Dallas Sports Icons Sing ‘This Kiss’
This is just an early look at Jerry Jones going full throttle in his promotion of the Super Bowl to be played in his World.
Hopefully you don’t get a visual when Pat Summerall tells you that you can kiss him in the moonlight.
Jennifer Hudson To Perform ‘One Shining Moment’
TALENT
Jennifer Hudson will have her “One Shining Moment.” The Grammy and Oscar winner will perform the song that plays each year at the end of the CBS broadcast of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game.
Hudson will be the first woman to sing it. Teddy Pendergrass and Luther Vandross have performed previous renditions. Hudson recorded the song in Los Angeles on February 13 and her producer, Harvey Mason Jr., played for the Arizona team that reached the 1988 Final Four.
The tune by folk singer David Barrett has been a March Madness staple since 1987, played over highlights of the tournament.
Hudson, who won an Academy Award in 2007 for her supporting role in “Dreamgirls,” performed at last year’s Super Bowl.
Robert De Niro To Play Vince Lombari
"Lombardi"
Back on July 28th we posted that ESPN’s Films-Movies had joined forces with Andell Entertainment and NFL Films to produce “Lombardi,” a drama about the iconic Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.
Now we find out that actor and Oscar winning Robert De Niro will star as the head coach. Additionally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth who has written such films as Forrest Gump and The Good Shepherd has come on board the project.
The film’s former focus will be the week leading up to the 1967 “Ice Bowl” championship game played between the Packers and Dallas Cowboys in 13 below zero weather. It broadened into a long rivalry with Cowboys head coach Tom Landry, whose cool demeanor was the exact opposite of Lombardi’s fire and brimstone.
Early word is that to open the film the Friday of a down weekend between the conference championships and the Super Bowl in 2012, the 40th anniversary that the championship trophy was named after Lombardi.
Donovan McNabb & Terrell Owens Will Be Teammates Again
Brotherly Love
That’s right Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb and free agent wide reciever Terrell Owens will once again be teammates however it won’t be back on the football field. No, this time they will be team together on the basketball court to take part in Spike TV’s game show Pros vs Joes new season.
Eagles fans can began to find a wall to punch and Dallas Cowboy fans can breathe easier now. If McNabb and Owens would have been able to smooth the hurricane out after the Super Bowl run they surely would have been back by now in their careers.
On the new season of Pros and Joes, McNabb and Owens will be joined on the basketball court will NFL superstar Antonio Gates and former NBA champions Hakeem Olajuwon, Kenny Smith and Rick Fox.
NFL Logos & Trophies Gets A Makeover
During this years Super Bowl weekend in Miami, the NFL released pictures of the Lombardi trophy makeover that’s going to be used for the Super Bowl to be hosted at Jerry’s World. So why stop there?
The NFL was thinking the same thing and decided to go all Project Runway on the The Lamar Hunt and George Halas trophies in addition to every other logo they trot out.
Is it Shear Genius or does the NFL get the Heidi Klum auf Wiedersehen kiss?
The NFL Pro Bowl To Played Before Super Bowl Again
Est. 1920
The 2011 Pro Bowl will be played a week before Super Bowl XLV and return to Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, the NFL announced. The game will be televised live on Sunday, January 30 on FOX at 6 p.m. CST.
FOX will televise Super Bowl XLV a week later on Sunday, Febuary 6 from Cowboys Stadium in North Texas.
The decision to play the NFL’s All-Star Game the week before the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year follows an increase in viewership for the 2010 Pro Bowl which was watched by an average of 12.3 million viewers on ESPN, the most for a Pro Bowl since 2000.
The game at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida also attracted the largest Pro Bowl attendance (70,697) in 50 years but still decided to move it back to Hawaii. It will be played in Hawaii for the next two years.
Man Refuses To Leave Super Bowl Party & Gets His Testicles Nearly Ripped Off
What Is Wrong With You
Indianapolis Colts fans may have had their dreams of a championship punctured on Sunday, but
Vinh Pham suffered a much-worse during a post-Super Bowl fight.
The Key West resident got in a tussle after Super Bowl XLIV because he wasn’t ready to leave a Super Bowl party. Y Le, who was hosting the party as his house, tried to kick Pham out and that’s when they got into a fight.
