A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.