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TAMPA, Fla. - The Super Bowl might be six months away from coming to town, but the celebrity rumors already are running rampant. The New York Post's Page Six reported on Tuesday that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform live at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 1 at Raymond James Stadium. Amanda Holt, the director of communications for the local Super Bowl Committee, said this is the first she has heard of it.

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The Giants unveiled the design of their Super Bowl championship ring today, a white gold sparkler that will feature about 1.5 carats in diamonds. The new ring will even make seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan happy. Shortly after the Giants won the NFL championship with a 17-14 win over the previously undefeated New England Patriots, Strahan said he wanted a “10-table ring.” Loosely defined: He wanted a ring that could be seen 10 tables away in a restaurant. “There was some discussion about maybe one of the rings was too big,” said center Shaun O’Hara, who was among...

The NFL, which found itself on the receiving end of protests and controversy after it objected to churches showing the Super Bowl on big-screen televisions, has reversed course and will now permit the viewings. In a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league would not object to "live showings -- regardless of screen size -- of the Super Bowl" by religious organizations. In response to questions from Hatch, Goodell said in the letter, dated Feb. 19, the NFL will implement the policy starting with next year's Super Bowl. The league has said that...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl and ended the season with a perfect 19-0 record -- at least it looks that way in Nicaragua. The NFL donated 290 Patriots hats and an equal number of team jerseys trumpeting the slogans "Super Bowl Champions, 19-0" to impoverished children from two small communities in southern Nicaragua. Thursday's gifts could not change history -- the Patriots lost the Feb. 3 game to the New York Giants 17-14 -- but they made a lot of youngsters in the communities of San Gregorio and Buena Vista very happy, said...

Super-Sized Subsidies: Super Bowl interests looking for more cash from taxpayers By Byron Schlomach, Ph.D. The local Super Bowl Host Committee shoveled out about $17 million for the weeklong Super Bowl party in Phoenix and Glendale. The private sector, including the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Thunderbirds charity funded over 80 percent of these Super expenses. While I'm not sure what was in it for the Yavapai Nation or what is charitable about the Super Bowl, it's good that private sources anted up. Those of us who count ourselves fortunate just to afford satellite TV would rather pay for...

A distraught Tempe man was within sight of the Super Bowl on Sunday with an assault rifle, but a change of heart kept him from unloading 200 rounds of ammunition on the crowd, court records show. Kurt William Havelock, 35, turned himself in Sunday to Tempe police and the FBI at the urging of family and confessed his plan, which he hatched in retaliation for the Tempe City Council rejecting a liquor license application for a restaurant and bar he owns. According to court records, Havelock is charged with mailing threatening communications in the mailing of eight copies of a...

Super Bowl Champ: "Give God All the Glory" By John Connolly GLENDALE, Arizona, February 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Plaxico Burress, a wide receiver for the newly-crowned champion team, the New York Giants, told reporters on Sunday that God deserves the glory for his game-winning touchdown catch. Burress, who only caught two passes during the whole of the Super Bowl, said he prayed hard when his number came up, with the game on the line and only 35 seconds left to go in the fourth quarter. The Giants had been waiting all game to get Burress into one-on-one coverage against Ellis...

New England Patriots: 3:1 San Diego Chargers: 11:2 Indianapolis Colts: 12:1 Dallas Cowboys: 14:1 Pittsburgh Steelers: 20:1 New York Giants: 25:1 Green Bay Packers: 25:1 Jacksonville Jaguars: 25:1 New Orleans Saints: 25:1 Cincinnati Bengals: 28:1 Philadelphia Eagles: 35:1 Denver Broncos: 40:1 Cleveland Browns: 50:1 Washington Redskins: 50:1 Chicago Bears: 50:1 Minnesota Vikings: 50:1 Detroit Lions: 50:1 Carolina Panthers: 50:1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 50:1 Seattle Seahawks: 50:1 San Francisco 49ers: 50:1 Arizona Cardinals: 50:1 Baltimore Ravens: 60:1 New York Jets: 80:1 Buffalo Bills: 80:1 Tennessee Titans: 80:1 St Louis Rams: 80:1 Houston Texans: 100:1 Atlanta Falcons: 100:1 Oakland Raiders: 125:1...

