Burress still unsure for Super Bowl, Umenyiora probable
Associated Press News Service

There is no guarantee New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress will play in the Super Bowl.

Ankle and knee problems caused Burress to miss his third straight practice Friday, leaving coach Tom Coughlin hoping his star receiver can continue his yearlong trend of playing every week without the benefit of working with his teammates.

"He's improved," Coughlin said after the Giants finished their final practice for Sunday's NFL title game against the New England Patriots. "He's done it all year under all kinds of circumstances. We've just got to be hopeful he can do it one more time."

While Burress did not practice because of a sprained right ankle and swelling in his left knee, he did participate in part of the individual portion of the 80-minute practice at the Arizona Cardinals' headquarters.

Burress, who guaranteed a 23-17 win over the Patriots earlier in the week, stretched and loosened up with his teammates. The 6-foot-5 veteran who led the team with 12 touchdown catches, ran a few routes in drills to test his legs, the first time he has done that this week.

"He ran a couple of slants," Coughlin said. "He took a play in the `green' zone and that was about all we did with him."

Burress stood on the side during the team portion of practice holding his helmet.

"Obviously, if we felt he could go, he would have gone the whole time," Coughlin said

Burress injured his ankle in training camp and he has barely practiced all season. He has played in all 19 games, catching 70 passes for 1,025 yards. He set a postseason franchise record with 11 catches for 151 yards in the NFC title game against Green Bay.

His left knee has bothered him at times this season.

Defensive end Osi Umenyiora, who had 13 of the Giants' league-high 52 sacks, missed Friday's practice with a sore thigh. He is listed as probable.

Starting left guard Rich Seubert and backup cornerback Kevin Dockery each had his second full day of practice.

Seubert sprained his right knee in the fourth quarter of the NFC title game. Dockery missed the last two playoff games with a hip injury.

Coughlin felt the team was enthusiastic in three days of work in Phoenix.

"It was a good solid work week," he said. "We talked about coming over here and having a solid six hours together. We had that each day we worked."

The Giants will have a walkthrough here on Saturday.

Belichick after final practice: Patriots 'ready to roll'
Associated Press News Service

The New England Patriots' final practice before Sunday's big game was, well, super.

"We're ready to roll," coach Bill Belichick said Friday. "We're ready as we're going to be."

According to the Chicago Tribune's Dan Pompei, the designated pool reporter, the Patriots concluded their preparations for the Super Bowl against the New York Giants with a crisp 1-hour, 20-minute workout in shorts and shells at Sun Devil Stadium.

Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown spoke to the team before practice, at Belichick's request.

The Patriots will not have a walkthrough at University of Phoenix Stadium on Saturday, but will go to the stadium to take a team photo.

Quarterback Tom Brady wasn't limited at all by his sprained right ankle, and was listed as probable (right shoulder) on the team's injury report. Wide receiver Jabar Gaffney fully participated in practice for the first time this week after being limited by a shoulder injury.

Giants by 7, 24-17. Patriots will try a failed trick play in the first half, Tom Brady will throw two interceptions in the fourth quarter. See, I'm good..lol

In a Boston paper no less! Like Tom Petty (halftime supastar) sang "It's Christmas all over again."

Source: Pats employee filmed Rams

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PHOENIX - One night before the Patriots [team stats] face the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, new allegations have emerged about a Patriots employee taping the Rams’ final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI.

According to a source, a member of the team’s video department filmed the Rams’ final walkthrough before that 2002 game. The next day, the Patriots upset St. Louis, 20-17, on a last-second field goal by Adam Vinatieri for their first championship.

A walkthrough involves practicing plays at reduced speed without contact or pads. It is common for teams to film their own walkthroughs and practices.

When contacted last night, Patriots vice president of media relations Stacey James said: “The coaches have no knowledge of it.”

Yesterday, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) stated that he plans to summon NFL commissioner Roger Goodell before Congress to explain why he destroyed tapes that showed the Patriots stealing defensive signals over the last two years.

After his state of the NFL press conference yesterday, Goodell was asked if the league’s investigation into the Pats included allegations that they recorded the Rams walkthrough in 2002.

“I’m not aware of that,” Goodell said.