Le wanted Pham to leave. Words were exchanged. Le went after Pham with a beer bottle, and Pham landed a punch to Le’s jaw. Pham then put Le in a chokehold, and then Le figured the only way to get his attacker to break the hold was to grab his testicles. Pham’s testicles were nearly ripped off. Deputy Becky Herrin said at that Le’s fingers punctured Pham’s testicles, which took 52 stitches to patch up.
Both men are facing criminal charges. Pham is looking at battery charges for dislocated Le’s jaw, and Le is looking at aggravated battery for yanking on Pham’s balls.
I hate Le right now more than Steve Phillips.
New Orleans Saints Linebacker Scott Fujita’s Feels The Wrath From Nike
Don't Mess With The Swoosh
New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita has found out first hand that Nike doesn’t like it when players tape over their Swoosh by dropping him after a seven year contract.
Fujita was putting tape around his cleats, to keep them tight. Nike decided after several warnings that it was too much and voided his contract. Fujita said the low point was when he didn’t receive his Nike schwag bag in his hotel room.
All the guys who are endorsed by Nike get Super Bowl schwag, with about $5000 worth of merchandise, including some products from their ACG line. Fujita said the worst part about being dropped was every teammate rubbing it in his face and parading around in all their new gear.
NFL Players Don’t Know Much About Economy
As long as these players walk away, lets hope they can do that, from there NFL careers owning a piece of land and a home then I’m all good with their lack of knowledge in the financial district.
Louisiana Senator Wants ‘Who Dat? Nation’ License Plate
Will Your Toyota Prius Have One?
The NFL tried to stop the production of ‘Who Dat?’ t-shirts leading up to the big game but now that the New Orleans Saints are Super Bowl champions Louisiana Senator A.G. Crowe wants ‘Who Dat? Nation’ license plates.
Senator Crowe, said he will promote the concept of a new specialty vehicle license tag at the spring legislative session to honor the Super Bowl champions and their die-hard ‘Who Dat Nation’ followers.
Crowe said that a share of the license tag fees would be donated to “a worthy cause” designated by the Legislature in conjunction with the Saints organization.
He said the money will represent “a pot of black and gold for someone, thanks to the world champion New Orleans Saints.”
The Senator wants to ge the NFL involved before moving forward with his plans of presenting the design of the fleur de lis, the state seal and the phrase ‘Who Dat Nation’ to the Legislature. Saying he wants to talk to officials of the NFL and the Saints organization about final designs and to avert problems with copyright laws.
Only 11 People Greet The Indianapolis Colts On Return
Where Were You, Mr. Blueberry?
There wont be a parade in Indianapolis after the Colts lost the Super Bowl 31-17 to the New Orleans Saints in Miami and there wasn’t even a hero’s welcome at the airport for the season they had put together.
That’s because only 11 people showed up to greet their team at Indianapolis International Airport Monday afternoon. The saying goes that winners are remembered forever and losers are forgotten at the drop of a hat but to be forgotten in its own city is always a little hard to imagine. But in Indianapolis the saying proved to be true and cold when you consider just last week that the area schools where fearful of students canceling school to attend a victory parade if the Colts won the Super Bowl that they pushed the start of the school day back two hours.
How did the Colts personnel handle the 11 die hard that did show up, they gave them no word when the buses left the ramp. So the closest the 11 got to the Colts was the other side of a security fence several hundred feet away.
Paul Calhoun who watched from a distance was still enthusiastic about his team saying he just wanted to show his civil pride and that the Colts still did what 30 other teams could not do and that was reach the Super Bowl.
Would Baltimore have treated their Colts this way?
Super Bowl Hangover Hits Washington Wizards Antawan Jamison
No Blame For Wanting An Extra Day Away From Flip
The Super Bowl hangover doesn’t effect only the working man it even hits NBA superstars like Antawn Jamison who missed his team practice because he was still in Miami.
Jamison was unable to meet up with his team who was in Orlando for it’s practice today. Jamison had a suite at Sun Life Stadium to watch the New Orleans Saints but couldn’t find other means to get from Miami to Orlando, like say a rental car. He did call the team to inform them of his problems and plans on joining the team in Charlotte later in the afternoon where the Wizards will play the Bobcats on Tuesday.
The Wizards who have had what head coach Flip Saunders called “a mini-all-star break before the all-star break,” with the snow in Washington DC keeping them stranded in Orlando over the weekend which caused their home game against the Atlanta Hawks to be postponed and rescheduled for Thursday, March 11.
