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The Offensive/Defensive Matchup Of Super Bowl XLVIII Is Historic
Everyone knows that Denver has a good offense and Seattle has a good defense, but The Guardian data viz team has put together a great series of charts showing how this matchup stacks up against every other Super Bowl since 1970, using the stat "average yards per play"....
Batman On Steroids: How The <em>NFL On Fox</em> Theme Song Was Born
It was March 1994, and Fox Sports president David Hill was on the phone with a new employee. Hill himself was something of a new employee. The network was only a few months old at that point, being built on the fly after Rupert Murdoch had unexpectedly outbid CBS for NFC broadcast rights. Hill was k...
What You Need To Know To Bet On The Super Bowl (Late Edition)
Below is your final NFL betting line chart for the 2013-14 season, with updated figures for spread, bet trend, over/under, and money line figures for this Sunday's Super Bowl (here's the early post from last week). Of course there are many fun ways to bet on the Super Bowl; check out Jay Sanin's pos...
Super Bowl Prop Bets: The Comprehensive List Of What To Bet And Where
While the Super Bowl has become the holiday of choice for many groups of people, it's possible that nobody will enjoy Super Bowl Sunday more than degenerate sports bettors with a one-day excuse to bet on anything in the known physical universe....
"The Big Game" An Unnecessary Super Bowl Synonym, Thanks To The NFL
The Super Bowl doesn't need a nickname. It's the fucking Super Bowl. Alas, as an ever-litigious NFL cracks down on businesses that use those trademarked words in advertising without paying King Goodell an appropriate amount of gold, "The Big Game" has become a go-to for industries that aren't offic...
How The Super Bowl Can Kill You
Do you care about the Super Bowl? I mean do you really care who wins or are you just watching for the commercials? If you are invested in the game, there are a few things you should know. The first is this: if your team loses, it could be bad for your health. Spectacularly bad. So bad that clinical ...
Facebook Data Show Just How Much Football Games Depress You
Whenever Facebook rolls out a new broad survey of its data, like a map of NFL fandom, the instinct is usually to jump right to the counterintuitive bits—Why would there be a pocket of Saints fans in the heart of Texas?—and then sussing out an answer. But here, with a look at how positive and negativ...
Why The Seattle Seahawks Are In The Super Bowl
Need a last-minute primer on the teams before heading out to your Super Bowl party? Here's everything you need to know about the Seahawks for today. You can find our Broncos preview here....
Here Is Video Of A Footrace Between Staffers Last Night
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This Interactive Olympic Calendar Is Useful And Pretty
You'll want to bookmark this interactive calendar, produced by Column Five Media. It's an intuitive way to sort the Sochi goings-on by sport and date, and the events are listed by an actual American time zone....
Which Industry Spends The Most On Super Bowl Commercials?
DVRs are the scourge of TV advertisers, which makes live sports—especially the NFL, and especially the Super Bowl—worth an enormous amount of money....
Budweiser's Puppy-Filled Super Bowl Ad Will Melt Your Heart
Here is an emotionally manipulative Super Bowl ad featuring a puppy kissing a horse, which Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate Anheuser-Busch InBev has released in the hopes that sites like this one will cynically link to it, thus associating their Budweiser brand not only with cute puppies, but with a c...
Russia Not Even Pretending It Won't Spy On Olympic Journalists
Reporters in Sochi should be aware that their phone calls will be monitored, their internet activity recorded, their every move under surveillance by Russian authorities. That's probably not news. What is news is how blatant the government has been about making sure reporters know this in advance, a...
Former Michigan Kicker Expelled For Sexual Misconduct
Brendan Gibbons, the former starting kicker for the University of Michigan football team, has been "permanently separated" from the university, according to a letter sent to Gibbons by the school's office of student conflict resolution. The contents of the letter were reviewed and reported by the Mi...
Which NFL Experts Predicted A Broncos-Seahawks Super Bowl?
We have recently recapped the awful performances of baseball and college football pundits—both groups whiffed entirely on either of the championship game participants. Did the NFL pundits do any better with their preseason predictions? We tracked 63 "experts" from CBS, ESPN, NFL.com, and Sports Illu...
Pete Seeger Talks Baseball
I found this post over at Hardball Talk—the late Pete Seeger talking baseball. ...
Wilt Spins
From Up North Trips comes this cool photograph of Wilt Chamberlain. Wonder what record he's playing?...
NFL Logos As European Soccer Badges, Part III
They're here. It's the third release from Football as Football, an ongoing design project that is reimagining each of the NFL's 32 teams in the style of four different European soccer crests. ...
LeBron James: Pretty Good At Rapping "Back That Ass Up"
Last night was Shane Battier's annual karaoke event, known as "Battioke," which in the past has brought us gems like Mike Miller and Chris Andersen singing "Ice Ice Baby." The highlight of this year's event was definitely LeBron James going all-out on "Back That Ass Up," with an assist from Michael...
Statistically, When Is The Best Time To Buy Super Bowl Tickets?
Just a few days ago, you'd have had a better chance of finding a reasonably priced one-bedroom in Manhattan than you would've of scoring Super Bowl tickets for less than a mortgage payment or ten. For those who were able to hold off a few days, though, the savings are likely in the thousands....