Super Tuesday indeed. It's estimated more than one million people filled the streets of Manhattan Tuesday, and it wasn't just so they could place their votes in the primary election. A ticker-tape parade kicked off at 11 a.m. in celebration of the New York Giants and their spectacular victory in Super Bowl XLII. The extravaganza began on Broadway at Battery Place and moved north through a blizzard of 50 tons of confetti and streamers past the financial district and the site of the World Trade Center, before a finale at City Hall Park. The stretch is known as the "Canyon...

Link to the Wired.com article - http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/offensive-super.html The article also contains a link-back to Free Republic archives, and the infamous photo of Bill Clinton and Gupta that was exposed on this forum.

It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton (who pioneered in gravity, optics, and other matters scientific and mathematical) once said: "If I have seen farther than others, it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." After the Super Bowl, Tom Brady said, "If I have not thrown as well as others, it was because the Giants were standing on my shoulders."

This was presented just before the beginning of the Super Bowl yesterday, a Fox Sports Super Bowl tradition. Speakers include: Jim Brown, Don Shula, Roger Staubach, Marie Tillman (widow of Pat), Ronnie Lott, Ozzie Newsome, Teddy Bruschi, Paul Tagliabue, Lovie Smith, Steve Largent, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy and more. Well done and moving.

Maybe they need to rewrite that last chapter...

Clinton Revels in Giant Win Feb 3 11:45 PM US/Eastern ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton became a super fan of the New York Giants Sunday, reveling in their upset of the New England Patriots—and even seeing an omen for her own political future. "Super Bowl, Super Tuesday, we've got one down, let's get the other," said Clinton. Clinton has said she's banking on the "New York team" to carry the day in football's biggest test, and in a mega-round of primaries next Tuesday. With their 17-14 win, the Giants held up their end of the bargain....

GLENDALE, Ariz. - There'll be no Hub parade on Super Tuesday. No commemorative books about "Path to Perfection." In New England, the church bells all are broken. Two-touchdown favorites and touted as possibly the greatest football team of all-time, the Patriots were beaten by the New York Giants, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII last night at University of Phoenix Stadium. Twenty-three hundred miles from Foxborough, an 18-0 season dissolved when New York's Eli Manning found Plaxico Burress in the end zone for a 13-yard touchdown pass with 35 seconds left. The Patriots lost the Super Bowl. It is an alternate...

Eli Manning, David Tyree show why Giants are Super this night GLENDALE, Ariz. - The best Super Bowl of them all really ended in the left corner of the end zone at University of Phoenix Stadium, one last ball in the hands of Plaxico Burress, who called this one the way Joe Namath called one once. Eli Manning delivered that ball to Burress, delivered it the way great quarterbacks are supposed to deliver the ball at the end of a game like this, delivered it the way Joe Montana did in a Super Bowl in Miami against the Bengals. And...

Hey Bin Laden, Did you enjoy the Superbowl? In case you didn't know, it went right around the world with people having Superbowl parties. Now I know your a busy man and probably haven't got time to hook up a satellite Dish from your Cave in Afghanistan, but it was a resounding success with an Upset to the New York Giants, yep New York won and you have lost. Why have you lost?, because people still have a choice. Even after your crime, people believe it or not, still have a choice in 75% percent of the world. We can...

Roger Goodell just presented the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the Super Bowl Champions and called them "World Champions" How do you get to be WORLD Champions of a purely domestic competition? I mean,Goodell is Commissioner of the NATIONAL Football League, What part of NATIONAL doesn't he understand? Is American Football a world sport or not? If it is, where else is it played? And why aren't those other countries included in the "World Championship"? If it is a purely an American sport, then clearly being "World Champions" is a meaningless label and a crass arrogance. You might as well declare...

