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Super Bowl Count Down

2006-10-16T12:20:00.000-07:00

The Pittsburgh Steelers will take on the Seattle Seahawks this Sunday in Detroit. I've come across some interesting Super bowl news during this week leading up to the game...Being in Detroit, Windsor is expecting to see $80 million in business over the weekend (I'm sure Ye Olde Steak House will be packed!).One of the 'Super Bowl' Stories is "Jerome Betis's coming home party. He's from Detroit and he's got family there... we know get over it.As always if the game sucks, you can still pay attention to the commercials... over and over again as NFL.com will rebroadcast the commercials on Monday and Tuesday.I guess what I'm getting at is... who do you think's gonna win?

Super Ads

2006-08-25T14:03:00.000-07:00

Sunday, February 5th, was "Super Bowl Sunday", of course so like other devout followers of the religion of football I attended a party in my housing association's club house. Let me begin by congratulating the Pittsburgh Steelers on their victory over the Seattle Seahawks.

What I most noticed -- beyond the poor quality of the NFL referees -- was that the party attendees were very talkative during the game but became quiet when the advertisements were running. Based on the post-Super Bowl news articles I read it appears that at least 8 to 10% of game watchers tune in JUST to watch the commercials.

My second observation on the game is a question to the NFL -- what demographic group are you trying to focus on? One year you have Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake as the half-time performers and another year you give us the Rolling Stones. Perhaps there are a lot of cross-over fans for these artists but I doubt it. Since most Super Bowl-related newspaper articles cite that a growing segment of NFL fans are women perhaps Mick and the Boys are considered sexual icons despite Keith Richards' corpse-like appearance.

Overall my love of American football continues despite all the sideshows such as -- half time performers and TV commercials -- but would love to see the NFL focus Super Bowl 2007 on FOOTBALL so here are some suggestions (DISCLAIMER -- granted these might have been tried already and I missed them but then again I am not sending an invoice to the NFL for the ideas, I am just a football purist trying to promote the game.):

Punt, Pass, and Kick -- showcase the PPK champions at the beginning of the game to help reach the youth market by creating some "youth rock stars" in football to counter the gains made by soccer. Arena Football -- the NFL signed a deal with the AFL years ago but do you ever see Arena Football highlighted during the Super Bowl? High Schools -- I always see the Top 25 high school football team rankings in USA Today but why not give the top team at the end of the season some recognition at the Super Bowl?

Ready................break,

Todd

Why I Resigned From The City of Oakland - Zennie Abraham

2006-07-20T19:56:00.000-07:00

Answering Questions Directed Towards Somebody Else The NFL season ...

2006-07-17T11:58:00.000-07:00

Answering Questions Directed Towards Somebody Else

The NFL season kicks off in 54 days and, to commerate the event, Scouts.com analyst Gary Horton took questions this morning on ESPN.com. This afternoon, I will answer some questions as if they were directed towards me.

Justin (NJ): Is this the year that Peyton and CO. finally get over the hump in Indy and get to the Super Bowl?
Chris: My, we're setting our sights quite low, aren't we Justin? Has Peyton's rep taken such a hit that we now have to ask if the Colts will merely make the Super Bowl instead of winning the whole thing?
But to answer your question, I think Peyton and Co. will get over a hump this year, and by over I mean under and by hump I mean the Jaguars. Since 1999 the Colts have finished with 10 wins or more every year except for in 2001 when they went 6-10. In 2001, you might remember, Edgerrin James was lost for the season with a torn ACL. I'm probably treading on next month's 15-part NFL Preview but, needless to say, the Colts won't be a featured pick.

John ( New York ): Hey Gary why is everyone so down on the Raiders? They have tons of talent on offense and their defense is younger and fast and I think they will surprise some people.
Chris: Younger and fast are the way I like my women, not my defenses.

Gary (NY): How does Eli fare this year? Does he join the ranks of his brother finally?
Chris: Yes, Eli will continue to be a non-time Super Bowl champion quarterback this season, just like his brother. To answer the first part second, Eli will perform just as well as he has to date, which is to say, not very well at all.
By the way, this is the third consecutive question from New York and New Jersey. Who's moderating this chat, Paul Tagliabue?

Richard, Tampa FL: What is your prediction for Nick Saban's second year? How close is he to how he wants it?
Chris: Looks like we got our subconsciously homoerotic question out of the way. Thanks, Richard!

