Forget about the babe in the stripper’s wedding dress bantering with Tom Brady. The most absurdly appropriate question of Super Bowl week had to be the reporter who asked Patriots coach Bill Belichick in all seriousness whether the Patriots coach had been able to play any of Phoenix-Scottsdale’s golf courses during the week.

You know like the Hoodie was going to say, the hell with this game planning for the win standing between my squad and a historic 19-0 season, I need to get out on Grayhawk … now!

Now if it’s Steve Spurrier coaching in the Super Bowl … legitimate question. But the No Humor Man who’s cheated his way around the NFL with hidden camera tricks for years, come on. Bill Belichick would go Tonya Harding on Phil Mickelson if he thought it would somehow help him win a football game.

And the NFL doesn’t want to give golf writers credentials to its big party? Several dozen sloppy golf writers would be a big upgrade over many of the “reporters", the league did let in. We’d have already known that Belichick will be celebrating history in Pebble Beach (there’s a chance he’ll play in next week’s event if the Pats finish and even The Big Cheat would be a big upgrade over the increasingly annoying George Lopez).

As it is, Belichick just glared at the golf questioner and matter of factly replied, “We’ve got all offseason to play golf.”

You have to really know Scottsdale to truly appreciate the question though. Everyone in the town really does think that absolutely everything revolves around golf. The only other place anywhere like it in America is Myrtle Beach. In Myrtle Beach, you do have the faction that would rather watch a monster truck rally than have anything to do with golf. But then again, in greater Phoenix-Scottsdale, you have the guys who just want to go out in the middle of the desert and shoot at stuff.

Mostly rocks.

Though nobody asked Belichick about joining them.

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