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Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb: The Odd Couple Behind Eagles-Redskins Thrashing
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 16) -- Football is perhaps the least intimate of major American sports. The players, bedecked in pads and helmets, are distinguishable only by the names and numbers on their backs. There are no one-on-one encounters like baseball, showdowns tailor-made for the silver screen. The quarterback-receiver connection is a tenuous one. For every Montana-Rice there are a dozen contentious pairings like that of Terrell Owens and, well, any of the quarterbacks he's played with. Can you imagine Karl Malone, beneficiary of so many John Stockton passes, writing a book called "Just Give Me the Damn ...
NFL Kickoff: Political Insiders Make Their Super Bowl Predictions
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAre you ready for some football? The NFL season officially kicked off Thursday night when the New Orleans Saints began their title defense against the Minnesota Vikings. That means it's time for our second annual "pigskins and politics" column -- where a group of top political insiders and opinion leaders weigh in with their wildly premature Super Bowl predictions. Why ask political and media folks about football? First, sports and entertainment people rarely hesitate to spout off about politics, so turnabout is fair play, right? Second, as GOP strategist Kevin Madden told me last year, ...
New Orleans Saints Come Marching In as Obama Basks in the Sporting Life
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThough there were shouts of "Who dat?!" at the White House on Monday morning, everyone was well aware of who was visiting the East Room: The New Orleans Saints, winners of Super Bowl XLIV, had come to town to meet President XLIV of the United States, Barack Obama. The Marine Band dropped "Hail to the Chief" in favor of "When the Saints Go Marching In" and a parade of very large men entered the room, many of whom were taking their own digital photos or camera-phone snaps. ("You take pictures of us and we take pictures of you!" said one player to the press pool.) It's been nearly six months to ...
Super Bowl Hero Tyree Retired in Style
By David Elfin - AOL NewsIt didn't receive one millionth the fanfare that Brett Favre's apparent retirement today received, but backup receiver/special teams ace David Tyree retired last Friday with as many Super Bowl rings, one, as the all-time great quarterback. And while neither was the Most Valuable Player in his team's ultimate victory 11 years apart, each could have been. Favre threw for 246 yards and two touchdowns as Green Bay topped New England 35-21 in Super Bowl XXXI and Tyree had a touchdown grab and a 32-yard catch that set up the winning score as the New York Giants stunned the unbeaten Patriots 17-14 ...
Doritos Ad Tops Abortion Spot (And Is That a Bad Thing?)
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe final numbers from the Super Bowl are in and yes, the Saints still won. But Tim Tebow's ballyhooed pro-life ad came in dead last. According to the Nielsen Company, the oracle of television ratings, the 30-second spot featuring Tebow's mother talking about how much she loves her strapping, Heisman-winning QB of a son finished last out of 74 separate ads that aired during the game -- even behind that really odd U.S. Census promo. ...
Drew Brees, Mitch Landrieu, and the Pre-Lenten Gift NOLA Gave Itself
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyAs long as there is music in the French Quarter, they will talk about the onside kick that started the New Orleans Super Bowl comeback, Drew Brees' pinpoint passing, and the electric moment when Louisiana native Tracy Porter picked off an errant Peyton Manning pass and took the ball 74 yards for a touchdown that clinched the Saints' Super Bowl victory and ended 42 years worth of frustration for the Saints faithful. It was a Super Sunday, all right, and the town was jammed with happy fans who rejoined from the Domilise's Po-Boys in Uptown -- the Manning family's favorite restaurant -- to the ...
Colts Beat Saints, Newspaper Reports
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 8) -- Colts win the Super Bowl! In the rare case that you missed Sunday's game, woke up on Monday and checked the front page of the Virginian-Pilot's sports section to find out which team came out victorious, you would have learned that the Indianapolis Colts defeated the underdog New Orleans Saints by a score of 31-17. In actuality, it was the Saints who bested the Colts by that same score. "It's just one of those things," Maria Carrillo, the Virginian-Pilot's managing editor, told AOL News. "We went over every aspect of that story a dozen times. Everything but the score." The ...
Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWho'd have guessed that Focus on the Family would have so much in common with ManCrunch? The latter is the gay dating service that had its Super Bowl spot rejected by CBS, while Focus on the Family is the flagship political lobby of the Christian right that has been generating buzz for weeks over its pro-life ad starring Heisman-winning quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother (click play below to watch). Turns out both outfits won big, because both realized that having everyone talk about you is every bit as important as actually doing or saying something controversial. ...
The Ultimate American Heresy: 'I Am a Super Bowl Refusnik.'
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLike so much in my life, I blame it on Richard Nixon. If Nixon had not purported to be such a fanatic football fan that he designed a special play for Washington Redskins coach George Allen... If, at the height of the Vietnam War, official Washington had not embraced the Redskins and pro football with a bipartisan bellicose frenzy unmatched since the Roman Senate worshipped at the Temple of Mars... If the Redskins under Allen, reflecting the theocratic excess of the sport, did not get down on their knees in the locker room to offer a prayer of gratitude after defeating the Dallas Cowboys... ...
Saints Upset Colts to Win First Super Bowl
By not in system - AOL NewsMIAMI -- If ever there was a Super Bowl champion that was more than just a Super Bowl champion, it's the New Orleans Saints. ...
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