Dan S (Washington DC): Gary, are you buying Alex Smith in SF? Always thought he was the #1 pick by circumstance. Is this guy a gamer at this level on any other team...besides Houston of course?
Chris: He has Norv Turner by his side now. What could possibly go wrong?!

Mark (Richmond, VA): Gary, I'm a huge Redskins Fan, but I am disappointed in the receivers we obtained this offseason. Yes, they are better than what we had, but there is still no HEIGHT!!! With Sam Madison, Will Peterson, Terrance Newman, Anthony Henry, Lito Sheppard, and Sheldon Brown twice a year, do you think the 06-07 Smurfs can get the job done??? I feel this is the weakest spot on the team!!!
Chris: Mark, you deserve to be hit in the throat and the stomach. First of all, Santana Moss was the second-best receiver in the NFL last season with David Freakin' Patten lining up beside him. A blind mute could play receiver better than Patten did in '05, so anybody is an improvement. With Antwaan Randle-El and Brandon Lloyd aboard, the Redskins make automatic improvements to the receiving corps, improvements which will free up Moss from all the attention he drew last season. My main worry is that the Redskins don't have a prototypical possession receiver; but Chris Cooley can fill that role quite nicely.
Height at receiver is overrated anyway. T.O. is considered a tall receiver yet he's "only" 6'3 (just three inches taller than Brandon Lloyd). Jerry Rice was listed at 6'2, but that's about as reliable as the 5'11 that's on my license. Gary Horton makes a very good point in the actual chat about this topic:
I think we've seen that with the new contact rules in the NFL, small receivers are very much en vogue again. I love cornerbacks that like to bump and run, but the rules don't allow them to push receivers all over the field. And these little guys will get off the jam and separate, and this will be a great Redskins passing attack, in my opinion. Second of all, Mark, you just listed Sam Madison, Anythony Henry, Sheldon Brown and Lito Sheppard as cornerbacks to be afraid of. I wouldn't be afraid of Lito Sheppard if we had to fight to the death and he had a gun and I had a spork; so I don't think Santana Moss is going to lose sleep over Lito Sheppard. Lito Sheppard! Ha! That's laughable, man!

Fritz (New Brunswick NJ): Will the Chargers make the playoffs even with Rivers at the Helm?
Chris: Is "the Helm" a nickname for the Chargers? Because i'm not understanding the capitalization, Fritz. I'm really, really not.

Jason (ATX): Hey Gary thanks for taking time to answer my question. Who do you think will have the Best D in the NFL this year? Do you think Steve Smith can/will put up numbers like last year (since teams will have to keep an eye on KJ)? If so shouldnt he be the leagues MVP?
Chris: Don't you think it's pretty presumptuous to thank Gary for answering your question before he actually answers it? It's like writing a thank you note for a gift you haven't received. Maybe that's the custom in ATX, I don't know. I just don't know anything, except that it's lunch time.

Knicks v. Pacers

2006-07-14T16:13:00.000-07:00

Gerade gewannen die New York Rangers in Overtime gegen die Boston Bruins und halten ihren Vorsprung in der Division. Warum ist das wichtig? Weil ich gestern beim Knicks Spiel war. Hä? Ach Egal.

Der gestrige Tag war wettertechnisch sehr seltsam. Vormittag regnete es und ich lief mit Jacke herum, am Nachmittag, als ich mich in Richtung Garden begab, schien die Sonne und es war warm. Ich ging aus dem Haus, blieb stehen, drehte herum und ließ meine Jacke im Zimmer.

Ich ging zur 40. Straße in ein Hochhaus und ging auf den Doorman zu. "Ich will Tickets abholen" - "7. Stock" Also fuhr ich hoch in den siebten, öffnete die Tür des Büros und erkannte den Typen, den ich vor zwei Wochen in der Brauerei kennengelernt hatte. Er meinte noch, dass ich die erste Person sei, die hier vorbeikommt, die er kennt.

