, brings about Super Bowl Media Day, where press from around the world get up close and personal with the biggest names in the NFL. That can often make for some classic comedy and flat out bizarre moments that dominate discussion right up until the actual game, as was the case with these five legendary exchanges.

5. Joe Montana, 1989

Montana was arguably the most famous player in the league at this point, but that doesn't mean he was well known all over the globe. An international reporter asked Joe Montana why he was nicknamed "Boomer." Confused? Well, Boomer Esiason was the starting quarterback for the opposing Cincinnati Bengals, and the reporter had the two players mixed up. Apparently nicknames like "Joe Cool" and "Boomer" can get lost in translation.

4. Ines Gomez Mont, 2008

If a former telenovela actress turned sports reporter revealing an extremely...revealing dress and asking Tom Brady to marry her doesn't qualify as inconceivably weird in the football world, then we don't know what will. Mont, a popular reporter with Mexico's TV Azteca, gained notoriety in America when she tried in vain to get one of several players on the Giants and Patriots, including the legendary QB, to elope with her. Brady, ever the loyal husband, claimed he was a "one woman guy." Nice save, Tom.

3. Ray Buchanan and Shannon Sharpe, 1999

Before John Elway's second Super Bowl win, Atlanta Falcons defensive back Ray Buchanan got the trash talk started early, calling Denver Broncos tight end Shannon Sharpe "ugly" and claiming he looked like Mr. Ed, a horse from a 1960s TV show. Sharpe responded by calling Buchanan, who wore a dog collar to media day, a crossdresser. Sharpe didn't stop there, as he also said Buchanan was ugly, that he didn't view him as a friend, and that he wouldn't pick him up if his car broke down in a snowstorm. That's...not exactly the type of guy you see on "Undisputed" every weekday morning.

2. Thomas Henderson, 1979

Often times, big, boisterous quotes the week before a big game come back to bite whomever put their bold proclamation out in the open. For a while, Henderson was the poster boy for that idea. Mocking the Southern accent of Louisiana native and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw ahead of Super Bowl XIII, Henderson remarked that Bradshaw was "so dumb he couldn't spell 'cat' if you spotted him the C and the A." Bradshaw went out and toasted the Cowboys with 318 yards and four touchdown passes, which led to him wanting to ask Henderson "if I was dumb today." Ouch.

1. Marshawn Lynch, 2015

This was Beast Mode at his finest. The media-phobic running back knew that he could loose some of his rainy day funds if he skipped out on Media Day, so he decided to give the league office a big middle finger. He went to Media Day, but answered every question with "I'm just here so i won't get fined." That quote still holds up as one of the most classic Marshawn moments to this day, and it perfectly summed up what an utterly unique football player and personality Lynch was then and still is today.