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Super Bowl XLII Roundup
 This year's Super Bowl will decide whether the New England Patriots will finish undefeated or not. Lose and their perfect season and Super Bowl dreams go down in flames. Win and they may be considered the greatest team ever. There is no team better to try and take it all away from the Patriots than the New York Giants who have been on a record winning streak. That's Team Captain Spike pictured on the right. Here are some Super Bowl highlights from the blogosphere.
The Super Bowl just barely beats out Super Tuesday as the most interesting event.
Super Bowl over Super Tuesday by a late field goal 40 to 37. There's no polling to help us find a Super Bowl winner like we can on Super Tuesday.
Glosslip wants to know who is hotter: Eli Manning or Tom Brady? Brady may be taunted during the game with people wearing Bridget Moynihan masks.
Mashup: This mashup from UrbanTailgate.com shows places you can watch the game in New York City. (via Google Lat Long Blog)
Electronic Arts Madden NFL 08 video game simulates the game and predicts that the Patriots will win 38-30. See a video of the simulation here.
ParentDish wants to know if you include your kids in your Super Bowl parties.
Super Bowl snacks: Cooking for Dads video, Baking Bites, Slashfood, Nachos 101, Healthy Football Eats
Don't forget to watch this year's Puppy Bowl. Deadspin has a post on Puppy Bowl IV.
New York Giants Blogs: Giant Football Blog, Giants 101, Fanhouse, Big Blue Blog, Giants Locker, Giants Journal, Giants Gab, Big Blue View, Giants Bits, New York Giants Zone, NYGMen
New England Patriots Blogs: Patriots Locker, Land of Patriots, Pats Pulpit, Fanhouse, Reiss's Pieces, Patriots Gab, SouthCoast, Projo PatsBlog, PatriotsBlog.net, The Patriot Act
President Bush is fired up for the game. "I'll watch it as long as I can stay up," Bush said in an interview with FOX Super Sunday.
Tom Petty will be performing at the halftime show. Discussion here, here, here, here and here.
The NFL is full of mystery and intrigue with spying allegations and a Spygate scandal.
A study found that Americans were planning to purchase 3.9 million new TVs to watch the
Super Bowl on.
Ron Paul banners find their way into the Super Bowl.
Speaking of TVs the NFL is apparently cracking down on large Super Bowl parties - like those at churches.
Video: Super Bowl footballs being made.
Have you seen Spike, the Super Ball? You can see him here on Deadspin. Spike's also on the Arizona Super Bowl XLII website. Actually, his name is now Team Captain Spike because the NFL thought Super Ball was too close to Super Bowl.
A Few Super Bowl Ads: Narnia, Justin Timberlake, Pepsi's Bob's House ad, Taco Bell, Cars.com, Sunsilk, Bridgestone, Garmin, GoDaddy
Firebrand will be featuring the best commercials on its website. They also have some commercials of their own called the Road to Firebrand -- see here. YouTube is also having a Super Bowl AdBlitz.
Valleywag has posted ten memorable tech-related Super Bowl ads.
There won't be any political ads - Fox won't allow it.
Super Bowl tweets: Giants | Patriots | Super Bowl | Touchdown
Official websites: Super Bowl XVII | New England Patriots | New York Giants | NFL | University of Phoenix Stadium | Glendale, Arizona
Update
Giants upset the Patriots 17 to 14 with touchdown in the final minute of the game.
Posted on February 3, 2008
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Blogging Super Bowl XL: Post Game
There is still a considerable amount of Super Bowl blogging going on post game. The Super Bowl had some moments but was not one of the best ever and there is some debate about the officiating. Here are some highlights.
Officials: There are lots of posts about the officiating:
Chris Pirillo: I'd still like to go on record by stating that the refs were paid under the table for the bogus calls they were making (largely against the Seahawks, or in support of the Steelers). Even today's ESPN poll asks: "Do you think officiating mistakes affected the outcome of Super Bowl XL?" Right now, the only two states that disagree with that are Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Gristmill: "Grist's own Seattle Seahawks were screwed out of a Super Bowl victory last night by awful officiating -- some of the worst officiating in Super Bowl history."
Heels, Sox & Steelers: "The first one was the offensive pass interference on Darrell Jackson. It was the right call. You can't push the defender to create space for yourself. Anyone who says this wasn't offensive pass interference probably buys seven dollar Joey Harrington jersey's and thinks it's perfectly normal to do so. If you want to argue that this isn't called consistently, then I can't disagree, but to say it wasn't a penalty is wrong."
