SUPER BOWL DAILY REPORT

Having the Super Bowl basically in his backyard was hard enough. Then Tampa Bay linebacker Derrick Brooks saw an even more frustrating sight this week.

Making a trip to the Buccaneers’ practice facility, Brooks realized how far removed his team was from the big game.

“It really hit home with me when I got stuck in the parade of Giants coming in and saw somebody in my locker,” Brooks said. “It really (ticked) me off. But it was (the Giants’) Micheal Barrow, and he’s a good friend of mine, so I just told him, ‘Don’t leave anything.’ ”