Super Bowl XL is today. The Seattle Seahawks (13-3) are up against the Pittsburgh Steelers (11-5). The game will be played in Detroit's Ford Stadium, which is some bright news for Detroit, a city that has been plagued by layoffs from Ford and GM. Many bloggers are live-blogging the action. And the mainstream media has launched the expected blogs for the game. USA Today just recently added Sports Scope and
Fox Sports has Super Bowl blogs here and here. The Detroit News
also has a Super Bowl blog. There is also
the official
blog for the game.
Below is some coverage of bloggers discussing the game as well as a list of blogs providing coverage of the game. There is a list of blogs discussing the ads as well. Super Bowl ads are always a big deal even though they are still just more ads. The ads are expected to be somewhat tame this year thanks to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction from a couple years ago.
There are currently 20
Super Bowl posts every eight minutes according to Technorati. Here are few highlights.
Ben Maller blogs that there will be a new ball on every play. Could this mean more dropped passes and fumbles?
DetroitWonk has a roundup of the buzz in Detroit about the big game. The Detroit Blog
also has ongoing coverage of the invasion of Detroit by sports fans.
Somewhat Frank blogs
about tracking the Super Bowl buzz with Technorati's charts.
Pittsburgh's quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, has been blogging about the game on his own blog.
HD Beat wants to know if you are watching the game on an HDTV.
James Adler has compiled
some Super Bowl urban legends.
Instead of the covering the game Seattlest has a post about an exciting Rock Paper Scissors Tournament.
The Armchair Quarterback would rather watch the Lifetime channel but he is picking the Seahawks.
Balloon Juice reports that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is going to the game to back the Steelers. Balloon Juice writes: "Let's hope Condi Rice is better with her Superbowl picks than she was with the Palestinian election."
AdJab says the Super Bowl Ads are all about entertainment and being funny enough to create a buzz.
Ad Rants points to this weird site about watching Andrea watch the Super Bowl.
