Mike Herndon spent 22 years as a sportswriter and columnist for the Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register and AL.com, covering everything from high school tennis and soccer matches to minor league baseball and hockey to college football and the NFL. He covered one Super Bowl (New Orleans’ win over Indianapolis in Super Bowl XLIV), two national championship games and numerous bowl games and SEC championship games, and has broken pregame bread at 11 of the 14 SEC football stadiums. He left the newspaper in 2015 and now works in public relations, as well as serving as an adjunct journalism instructor at the University of South Alabama. While he concedes Michael Day may have been the better linebacker in high school, he had way more fun on the road trips.