“We have no information on that,” seconded NFL spokesman Greg Aiello.

According to a source close to the team during the 2001 season, here’s what happened. On Feb. 2, 2002, one day before the Patriots’ Super Bowl game against heavily favored St. Louis in New Orleans, the Patriots visited the Superdome for their final walkthrough.

After completing the walkthrough, they had their team picture taken and the Rams then took the field. According to the source, a member of the team’s video staff stayed behind after attending the team’s walkthrough and filmed St. Louis’ walkthrough.

At no point was he asked to identify himself or produce a press pass, the source said. The cameraman rode the media shuttle back to the hotel with news photographers when the Rams walkthrough was completed, the source said.

It’s not known what the cameraman did with the tape from there. It’s also not known if he made the recording on his own initiative or if he was instructed to make the recording by someone with the Patriots or anyone else.

The next day, the Patriots opened a 14-3 halftime lead on the Rams, who were 14-point favorites and operators of an offense known as “The Greatest Show on Turf.”

The Rams didn’t begin moving the ball until the fourth quarter, when their 14-point rally pulled the teams into a 17-17 tie with less than two minutes remaining. Tom Brady [stats] then led the most famous drive in Patriots history for the winning field goal.

The Patriots were fined $750,000 and docked a first-round draft pick for breaking league policy and filming the Jets’ defensive signals from the sideline in September.

Asked yesterday if he believed the Pats used similar films to achieve their three Super Bowl victories, Goodell was adamant.

“No,” he said. “There was no indication that it benefited them in any of the Super Bowl victories.”
Complete Patriots coverage:

* + AP video:How the Patriots Will Win the Super Bowl
* + AP video: Patriots, Giants Ready for ’Super Sunday’
* + Complete Super Bowl XLII coverage

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live4lust said:

Damn, 2002. I hope they didn't film the Panthers in '04.

I'm pretty sure they filmed everybody. Sounds like procedure and business as usual in the NE franchise or at least with Bill Belichick.
Wonder if they got film on Seattle. Probably not. We don't play NE that much. We do next year though. In SEA! NE
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AnckSuNamun said:

NFL officials say the roof of University of Phoenix Stadium may be closed
Sunday night if the weather doesn't cooperate.
AP

Burress participates in walkthrough
Associated Press News Service

After missing a week of practice with ankle and knee injuries, New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress participated in a walkthrough Saturday.

"I think he's a little bit better today," coach Tom Coughlin told pool reporter Mike Sando of ESPN.com. "He gets a little bit better each day, and hopefully we'll be able to have some further improvement tomorrow."

The 50-minute walkthrough began with abbreviated stretching, followed by special teams, defense and offense sessions. Team president John Mara and general manager Jerry Reese watched the workout at the Arizona Cardinals' headquarters.

"We're excited and we're ready to go," Coughlin said. "It's been a nice week in terms of working up to (the game) and we find ourselves right here, so we're looking forward to it."

Patriots did not have a final walkthrough today.

They had their team photo taken today instead.

Whatever. They still won every other game after the Jets this season...without video tape. But nobody talks about that.

CarrieLee said:

What video tape?

Popularity contests only ones Belichick fails to win

You can ask them all you want, but New England Patriots players are not equipped to provide great insight into the inner workings of their coach, Bill Belichick.

They won’t tell you about the soft heart and warm personality beneath the stoic exterior.

They won’t pass on entertaining anecdotes of Belichick when he’s loosened up, away from the spotlight.

It’s hardly news that Belichick isn’t a candidate to perform at improv clubs during evenings this week. But we might have expected Belichick to be slightly more forthcoming and glib considering this is his fourth appearance on Super Bowl media podiums in the past seven seasons.

As he tight-lipped his way through another session Friday, and as his players continued to offer one-dimensional assessments of their leader this week, it’s becoming fairly evident that there is no “other” Bill Belichick.

The man is about winning football games. End of story.

For instance, when asked to provide some season-long perspective, Belichick responded: “I’m not really here to talk about last week, last month, last year. This is a one-game season, and all of our focus is on the New York Giants. That’s really all there is. We’ve got one single, sole purpose, and that’s to play our best against the New York Giants on Sunday. Everything else is basically irrelevant to that task.”

