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On the typical football Weekend, you would most likely find me parked before my living space television watching the Gambling while posting as well as following tweets concerning the game on the way.

Twitter is an excellent venue for sports activities fans to brag on the favorite teams as well as mock their competitors. Sometimes it's fun and fun. Additional times, as using the recent death risks directed against Bay area 49ers player Kyle Williams, it may go too much.

Last Sunday, while I had been celebrating the Giants in a Super Bowl celebration, CNN's Roland Martin had been stirring up a few controversy online. Throughout the game, Martin tweeted: "If a dude at the Super Bowl celebration is hyped regarding David Beckham's H&M under garments ad, smack the ish from him! "

After i first read Martin's twitter, it raised 2 important issues: one about violence and also the other about homophobia. Very first, to the physical violence. To "smack" somebody without their permission is clearly the violent act. Nevertheless, as someone that has followed Martin's every day -- and occasionally annoying -- Tweets banter, it seems inconceivable he was literally motivating his followers in order to smack male Beckham fans within their midst. Instead, the violence he or she encouraged was clearly a tale. But that's precisely the problem.

Gays and lesbians have served since the butt of insensitive as well as offensive jokes with regard to generations. To suggest smacking a "dude" due to his attraction in order to or appreciation for any male sports celebrity is clearly homophobic, that is the second essential issue raised through Martin's tweet. Even though the violence he or she encouraged wasn't to become taken seriously, the homophobia from its root appeared to be.

I've known Roland Martin because 1995, and after i spoke to him or her Wednesday night through telephone he was adamant his controversial tweets weren't meant to end up being homophobic and indicated his willingness to satisfy with officials through GLAAD. Martin stated he was basically singling out Beckham simply because he plays football, a sport he says he's repeatedly ridiculed on Twitter previously.

As you may expect from any kind of medium that limitations your posts in order to 140 characters, Twitter is not where for subtlety as well as nuance. Most Twitter fans don't research your own history of prior posts before they react to your remarks. Therefore, I did not really find Martin's football explanation plausible after i first read this online, but he appeared to hold onto it sincerely whenever we spoke on the telephone.

I have not a way of knowing what Martin really was thinking when he or she posted his twitter about Beckham and a different one about a Extremely Bowl fan inside a pink suit, however the effect of their remarks was real to a lot of people. Even if all of us take Martin from his word he posted completely not guilty tweets, it's clear to see how the homosexual community could translate them differently and become offended by all of them, especially given their own past statements.

It had been Martin, after just about all, who seemed to protect comedian Tracy Morgan this past year after the NBC thirty Rock star was criticized for any homophobic comedy regimen performed in Tn. And it had been Martin who guarded Miss California, Carrie Prejean, after she indicated her disapproval associated with same sex marriage throughout the 2009 Miss UNITED STATES pageant.

And dating back to 2006, Martin posted a discuss his web website suggesting that homosexuality was a selection that gays might simply resist. "My spouse, an ordained Baptist minister for two decades, has counseled many women and men to walk from the gay way of life, " he authored. In the exact same article, he compared gays as well as lesbians to "a woman who's an alcoholic, the child who remains disobedient to their parents [or] the woman who is hell-bent upon stealing. " Martin finished his piece having a final statement associated with purpose: "That is not being homophobic. It's as being a Christian. And nobody should have to apologize for your. "

Martin is eligible for his opinion, and I don't believe he should end up being fired from his job due to what he thinks. But given individuals beliefs, why wouldn't gays as well as lesbians assume Martin's twitter about smacking the male fan of the shirtless David Beckham was designed to be an offend to gay males?

No doubt the actual black LGBT community's awareness was also increased this week through the release of the gay bashing movie showing 20-year-old Brandon Whitened, a black homosexual man in Atl whose attackers actually "smacked the 'ish' from him" while phoning him a "faggot. inch If politicians, pastors, and pundits are engaged in public places homophobia, why should all of us be surprised when teenagers execute those same ideas using their fists and ft?

Some have charged the gay community to be "hypersensitive" or "overreacting" in order to Martin's tweets, but that's precisely the language used through conservatives to write off complaints from African Americans whenever we object to coded racial unsupported claims about "food stamps" as well as "blah people" in the lips of Newt Gingrich or even Rick Santorum. We can't expect others to comprehend our sensitivities if we do not understand theirs.

