Senior editor John Hassan was paroled from Connecticut confinement to attend the festivities down in Fla. Our advice: SPF 15.

When I left Bristol on Monday, I could barely turn the key in my car door lock. It was horribly cold. So I won't complain about the weather here in Tampa other than to say "sunny and really windy" is no fun by the pool.

No pool yesterday, however. I attended the Ravens Media Day at Raymond James Stadium. I won't bore you with the Ray Lewis details other than to say he likes our magazine and went so far as to tell everyone to read our cover story on him. See? He is a nice guy. Let's send him a fleece.

While Lewis never took a question that he had a long answer for, Ravens coach Brian Billick never heard a question for which he couldn't cook up a nice rambling reply. Trent Dilfer droned. Shannon Sharpe pontificated. And poor James Trapp just sort of wandered around waiting for the team photo session.

My favorite Media Day player was Tony Siragusa. He has a reputation for the nice quip or funny self-deprecating remark. But, hey, we can all be funny for five minutes after a game. I wanted to see how he handled the boys from Der Tagespiel, El Sol de Mexico and the Glasgow Herald.

Like a pro was how he handled it. Goose stood at his podium and just toyed with people. He had as much fun as you can have at an interrogation.

After a while, Siragusa slipped into the persona of Las Vegas lounge comedian. He announced the presence of people he knew as they walked by. "Stoney Case, everybody!" He called his position coach, Rex Ryan, up to the podium. The 1985 Bears defense was coached by Rex's father, Buddy Ryan. Tony wanted Rex to say that Buddy felt this year's Ravens were better than that team. When Rex demurred, Tony hit him with a cheery "Thanks for stopping by, Rex," and gently ushered him off the podium.

Someone with a heavy accent asked him what he was doing after Media Day. Siragusa seriously replied that he and the other Ravens would immediately take part in an intense practice. As the guy studiously wrote down the answer, Siragusa said "Don't write that. You'll look stupid. Even in your country."

Eventually, even Siragusa tired of this forced media op. He looked around and said "How come nobody from Asia has asked anything? I love Asians." A Japanese reporter raised his hand and Siragusa went off for the last time. "Are you from Japan? No, I don't want to be a Sumo wrestler. What is it with you people anyway? Those Sumo guys always have pimples on their asses. Don't they make Oxy-5 over there?" It was all in good fun and taken that way but Oxy-5 jokes usually indicate that the party is over.

As I walked to the bus, though, I felt a bit sorry for the foreign journalists. As I mentioned the weather has been spotty and they have to take an honest shot at covering a sport and some personalities that they know little about. I wanted to do something for them but didn't really know what that would be.

Then I found an official NFL-issued Super Bowl Media photo ID on the ground. Instead of selling it back at my hotel, I turned it in at the Media Center.

Myoko Watanabe -- you're welcome.

E-mail John Hassan at john.hassan@espnmag.com.