Single, sole purpose ...

Everything else is irrelevant ...

That’s really all there is ...

When Belichick lands in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, those words should be engraved beneath his bust. Because he’s made the approach work. If boring, Belichick has proven that single-mindedness is effective.

True, some have reported seeing him smile and even laugh on occasion.

“Every once in a while you get his personality coming out,” cornerback Asante Samuel said. “You’d better enjoy it because you don’t see it that much.”

Belichick is not only an example of bland, he’s a carrier. He promotes it.

Dozens of times this week, Patriots players prefaced answers that might contain a hint of controversy with phrases such as, “Don’t tell Coach Belichick I said this, but ...”

Belichick’s other arch-enemy is complacency. He battles it daily.

“We do a tremendous job of depressing success,” linebacker Tedy Bruschi said. “Coach Belichick, when we have our Monday meetings, he’ll go over what we did well – that lasts for about two minutes. Then he’ll go over what we did poorly and that lasts for 30 or 40 minutes. Even games that we won by 28 points or more, Coach will focus on the negatives.”

But it works.

“It’s something that helped us get to this point,” Bruschi said.

Quarterback Tom Brady cited a win against Buffalo that the Patriots were allowed to “celebrate for about five seconds.” But when you lose? “He’s on you until Wednesday morning. I think those things continue to motivate you ... when your coach has expectations like Coach Belichick.”

Defensive end Ty Warren noted Belichick’s brief acknowledgment after he signed a nice contract extension. “Bill’s not a man of many words,” Warren said. “He basically said, ‘Congratulations, get back to work.’ ”

But those few words can be powerful. Ask linebacker Junior Seau.

“I got a call from Belichick,” Seau said. “And his words were this: ‘I have a position for you.’ Other teams were saying they would love for me to be on their team, but that gave me a clue that they wanted me but didn’t really need me. Belichick said, one-on-one, ‘I have a position for you,’ and it changed my life.”

Maybe they fear him a bit, but they certainly trust him. And the respect is obvious.

“He doesn’t give any special treatment to any one player, no matter what their so-called status is on the team,” Warren said. “He doesn’t believe in entitlement or things like that. Everybody gets the same treatment.”

And he’s no more demanding of the players than he is of himself.

“I think one of the biggest things is he doesn’t accept any excuses,” tackle Matt Light said. “He tells it to you like it is. You have to have thick skin at times. The one thing I can tell you for sure is that he’s going to demand everything out of you. In turn, he’s going to give you everything that he’s got.

“There’s nobody who spends more time in that building than him.”

Only further proof, once again, that for Belichick, winning is all there is.
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Transformed Coughlin finds winning formula

The perception of Tom Coughlin is so curmudgeonly that a long-time scribe stood up at the New York coach’s Friday morning press conference and requested that Coughlin simply say the word “fun.”

“Fun,” Coughlin said to appease his tormentor, beaming into the cameras, the archetypes evaporating like mist.

OK, maybe not entirely.

But it is true that Coughlin is more compliant this season, his altered demeanor a key component in the Giants’ journey to Super Bowl XLII, where they will face the New England Patriots on Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.

In reality, Coughlin, 61, had to modify his overbearing ways, becoming the kinder, gentler coach of the new millennium, or he likely wouldn’t be here today as coach of a team that has won 10 straight road games to make an improbable appearance in the world’s grandest annual spectacle.

In a way, Coughlin can’t be blamed for his straightforward approach. After all, he once coached on the same staff as Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick and Romeo Crennel, none to be mistaken for Robin Williams.

But constant complaints from many throughout the organization about his Sergeant Hulka approach placed Coughlin’s career on a precipice, most vocally from former running back Tiki Barber. Even Michael Strahan said he didn’t think playing under Coughlin for the long term was an option.

“When he first came here (in 2004), I said to myself, ‘I have to be here this year, but after this I can’t play for this man,’’ Strahan recalls. “He’s crazy.”

With such a reputation, Coughlin’s ability – and willingness – to change would determine whether he returned for another year, and lip service was not going to cut it, not in the most scrutinized market in the country.

It could not have been easy for Coughlin to make such a difficult decision, not after his approach had proved so successful over the course of a long career.