Mit den Tickets in der Hand Richtung 31. und 7th wo ich mich um 7:30 mit Anna traf. Wir gingen gleich rein und natürlich rannte mir der Holländer über den Weg. Das gibt es nicht. In dieser großen Stadt begegne ich ihm in Grand Central Station, sehe ich ihn aus dem Busfenster und treffe ihn im Madison Square Garden. Ich hab mit ihm eigentlich überhaupt nichts mehr zu tun aber ständig rennt er mir über den Weg. Er hatte Tickets über die NYU gekauft und während er sich auf dem Weg nach oben machte, gingen wir zu unsere super Sitzen auf der Höhe der Mittellinie.

Es war so geil im Garden Platz zu nehmen. So oft hatte ich Rangers, Knicks, und College Spiele aus der berühmtesten Arena gesehen, hier hatte Jordan regelmäßig 50 Punkte für seine Bulls geworfen, hier hatte Gretzky für die Rangers Tore geschossen und hier wurde Messiers Trikot in die Decke gehängt, und ich saß nun in dieser Arena. Ein toller Moment für einen Sportsfan.

Was natürlich umso besser war, war der Fakt dass ich eine wunderbare Begleitung an meiner Seite hatte.
Wir hofften auf ein spannendes Spiel und das bekamen wir auch. Der größte Lead waren glaub ich mal 5 Punkte für die Pacers und am Schluss gewannen die Knicks mit 0.5 Sekunden auf der Uhr.

Hier ein paar Bilder des Abends und hier und da ein paar Videos.

Oben: Anna ist ein großer Rangers Fan und während des Spiels unterhielten wir uns mehr über Eishockey als über Basketball. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass sie so ein großer Fan ist und als wir uns in der ersten Pause Bier holten stellte sie sich neben ihrer großen Held.

Oben: Ich sollte mich dann auch noch hinstellen, wobei ich bei Jagr nur an den Typ denke, der regelmäßig bei Olympiaden die Deutschen deklassiert. Aber als Rangers Fan bin ich natürlich Pro-Jagr.

Oben: Wir spielten dann mehrere Szenarien durch und wie wohl unsere Reaktion ausfallen würde. Hier ist es, dass die Knicks verlieren, oder das die Arena kein Bier mehr hat...

Oben: Der Rapper Fat Joe war im Publikum und im 3. Viertel war er so wütend, dass er auf das Feld rannte, und Nate Robinson von der Mittellinie warf. Ich muss nicht erähnen, dass er den Wurf machte.

Oben: Ja es war ein knappes Spiel. Die Pacers machten das 96-96 mit 8 Sek. im Spiel. Die Knicks nahmen keinen Auszeit und rannten direkt in die andere Richtung und Jamal Crawford war mit einem Buzzer Beater den Korb. Wir fielen uns um die Arme und gaben High Fives zu den anderen Knicks Fans als der Sprecher meinte, dass noch 0.5 Sek auf der Uhr waren als der Ball den Korb traf. Also hatten die Pacers noch eine Chance, schafften es aber nicht.
Es saßen vier Pacers Fans hinter uns (schwarz, groß) und bei einer Entscheidung gegen die Pacers riefen sie laut, bis der Ref den Call änderte und er nun gegen die Knicks ging. "Oh he must have heard us, he changed the call." Ich drehte mich herum und meinte "yea, and that's you shouldn't talk anymore." Ich lachte dabei und gott sei dank verstanden sie, dass es ein Witz war denn ich merkte es nachdem ich es ausgesprochen hatte, dass es wirklich große Typen waren.

Oben: "Auus, auus. Das Spiel ist auuus." War ein wirklich toller Abend und er sollte noch weitergehen. Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3

Ich trennte mich von Anna und ging nach Haus wo ich beim betreten des Flurs laute Musik hörte. Umso näher ich meinem Apartment kam, umso mehr realisierte ich, dass die Musik aus unserem Wohnzimmer kam.

Darin saßen Tusar, Steve und ein paar Leute und tranken. Ich holte Joey und alle zusammen machten wir uns richtung East Village zu einer Privat-Party.

Beim betreten des Raums viel mir gleich eine Blondine auf die ein unglaubliches Lächeln hatte. Nach all dem vorstellen und einem beinahe Kuss des betrunkenen Typen der sich als Gastgeber ausgab, aber keinen dort so richtig kannte, stelle ich mich ihr vor und musste gleich erklären wo ich herkam. Das Wort "Germany" hat mich hier wirklich noch nicht im Stich gelassen und auch dieses Mal kam wahre Beigeisterung auf. Sie sprach fast perfekt deutsch und wollte anscheinend auch unbedingt deutsch sprechen.
So genug mit den Ladies.

