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10 Best and 3 Worst Super Bowl Commercials of All-Time
10. McDonald’s – The Showdown
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Read more46 Facts about Super Bowl XLVI
#46-AFC LOVES FEBRUARY: The Super Bowl will be held on February 5th. Since the first February Super Bowl in 2002, the AFC is 6-3 in those games held in the calendar’s shortest month … though the NFC has won the last two:
Super Bowl XXXVI: Patriots beat Rams on February 3, 2002
Super Bowl XXXVIII: Patriots beat Panthers on February 1, 2004
Super Bowl XXXIX: Patriots beat Eagles on February 6, 2005
Super Bowl XL: Steelers beat Seahawks on February 5, 2006
Super Bowl XLI: Colts beat Bears on February 4, 2007
Super Bowl XLII: Giants beat Patriots on February 3, 2008
Super Bowl XLIII: Steelers beat Cardinals on February 1, 2009
Super Bowl XLIV: Saints beat Colts on February 7, 2010
Super Bowl XLV: Packers beat Steelers on February 6, 2011
#45-SCORE EARLY AND OFTEN: The team who scores first in a Super Bowl is 29-16. However, the team who has scored first has lost six of the last ten Super Bowls.
*Teams who score at least 30 points are 23-1.
*Teams that score the first TD are 32-13.
*Teams leading at the half are 34-9 (there have been two ties)
#44-NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, TOM: Tom Brady will be making his 5th start in a Super Bowl, tying him with John Elway for most all time. Brady is 3-1 in his previous trips (beat the Rams, Panthers and Eagles, lost to the Giants). Elway was 2-3 in his appearances.
After those two, four men are tied with four starts. Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw won all of their starts. Jim Kelly lost all four of his. Roger Stauback split his four.
If Brady wins Super Bowl XLVI, he will join Montana and Bradshaw for most Super Bowl wins by a starting QB.
#43-SUPER BOWL REMATCH: The Giants and Patriots will meet again in the Super Bowl. Who could forget their matchup in Super Bowl XLII?
This isn’t the first Super Bowl rematch.
The Steelers and Cowboys have met for three Super Bowls. Redskins-Dolphins, Cowboys-Bills, and 49ers-Bengals all have met twice.
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Read moreThe 25 Best Championship Football Games In TV And Movies
Written by Jason Serafino
Few things get American sports fans more pumped than a championship football game. It doesn’t matter if it’s Pop Warner, going to state in high school, a college bowl game, or the Super Bowl—football is a way of life in this country. And over the years, countless filmmakers, screenwriters, and production companies have tried to replicate the excitement of a big game in movies and TV shows.
In case you’ve been living under a rock over the past two weeks, you’re well aware that Super Bowl XLVI is this Sunday. And while there will be a long wait for more football after the New York Giants and the New England Patriots square off, there are plenty of football movies and television shows to scratch that pigskin itch during the offseason. So to point you in the right direction, we give you The 25 Best Championship Football Games In TV And Movies.
Read moreA History of Super Bowl Week Fails
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and you know what that means? Tons of recklessness is bound to go down. Especially if you’re a pro athlete. Players who are in the big game and those who aren’t face temptations that would leave any average dude weak in the knees. Doubt us? Even nuns know that the hoes are out heavy.
Yeah, this year’s SB is in Indianapolis but while you think that Indiana might be a pretty boring place to party, we’ve got a bit of evidence that things might get rowdy. From the player who sniffed coke on the sidelines to the baller who caught a murder charge, here is a History of Super Bowl Week Shenanigans.
Read moreGiants NASCAR Package in XLVI
by: Claude Clayborne
Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora and Mathias Kiwanuka might as well be Dale Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon when they are on the field at the same time. Together, they combine to form the New York Football Giants “NASCAR” package an entire defensive line of defensive ends.
The speed is there to burn for the Giants and they use it very well. The key to the NASCAR Package is not the individual rushing ability of any one of the supremely talented Giants ends. The irony of a team using a “NASCAR” package in a Super Bowl in Indianapolis is damning. The nastiness of this package is the stunt games they employ with all that speed on the field to get pressure on the QB. This type of hyper pressure allows the Giants to sit in absurdly soft long distance coverages on long downs. Justin Tuck is especially vicious when he is coming on a variety of moves. He’s a nightmare against guards and centers in this package.
The Patriots need to stay ahead of the chains running or passing 21 personnel or five wide sets to keep the NASCAR gang at bay or its is curtains for Belichick and company. The four ends played 74 snaps together in the regular season, according to ESPN Stats and it’s interesting to note their season high (26) came in Week 9 against the Patriots. They pressured Brady into two ugly interceptions in that game and a Giants victory.
The Giants originated the beat Brady to death blueprint for victory in the 2007 Super Bowl. As brilliant as the Patriots are in big games, the Giants are built to beat them and the NASCAR Package is a big reason why ….. along with Manning to Manningham and Cruz and Bricks to Nicks. If the Patriots can get the Giants out of their comfort zone and stay balanced out of bigger sets and keep the NASCAR Package off the field, I believe they have a legitimate chance to win this game. Otherwise, look for a piranha feeding to occur on Gisele Bundchen’s boo thang and result in a second victory for the Giants in as many Super Bowl meetings with the Pats.
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Read moreAn Open Letter from Gunner Kiel to Les Miles
By: Claude Clayborne
Gunner Kiel didn’t actually write this, we wrote it on his behalf. Enjoy.