New England challenges extra man on field. Karma bites them in ass. The cheaters didn't win.

Giants 17 Patriots 14

Drudge was flashing "NOT PERFECT NY GIANTS TAKE SUPER BOWL LEAD" after the Giants scored their touchdown with less than a minute ago. Granted, it might've been over by then, but either 1) Drudge is a psychic, or 2) there is a 10-minute delay in broadcasting that Drudge doesn't have, or 3) Drudge's staff simply exercised bad judgment.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottsdale police have arrested nine people suspected of selling forged Super Bowl tickets for thousands of dollars.Sgt. Mark Clark said Sunday that a Massachusetts couple reporting unwittingly buying forged tickets for $2,500 from a man on the street Saturday. Plain-clothed detectives spotted a man matching a description given by the couple, and the victims then positively identified him.

Morning Reflections- Signs and Portents There was an orange crescent moon, riding low in the sky when I went out to retrieve my newspaper, and Gladys - our adopted Honda- was covered with frost.Clearly,something of great import was going to happen today ! Ah ! Super Bowl Sunday !! (Sometimes I wonder what some far-in-the-future archaeologist - struggling to decipher a fading scrap of newspaper-will make of headlines reading: "GIANTS BATTLE PATRIOTS" .) Nope: catchy commercials to the contrary, I didn't think the omens had anything to do with football. Religion, perhaps ? Mmm.. Let's see: Many Christians observe today...

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What could be a historic day for the Patriots and the NFL might be overshadowed by the latest twist to Spygate, the videotape controversy that resurfaced this week. An unnamed source told the Boston Herald that a former team employee secretly videotaped the St. Louis Rams walkthrough the day before they played the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans.

  LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!   WARNING: THIS IS A GRAPHICS INTENSIVE THREADTHE FUN USE OF GRAPHICS TO ENHANCE THE PARTY IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. 

One could argue that Bill Belichick owes everything to Mo Lewis. After all, if the Jets New York Jets outside linebacker hadn't almost killed Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe - literally - with that brutal hit seven years ago, Belichick could very well be some team's defensive coordinator today. ....

PHOENIX - A member of the New England Patriots' video staff taped the St. Louis Rams' last walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl, a Boston newspaper reported Saturday. The NFL, however, said it was satisfied this was not another Spygate. New England Patriots chairman and owner Robert Kraft, center, is seen as the team gets ready for a team photo at University of Phoenix Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 in Glendale, Ariz. The Patriots will play the New York Giants in the Super Bowl XLII football game on Sunday, Feb. 3 "We were aware of the rumor months ago...

PHOENIX - Take a good look at Bill Belichick on the New England sideline Sunday during Super Bowl XLII. If allegations that Belichick was involved in another Spygate scandal are proven true, it may be the last time you see him there for a while. Because it's not a stretch to think he could be temporarily or permanently removed as Patriots head coach. The Boston Herald reported that a member of New England's video department taped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough practice on the eve of Super Bowl XXXVI in February 2002. That could have given the Patriots a competitive...

So, I think that Belichick is the greatest coach in history, Brady the best quarterback, and the Patriots the best team in the history of the sport. My prediction, Patriots win 42-19. You??? ;-/

Well, we liked to think it wouldn't happen. We acted like the Patriots' spying scandal would never resurface again. So much for that. The Boston Herald quoted a source who said that on the eve of their first Super Bowl win, the Patriots videotaped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough. Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh has hinted to a few media organizations that he has some seriously damaging info on the Pats' videotaping practices. And suddenly, a compelling Super Bowl just got a lot more compelling. This is not going away. It will not go away. And it raises all...

