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Amy Nelson's first SB Nation podcast with Joe Ruback -- aka super Giants fan 'License Plate Guy' -- went so well that we sent Ruback to the New York Giants Super Bowl DVD release. The NFL Films-created DVD is a tradition for Super Bowl champions and, if you know anything about NFL Films, you know it's awesome.
Dan Hanzus of NFL.com reports that New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin is auctioning off a couple small pieces of history to raise money for The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation, which assists children with leukemia and other cancers.
In the week leading up to Super Bowl XLVI, Jimmy Kimmel challenged his viewers to unplug the TV during a crucial moment in the big game and film the ensuing response. A surprising number of people took him up on his request, so Kimmel showed some of the results on his show on Monday. You can see the video after the jump. What we learn from this -- other than that a surprising amount of people must regularly watch Jimmy Kimmel -- is that sports fans don't much care for these antics.
Maria Menounos, a correspondent for "Extra", made a bet with colleague A.J. Calloway that the New England Patriots would win the Super Bowl. Menounos is a big time Patriots fan and was even booed at Media Day for her allegiance. Menounos lost the bet, so on Monday in Times Square she had to wear a New York Giants bikini during Extra's coverage of the Super Bowl Parade.
Watch Menounos reveal the results of the bet after the jump.
Lots of people were watching Super Bowl XLVI -- in fact, more than any other Super Bowl ever -- and so too, lots of sports fans were generating buzz with authentic discussion by Tweeting about the Super Bowl.
In the final three minutes of the Super Bowl tonight, there were an average of 10,000 Tweets per second.
— Twitter (@twitter) February 6, 2012
Oh, and since the highest-rated part of a football game was when a 53-year old woman was singing, it would make sense that there were a ton of Tweets about Madonna, too.
Tom Brady sat facing his locker, his head down and draped in a white towel, staring at the space between his cleats.
He was in full uniform. He was in full thought. There were the plays that hadn’t been made. There were the opportunities not seized. There was the Super Bowl that had slipped away, 21-17 to the New York Giants. Again, the Giants. Again.
Take a few minutes out of your day to go read Dan Wetzel’s excellent column on Tom Brady following another Super Bowl loss.
Next to a thousand storylines coming out of the Super Bowl, this is a footnote at best. But even so, as Graydon Gordian points out, we might have seen a version of Buddy Ryan's "Polish Goaline" tactic come to life almost 20 years after he left the NFL. That's where a team intentionally stacks the field with an extra defender, and takes the penalty.
As Ryan once wrote in the Houston Oilers' playbook:
Brandon Jacobs, your thoughts on the Giants beating the Patriots twice in the Super Bowl?
"We decapitated them. They can't wear that crown no more. Can't wear that crown no more, baby."
Kudos to ESPN's Rachel Nichols for getting the regicide-friendly quote in an on-field interview after Super Bowl XLVI.
It's pretty easy to work Eli Manning's name into a song, and that's just what Deion Sanders did following Super Bowl XLVI. Manning sat down with the NFL Network crew as the celebration rolled on in Indianapolis, and Sanders felt it was just the right time to serenade him. Eli and "fly" rhyme, so of course Sanders went R. Kelly on him.
After the jump, "I believe in Eli," somewhat of a remix to "I believe I can fly."
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