DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - There were no marriage proposals, no child reporters and hardly any silly questions.

Media day at the Daytona 500 didn't even have a prediction.

No doubt, NASCAR's season opening event has a long way to go before it reaches the level of the Super Bowl.

Although it was held under a huge, white tent outside Daytona International Speedway on Thursday, it was missing the circus-type atmosphere of Super Bowl media day.

The juiciest story of the day came from Jamie McMurray, who recounted his recent four-day stint as jury foreman in a rape trial.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn't have anything to say about his strained relationship with his stepmother or his split from Dale Earnhardt Inc. Kyle Busch downplayed his offseason move from Hendrick Motorsports to Joe Gibbs Racing. Even the Car of Tomorrow has pretty much become old news.

Maybe the bride who crashed Super Bowl media day would have livened up the place.

''I could find a thousand things better to do than this,'' two-time Cup series champion Tony Stewart said as he sat down to speak to dozens of reporters.

Stewart was annoyed with the entire daylong event. He spent several hours shuffling between television cameras, radio microphones, tape recorders and hordes of reporters, and by the end of the day, he felt like he was answering the same questions he'd been asked since the end of last season.