Super Bowl XLIV Most Watched TV Event EVER With 106.5 Milli
Surpasses "Goodbye & Amen" Episode
For 27 years M*A*S*H finale was the most watched TV event until last nights Super Bowl XLVI dethroned it. The previous record was of 106.0 million for the finale in 1983.
The Saints 31-17 win over the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV drew a 45.0 national rating and 106.5 million viewers on CBS Sunday night, up 7% in ratings and 8% in viewership from Pittsburgh Steelers/Arizona Cardinals on NBC last year (42.0, 98.7 mil), and up 4% and 9%, respectively, from New York Giants/New England Patriots on FOX in ‘08 (43.1, 97.4 mil).
Additionally, the 45.0 rating is the highest for any television program since Dallas Cowboys/Pittsburgh Steelers drew a 46.0 in 1996.
To put the numbers in perspective, the Super Bowl drew over 70 million more viewers than the top non-NFL sporting event of the past 12 months — the Texas/Alabama BCS National Championship Game (30.8 mil).
This is the third-straight year the Super Bowl has drawn record viewership, and the fifth-straight year that viewership for the game has increased. Just five years ago, Super Bowl XXXIX drew only 86.1 million viewers on FOX. From 1999-05, the Super Bowl drew less than 90 million viewers each year.
The record for the Super Bowl is the capper to a highly successful season for the NFL. The regular season was the most-viewed since 1990 (16.6 mil), the Wild Card round was the most-viewed since ‘95 (29.9 mil), the Divisional Round was the most-viewed since ‘94 (33.0 mil), and the Conference Championship games were the most-viewed since ‘82 (52.9 mil).
Reggie Bush Fails To Come Through With Scholarships
Over Hyped Flop
He’s a Super Bowl champion now and that can never be taken away from him but what about the dreams of former Helix High School students Brandon Fountain and Matt Cobb?
In March 2007 they were presented a $10,000 scholarship from Bush, who graduated from Helix High School in 2003 before attending the University of Southern California. After college, he was drafted number 2 overall by the Saints in 2006 and signed a $26 million guaranteed contract. But after both students received an initial $2,500 installment on their scholarships in their freshman year they ran into problems the following year when trying to collect the next installment. The two families tried everything to collect the next installment and when they tried to contact the scholarship’s trustee, Jerry Michaels, they came up unsuccessful as well.
“Mr. Michaels never responded. A couple of weeks later, he (Brandon) sent more e-mails and still received no response,” said Fountain’s father, Bruce.
Finally they got a response but with disheartening news saying “the scholarship was he was out of funds and due to the economy he didn’t have the money,” said Cobb.
Michaels was then contacted by the local news who found out the the scholarship program setup by Bush but never contributed to the funds and never followed through.
While Bush spends money on an armored limousine to protect his girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s its the dreams of Fountain and Cobb that are dashed watching the Super Bowl. As they remember back to 2007 when Bush stood with them at Helix High and was credited for “giving back” to his former school, they are left with an empty promise and a scholarship with Bush’s name and without his assistance.
I wonder if this was where the TV show “The Office” got its inspiration to do the episode entitled Scott’s Tots (viewed here) this season?
Avery Johnson Gets His Hands On The Lombardi Trophy
Former San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson, who was born and raised in New Orleans, managed to get his hands on the Vince Lombardi trophy as Saints head coach Sean Payton worked his way back to the locker room.
There’s no question about it Payton surely couldn’t have done it without the Little General.
Hair Wars: Tracy Porter
New Orleans Saints defensive back could have stolen some Super Bowl MVP votes away from Drew Brees last night when it stepped in front of a fourth quarter Peyton Manning pass and took it 74 yards for a score. Porter defiantly did take home the MVP award for best hair with his ode to the Super Bowl.
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Your 2010 All Day Super Bowl Schedule
New Orleans Saints By 14+
Super Bowl XLIV is here and here is the full broadcasting schedule for CBS, ESPN and NFL Network.
CBS
- The Road To The Super Bowl (11am-Noon) CST
- Phil Simms All-Iron Team (Noon-1pm)
- Studio Show: Super Bowl Today (1-5pm) – James Brown, Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason, Shannon Sharpe and Bill Cowher, Charley Casserly; Reporters: Lesley Visser, Sam Ryan, Steve Tasker, Solomon Wilcots, Dick Enberg and contributor Katie Couric
SEGMENTS:
- THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS: James Brown takes a look at New Orleans four-and-a-half years after one of the nation’s worst natural catastrophes, Hurricane Katrina
- PLAXICO BURRESS: Plaxico Burress sits down with Bill Cowher for his first interview since being sent to jail in September of 2009.