He has coached since 1969, at the Rochester Institute of Technology when he was 23, at Syracuse, two separate stints at Boston College, assistant coaching jobs in Philadelphia, Green Bay and New York before finally landing an NFL head coaching job in Jacksonville.

Incredibly, he took the expansion franchise to four playoff berths in its first five years, something never before accomplished. He led the Jaguars to two AFC championship games in eight seasons, earning coach of the year honors in 1996, when Jacksonville lost to New England in the championship game.

And now, after nearly 40 years in the business, after establishing himself as a bona fide commodity, they wanted him to change.

“I would think I was saying to the team something very logical with regards to how I presented it,” Coughlin said. “On the other hand, I might hear back from a number of sources that the interpretation was different from what I intended.”

Giants officials informed Coughlin that if he wanted to keep his job, he had to communicate better with players, soften his criticism. Giants president John Mara said that when he announced the decision to retain Coughlin, his inbox was flooded with e-mail messages from fans upset about the decision.

To the surprise of many, Coughlin began to delegate. He formed what he calls the team’s Leadership Council, made up of 11 players who serve as a conduit to the coach for the rest of the team.

“The leadership council was established so that the communication between the players and myself would be enhanced,” Coughlin said. “It has been a very positive thing. We have outstanding representatives in that group, and they have done a very, very good job of taking the information I have shared with them or the questions I have asked them.”

This is not to say that Coughlin has altogether mellowed. He still has stringent rules, including one that forbids players from wearing white dress socks with a suit.

And he still can do a fairly good impression of Mike Holmgren, his already ruddy face seething with anger when kicker Lawrence Tynes missed a field goal at the end of regulation in the NFC Championship Game.

“I actually yelled out, ‘How is the weather out there?’ because over on the sidelines it was pretty cold,” Coughlin said, joking.

Coughlin joking; that in itself is a novel concept for a man who once compared himself to Hitler.

“He has really changed,” Strahan said. “He is smiling, he uses the word ‘fun’ and ‘enjoyment.’ And it blows my mind every time he uses it. I don’t expect that – I never expect that out of him.”

As it turned out, the ultimate crotchety and cantankerous man attended Coughlin’s Friday press conference. The unmistakable figure of Andy Rooney stood up from his chair, grabbed a microphone and asked, “Tom, what is it that irritates you from the coverage you get from the press?”

“Redundancy does bother, I’ll admit that,” Coughlin said. “And wasting time is a big problem for me. What I’ve tried to do is be a little bit more patient this year than I’ve been in the past.”
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july said:

I'm sure they've seen enough recent tape to cover every game they would play this season.

today is the day!

The Giants have been on a roll the past few weeks, but the Patriots have had two weeks to prepare for this game, and they will meet their standard of perfection. Pats 42, G-Men 24.

On a side note, this was posted last year, but I think it is still relevant regarding halftime. Especially since the infamous wardrobe malfunction in Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Prince - The Pinnacle of halftime entertainment?

http://community.foxsport...ertainment

"Honestly, I'd have no problem if Prince took up a 10-year residency at the halftime show like some luminary at a Vegas casino, but since that seems unlikely to happen, I've developed some rules for the NFL to follow when considering future candidates for halftime entertainment:

1. If you couldn't see the artist in one of the multi-million dollar commercials then they don't belong on the stage. You know why you didn't see any "Pimp Juice" commercials featuring Nelly during Super Bowl XXXV? Because, despite being the "#1 Selling Hip-Hop Energy Drink," whatever that means, PJ couldn't afford a spot on Super Sunday. Maybe this was an indication of the temporal nature of Nelly's popularity. Just follow the hip-hop and marketing lead here; if it don't make dollars, it don't make sense.

With that said...

2. Give us something slightly on The Edge and I don't mean U2. Prince has songs that would make a porn star blush and that's a large part of his appeal as a Super Bowl performer. Will everything be squeaky clean and family friendly? Probably. But the potential is there for something crazy to happen and in a time where Paul McCartney was praised for being uninteresting the year after Nipplegate, I like that.

