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New Jersey Football Team Makes Triumphant Return To New Jersey
We are currently watching, with attention as rapt as rapt can be, the silent helicopter-cam of Newark Liberty International Airport, where the Giants are due to land any moment. The team, which proudly plays out of East Rutherford, N.J., will hold a ticker-tape parade tomorrow across state lines in ...
Did The Giants Put 12 Men On The Field On Purpose For Brady's First Hail Mary?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Patriots Linebacker Brandon Spikes Is Probably Taking The Super Bowl Loss A Little Too Hard
C'mon, man, you won two national titles in college. And you might just have some more opportunities. Act like you've been there before....
A Roundup Of All Our Coverage Of Super Bowl 46
We at Deadspin have had a lot to say about the Super Bowl over the past few days. It was one hell of a Super Bowl to analyze beforehand, and even better to watch. Manning, Manningham, Madonna, M.I.A., all of that stuff. And it was close. All throughout the game, our fair site was churning, with vide...
Here Are The New York Giants Celebrating On Their Plane Ride Home
Catchy tune. [via]...
Katy Perry Seems To Want Tim Tebow's "Peacock"
The temptation of Timmy continues: It's been rumored for weeks that the minister parents of the newly single, girl-kissing Ms. Perry would like to set their daughter up with the wholesome Mr. Tebow. And this weekend, Perry did her part to play along. First, while presenting an award during Saturday ...
"My Husband Can Not Fucking Throw The Ball And Catch The Ball At The Same Time": Gisele Is Pissed At The Patriots' Dropped Passes
This morning, the Patriots are talking dropped passes. Aaron Hernandez had one, Deion Branch had one, but most visibly, Wes Welker was hit in the hands on a long pass that would have extended the Patriots drive with four minutes left. It wasn’t the best throw, but it was catchable, and after the gam...
The Ballsiest Call In Super Bowl History
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Eli Manning Is All The Football Hero America Needs
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
Here's What Darren Rovell Looks Like When He's Complaining About The Playboy Super Bowl Party On Twitter
Will Carroll, somewhat innocuously, tweeted the picture you see here during the Playboy party Saturday night, gently ribbing Rovell for tweeting anywhere. As you can see, the tweet was sent on February 4 at 12:05 a.m....
<em>Discover Wisconsin</em> And Other Things Your Fox Affiliate Is Showing Instead Of Soccer
There are 185 Fox affiliates in the United States, and most of them are showing today's heavily-hyped English Premier League match between Chelsea and Manchester United live. More than 20, however, are not. Here's what they chose to air instead....
Lunatic Patriots Fans Put Eli Manning Effigy On A Spit And Roast It Over A Car
It would appear that a junkyard somewhere in the great state of New England put together this little slice of American pie that shows Eli Manning on a spit, being "roasted" by the "flames" of a "heaping wreck" of a Giants car after it had been destroyed by a Patriots Bronco. Give them credit, thou...
Curtis Painter Is So Jacked Up For The Super Bowl
Your morning roundup for Feb. 5, the day we learned you hated America. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.....