At this time, it's counterproductive to keep the fruitless physical exercise of determining exactly what Roland Martin truly meant or that which was in his center. This is a problem that's bigger compared to Martin's temporarily hanging career at CNN. It's concerning the way we contact one other as well as where we proceed from here.

Whilst conservatives seek in order to divide us, we must figure out methods to stop attacking each other and start listening to one another and working collectively against our actual adversaries. The gay community isn't the enemy associated with black America and also the black community isn't the enemy associated with gay America.

Super Bowl XLVI- NY Giants vs New England

Super Bowl XLVI

Super Bowl XLVI is an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2011 season. It will be the 42nd annual championship game of the modern-era NFL and is scheduled to be played Sunday, February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kickoff time is scheduled for approximately 6:30 p.m. EST. This will be the first Super Bowl to be played in Indianapolis, and the first time in the history of the game it will be played in consecutive years in a retractable roof stadium. This will also be only the fourth time that the Super Bowl is played in a cold-weather city, after Detroit's hosting of XVI and XL as well as Minneapolis's hosting of XXVI. Downtown Indianapolis, the home of Lucas Oil Stadium, will feature an outdoor Super Bowl Village and other programs at the Indiana Convention Center.

Per convention as an even-numbered Super Bowl, the Patriots as the AFC representatives will have the home team designation. Super Bowl XLVI will be the sixth Super Bowl in which the two teams had competed in a previous Super Bowl match up, as the Giants and Patriots had previously met in Super Bowl XLII. Both head coaches (Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick) and both starting quarterbacks (Eli Manning and Tom Brady) return from Super Bowl XLII.

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Host selection process

Three cities presented bids for the game:

On January 31, 2008, the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau announced their plans to host the game at Reliant Stadium, and holding events at the surrounding Reliant Park, hoping that their city would host the championship game for the second time since Reliant Stadium opened.

On February 19, 2008, the City of Indianapolis, led by Colts owner Jim Irsay and Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard, officially announced details about their intentions to bid for Super Bowl XLVI. Part of the agreement included a proposal to build a practice facility on the campus of Arsenal Technical High School that would be utilized by the school after the Super Bowl.

On March 6, 2008, one month after hosting Super Bowl XLII at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, the second Super Bowl held in the Phoenix metropolitan area, the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee led by Committee chair Mike Kennedy formally announced their intentions to bid for another one.

NFL franchise owners selected the Indianapolis bid at their meeting on May 20, 2008.

A labor dispute had threatened the postponement or cancellation of the game during the spring and summer of 2011; league officials had set contingency plans to postpone the game one week if it had been necessary to postpone regular season games into the second week of January. Since the dispute was resolved well before the start of the regular season, no postponements were implemented, and the game remained as originally scheduled.

Background

New York Giants

With a 9–7 record during the regular season, the Giants returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2008, when they won the NFC East and finished the season as the NFC's #4 seed. The Giants entered their week 17 match up with the Cowboys with both teams tied for the division lead with 8–7 records. The Giants took a 21–0 first half lead and while the Cowboys closed the gap to make the score 21–14 early in the 4th quarter, the Giants held on to defeat the Cowboys 31–14, clinching the divisional title and a playoff berth. Then they advanced to the playoffs by defeating the Atlanta Falcons in the Wild Card game 24–2, then they defeated the teams with the two best records in the NFL, knocking off the 15–1 Green Bay Packers 37–20 and the 13–3 San Francisco 49ers 20–17 on Lawrence Tynes's game winning field goal in overtime.

New York's offense was led by Pro Bowl quarterback Eli Manning, in his seventh season as the team's starter. Manning set new career highs in nearly every statistical category in 2011, throwing for a franchise record 4,933 yards and 29 touchdowns, with 16 interceptions, giving him a 92.9 passer rating. His top target was receiver Victor Cruz, who caught 82 passes for a franchise record 1,536 yards (3rd in the NFL) and 9 touchdowns. But he had plenty of other targets, including Hakeem Nicks (76 receptions, 1,192 yards, 7 touchdowns), Mario Manningham (39 receptions and 523 yards in 12 games) and tight end Jake Ballard (38 receptions, 604 yards, 15.9 average)

Running back Ahmad Bradshaw was the team's leading rusher with 659 yards and 9 touchdowns. He was also a reliable weapon in the passing game, hauling in 34 receptions for 267 yards and two touchdowns. Brandon Jacobs also made a big contribution on the ground, rushing for 571 yards and 7 touchdowns.