3. Nobody enjoys old-timer's games. I love the Rolling Stones and I understand their greatness, but I still have no interest in seeing them in their current state and that's not a statement on their present potency. I'm sure they're still great. They could announce a tour tomorrow and it would sell out within an hour, but everything that made them great happened 30+ years ago. I would've loved to experience the power of the Stones in their prime, but I missed that boat and all the plastic surgery in the world can't convince me otherwise.

I'm sure there are a number of people who will disagree with me on this point, but you can't always get what you want. Sorry.

4. Flavors of the month are just as bad. What do Right Said Fred, 98 Degrees and the Lyte Funky Ones (nee, LFO) have in common? They were all universally crappy and none of them ever appeared at the Super Bowl, but Kriss Kross, Los Del Rio, 'NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys all did. All I'm asking for is a little foresight here, which could be tricky considering that we live in an age where anything that is cool today will be liked by more people tomorrow which makes it totally uncool to the people who initially thought it was cool yesterday, but here's a hint: don't read Pitchfork.com because nobody knows who any of those bands are. Paste or any band currently featured in a car commercial will provide much better options.

In fact, this leads me to scratch Rule No. 1 as I'm pretty sure Lance, JC, Joey, Chris and Justin were shilling for somebody back in the day.

Nevertheless, it shouldn't be that hard going forward. All the NFL needs to find is an artist currently in their prime, possessing an undeniable edginess/sexiness that implies something extraordinary could happen, with enough credibility to appease tastemakers without offending the tasteless, whose best albums weren't all recorded prior to 1980.

But if that's not enough of a guideline to go by, I've taken the liberty of preparing a list of qualifying musicians: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Prince and Willie Nelson.

That covers just about everyone doesn't it?"

In Memory
of
William Ernest Walsh
(November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007)

Patriots are one step from perfect

You may wonder if the players from the 2007 New England Patriots, with a win today in Super Bowl XLII, will turn into the 21st century version of the 1972 Miami Dolphins.

Will they gather every year to drink champagne when the last undefeated team suffers its first loss, thus assuring their status?

Finally, in the 2042 season, as a gang of cranky senior citizens, they’ll see another club roll to a 21-0 record in the expanded NFL and try to place a trademark on their own version of perfection.

What would 65-year-old former Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, have to say about the achievement? Speaking from the home of his girlfriend, a 25-year-old lingerie model, Brady likely would comment: “We’re still focused on trying to get better.”

So deeply brainwashed in avoidance are these Patriots that it’s unlikely that 35 years will be long enough to get them to actually step back and assess their achievements.

Of course, by then we still may be debating how much they benefited from videotaping their opponents’ signals.

Today, they take on the New York Giants and history.

They’ve already matched the ’72 Dolphins’ undefeated regular season (in fact, bested it by winning 16 regular-season games rather than 14), but they need the win today to match the Dolphins’ undefeated run through the post-season, as well.

Since they beat San Diego for the AFC title, the Patriots have stressed that the only way to go undefeated – to reach perfection – is to never consider going undefeated.

“At the beginning of the year, our goal wasn’t to be undefeated,” Brady said. “We didn’t come into minicamp saying, ‘All right, we are trying to go 19-0.’ It was, ‘We are going to do our best to win the AFC East, put us in position to be in the playoffs and win the AFC.’ Now we have the opportunity to play in a Super Bowl against probably the hottest team in the NFL right now.”

Linebacker Tedy Bruschi viewed the season as a series of “one-game winning streaks.”

“We don’t consider ourselves invincible,” Bruschi said. “The minute you do, you are letting down your guard. If you think you can’t be beat, that’s the wrong thought to have.”

They’ve been coached to run and hide when the concept of “perfection” is mentioned.

“Perfect is too strong a word,” nose tackle Vince Wolfork said. “I don’t think anyone has done something perfect. Maybe great. But perfect? That’s very tough. Through this whole year, there have been ups and downs; we’ve been through a whole lot, from getting fined to people taking shots at this organization.

“We’ve been backed into a corner a lot this year,” he said. “But we’ve found ways to get out of that. To be in the position we’re in now is very satisfying, but we can’t be satisfied until we play Sunday and hopefully walk away with a win.”

Oh, they’ve been tempted, the thoughts have sneaked in on occasion.