Pete scheint mich wirklich zu mögen ( Video ) und da er bei Saturday Night Live für die Tickets verantwortlich ist lädt er mich heut abend auf die After Party ein. Das ist ein rießen Deal, da alle Stars der Show da sein werden und man als normal sterblicher da nie hinkommt.

Wir erfahren er kurz vor Party Beginn wo sie ist (denn sie ist jedes Mal woanders und wird geheimgehalten) und gegen 3 Uhr morgens geht es dann los (mit der Party). Ich muss mir heut abend unbedingt die Show ansehen damit ich dann weiß er was zu sagen hat und wer nicht.

Mal schauen. Ich will heut noch was mit Tara machen, aber ich kann ja schlecht das SNL Ding saußen lassen. Diese Entscheidungen... okay, ich höre auf.

Another good article on Google

2006-07-12T11:09:00.000-07:00

The New York Times
July 5, 2006
David Leonhardt
The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next

A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Battelle began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine, what they were really doing, he realized, was announcing their intentions.

They typed in "Alaskan cruise" because they were thinking about taking one or "baby names" because they were planning on needing one. If somebody were to add up all this information, it would produce a pretty good notion of where the world was headed, of what was about to get hot and what was going out of style.

Mr. Battelle, a founder of Wired magazine and the Industry Standard, wasn't the first person to figure this out. But he did find a way to describe the digital crystal ball better than anyone else had. He called it "the database of intentions."

The collective history of Web searches, he wrote on his blog in late 2003, was "a place holder for the intentions of humankind — a massive database of desires, needs, wants, and likes that can be discovered, subpoenaed, archived, tracked, and exploited to all sorts of ends."

"Such a beast has never before existed in the history of culture, but is almost guaranteed to grow exponentially from this day forward," he wrote. It was a nice idea, but for most of us it was just an abstraction. The search companies did offer glimpses into the data with bare-bones (and sanitized) rankings of the most popular search terms, and Yahoo sold more detailed information to advertisers who wanted to do a better job of selling their products online. But there was no way for most people to dig into the data themselves.

A few weeks ago, Google took a big step toward changing this — toward making the database of intentions visible to the world — by creating a product called Google Trends. It allows you to check the relative popularity of any search term, to look at how it has changed over the last couple years and to see the cities where the term is most popular. And it's totally addictive.

YOU can see, for example, that the volume of Google searches would have done an excellent job predicting this year's "American Idol," with Taylor Hicks (the champion) being searched more often than Katharine McPhee (second place), who in turn was searched more often than Elliot Yamin (third place). Then you can compare Hillary Clinton and Al Gore and discover that she was more popular than he for almost all of the last two years, until he surged past her in April and stayed there.

Thanks to Google Trends, the mayor of Elmhurst, Ill., a Chicago suburb, has had to explain why his city devotes more of its Web searches to "sex" than any other in the United States (because it doesn't have strip clubs or pornography shops, he gamely told The Chicago Sun-Times). On Mr. Battelle's blog, somebody claiming to own an apparel store posted a message saying that it was stocking less Von Dutch clothing and more Ed Hardy because of recent search trends.(A disclosure: The New York Times Company owns a stake in Mr. Battelle's latest Internet company, Federated Media Publishing.)

It's the connection to marketing that turns the database of intentions from a curiosity into a real economic phenomenon. For now, Google Trends is still a blunt tool. It shows only graphs, not actual numbers, and its data is always about a month out of date. The company will never fully pull back the curtain, I'm sure, because the data is a valuable competitive tool that helps Google decide which online ads should appear at the top of your computer screen, among other things.

But Google does plan to keep adding to Trends, and other companies will probably come up with their own versions as well. Already, more than a million analyses are being done some days on Google Trends, said Marissa Mayer, the vice president for search at Google.

When these tools get good enough, you can see how the business of marketing may start to change. As soon as a company begins an advertising campaign, it will be able to get feedback from an enormous online focus group and then tweak its message accordingly.

I've found Pepsi's recent Super Bowl commercials — the ones centered around P. Diddy — to be nearly devoid of wit, but that just shows you how good my marketing instincts are. As it turns out, the only recent times that Pepsi has been a more popular search term in this country than Coke have been right after a Super Bowl. This year's well-reviewed Burger King paean to Busby Berkeley, on the other hand, barely moved the needle inside the database of intentions.

