political beatnik

person, particularly a reporter, that feels the need to obsess on a political issue in a superficial way while other people are trying to accomplish an important task or series of task that is, at best, tangentially related to the political issue

Hey man, that's for you political beatniks to ponder. We're a football team, man. You're asking us about middle ground, you're asking us about right or left...We are a football group. That's what you guys don't understand. We don't care, largely professionally speaking. We have personal opinions, yes.