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Super Bowl Spectators Boo The Hell Out Of Tom Brady
During tonight’s Super Bowl MVP introductions, the crowd in Santa Clara let Patriots quarterback Tom Brady know exactly how much they loved him—which is to say that they booed lustily. We’re off to a good start tonight....
Austrian TV's Super Bowl Intro Kicks Way More Ass Than CBS's
We don’t hide our admiration for Austrian NFL broadcaster PULS4's enthusiasm for our brand of football. Once again, they’ve gone above and beyond to introduce tonight’s Super Bowl broadcast. Come for the Star Wars; stay for the heavy metal....
The Only Super Bowl Preview You Need Is This Taiwanese Animation
The Super Bowl is on today at some time or another, and if you aren’t gonna check out Drill My Gay Stepson!, American football is an okay substitute I suppose....
Here Are The Porn Movies You Could Be Watching Instead Of The Super Bowl
Most networks don’t even bother attempting to program against the Super Bowl. But every channel has to air something, including your local cable provider’s porn channels. Here are the titles of porn movies airing on Time Warner Cable opposite the Super Bowl, according to today’s TV Guide:...
<i>SNL</i> Lampoons Cam Newton & Peyton Manning's "Ebony And Ivory"
Cam Newton is the NFL’s newest MVP, and yet as much media coverage this season has been dedicated to his identity and expressions of it as it has his achievements on the field. Saturday Night Live took a run at the Panthers quarterback—and his Broncos counterpart, Peyton Manning—on tonight’s episode...
GOP Candidates Offer Super Bowl Predictions In Meaningless, Waste-Of-Time Debate Question
Tonight’s GOP primary debate in New Hampshire has succeeded despite itself as candidates attack each other while ABC moderators stand by, barely acknowledging their non-answers to the question prompts. One of those questions? “Who’s going to win tomorrow’s Super Bowl?” (None of the candidates offere...
Houston Rockets Decide As One To Just Not Play Defense
The Rockets’ pick-and-roll defense is apparently, uh, no pick-and-roll defense? At least Corey Brewer got in there and did a swipe. This isn’t as bad as that one time James Harden just sort of froze against the Knicks, but geez....
The Case For The Broncos
Just about everyone thinks the Carolina Panthers will win Super Bowl 50. ESPN asked 70 staffers for their predictions and 53 of them chose the Panthers. Eight SI writers out of 10 picked Carolina too. The Panthers opened as 3.5 point favorites and so many people bet on them, that the line swelled to...
Goofball Dancing Behind Brian Baldinger Is The Real Super Bowl MVP
NFL Network’s hours upon days upon weeks of Super Bowl coverage have been brain-choking, though we can’t deny that the meaningless words being spewed from the channel’s personalities are drawing viewers. But, really, how much more is there to be said about tomorrow’s game? Thankfully, this young cha...
What Are You Cooking For The Super Bowl?
As much as we recommend it, we know that not everyone will be making a pepperoni cheese loaf monstrosity. For one, ingesting that much dairy can only be a recipe for disaster. ...
Liverpool Fans Leave Anfield In Protest, Liverpool Joins Them By Immediately Giving Up A Pair Of Goals
Liverpool fans planned and executed a 77th minute walkout from today’s game against Sunderland to protest ticket prices getting increases up to £77, and apparently, their team decided to join them in protest, so they laid down and let Sunderland of all teams roar back and tie them 2-2....
What Time Does 'What Time Does The Superbowl Start?' Start?
At some point tomorrow, the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos will play against each other in the Super Bowl. However, a much more widely-contested game, between, oh, every publication, has already started. ...
Brawl Breaks Out At The Wing Bowl
The Wing Bowl, Philadelphia’s annual chicken wing eating contest which you should probably avoid at all costs, happened today at Wells Fargo Center. (Molly Schuyler won by eating 429 wings.) There was also a fight in the stands, presumably over something very important....
How To Make A Pepperoni Cheese Football, And Two Other Super Bowl Party Delights
Whether you’re hosting or going to a Super Bowl party, you’re going to need food. Instead of mailing it in with a bag of tortilla chips, impress your friends by making one of these three no-cook meat dishes. We followed the recipes and tried our results, then sent the bologna cake back to hell, wher...
Here Is The 911 Call Made From Charles Sly's Parents' Home When Peyton Manning's Goons Showed Up
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that two private investigators hired by Peyton Manning went to the home of Charles Sly’s parents shortly after Sly made hidden-camera allegations about Manning’s alleged HGH usage in an Al-Jazeera documentary. The investigators spooked Sly’s family, which led ...
Kobe, Oh Noooo
The Los Angeles Lakers won tonight (!), their second in a row (!!), on the back of a great game from Kobe Bryant (!!!). Old man Kobe had 27 points, and not a single turnover. He, of course, shot 10-for-24, but hey, it’s Kobe, that’s what you’re gonna get....
Johnny Manziel's Ex-Girlfriend Told Cops He Hit Her Several Times (Updated)
This afternoon, Fort Worth PD released their report about the night they were called regarding an “altercation” between Johnny Manziel and his ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley. According to the report, Manziel “struck her several times” both in a hotel room where the two had argued, as well as in her c...
Rodney Harrison On How He'd Stop Cam Newton: "Hurt Him...Go Right At His Knees"
Here’s former safety Rodney Harrison on the Dan Patrick Show yesterday, discussing what Denver could do to mitigate Cam Newton. He doesn’t quite offer advice to the Broncos, but he does know what his teams would have done: tried to injure Newton to get him out of the game....
Jimmy Fallon Gives Out Superlatives For The Super Bowl
Jimmy Fallon dragged out his Tonight Show Superlatives gag for the Super Bowl, and not even backup Broncos center James Ferentz was immune. He really does look like the adult version of the kid from Up, though....