New York's defensive line was led by defensive ends Jason Pierre-Paul and Osi Umenyiora. Pierre-Paul racked up 86 combined tackles and ranked fourth in the NFL with 16.5 sacks, earning him the only Pro Bowl selection on the Giants defense, while Umenyiora recorded 9 sacks and 2 forced fumbles. New York also had an excellent secondary led by Corey Webster, who intercepted a career high 6 passes. Defensive backs Kenny Phillips and Aaron Ross added four interceptions each, while safety Antrel Rolle picked off two passes and led the team in combined tackles with 96.

The 2011 Giants are the first team in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl after having been outscored by their opponents in the regular season (394 points scored, 400 points allowed).

New England Patriots

The Patriots finished with a 13–3 record, winning the AFC East and clinching the AFC's #1 seed in the playoffs. New England lost two straight games in weeks 8 and 9 against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Giants, respectively, before rallying to win their remaining regular season games. In the playoffs, New England defeated the Denver Broncos in the divisional round and the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game.

Back at the helm of the offense was 12-year quarterback Tom Brady, who earned his 7th Pro Bowl selection. Starting every game of the season, Brady completed 65.6% of his passes for a career-high 5,246 yards (the second highest total in NFL history) and 39 touchdown passes, with just 12 interceptions and a rating of 105.6. Brady also added 109 yards and three scores on the ground. His main weapon in the passing game was Pro Bowl receiver Wes Welker, who led the NFL with 122 receptions (22 receptions ahead of second place) for 1,569 yards and 9 touchdowns. New England also had two of the best tight ends in the NFL: Pro Bowler Rob Gronkowski, who set new tight end records for receiving (1,327 yards) and touchdown catches (17); and Aaron Hernandez, who caught 79 passes for 910 yards and 7 touchdowns, while also rushing for 45 yards. Another big element of the passing game was veteran receiver Deion Branch, who caught 51 passes for 702 yards and 5 scores. Receivers Chad Ochocinco, Tiquan Underwood, Julian Edelman, and Matthew Slater made minor contributions to the passing attack; the latter two also served as emergency defensive backs.

New England had several key contributors in the ground game. Their main rusher was BenJarvis Green-Ellis, who rushed for 667 yards and 11 touchdowns. Running back Stevan Ridley added 447 yards and a 5.1 yards per carry average. Danny Woodhead contributed 351 yards with a 4.6 YPC average, and gained another 437 yards returning kickoffs. New England also had a solid offensive line, which was anchored by Pro Bowl guards Logan Mankins and Brian Waters. With all these weapons, New England ranked third in the NFL with 513 points.

The Patriots' defensive line featured two Pro Bowl selections: Vince Wilfork, who generated 3.5 sacks, two interceptions, and one forced fumble; and Andre Carter, who contributed 10 sacks and forced two fumbles. Defensive End Mark Anderson was also a major force on the line, earning 10 sacks and two forced fumbles of his own. Behind them, Rob Ninkovich excelled at linebacker, gaining 74 tackles, 6.5 sacks, and two interceptions. In the secondary, cornerback Kyle Arrington had a breakout season. After recording just one interception in his first three years, Arrington picked off 7 passes in 2011 to lead the NFL in that category, while also leading the team in tackles with 88.

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Playoffs

As the #1 seed in the AFC, New England earned a first-round bye and home field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. In the divisional round, the Patriots defeated the Tim Tebow-led Denver Broncos 45–10. The Patriots dominated the game the whole way through, setting new franchise postseason records for total yards (509), points (45), and margin of victory (35). Tom Brady completed 18 of 25 passes for 246 yards and a postseason record five touchdowns in the first half. The Patriots defense had a breakout performance: Tebow was held to just 9 of 26 completions and was sacked five times.

In the AFC Championship Game, the Patriots faced off against the #2 seed Baltimore Ravens. Brady was out-dueled by Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, who threw for more yards and touchdowns on the same number of completions and attempts. Nevertheless, New England managed to take a 23–20 lead in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard run by Brady. With 1:44 left in the quarter, Baltimore got the ball back with one last chance to tie or win the game, driving all the way to the New England 14-yard line. But the Patriots managed to hold them there, with cornerback Sterling Moore breaking up two consecutive Ravens pass attempts in the red zone, including one in the end zone. Facing fourth down, the Ravens attempted a 32 yard field goal by Baltimore kicker Billy Cundiff that would tie the game and possibly bring it to overtime. In one of the most memorable endings in NFL playoff history, Cundiff missed the kick wide left, allowing the Patriots to advance to the Super Bowl.