Hal R. Varian, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who advises Google, predicts that online metrics like this one have put Madison Avenue on the verge of a quantitative revolution, similar to the one Wall Street went through in the 1970's when it began parsing market data much more finely. "People have hunches, people have prejudices, people have ideas," said Mr. Varian, who also writes for this newspaper about once a month. "Once you have data, you can test them out and make informed decisions going forward."

There are certainly limitations to this kind of analysis. It's most telling for products that are bought, or at least researched, online, a category that does not include Coke, Pepsi or Whoppers. And even with clothing or cars, interest doesn't always translate into sales. But there is no such thing as a perfect yardstick in marketing, and the database of intentions clearly offers something new.

In the 19th century, a government engineer whose work became the seed of I.B.M. designed a punched-card machine that allowed for a mechanically run Census, which eventually told companies who their customers were. The 20th century brought public opinion polls that showed what those customers were thinking. This century's great technology can give companies, and anyone else, a window into what people are actually doing, in real time or even ahead of time.

You might find that a little creepy, but I bet that you'll also check it out sometime.

NEWS AND NOTES FROM AROUND COLLEGE FOOTBALL FOR MAY 1, 2006

2006-07-11T22:11:00.000-07:00

West Pointers overtaking West Coasters in NFL

2006-07-06T16:27:00.000-07:00

The disciples
West Pointers overtaking West Coasters in NFL
Posted: Thursday June 29, 2006 3:00PM; Updated: Thursday June 29, 2006 4:06PM

The practitioners of the West Coast offense were once dominant in the NFL. Not too long ago it seemed like anyone who had ever assisted someone who had assisted West Coast mastermind Bill Walsh -- or even cleaned the pool of someone who assisted him -- was coaching gold and primed for his own NFL head spot.

But looking to the 2006 NFL season, it's clear there's another coaching tree that's standing a little taller.

There are plenty of successful West Coasters out there, still working the old magic. One of them was in the Super Bowl last season, another in the AFC conference championship.

But in 2006, the West Coasters are being overtaken by what we'll call the West Pointers. The name "West Pointers" is given in honor of the man who stands at the top of the tree, Bill Parcells. He coached at Army for four years and has carried a military bearing with him. Parcells' leading sideline progeny, his former defensive coordinator Bill Belichick, also has a certain martial quality -- not surprising, considering that Belichick's father, Steve, coached for 33 years at the Naval Academy.

In the 2006 NFL, the West Pointers will narrowly outnumber the West Coasters. Granted, some of the "limbs" of the West Point coaching tree are stronger than others, the weakest connection being new Rams coach Scott Linehan, who makes the West Point list on the basis of one year assisting Nick Saban, who assisted Belichick in Cleveland in the early '90s. But on the whole the groups cohere pretty tightly. Here are the rosters:

WEST COAST

1. Mike Holmgren (Seattle)
2. Mike Shanahan (Denver)
3. Jon Gruden (Tampa Bay)
4. Andy Reid (Philadelphia)
5. Jim Mora (Atlanta)
6. Brad Childress (Minnesota)
7. Gary Kubiak (Houston)

WEST POINT

1. Parcells (Dallas)
2. Belichick (New England)
3. Tom Coughlin (New York Giants)
4. Saban (Miami)
5. Romeo Crennel (Cleveland)
6. Eric Mangini (New York Jets)
7. Sean Payton (New Orleans)
8. Linehan (St. Louis)

You could make an argument that the West Coasters are the more accomplished group. The top three coaches on the list have won Super Bowls, and the five non-rookie coaches on that list have taken their teams to at least the conference championship in the last three years. Holmgren's Seahawks represented the NFC in the 2005 Super Bowl and Reid took his Eagles there the year before that.

On the West Point side, the top two guys on the list, Parcells and Belichick, carry the burden of accomplishment. And in the last few years it's really been all Belichick, at least in the NFL. Saban did win a BCS championship at LSU, and another West Pointer, former Belichick offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, has Notre Dame back in contention. What would really set this comparison on fire is an obvious and flagrant contrast in styles between the two groups, but there isn't one. The West Coasters themselves are not as philosophically coherent as they once were -- Shanahan runs the ball a little more comfortably than, say, Reid. And while the West Point coaches tend to have more severe personalities, it's not as if the West Coast coaches are giving their players a week's vacation between training camp and the season opener so they can go to Burning Man.