Seahawks Insider: "I have heard from many people, including some who, like me, had no rooting interest in the game. A good portion of them thought the officiating was horrendous, and that it hurt the Seahawks. I still tend to look at the things a team could have done to win a game. Seattle left a lot on the field that way. And yet most agree that the interference call against Darrell Jackson would fall into the "ticky-tack" category by any measure. Take away that call and it's a different game. I did not understand the "low block" penalty against Matt Hasselbeck, either. The play gave the Steelers a 15-yard head start on their final TD drive."
Deadspin: "In short, a lot of people think that the Seahawks were robbed and that the NFL wanted the Steelers to win. We're not going to take sides on this, except to say that the league has only itself to blame for the controversy. When you micromanage an event as completely as the NFL has done this week - even down to editing the Rolling Stones' lyrics - you can't complain when fans assume that the game itself has been scripted."
Takin Hawks: "The game isn't even over, and the Monday-morning quarterbacking has already begun at Craigslist's Seattle Web site. The general consensus: The refs are blowing it. As one post put it, 'Seattle has to beat the refs, too!'"
Die Hard Steel: "I watched the game on a 15" TV with antenna reception and I could clearly see the ball breaking the plane for a few frames of slow motion. I figured this would be crybaby grist for the Seahawk mill, but not this much. Youtube has a video of the play, see for yourself that the ball breaks the plane while Ben is in the air"
On the Game:
The
12th Man: "First things first – and I will be the first one to admit this: the Seahawks did not play like champions today. Mistakes were made, and they were costly. Not since Week One back in Jacksonville did the Hawks play such sloppy football."
Hawks News Daily has a roundup of all
the sports coverage from various newspapers and media outlets.
Sports
and Bremetonians: "The 3rd-and-forever play where Roethlisberger ran left and found Hines Ward inside the 5 turned the entire tide of the game. It also reeked of last year, i.e., not getting off the field on third down, especially on 3rd-and-28. That's almost 4th-and-26 bad. And it came after such a nice Grant Wistrom sack. That hurt."
SteelerBlog.com: "I heard one commentator say that it would come down to the big plays and they were right. Our big plays of Willie’s run and the El-to-Hines gadget play broke the backs of the Seahawks. It wasn’t a pretty game, but we did what we had to do and it worked."
One for the Thumb: "The Steelers utilized the speed of Willie Parker as well, as he broke a 75-yard touchdown run 22 seconds into the second half. Parker now holds the record for the longest rushing touchdown in Super Bowl history. Parker finished the game with 93-yards on ten rushes."
Deadspin also has some highlights from sports blogs.
The Ads:
What is the obsession over Super Bowl commercials? Dennis Kennedy asks
"I must admit how I am flummoxed at how people who brag about how they use their Tivos to skip commercials seem to watch and study commercials during the Super Bowl."
Boing Boing blogs about your brain on Super Bowl ads. Mind Hacks also has a post on this.
Gothamist has a nice summary of the ads here.
CollegeHumor says Michelob's Touch Football commercial was the best.
Ad Pulse gives each ad a grade. The Dove Self-Esteem Fund ad topped the list.
Adfreak posts that Bud Light topped the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter
AdJab lists several places you can view the ads including Google Video and
AOL. They also have a coverage of the ads from the game which can be found here.
Adrants liked the Lost promo: "While we watched the Super Bowl, we marveled at the promotions for ABC's Lost, particularly, as Adrants reader Terry Heaton so thankfully reminded us this morning, the "Addicted to Lost" version set to the tune of eighties icon Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" which showed Palmer and his eighties girls on the TV where Jack and Locke watched that creepy video at the end of last season. Perhaps, it's because we already watch Lost, we liked the promos so much or, perhaps, it's because they were just really good."
Ezra Klein liked these ads:
Bud Light's streakin' sheep, Kermit and the Ford Escape Hybrid, Leonard Nimoy's Hand,
Miss Piggy and Pizza Hut and the Whopperettes.
Gawker questions Diet
Pepsi's odd slogan choice: "Brown and bubbly."
Miscellaneous:
Packer Dreamers: Railbird Central says the Green Bay Packers sit at 100-1 odds to
win the 2007 Super Bowl.
BellaOnline's Football Editor Judith Hodges explains
how we were all winners this year: "The commercials were
better this year. I thought they were funnier than last year, making them worth watching. I am just happy that the 62-year-old Mick Jagger did not have a wardrobe malfunction. We all are winners for that reason even if our team did not win."
BlogPulse says
surrender to the cuteness of the Puppy Bowl
Right-Wing & Right Minded points to the The Lingerie Bowl. They have way too much Flash on that website by the way.
BlogPulse reports that the bursiest phrases for game day were
super bowl is tonight and superbowl party tonight.
Blogging QB Ben Roethlisberger lost his beard on Letterman. But Ben still has not blogged about the big win on his blog.
Note: Earlier coverage with links to numerous blogs covering the game and the ads can be found here.
Posted on February 6, 2006
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