New York finished the season as the NFC East champion and the #4 seed in the conference. The Giants defeated the #5 seed Atlanta Falcons in the Wild Card round 24–2, the first playoff game at MetLife Stadium. Eli Manning threw for 277 yards and 3 touchdowns with no interceptions, while the Giants defense shut down the Falcons, the only Atlanta points coming from a safety given up by Manning's intentional grounding penalty in his end zone.

The Giants then moved on to face the #1 seed and the defending Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the divisional round. The Giants never trailed in the game, winning 37–20. One of the key plays in the game was a Hail Mary pass by Manning to Hakeem Nicks, giving New York a 20–10 lead at the end of the first half. As they did to the Patriots' record-breaking offense in 2007, the Giants generated significant pressure on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, sacking him four times and disrupting his talented receiving corps. This was the first time in NFL history a 15–1 team failed to make it past the divisional round in the playoffs.

The Giants faced the #2 seed San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game. After a series of defensive standoffs in the fourth quarter, the game went into overtime. Both teams continued to struggle on offense, until New York linebacker Jacquian Williams stripped the ball from San Francisco wide receiver Kyle Williams after a punt return. The Giants recovered the ball at the 49ers 24 yard line, setting up a 31 yard field goal attempt by Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes. Unlike Cundiff earlier in the day, Tynes' kick was successful, giving the Giants a 20–17 victory.

Miscellany

The Giants joined the 2008 Arizona Cardinals and 1979 Los Angeles Rams as the only other team to advance to the Super Bowl with fewer than ten victories since the NFL expanded to a 16-game season in 1978, and have won six consecutive playoff games away from their home stadium, dating back to their victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2007 Wild Card round. That includes their Super Bowl XLII victory over these same Patriots, although that game was played at a neutral site (and the Giants were the designated "away" team for the game). The Giants will again be the designated "away" team for Super Bowl XLVI.

The Patriots return to the Super Bowl for the fifth time under head coach Bill Belichick after Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX and XLII. It is their seventh appearance overall and the Giants' fifth, with both teams having three victories. The Patriots lost Super Bowls XX (to the Bears), XXXI (to the Packers), and XLII (to the Giants), while the Giants' lone loss in Super Bowl play came in Super Bowl XXXV (against the Ravens). If the Patriots lose the Super Bowl, they would be the first team to lose at least one Super Bowl in four decades (1985, 1996, 2007). As a result of that, it would make the New York Giants the first teams to win a Super Bowl in 4 decades (1986, 1990, 2007)

With the victory in the 2011 AFC Championship Game Tom Brady and Belichick became the first quarterback-head coach combination to reach the Super Bowl more than four times, beating the record held by Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll of the Pittsburgh Steelers' 1970s Super Bowl teams. Belichick tied Tom Landry for second most appearances as a head coach in the Super Bowl, behind only Don Shula's six.

This is the fifth matchup of head coaches who have previously won Super Bowls: Tom Landry and Chuck Noll twice in Super Bowls X and XIII, Tom Flores and Joe Gibbs in Super Bowl XVIII and Bill Walsh and Don Shula in Super Bowl XIX.

The Giants join the Steelers and the Denver Broncos as the only teams to advance to at least one Super Bowl televised on all four major broadcast television networks. The Giants' appearances in Super Bowls XXI and XXXV, and winning XXI were televised by CBS, their victory in Super Bowl XXV was carried by ABC, and their most recent appearance aired on Fox. A Giants victory will make them the first team to win at least one Super Bowl televised on all four major broadcast television networks.

Because the Giants and Patriots draw their fanbases from New York City and Boston respectively, the Super Bowl is expected to echo the fierce rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball.

The Patriots' most recent Super Bowl victory has been followed by a championship from each of Boston's other major professional sports league franchises with the Red Sox winning the 2007 World Series, the Celtics winning the 2008 NBA Finals and the Bruins winning the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. The Bruins' championship completed the fastest ever succession of all four major professional sports championships won by teams in a single metropolitan area, with the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup six years, four months and nine days after Super Bowl XXXIX. A Patriots victory in Super Bowl XLVI would result in an even shorter time-span encompassing all four major championships - four years, three months and eight days being the time between the end of the 2007 World Series and Super Bowl XLVI.