OFFICIAL FR SUPER BOWL XLII LIVE THREAD NEW YORK GIANTS VS NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS Sunday February 3, 2008 At University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ 6:17PM ET TV Network: FOX

Free Tickets to Super Bowl XLII Given to Injured War VetsSaturday, February 02, 2008 The University of Phoenix scored a touchdown with Iraq war veterans, giving eight coveted tickets to Sunday's Super Bowl XLII to a group of wounded service members, MyFOXPhoenix.com reports. "Being part of it — it’ll be nice," veteran Brent Bretz told MyFOXPhoenix.com. Bretz has undergone 57 surgeries, and his recovery from his war wounds is still not complete. He returned from Iraq in 2005, as did Robert Bartlett, another ticket recipient, who said he was "pretty surprised" by the gift. "It’s the chance of a lifetime,"...

Gang: http://www.kpho.com/iteam/15196785/detail.html I had to keep quiet on this until KPHO ran it. Be ready to have your mind blown. And be ready to be pissed off. Read it and watch the 3-minute video, too. --Gunny

You're rooting for the Patriots to lose. I don't blame you. If they weren't my team, I'd probably be rooting against them too. I understand your dislike. The boredom of perfection. The unsporting offensive onslaught. The records broken. That cover boy with the dimples at quarterback. Spygate. Really, when you look closely, what's to like? But I come from a different place. I remember the first Patriots championship appearance. It was January 1964 and I was nine years old. The Pats suffered a 51-10 blowout....

“Daddy, who’s ED?� “You mean Mr. Ed? He was a talking horse from a 1950s TV show?� “No, I mean the man who talks about ED. Is he Ed? And what’s e-rectull dys…dys..� “Ah. Let’s turn the game off for a minute and go help Mom in the kitchen.� Except that Mom is probably sitting right there in front of the tube, too. Lots of moms watched the NFL playoffs, and a poll by the Coalition for Working Moms found that 80 percent of mothers plan to be watching the Super Bowl on Feb. 3. The Big Game is a...

Democrat James Carville and former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) star in one of Co...ca-Cola's Super Bowl commercials. Watch it here before it debuts during the game.

GLENDALE, Ariz. – If it comes to it, the oft-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" says he has a pair of pink underwear, a bologna sandwich and a spot in a dirty old prison tent for Tom Brady, Eli Manning or, most certainly, Paris Hilton. Maricopa County – which includes much of metropolitan Phoenix – is host to the Super Bowl, one of the nation's most decadent party weekends where, sometimes, celebrities and even athletes find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Around here the law means Joe Arpaio, the tough talking, tougher-ruling sheriff who would like nothing better than...

For years, as many as 200 members of Immanuel Bible Church and their friends have gathered in the church's fellowship hall to watch the Super Bowl on its six-foot screen. The party featured hard hitting on the TV, plenty of food -- and prayer. But this year, Immanuel's Super Bowl party is no more. After a crackdown by the National Football League on big-screen Super Bowl gatherings by churches, the Springfield church has sacked its event. Instead, church members will host parties in their homes. Immanuel is among a number of churches in the Washington area and elsewhere that have...

  Enjoy the Super Bowl as we look forward to Super Tuesday and Mardi Gras  SUPER BOWL Site: University of Phoenix Stadium - Glendale, AZ Date: February 3, 2008 Kick-off: 6:30 p.m. EST Network: FOX  Radio: Westwood One  Home Team:  New England Patriots  Away Team:  New York Giants  Halftime Performance:  Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers  Referee:  Mike Carey     A young man was very excited because he just won a ticket to the Super Bowl. His excitement lessened as he realized his seat was in the back of the stadium. As he searched the rows ahead of him for a better...

Last night saw a glitering celebrity gala, headlined by Jay Leno, at The Phoenician as one of THE events of the Super Bowl social circuit. It was a $1000 a seat and attended by Howie Long, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Bart Starr, Gale Sayers and many others. During the proceeding NFL Commisioner Roger Goodell boasted that 900 Million would watch Sunday's game. Frankly I think he is blowing smoke - even if the entire nation watches (which it won't) that would only be 300, million, and you won't get another 600 million to watch worldwide, the interest in American Football...

