Tight jeans and short dress upstaging the real female superstar of Super Bowl XLV

Considering that people who were dressed in superhero outfits were given credentials to Super Bowl media day earlier this week, it’s not surprising that Ines Sainz was there, too.

Super Bowl media day is traditionally a laughable circus, so Sainz fit right in.

You might not remember Sainz by name, but you’d probably remember her by photo.

She’s the sexy Mexican journalist — and I use the term journalist lightly — who made headlines last fall when she was hooted and cat-called by players at a New York Jets practice. She was there to interview Mark Sanchez for TV Azteca.

Sainz wore skin-tight jeans and a very snug shirt, an outfit more appropriate for clubbing than interviewing.

At Super Bowl media day, Sainz showed up in a super short sequenced dress and may have given more interviews than she got.

Sainz, who does herself and real female sports reporters no favors with her unprofessional antics, will end up being the most talked-about woman of the Super Bowl.

It’s a shame because she’s hardly the most newsworthy.

Without Tara Green, there might not even be a Super Bowl for Sainz to try to upstage. At least not in Dallas.

Green is the vice president and chief operating officer of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee.

She is in charge of practically everything in Dallas this week, from security to parking to hospitality to volunteers to training sites.

Green even wrote the bid that secured the Super Bowl for Dallas and has been working with the planning committee since 2008.

“We love it that we got the Steelers and the Packers, two great teams that also travel pretty well, two historic teams,” Green told espnW.com. “My joke has been that we’re so hospitable in Texas that we brought the Steelers and Packers their hometown weather just so they would feel at home.”

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