- DREW BREES: Katie Couric sits down with the Saints quarterback.
- REGGIE BUSH: Bush is interviewed by NFL Today analyst Shannon Sharpe.
- NEW ORLEANS DEFENSE: Lesley Visser sits down with Darren Sharper, Jonathan Vilma and Will Smith as they prepare to face the Colts high octane offense.
- PEYTON MANNING: Dan Marino visits with him and talks about Manning’s first Super Bowl win three years ago in Miami, the Colts’ decision not to go for a perfect season, and facing the team that his father Archie played for, the New Orleans Saints.
- DWIGHT FREENEY AND ROBERT MATHIS: Boomer Esiason sits down with Freeney and Mathis as they get ready to take on Drew Brees and the Saints.
- INDIANAPOLIS RECEIVING CORPS: Sam Ryan visits with the Colts’ receiving corps and discusses the role Peyton Manning has played in the quartet’s success.
- WYNTON MARSALIS: Jazz impresario Wynton Marsalis pays a special tribute with music and words to his beloved city of New Orleans.
- BARACK OBAMA: Katie Couric interviews the President before the game.
- GUY FIERI: Will prepare the “perfect tailgate food.”
- MUSICAL PERFORMANCES: Steve Winwood & Daughtry
SUPER BOWL XLIV (5:28pm Kickoff CST)- Jim Nantz, Phil Simms, Steve Tasker, Solomon Wilcots
ESPN
- SportsCenter live from Sun Life Stadium (ESPN, 10am)- Mike Tirico, Jon Gruden and Ron Jaworski
- Sunday NFL Countdown (ESPN, 11am-1pm)- Chris Berman, Tom Jackson, Mike Ditka, Keyshawn Johnson, Cris Carter, Steve Young, Trent Dilfer, Tedi Bruschi, Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski, Jon Gruden, Chris Mortensen, Adam Schefter, Suzy Kolber and Ed Werder
Special Guests:
– Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider, stars of the upcoming movie Grown Ups (10:30am)
- Celebrity chef and television personality Emeril Lagasse, who lives in New Orleans, will discuss Cajun Super Bowl cuisine (11:30pm)
– Grammy Award-winning musician Kenny Chesney, a close friend to Saints head coach Sean Payton, will appear on the show (Noon)
NFL Network
- NFL GAMEDAY MORNING SUPER BOWL SUNDAY PREGAME FROM SOUTH FLORIDA (8am-4:30pm)- Marshall Faulk, Steve Mariucci, Warren Sapp, Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders, Stacey Dales, Rich Eisen
- From the Sun Life Stadium booth: Fran Charles, Rod Woodson
- From NFC and AFC hotels- Scott Hanson, Kara Henderson
- From South Beach set- Alex Flanagan, Jamie Dukes, Tom Waddle
SEGMENTS:
- A look inside the Indianapolis Colts defense with Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis and Gary Brackett.
- How Colts WR Pierre Garcon and Saints LB Jonathan Vilma are bound together by the disaster relief effort in Haiti.
- A closer look at what the Saints organization and players mean to the city of New Orleans, straight from the fans.
- Steve Sabol gives his take on how the legacy of Colts icon Peyton Manning now includes taking on his father’s team in Super Bowl XLIV.
- Super Bowl Journey – Saints DT Anthony Hargrove visits the Miami rehabilitation facility that he was in a year ago.
- In Memoriam – A reflection on the NFL icons that were lost in 2009
- Sabol chronicles the best decade of Super Bowl matchups
Warren Sapp Arrested For Domestic Battery
Doesn't Look Good
Warren Sapp was arrested after attacking his girlfriend shortly after 5 a.m. EST at the Shore Club Hotel on Collins Avenue in Miami, Florida. His girlfriend was was treated by emergency workers for a swollen knee and bruises on the back of her neck and taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Detective Juan Sanchez, spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department, said that the woman called police around noon Saturday to report that she had been attacked. She said she and Sapp had dated for two years.
The woman told officers that she had been partying with Sapp and friends when she grew tired and went to his hotel room. According to the arrest affidavit, she told officers that Sapp later came to the room, pulled her from bed and attempted to remove her from the room.
She alleged that he began arguing with her about some men she had been hanging out with earlier and men listed in her phone. She told officers that during the argument, he choked her and pushed her down on a couch. She alleged he then picked her up by her shirt and neck and threw her down again. Sapp, she said, ordered her to leave the room.
