Micah Richards confessed to deceiving his bosses at CBS Sports after experiencing “one of the best nights of my life” at the Super Bowl.
The 58th edition of the annual NFL Championship game unfolded in Las Vegas this year, culminating in one of the most thrilling conclusions in Super Bowl history.
The Kansas City Chiefs emerged victorious with a 25-22 win over the San Francisco 49ers, sealing the triumph with a last-second touchdown in overtime.
It marked the Chiefs’ second consecutive Super Bowl victory, with their star quarterback Patrick Mahomes clinching the MVP award for the third time in his career. Meanwhile, Richards found himself in Vegas ahead of his punditry duties with CBS on the following Monday morning, extending his night out longer than initially planned.
Richards amusingly recounted the scenario he faced upon arriving for work just three hours after returning. Speaking to Gary Lineker on the latest episode of The Rest is Football, Richards shared the tale: “I’m with [Thierry] Henry, [Kate] Abdo, the [CBS] producers, and everyone knows what Big Meeks is like. I like to get into a little bit of trouble now and again.
“I just thought, ‘Do I keep it professional and stay in, or do I go for a little wander?’
“So it’s about 1 am, I go for a little wander down the strip. We’re staying in the Virgin Hotels. One of my old mates is staying at the Wynn. I go there and have a few drinks.
“It’s then 4 or 5 am, and I’m thinking to myself, ‘We’ve got media at 11 am. What do I do here?’ It’s only light stuff, we’re talking about the Champions League, promoting that, and then the Super Bowl.
“Then we went to a place, I’m not naming no places but wowsers. Gary, do you want me to spell it out for you? The scenery was like never, ever before.
“So I get there in the morning and everyone was like, ‘How was your night’, this that and the other, ‘good sleep?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I went to sleep early, I couldn’t find anything to do, I went downstairs to get a drink’, and they all thought I stayed in.
“But they don’t know I had one of the best nights of my life. Everyone thought I had jet lag.”
