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Here's The Will Ferrell Old Milwaukee Super Bowl Ad That Only Aired In North Platte, Nebraska
Will Ferrell's previously done Old Milwaukee ads local to the Davenport and Terre Haute markets, and tonight he apparently extended that to North Platte, Nebraska. (We believe that's the only market in which this spot aired; we know it didn't air during the local spot break in Omaha, and we don't...
Lucky Psychopath Wins $50,000 On Tom Brady's Safety
Benjamin Lyons is either crazy, rich or both. According to his Twitter bio, he is a law student—so let's go with crazy. According to Business Insider he threw down $1000 on a prop bet, at 50/1 odds, wagering that the Giants would score the first points of the Super Bowl on a safety. I don't know wh...
Flavor Flav Just Invaded The NFL Network Set To Give Tom Coughlin A Hug
YEAHHHHHHH BOYYEEEEEE! [NFL Network]...
For The Most Important Play Of The Super Bowl, Bill Belichick Had The Best View In The World
However Bill Belichick deals with losses—and by all accounts, he does so with steely demeanor and determination—it will be difficult for him to wipe this image from his retinas for awhile. After all, nobody on the planet saw it better than he did. [NBC]...
Yes, That's Biff Henderson From <em>Late Show with David Letterman</em> Touching The Lombardi Trophy
(He later kissed it, but you can't really see that part.) [NBC]...
Yes, M.I.A. Just Flipped Off The World
Eat your heart out, Janet. [NBC]...
Here's Rush Limbaugh Picking His Nose At The Super Bowl
Ignore the undead apparition that is Steven Tyler for a moment and check out the dude in the corner of Robert Kraft's box. Pick a winner!...
It's Officially A Super Bowl Party Now That Victor Cruz Brought The Salsa
Victor Cruz and the Giants took advantage of a Patriots 12-men-on-the-field penalty to increase their Super Bowl lead to 9-0. [NBC]...
Tom Brady Drew First Super Bowl Blood—Against His Own Team
Can't say anyone's seen this before, but it's apparently the right call, and the Giants lead 2-0. BTW, if you bet the first score of the game would be a safety, you won a 60-1 wager. [NBC]...
Gatorade Puts NFL Hopefuls Through The Gauntlet
"[LaMichael James] goes on to take a blood test, then hits a treadmill while wearing a freaky gas mask-looking thing, and continues apace for 90 minutes."...
Super Bowl 46 Open Thread
Well, here it is in all its bloated glory. The Super Bowl. Enjoy chitchatting with all your e-friends down in the comments....
If You Missed The Puppy Bowl (Or Want To Relive It) Here's Your Highlight Reel
Here's Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl (which mostly sucked this year, thanks to a Disney tie-in and no beagles) compressed to about a minute. No, there aren't any halftime show highlights featuring kittens. The real Super Bowl halftime will feature plenty of that. [Video from Animal Planet. Music is ...
New York Giants Win Super Bowl XLVI On Weirdest Looking Touchdown Ever
Ahmad Bradshaw didn't so much score the game-winning touchdown as the Patriots allowed him to score it. With a little more than a minute and only one timeout left, the Patriots planned to let Ahmad Bradshaw stroll right into the end zone. Bradshaw, realizing the Patriots ploy just a tad too late, wo...
NBC's "Brotherhood Of Man" Super Bowl Tribute Featured Ron Swanson And Thus Was Awesome
Sure, this is just one long promo for all the (mostly) crappy programming on NBC. But for just one brief moment, there's Ron Swanson being Ron Swanson—and for that, we will watch it repeatedly. [NBC]...
Here's All The Sexism You'll See In Tonight's Super Bowl Commercials
We showed you violence, we showed you cute animals, and now here's that third pillar of advertising, sexism at work....
"He Blared Some Headbanging Rock In The Car" And Other Bill Belichick Stories Of Old
Mary Kay Cabot, of The Plain Dealer, has a great story about what it was like covering Bill Belichick football coach before he was Bill Belichick Living Legend. Spoiler alert: he was basically the same....
Here's All The Cute Animals You'll See In Tonight's Super Bowl Commercials
Animals (anthropomorphized or otherwise) are a mainstay trope of TV advertising, and you'll see plenty of them during tonight's Super Bowl. Here's all the cute ones (and a few not-so-cute) you'll be seeing tonight....
They're Already Running "Congratulations Super Bowl Champion Patriots" Ads In New England
Here's an ad for Dick's Sporting Goods informing viewers the availability of New England Patriots Super Bowl Champions gear. It ran one and a half times during today's local Comcast SportsNet broadcast of the Grizzlies-Celtics game (the second time through, it was cut off as somebody finally notic...
Dan Patrick On Aaron Hernandez: "Yet Another Talented Person Who Left Bristol, Connecticut"
(He's talking about his own acrimonious exit from ESPN.) [NBC]...
Super Bowl 46 Pre-Game Show Open Thread
The Super Bowl is so big, we're doing an open thread for the pre-game show. Deal with it. The fun starts now on NBC....