Sapp’s employer the NFL Network has removed him from it’s Super Bowl coverage. Sapp played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders during his 13 year professional career, and went to the University of Miami Hurricanes. He was then drafted by the Buccaneers in the 1995 NFL Draft as the 12th overall pick. His 96.5 career sacks are the second-highest career total sacks for a defensive tackle and the 28th highest overall for a defensive lineman.
Colts Jersey Gets Kid Sent Home From Louisiana School
Look How Much Trouble You Caused Joseph
A Louisiana high school student was sent home for wearing an Joseph Addai Indianapolis Colts jersey Friday, the day the principal encouraged students to wear New Orleans Saints black and gold as the teams get ready to face off in the Super Bowl.
“If they tell other students to support their team, why can’t I support mine?” Brandon Frost, 17, told The Associated Press. The senior at Maurepas High School moved three years ago from Indianapolis to the rural town 30 miles from Baton Rouge.
A Livingston Parish School Board member said Frost wasn’t sent home, but was told he couldn’t wear the blue jersey at school. Keith Martin, whose district includes Maurepas, said the school uniform had been relaxed only for black and gold.
Frost says Principal Steven Vampran even told him that if he “liked Indiana so much, why don’t you go back?’”
State ACLU director Marjorie Esman sent a letter to Principal Vampran, asking him to wipe Frost’s record of any discipline stemming from the incident.
Vampran has acknowledged that he should not have said that, Martin said. He said no one sent Frost home – but no one kept him from leaving rather than changing shirts.
The odd thing in this story is that Addai is a graduate of Louisiana State University.
The Best Super Bowl Commerical You’ll Never See
With all the talk being centered around the Tim Tebow and Mancrunch Super Bowl commercials what about the commercials you never have the chance to talk about on the Monday after?
Here’s a clip one one that just didn’t make the cut thanks to some recent CBS guidelines, I still blame Justin Timberlake for allowing Janet Jackson titty to take the fall.
It’s a shame too, Budweiser is known to create some iconic commercials and I believe this would have been one.
If The Super Bowl Was A Movie
What would the Super Bowl look like if it was directed by your favorite director or directors? Here’s a preview if Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog got a hold it.
By the way Tarantino and Lynch are the man, we all must bow down.
Former Saints Quarterback Bobby Hebert Does The Stanky Leg
Former New Orleans Saints and Louisiana native Bobby Hebert is enjoying the teams first trip ever to the Super Bowl so much he’s busting out the the stanky leg while wearing a dress.
The “Cajun Cannon” might have been aided in this decision by some adult beverages. By the reaction of the crowd I guess you can get away with certain things especially when your the USFL’s All-Time leader in passing yards.
Buffalo Bills Donte Whitner Reneges On Super Bowl Ticket Offer
Hope You & Your Brother Enjoy Yourself
Buffalo Bills Donte Whitner is such of a need for attention that he’s gone and lied to the world. Playing in the NFL is not satisfying enough for Whitner, he made pleas to the Internet community to help boost his Twitter folloowing above 10,000 follows, why people beg for followers is behind my comprehension.
To achieve the 10,000 followers in a speedy fashion Whitner tweeted on January 23 that he would be giving away two tickets to this years Super Bowl.
“Giving away the 2 tixs….SUPERBOWL TIXS!!!!!! FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!!! Follow to win!”
After Whitner reached the 10,000 follower, he all sudden added rules to the give away saying that to receive the tickets one of his followers would need to guess the exact scores of both conference title games. No one got both right and so now Whitner is using the tickets with his brother.
Whitner has tried to defend himself to the Twitter world by saying that there’s plenty of people that were ‘close’ some almost dead on. But I never said close I said guess the scores….it was fair!”
That’s lame Whitner, showing some real stand up character there.
You Decided Who Gets The Madden Cover Jinx In 2011
Vote For Nate Kaeding
With the NFL just days away from ending is it to early to ask who will be on the cover of Madden 2011?
Turns out its definitely not to early, for the first time ever in Madden history you and I will have a chance to vote for the cover. With the Madden Bowl set to take place on Thursday in Miami between rapper The Game and Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco some of the promotions that where set to be introduced on that day have already been leaked.
The voting process can even lead you to win a trip to the NFL Draft and that all begins Thursday.
So who do want to see on the cover of Madden 2011?
