Welcome to beautiful and balmy South Beach, and by beautiful and balmy, I mean cold and windy. It is  54 degrees as of right now, it was in the 50s last night, and there's supposed to be a cold front sweeping in the early part of this week. And this was supposed to be the anti-Detroit.

Kidding! There's not a cloud in the sky, the sight of the beach and ocean are breathtaking, and even those who have gotten here early are giddy over the Houston-Jacksonville-Detroit Super Bowl site death-march ending. Plus, as of right now, no player arrests, although only one team is here so far.

Still, we have our first lazy, cheap-shot, no-imagination sportswriter rip of the host city. Sigh. Hope that's not a sign of things to come.

Meanwhile, if you are coming, and fly into Fort Lauderdale, and rent from Hertz, don't get driving directions at the printout machine, unless you want to end up at a completely different hotel than you intended. Shhhh, don't tell my editors, though.