Giant chatter

Somewhere out in the desert, we're sure that Michael Strahan is still talking. Perhaps by now, only the defenseless cacti are being forced to listen, however, because thankfully the media sessions for Super Bowl XLII are over. After four days of non-stop chatter, the media can't ask inane questions and the players don't have to provide the same answers to the same inquiries time and time again.

Yet if the media sessions proved one thing, it's that Strahan and Co. have some guys who just love to talk . . . and talk . . . and talk.

So it was comical to see them wearing t-shirts that read, "Talk is cheap. Play the game." Even the players conceded as much, because defensive end Osi Umenyiora laughed at his t-shirt.

"Most of the talking has been coming from me," he said.

Umenyiora is welcomed to his opinion, but he'd have very stiff competition from Strahan, whose transcripts for the four days' of interviews would be thicker than "War and Peace."

Flip response

The homework had been done and we'll trust the reporter on this one, but he offered to head coach Tom Coughlin that teams that received the opening kickoff were 19-22 in Super Bowl play.

Nodding his head, the Giants head coach waited for the question. The reporter wanted to know if, based on that statistics, would Coughlin consider kicking off to New England should he win the coin flip.

Oh, how at another point in his career the coach may have bristled, but on this day he shook his head and smiled.

"Yeah, that's what you want to do -- give the Patriots the ball one more time, because they don't do well enough with it," he said.