SaintsBro

Agree 100% -- I used to live in New York (for a spell); some of the stuff Payton has said, the media up there would absolutely put him on a spit, roast him and then EAT HIM ALIVE. Take "he has a knee" for instance -- some writer at the New York Post could grab hold of that, make a whole COVER JOKE around it, hound him at the press conferences, keep bringing it up, and make Payton into the laughing stock of the WHOLE TOWN. I've seen it happen many times. Payton would never get away with half the stuff he gets away with at the podium, if he were in a major media market with tough or even just knowledgeable reporters. He'd be skewered, disemboweled, and his entrails used to predict the next coach's season, before you knew it.