All-Time Best Super Bowl Ads Score Big High-Cost Commercials Stick Around Longer Than Game ItselfBy Joshua Nichols, Weekend National Editor POSTED: 2:40 pm EST January 31, 2008 Admit it. You might not remember who won last year's Super Bowl, but you probably remember some of the commercials shown during the game. Survey: Favorite All-Time Super Bowl Commercial? Even non-football fans watch the game for the ads, which fetch millions of dollars for 30-second spots. You find yourself talking about them the next day, even if you can't quite remember what company or product the ad was for. So as you...

For fans unmoved by the prospect of a Tom Petty Super Bowl halftime show, the cable industry has an answer. Many answers, in fact. There's grown men stuffing themselves with eggs and ham. There's Deion Sanders skirmishing with his wife over household chores. There's kittens squaring off on a football field. After five years of letting the Super Bowl halftime show air pretty much uncontested, networks are again taking aim at the extravaganza. Sensing vulnerability in the NFL's decision to cast the rock musician known for "Free Fallin'" and "American Girl" as its headline entertainment, nets are in a counter...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CNS) -- Mayor Ted Young of Waterloo sees a link between the success of the New York Giants and St. Mary Parish in his Seneca County village. He and Tom Coughlin, the Giants' head coach, are 1960 graduates of the parish grade school. Young believes Coughlin's Catholic-school upbringing helped shape his coaching achievements in college and the National Football League. "I think it played a large part. It sets your life values, and your values are set very early on," Young said in an interview with the Catholic Courier, newspaper of the Rochester Diocese. Young noted that he...

Welcome to the Freak Show, a.k.a. Super Bowl media day By PAUL NEWBERRY, AP National Writer January 30, 2008 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Welcome to the Freak Show. It starts on my way through the security checkpoint at University of Phoenix Stadium, where, after clearing the metal detector and reclaiming a set of rental-car keys, a handful of loose change and a cell phone, I have my first encounter with a vision in white (and red, if you make it down to the towering pumps). ADVERTISEMENT I gaze upon the veil flowing down her bare neck, the strapless, thigh-high wedding...

When you think about the Super Bowl, does the name "Ryan Seacrest" come to mind? Probably not. I'm pretty sure I know more about football than Ryan Seacrest (which isn't saying a heck of a lot). Yet somehow, Fox has awarded Super Bowl hosting duties to their American Idol golden boy. As master of ceremonies for football's biggest game, Ryan will host pregame red-carpet events, as well as the halftime show. Super Bowl XLII is set to take place in February at the University of Phoenix stadium in Arizona. And while halftime entertainment has not yet been announced, I'm starting...

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Super Bowl fever is sweeping New York. But it was more a case of sweeping up on the New York Giants charter flight Monday. Minutes before the Giants were to take off from Newark-Liberty Airport for Phoenix and Super Bowl XLII, rookie cornerback Aaron Ross threw up - the sixth Giants player bitten by the flu bug. "We've got to hope that that's the end of it," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said after arrival in Arizona. "Hopefully it won't cost anyone any practice time this week out here." Three Giants, including starting fullback Madison Hedgecock, missed practice...

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Associated Press PHOENIX — Tom Brady was back where he belongs Monday, behind center for the New England Patriots' first practice session of Super Bowl week. The NFL's Most Valuable Player missed three practices last week with a tender right ankle, which was taped for Monday's training at Arizona State in nearby Tempe. According to the Chicago Tribune's Dan Pompei, the designated pool reporter, the star quarterback appeared to have a slight limp but participated in all phases of practice, including jogging the length of the field twice at the end of drills. Coach Bill Belichick, as usual, declined to...