Mr. Miles,
I thank you for the opportunity you gave me to become a part of the LSU family. However, after doing what was best for me and my family, staying home in the state of Indiana, your actions earlier this week showed me that I truly have made that right decision. You say I dont have the chest to be the leader of a program, yet I find myself at Notre Dame as the next in line to lead a program more storied than your own. I don’t think you would have complained if Landon Collins had flipped to LSU on signing day. What you said was classless and indicitave of your character as a man. Furthermore, I can’t remember the last time you developed a quarterback that was nothing more than a game manager or an NFL bust? Correct me if I’m wrong. I also see how the man I committed to Notre Dame head coach, Brian Kelly, handled the same situation with a great player switching in the recruiting process (Deontay Greenberry). I applaud him for not stooping to the level you did in the exact same setting. I hope one day down the line that I get the opportunity to retort on the field, hopefully with everything on the line. Who knows, looking at the class you signed this year that may not be a reality. I hear you signed a Klump in my place I hope that works out for you.
PS – I’m gonna beat the hell out of Michigan three years in a row just for you Les.
Sincerely,
Gunner Kiel
Read moreLes Miles vs. Gunner Kiel: The Cowardly Tiger
by: Claude Clayborne
Les Miles is a loser in my book for the stunt he pulled regarding the recruitment of Notre Dame signee Gunner Kiel.
Les Miles is a loser, because he hasn’t won anything since the SEC championship game to be honest. Alabama just whooped your ass for all the marbles in the BCS Championship for starters. Then you lost the top three recruits in your state — Denzel Devall and Landon Collins went to Alabama and Toshiro Davis signed with Texas. Furthermore, Kiel decided to enroll early at Notre Dame, so one can only imagine the frustration that Miles has built up in the last month. However, calling out any 18 year old on the ground of making a decision that is best for himself is absolutely wrong.
Keep in mind head coaches are entrusted to raise and influence young men. That is the job description: take a teenager and mold him into a productive balanced grown man.The NCAA should fine coaches for catty and classless activity. What does this childish statement say to the 115 young men Les Miles is in charge of at the moment? Even if coaches make vague statements, they should be fined, because most of the time we know who they are talking about. The same could be said about the flat out denial of Virginia Tech that Frank Beamer didn’t have a few choice words for West Boca Raton linebacker, Jawand Blue, after he signed with Miami. College coaches need to stop letting their inflated egos make it ok to take out frustration with young recruits on the national stage. It has to end, you don’t see Bill Gates crying on CNN talking about what an intern did or didn’t do. The same thing applies leave these YOUNG MEN ALONE. The NCAA makes it a point of interest to make instances like these a thing of the past. If I was Gunner Kiel’s father, I would be knocking at Miles’ door to see if he had the chest to stand behind his word face to face with a grown man.
Read moreOhio State recruit, Roger Lewis, charged with Rape
Roger Lewis missed signing his letter of intent yesterday, because he was in jail facing two rape charges.
For the few athletes blessed with the ability to play college football, National Signing Day is “I made it day” for many those blessed special few. It’s a time where the spotlight is on them and their parents’ wallet breathes sigh of relief. Roger Lewis was supposed to be signing with the Ohio State Buckeyes, instead Lewis was signing with his fingerprint in an Ohio jail.
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Read moreCourageous Cougar: Greenberry to Houston
I completely and totally respect Deontay Greenberry and applaud his decision to attend the University of Houston. Greenberry, the long time Notre Dame commit, pulled the biggest shocker in recent memory flipping from the Irish to the Cougars yesterday sending shock waves through the internet. Most stories will tell you about the relationship “Tay” established with former ASU and current Houston assistant Jamie Christian. Furthermore, this is more shocking as it was common knowledge that Greenberry, at least until recently, wanted to attend college with his cousin, Notre Dame early enrolee Tee Shepard. This made the switch all the more surprising, how does one of the elite players in the country leave sunny California for Houston? How elite was Greenberry this year? He set California state records for touchdowns by a WR with an ungodly 33 and receiving yards 2,165 best marks ever in the state of California! ARE YOU SERIOUS? Hell yes, I’M DEAD ASS SERIOUS!!!
The answer is quite simple, Greenberry had the courage to do what was right for him and not bend under the pressure that so many recruits give in to through the recruiting process. Greenberry is not afraid to pave his own way and embraced the challenge of becoming the man at UH instead of just another top recruit at Notre Dame. That put quite simply takes a lot of nuts ….. there is no other way to say it. The most interesting part of this is that Greenberry is in my opinion the best receiver in the country, yes even over Dorial Green-Beckham. Greenberry’s aggression combined with his competitive spirit, unparalleled skill set, athleticism and knowledge of the game are talents very few are blessed with.
Deontay is going to have a field day in the high powered Houston offense and you are a fool to doubt the dreaded boy wonder for even a second. Brian Kelly should be ashamed of himself after the comments made regarding this whole issue. Every year hundreds of high school stars go “where they are supposed to” pressured into conforming. How many of today’s stars that signed will transfer within two years? Hats of to Deontay Greenberry for bucking the trend and setting the precedent hopefully for more star players in the future. #Paveyourownway Greenberry will be under the microscope at Houston …… expect nothing but the best, as this California product is the real deal. Thank You Deontay Greenberry for a moment of clarity and truth on one of the most convoluted and sheisty days of the year, National Signing Day.
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