But if you wanted to say which group is hot right now, it's clearly the West Pointers. And not just because a 34-year-old like Mangini gets a head coaching job after one year of being a coordinator for Belichick. Coming into the 2006 season, the NFL's most intriguing story line is the old master Parcells latching on to Terrell Owens -- who is playing outside the West Coast offense for the first time in his career -- and readying to take what may be his last best shot at another Super Bowl. Then there's Saban coming on strong with a team that finished 2005 on a six-game winning streak and picked up a star quarterback in the offseason. Plus you've got Belichick, who will contend as long as he and Tom Brady are together. And don't forget Coughlin, a Parcells assistant in the 1980s, who could take the Giants deep into the playoffs this year if Eli Manning rounds into form.

The West Coasters as a group are a stand of redwoods. All five of the veterans have proved themselves to be the kind of coaches who will last in the NFL as long as they want to. I would bet that four of those seven West Coach coaches will put teams in the playoffs this year -- the same number I would pick for the West Pointers.

But the thing about the West Coast philosophy is, it doesn't feel like the future anymore. It can't. Not with so many teams going the other way.

Super Bowl

2006-05-09T18:30:00.000-07:00

By any measure, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched television programs of the year. The game tends to have high Nielsen television ratings which usually come in around a 40 rating and 60 share (i.e., on average, 40 percent of all U.S. households, and 60 percent of all homes tuned into television during the game). This means that on average, 80 to 90 million Americans are tuned into the Super Bowl at any given moment. It is also estimated that 130-140 million tune into some part of the game.

2006-04-16T16:22:00.000-07:00

bowlpatriots new articles for Sunday, April 16, 2006Jim Finn determined to reach the Super Bowl
No Giants news other than a good read on Jim Finn in this article. It talks about his history in the NFL, how he's from new Jersey, how he was a tailback in college, and one thing more: "I want...

Anti-Super Bowl XL
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Received: NFL Super Bowl XL
Received on 03/31/06. Go to http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay? movieid=70045794&trkid=134852 to rate it.

Resurrection Symbology
"Drawing a straight geodesic ('great-circle') line from Corpus Christi to Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers (winner of the '06 Super Bowl), and extending it further will pinpoint Turin, where the Imbolc Winter Olympics began days after ...

Singapore's Jurong Super Bowl McDonald's: Nice
Count on the Jurong Super Bowl store to meet your expectations for a great spot to eat. The McChronicles: A blog about, not affiliated with, McDonald's. Image: The McChronicles.

Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward To Judge Miss USA Pageant
Life has to be good for Hines Ward, his team wins the Super Bowl, he heads back to the country where he was born, a hero, and now he’s starting to get to reap some of the benefits that come with being a Super Bowl MVP. ...

Super Bowl trip adds 4.5 years to prison sentence
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Easter Week is Super Bowl Week - But is that right?
For most churches in North America, the week leading up to Easter is like Super Bowl week: the fact that you're going to have visitors show up is a given. The question is whether to put on a show complete...

The Super Bowl , Stacked Photo Shoot, and the PPT
This really should be three separate journal entries, but I’ve been too busy to get to my computer recently…

I'm talking as slowly as I can
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Happy Easter, Everybody!
By the way, this just scares me that the Super Bowl 59 could just peeve me off the same way. MIKE MONTGOMERY SHOULD BE FIRED: It is not so much that he cannot coach [he can't on this level]...but the fact that Chris Mullin has screwed ...

Reports: Go Daddy may go public
The company has made national headlines the past two years for its Super Bowl commercials, the content of which caused the National Football League to pull the ad after one showing. The resultant controversy was worth millions in free ...

Pulver on VON's Shift to Video
Ten years from now, I’m guessing that only 30% to 35% of the time will people be having a shared common experience watching something while it’s live, whether it’s the Oscars or the Super Bowl or, God forbid, some natural disaster. ...

The Ugly American?
Remember, most people in the world have little or no interest in the World Series or the Super Bowl. More of the same. But what's really off-base here is that there's plenty of Americans that don't follow football or baseball. ...

