NEW ORLEANS — Yesterday, inside a star-studded Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Panini America’s Tracy Hackler tackled the end-zone-to-end-zone madness that was Gatorade Super Bowl XLVII Media Day with two very special guests: Knight’s Lance junior reporter Billy Mertes and one box of 2012 Prizm Football.
Mertes, the 12-year-old seventh-grader from Faribault, Minn., won a contest on The Knight’s Lance to become Panini America’s official junior reporter yesterday — and the kid handled himself with all the veteran guile and go-getter attitude of Peter King or Adam Schefter. And as you’ll see in the video recap that follows, Mertes wasn’t the least bit afraid to ask the tough questions.
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