The Patriots and Giants faced each other in New England during the regular season; the Giants won that game, 24–20. Incidentally, the Giants and Patriots had also faced each other during the regular season prior to Super Bowl XLII as well with the Patriots winning this game and the Giants going on to win that Super Bowl.

Super Bowl XLVI marks the 13th Super Bowl that is a rematch of a regular season game. The loser in the regular season is 7–5 in these games, including 5–1 the last six times this has happened.

Lucas Oil Stadium is the home of the Indianapolis Colts, which shares connections to both the Giants and Patriots. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is the older brother of the Giants' Eli Manning, while the Colts and Patriots share an intense rivalry.

Super Bowl pre-game news and notes

The Patriots, as the designated home team, had a choice of wearing their home dark blue jerseys or their white away jerseys. Briefly, there was speculation that the Patriots might wear the white away jerseys in order to switch the jerseys from Super Bowl XLII, where the Patriots wore dark blue and the Giants wore white[citation needed]. Also, the Giants are 4-0 in playoff games in their white away jerseys since the 2007 season. However, the Patriots announced on the Monday following the Conference Championship Games that they will be wearing their customary dark blue home jerseys as the home team in Super Bowl XLVI.

Hospitality experts speculated that "Indianapolis will have seen the most severe hotel price gouging in Super Bowl history." The city has 6,000 hotel rooms, fewer than typical for a Super Bowl host city. Some rooms in downtown Indianapolis reportedly cost more than $4,000 a night, three times the price at the Park Lane Hotel in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics. By contrast, rooms close to the stadium in previous Super Bowls were usually available for about $200. The room shortage and high prices caused some attendees to plan to stay in Chicago, 180 miles away, and ride buses to events.

Broadcasting

United States

In the United States, the game will be televised nationally by NBC. It will also be streamed online, both to computers (via NBC.com) and mobile devices (via Verizon Wireless's NFL Mobile app), the first legal online streaming of a Super Bowl telecast in the USA. Al Michaels will call play-by-play for NBC, marking the eighth time that he will be behind the microphone for a Super Bowl and the second time he will be calling a Super Bowl for NBC. Cris Collinsworth will be the analyst for the game, his second as an analyst and first since he was in the booth for Super Bowl XXXIX for Fox. Michele Tafoya and Alex Flanagan will be the sideline reporters.

As part of "Operation Fake Sweep," Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, seized and shut down sixteen websites that had provided access to pirated Internet television feeds of NFL games on February 2, in an action similar to the crackdown they had implemented the previous year.

Super Bowl XLVI will be carried nationwide on radio over Dial Global's Westwood One affiliate with Kevin Harlan as commentator and Boomer Esiason as analyst, with James Lofton and Mark Malone as sideline reporters. Locally, the game will be carried by the New York Giants Radio Network (flagship WFAN) and the New England Patriots Radio Network (flagship WBZ-FM). Bob Papa will call the game for the Giants with Carl Banks as his analyst and Howard Cross as sideline reporter. Gil Santos will be at the microphone for the Patriots with Gino Cappelletti as analyst and Scott Zolak as sideline reporter. Santos and Cappelletti return for their sixth Super Bowl as broadcast team for the Patriots while Papa calls his third for the Giants and Banks is analyst for his second. This will be the first Super Bowl broadcast for the Giants that will not feature Dick Lynch as analyst, as he retired from the Giants following the 2007 season and died in 2008.

In other countries

Country Channel Notes

Austria Puls 4

Australia ESPN, One HD, Network Ten

Canada CTV, RDS Aired in simulcast with NBC's coverage

Belgium Be Sport 1, Prime Sport 1

Brazil ESPN, ESPN HD, TV Esporte Interativo

Latin America ESPN, ESPN HD, Fox Sports and Fox Sports HD

Denmark TV3+, TV3+ HD

Finland Nelonen Pro 1, Nelonen Pro 2

Germany Sat.1, ESPN America HD

Hungary Sport 1

Italy         Sportitalia and ESPN America

Mexico Televisa, TV Azteca

Romania Sport 1

Netherlands ESPN

Norway Viasat Sport Norge, Viasat Sport HD

Portugal         SportTV

Poland Polsat Sport

Spain Canal+ 1

Sweden TV10, Viasat Fotboll, Viasat Fotboll HD

United Kingdom BBC, Sky Sports

Ireland BBC, Sky Sports (UK channels)

France W9

Israel Channel 2 (Israel)

Japan NHK BS1, NTV G+

Commercials

All commercials for the game sold out by Thanksgiving 2011, at an average price of $3.5 million per thirty-second ad, by far the highest rate for Super Bowl advertising in the event's history. At least one thirty-second advertisement commanded a price of $4 million.

