Alex Rodriguez sat down at the podium for his first spring training press conference on Monday and asked the opening question.
"Did anyone watch the Super Bowl?" Rodriguez said with a smile.
He was making light of his Super Bowl appearance in which he was shown on television being fed popcorn by his girlfriend, actress Cameron Diaz.
Rodriguez said that a report that he went "ballistic" at Fox for showing him was false.
"That was pretty humorous," Rodriguez said. "Absolutely not, but five or six years ago I probably would have come out with some bogus statement."
A-Rod Jokes About Popcorn Incident