At Super Bowl Media Day, the star players sit at podiums and take questions from a throng of reporters, while the lesser names sit up in the stands and do interviews. Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin is a podium guy.

Reporters practiced in the art of gang interviewing (or those with high-profile TV faces) get to ask most of the questions, but I did manage to fire a query at Boldin (after the media horde had thinned). I wanted to ask if he studied Marcel Proust at Florida State, and, if so, what was his favorite part of "Remembrance of Things Past."

I got this instead:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cCFx1nq5SM%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2009.

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