OK, I get it. Packers fans are still bitter after getting wiped off the face of the Earth by Colin Kaepernick in the divisional playoffs. But JS Online was obligated to do some sort of coverage of the big game, since in the end, football rules Wisconsin. However, at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, this was the home page of JS Online:
Hey look! Trent Lockett! Now to be fair, Marquette was playing Louisville in a nationally televised game at the time, but still. We're talking about the super bowl here. It does manage to get some billing, right above the Wisconsin basketball live box score, but only in a Packer-centric way.
Here's the home page at 5:48 p.m., right at the start of the game:
Here's the home page at 5:48 p.m., right at the start of the game:
Notice Marquette is now gone, Wisconsin is still in the same place and now we have a live blog with JS writer Tom Silverstein. Silverstein does these during all Packer games, and I think having him do one for the Super Bowl was a good move on the JS's part. The "blog" link went to a page that looked like this:
And this:
Silverstein answered a lot of questions from a Packer perspective, such as the one above where he compares Packers tight end Jermichael Finley to 49ers tight end Vernon Davis. Something that surprised me was when I went back at 12:50 a.m. to see what their post game coverage was like, the Super Bowl link was no longer the main story. Southwest Airlines' new ad for Milwaukee flights had taken over.
It's weird that just three hours after the biggest sporting event of the entire year had ended, it was immediately relegated to the bottom right corner of the homepage, like any other story would be. Clearly, the Journal-Sentinel just wanted to do as much as they had to and then be done with covering a Packer-less championship game.
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