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Super Bowl Pre-Game Show Open Thread
ESPN is entering hour four of their coverage and NBC is about to begin its five-hour pre-game spectacle (not counting the riveting "Road To The Super Bowl" special.) It's urge overkill....

Super Bowl Pre-Game Shows Update
Thirty seconds in to ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown and I can't take it anymore. I've got pomp and circumstance overload already. And only eight-and-a-half hours until kickoff! Yay.......

Things Were Still Festive In Tampa; Michael Smith Attracts The Mexicans
• Chris Mottram Sums Up The Madden Party: Jaws drinks Bud Light, lots of people stood around, and Trey Wingo needs new material. [The Sporting Blog]...

Brenda Warner Is Quietly Adjusting To Her New Milfyness
Now that Brenda Warner has shed the "wire-haired goblin man" look, her new image has become one of the biggest stories of Super Bowl XLIII....

Jerry Rice Has Reached This Point In His Career
" Was in hotel bar lobby where Jerry Rice was having a few beverages and when he walks by a woman says “That’s the guy from “Dancing with the Stars”." [Sports Radio Interviews]...

The Earplugs! They Do Nothing!
It's the 50 worst announcers in sports today, and I agree with every single name on the list except one. [Yahoo Sports]...

The Hypnotic Tao Of Jeff Reed
Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Jeff Reed is one-man marketing machine and it all has to do with his goofy hair-do and his inability to turn down any camera phone. USA Today amusingly investigates....

Super Bowl Commercials ... Is There Anything You Can't Do?
Time again for Waxing Off, the feature that will stick by you, even when you're old and destitute. Well, when you're old. This week's topic: Super Bowl advertising....

Yeah, What Did Happen With That Whole Tawdry Larry Fitzgerald Story?
There were all sorts of rumors and legal concerns about him and a Raiders cheerleader for a little while. Has Larry Fitzgerald Sr. written about this? [With Leather and SBB]...

God Still Undecided On Who To Root For In Super Bowl
What if some Cardinal or Steeler were to be named Most Valuable Player and say “I’d just like to thank L. Ron Hubbard and the church of Scientology?” [MSNBC]...

Tensions Boil Over On Super Bowl's Radio Row!
Baltimore sports radio host vs. Dallas host ... who ya got? Apparently WNST's "Nasty" Nestor Aparicio attacked The Ticket's Gordon Keith this morning while both were broadcasting from the Super Bowl....

Edgerrin James Can Give You A Lift To 7-Eleven
"Edgerrin James bought himself a white Lamborghini last week in Arizona and had it shipped to Tampa so he could park it outside the team hotel." [WEEI]...

Get Ready For Football's Greatest Showcase ... For Me To Poop On
If you're like me, you're eschewing a Super Bowl party this year and inviting all neighborhood pets over to watch Puppy Bowl V, which should have the same amount of peeing on the carpet anyway....

The Ludicrousness Of The Buzzsaw Bowl
So, here's a confession: About 11 years ago, I had a dream about Matt Leinart....

Super Bowl Parties, Jenn Sterger And You
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....

That's No Buzzsaw
This is a level of dedication to the Pittsburgh Steelers that will forever be questioned by the men in her life. I don't think she cares....

GoDaddy.Com Reveals Its Annual Suggestive Ad Destined To Anger People
It's always amazing to me that GoDaddy.com scrapes together enough money each year to buy time during the Super Bowl, but they do....

Larry Fitzgerald Sr. And Rick Reilly Both Thank Slate Writer For Punchbowl Turd
Fitzgerald Sr.: "Negatives come from haters. They can believe in whatever they want to believe in." Reilly: "Looks like someone just got a new search button and decided to use it." [CNBC]...

Super Bowl Sub-Plot #6: Larry Effin' Fitzgerald
There are several key storylines that will be beaten into the ground by everyone who covers the Super Bowl over the next week. We will beat them down even further....

SWF Seeks Any Man Who's Breathing For Matrimony, Possible Attention Whoring
With three days to go, Amy Borkowski is only a few dollars short of her goal to raise $3 million to buy a 30-second Super Bowl ad. Exactly how short? $2,993,795....