Has Cuban been sniffing too much fresh glue?
Take the Super Bowl. Isn't that the quintessential live commercial and production? Or P&G with the People's Choice Awards. Also Cable has done a fairly good job of these human interludes....take TBS' Dinner and a Movie, which cuts to ...

How to Be a Less Ugly American: The US government, in partnership ...
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A Narrow Escape
Click above for the latest MasterCard commercial. In a word, awesome. [According to IMDb, the commercial premiered during the Super Bowl. It must have slipped past me then. Still awesome.]

No More Ugly Americans (we're botoxing as fast as we can)
Remember, most people in the world have little or no interest in the World Series or the Super Bowl. What we call “soccer” is football everywhere else. And it’s the most popular sport on the planet.) • Slow down. ...

2006-04-10T21:57:00.000-07:00

bowlpatriots new articles for Monday, April 10, 2006Super Bowl scam trial set (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - A man accused of selling $255,460 in phony tickets to Super Bowl XXXIX will testify in a federal trial that he was an unwitting participant in the scam with a Hudson man who was his business partner.

Super Bowl star Hines Ward meets mixed race Korean children (phillyburbs.com)
SEOUL, South Korea - Beaming Kim Gwan-woo couldn't hide his excitement at getting to meet Super Bowl star Hines Ward, a hero that the 7-year-old Korean boy wants to emulate.

Two-time Super Bowl winner Clack dies (CBS Sportsline)
Jim Clack, a guard on two Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers teams in the 1970s, died Friday of heart failure. He was 58.

Super Bowl champ Steelers to kick off new NFL season (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The National Football League announced its 17-week, 256-game regular-season schedule, which kicks off on September 7 with the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Miami Dolphins.

Holmgren still upset over Super Bowl calls (The Arizona Republic)
Nearly two months after his Seattle Seahawks lost the Super Bowl, Mike Holmgren is still feeling the pain. Especially about the officiating.

Dolphins owner expecting a Super year (Miami Herald)
''They play the Super Bowl here next year, and I'll be damned if we're not the ones playing in our own stadium.'' -- Dolphins receiver Chris Chambers

Bradshaw donates rings to alma mater (USA Today)
Steelers great Terry Bradshaw gave his old school a big gift Monday. Bradshaw donated his four Super Bowl rings, College Football Hall of Fame ring, Pro Football Hall of Fame ring, Hall of Fame bust, four miniature replica Super Bowl trophies, and a helmet and jersey from one of his Super Bowl victories to Louisiana Tech.

Bradshaw Gives Memorabilia To Alma Mater (Washington Post)
Pittsburgh Steelers great Terry Bradshaw donates his four Super Bowl rings, College Football Hall of Fame ring, Pro Football Hall of Fame ring and other memorabilia to Louisiana Tech

Some free agency results familiar (USA Today)
Centers averaging $6 million on new contracts and guards $7 million? Well, that's new. The New England Patriots losing players who were crucial to their success in the Super Bowl? Also a different look.

Super Bowl MVP Ward embraces heritage on trip to birthplace (MSNBC)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward was nervous for the first time in his life as he prepared for a trip to the land of his birth. He also looked forward to learning more about his heritage.

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bowlpatriots new articles for Sunday, April 02, 2006Raiders Watch
I haven't done any football posts since the Super Bowl, though I have been intending to do a Raiders rundown since they parted ways with coach Norv Turner. Turner's brief, lamentable tenure in Oakland demonstrated -- inadvertently, ...

Gruden trying to Get Phil more active with Bucs.
It is not every family tree that produces a Super Bowl winning quarterback let alone two, but that could happen for the Simms; If Chris Simms becomes the quarterback that his father once was. I think the Buccaneers are on the right ...

Beethoven, the Met and a Real Life Rags to Riches Story
playing in the Super Bowl. Number two. Erika Sunnegardh is forty years old. She has been trying to break into the opera big time for ... in the final four minutes of the Super Bowl. With his team down by six points, even. Number four. ...

Vinatieri to donate Super Bowl cleats for scholarship fund / Photo
Vinatieri previously gave the foundation the cleats he wore during Super Bowl XXXVI, against the St. Louis Rams, and during the "Snow Bowl" 2002 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders. The cleats that will be donated Friday were worn ...

