(Just throwing it out there, but how about a return of “Texts from Game Day” tonight?)

Remember Pat McAfee? The guy who didn’t put the ball into the end zone on kickoffs as a senior at WVU? Well, he led the NFL in kickoffs this season. Seriously.

McAfee has the job of punter and kicker with the Colts, sort of. On a team that has two all-time kicking greats on its roster in Adam Vinatieri and Matt Stover, McAfee kicks off for the Colts — his 70-yard average led the NFL last season. He also punts, averaging 44.3 yards as a rookie with 21 of his 64 punts winding up inside the 20.

He’s also at the Super Bowl this week and dreaming not of the game-winning kick, but of the game-beginning kick. A little weird, of course, but that’d be Pat, who seems to be enjoying his week quite nicely.

– On the Media Day atmosphere:  “It’s amazing,” rookie P Pat McAfee said. “Looking around, it’s like a big zoo – a big petting zoo. It’s obviously fun to see all these different cultures. I talked to a German reporter, a Spanish reporter. It’s a good time. I’m trying to take it all in – my first year, first Super Bowl.”

– On the job as a pseudo-reporter.

– On learning another language:  Suddenly, a pretty young woman with a small video recorder approaches punter Pat McAfee and asks, “Can you give a shout out to the people of Hawaii?” (Seriously, she could ask me to recite the first chapter from “Mein Kampf” and I’d do it in a heartbeat.)

McAfee looks into the camera and says, “Greetings from the mainland.”

Then he looks around, sees several more fetching young women, most of them from Mexican-based TV stations, all of them clad in suggestive clothing. He notes that Austin Collie speaks fluent Spanish — he was a missionary in Argentina — and is getting plenty of attention.

“Man, I’ve got to learn Spanish,” McAfee says ruefully.

– On the CZs in his ears:  “Had them since I was in the 10th grade,” McAfee said. “Me and a bunch of my friends back home (in Plum, Pa.) got them.”

Not exactly priceless.

“Six dollars,” McAfee said. “For the set.”

– On his own with a TV crew.