“Last week you have a little more time to reflect and think about it because you have a week off to prepare,” Bruschi said. “It’s been a great distinction for us to just think about the next chapter. Now, it’s really about finishing. Finishing what we started, and then we’ll worry about the historical ramifications afterward.”

A few Patriots have wondered how history would view a 19-0 finish. But they don’t want to talk about it.

And they certainly don’t want coach Bill Belichick to hear them talking about it.

“It’s obviously there; I think for each guy, we all kind of deal with it in our own unique way,” tackle Matt Light said. “It’s not anything you really want to talk about. You don’t want to jinx yourself, and none of it really means anything if you don’t go out there and play well.”

As loose as the Patriots have acted the past two weeks, the pressure is there. And it’s greater than it’s been in any of their three recent Super Bowl appearances.

“You just know if you go out there and fall short, it will put a dark shadow over everything you’ve worked so hard to accomplish,” Light said.

Belichick has led the Patriots through an undefeated season by keeping them focused on weekly improvements, never allowing them to consider themselves a finished product. That’s been his goal this week, too.

“I don’t think you are ever where you want to be,” Belichick said. “There’s always more to do and things you’ve done that you wish you could have done a little better. That’s always a process in getting ready for a game.”

And today’s game against the Giants in Super Bowl XLII?

“It probably will not be perfect,” Belichick said.

It’s a point that might be argued for the next 35 seasons.

Patriots vs. Giants

Patriots' 3 keys

1. Air it out:

The Patriots ran over San Diego as they ran out the clock, but New England's offense is going to need some air in it today because an over-the-top approach proved best the last time these teams played, which was the regular-season finale. The Patriots rushed for 40 yards in the first half, passed for 158 and trailed 21-16 at halftime. They passed for 188 in the second half — including a 65-yard touchdown to Randy Moss — rushed for 4 yards the final two periods and won the game.

2. Jump out early:

The Patriots allowed 4.4 yards per rush during the regular season, the most of any playoff team this season. But New England held the lead for so much this season that the Patriots were never stung by that difficulty in stopping the run. Opponents were forced to throw, playing catch-up.

3. Preserve the pocket:

The Giants led the league in sacks during the regular season, and the defensive end trio of Michael Strahan, Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck is as good as any in the league. The Patriots set a league scoring record by giving their quarterback time, allowing only 21 sacks during the regular season.

Giants' 3 keys

1. Pressure the passer:

This could be a key for every team in every game played this season. Here's why it's more important for the Giants today: In the 10 games in which the Patriots allowed one sack or fewer, they won by an average of 23.8 points. In the six games in which they allowed two or more, they won by an average of 12.7.

2. Continue holding on to the ball:

The Giants committed nine more turnovers than they had takeaways during the regular season, and Eli Manning tied for the league lead with 20 interceptions. But in the playoffs, New York has intercepted five passes, recovered one opponent's fumble and lost only one fumble in the run to the playoffs. Manning has yet to be intercepted in the playoffs.

3. Muscle up on Randy Moss:

Easy to say when you're not the one lining up across from the 6-foot-4 fellow who set the league's season record for touchdown catches. But he's caught only two passes in two playoff games this season as two teams with top-notch corners pressed him. The Giants secondary has been banged up, but their defensive backs must be physical with Moss.

Notable

Bill Belichick could become the second coach to win four Super Bowls. Pittsburgh's Chuck Noll is the only one who's accomplished that feat. Tom Brady could join Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana as the only starting quarterbacks to win four Super Bowls. AFC teams have won eight of the past 10 Super Bowls. Patriots are technically the home team, but the Giants have won their past 10 road games.

Every person attending Super Bowl XLII at University of Phoenix Stadium is required to have a ticket, regardless of age or size.

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Cameras and Binoculars – Small cameras and binoculars will be allowed. Camera cases and binocular cases of any size are prohibited. No spectator cameras with lenses over six inches (6”) long will be permitted. Again, camcorders will be prohibited.

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I had been picking the Patriots until 26 seconds ago. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ON TOM BRADY'S HEAD?!?



No way he can win with that haircut. NO WAY.
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RodeoSchro said:

I agree!!

As Superbowl comes to an end I'd like to thank the Giants and the makers of pork rinds for another fabulous party!