Best Super Bowl Commercial
Since the 1984 Apple commercial introducing the Macintosh, Super Bowl commercials have been a huge marketing event. This year, my vote for best commercial goes to Budweiser for the Cyldesdale American Dream.

The Ticket Reserve & Yabbage
That is a pretty unclear explanation of what they actually do so here is an example of how I would use it: The 2007 (next February) Super Bowl is being played in Miami, and right now nobody has a clue who will be playing in it. ...

Staubach, Aikman bring star power to NASCAR
He's not the least bit worried that Hall of Fame Racing, owned by former Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman, will meet the same fate. "They know the history of all the predecessors," said ...

Does This Sound Right To You?
The government levied a larger fine for a brief glimpse of Janet Jackson's nipple during the Super Bowl in 2004 ($550000) than it did in 2001 when 13 Alabama miners were killed in an explosion.That doesn’t sound right to me. ...

Who are those masked Baby killers, anyway? The Super Bowl Saturday ...
The Super Bowl Saturday of college basketball turned out to be like one of those old-school Super Bowls - the ones that didn't quite live up to the hype. Mercifully, the games weren't '79 Michigan State-Penn or '03 Kansas-Marquette bad. ...

The 2002 City of New Orleans Mayoral Race: A Historical Review
(the day before New Orleans-hosted Super Bowl XXXVI) C. Ray Nagin, D 38323 (29%) Richard Pennington, D 31259 (23%) Paulette Irons, D 24557 (18%) James "Jim" Singleton, D 17503 (13%) Troy Carter, D 13898 (10%) Vernon Palmer, D 3442 (3%) ...

Things you will NEVER hear a Southerner say ...
I've got two cases of Zima for the Super Bowl. 10. Little Debbie snack cakes have too many fat grams. 9. Checkmate. 8. She's too young to be wearing a bikini. 7. Does the salad bar have bean sprouts? 6. Hey, here's an episode of "Hee ...

Play Ball!
The long, fallow period between the Super Bowl and Opening Day of baseball season is finally over! Hallelujah, my friends! Eternal optimism reigns in cities across America. My baseball heart has two loves: ...

NFL Preseason National Schedule
New Indy kicker ADAM VINATIERI boomed a 48-yard field goal with no time left to lift the New England Patriots over the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI (20-17). For St. Louis, SCOTT LINEHAN will make his NFL head-coaching debut after helping ...

Another Looney Sport/Birth Story
Remember the Pittsburgh Steelers fan who was going to put off her birth if it conflicted with the Super Bowl? Well, she has a kindred spirit. Angela Finnegan, of England, delayed her Caesarean section so her husband, Christopher, ...

World Cup intensifies Adidas - Nike 'football war'
Businessweek magazine tracks the hugely expenisve "football war" between adidas and Nike: The World Cup's global TV and Web audience is bigger than the Olympics' or the Super Bowl's -- 28 billion in-home viewers worldwide. ...

World Poker Tour Champion Alan Goehring tells us when to hold 'em ...
Last year, the 41-year-old Wisconsin native won the Poker Tour (WPT) Championship--the Super Bowl of poker--and its $1011886 pot. He got there by leaving the financial world of New York to slum on the beaches of California, ...

Along with many other things, the World Cross Country ...
Just go ask Peyton Manning when next he'll have such a clean run to the Super Bowl. Returning to Fukuoka, the Moroccans, led by bronze medallist in the men's short race by my namesake Adil ("It's not a chesterfield! ...

HELLO... ANYBODY HOME? CALLING THE JSO NOT GHOSTBUSTERS
I was told by two people at the Jax Public Library that when the Super Bowl came to town, the city took $30-Million from the librarys budget to help out with the big game. I bet the JSO got some of that money for private duty security ...

Tagged... AGAIN!!!
An autographed Joe Montana plaque thingy is also there, along with Peter Max's poster for Super Bowl XXX. 11. Seen anything weird lately? Maybe. The government told me not to talk about it. 12. What do you think of this quiz? ...

i don't know how i missed this...
... wrestling.... this weekend in chicago is not only the start of baseball season. it's also time for wrestlemania. what? yes pro-wrestlings super bowl is in town. how surreal. i did a check on stubhub (a ticket resale web site-this is ...

Super Bowl

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In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) in the United States. The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday (sometimes "Super Sunday"), which over the years has almost become a de facto American national holiday.