I was thinking it was a boredom piece (when a reporter has nothing to write about and desperately finds ANYTHING to write on, after a day of bored throwing pencils into the wall of his cubicle). Not that I would have any experience with such bad reporter work (wink).
It kinda seemed like that, but was overall a very nice piece about the game. Maybe the reporter woulda been scared away had he caught sight of the new Pro Player cards.