Pro-life activist Randall Terry has said he is planning to run an ad featuring graphic photos of aborted fetuses during Super Bowl XLVI. Terry was not allowed to air the ad nationwide, given that the networks have a policy under equal time rules to reject all political and issue related advertising during the Super Bowl. However, he is able, by Federal Election Commission rules, to force up to 35 local stations (those located in states in which the Democratic Party primaries are within 45 days of Super Bowl Sunday; Terry entered the primary as a dummy candidate solely for the purpose of this advertisement) to run the advertisement uncensored, regardless of whether it meets Standards and Practices or Federal Communications Commission guidelines. As of January 2011, Terry has purchased ad time in 11 markets.

An advertisement from Pepsi will feature Melanie Amaro, the winner of season one of the Fox series The X Factor, as the star of the commercial. And an M&M's advertisement will finally introduce a Brown spokescandy. Other confirmed advertisers include Doritos (continuing its user-generated "Crash the Super Bowl" contest), GoDaddy (featuring The Pussycat Dolls in addition to regular celebrity endorsers Jillian Michaels and Danica Patrick), Bridgestone, Volkswagen (a 60-second spot advertising the third-generation Beetle featuring dogs barking to the tune of "The Imperial March"), General Motors (four for Chevrolet and one for Cadillac), Toyota, Hyundai, Acura (featuring Jerry Seinfeld in an ad for the NSX), Kia Motors (advertising the Optima with a spot starring Adriana Lima), Audi (parodying the Twilight series with an ad for the S7), Honda (starring Matthew Broderick in a reprisal of the lead role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off), newcomers Dannon Yogurt and Century 21 Real Estate, Teleflora, Mars, Incorporated, The Coca-Cola Company, CareerBuilder.com (reprising their "chimp" advertisement campaign), Skechers, Relativity Media (running four advertisements for Act of Valor), Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, and Universal Pictures. Anheuser-Busch has purchased nine slots during the game. An advertisement for Priceline.com killed off the "Priceline Negotiator," ending William Shatner's role as spokesman for the company, a role he has held for over a decade, to make way for a new campaign that will premiere during the game.

Entertainment

Word had leaked as early as October 2011 that Madonna would be the performer for the Super Bowl halftime show, with M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj performing as well; all three are featured on Madonna's upcoming single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" which will be performed as part of the show. The league confirmed Madonna as the performer on December 4.[34] Other collaborators on the project include longtime Madonna collaborator Jamie King, Cirque du Soleil, and Moment Factory.

The Indiana University Marching Hundred will be performing during the pre-game show.

On January 12, 2012, it was reported that former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson will sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLVI. It marks the fourth time in the previous five years that an Idol contestant has performed the anthem (joining Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and Jordin Sparks). Husband-and-wife country musicians Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert will perform "America the Beautiful" as part of the ceremonies. American Sign Language translation for both songs will be performed by Rachel Mazique, the currently reigning Miss Deaf America.

NY Giants vs New England Preview

GIANTS VS. PATRIOTS Super Bowl XLVI Preview

Four years ago, the New York Giants pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in Super Bowl history, defeating the unbeaten and heavily favored New England Patriots.

Come Sunday night, the teams will be at it again for the NFL championship, but this time the Giants won't be sneaking up on another outstanding Patriots team that will be looking for revenge.

Eli Manning leads upstart New York into Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium to face Tom Brady and New England in Super Bowl XLVI, with the Giants quarterback playing for the title on the home field of brother Peyton.

Eli Manning and Brady also headlined the title matchup between the teams after the 2007 season, like this one played in a domed facility at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The Patriots were trying to become the only modern-era NFL team other than the 1972 Miami Dolphins to go undefeated and the first to go 19-0.

Behind a Brady-powered offense that easily led the league with 36.8 points and 411.3 yards per game, New England seemed more than likely to make history and claim its fourth Super Bowl title. New York, though, had other ideas.

The Giants hammered Brady with their powerful defensive line, racking up five sacks and hitting him nine times, and Manning orchestrated a winning fourth-quarter drive that's remembered for David Tyree's miraculous helmet-pinning catch and Plaxico Burress' 13-yard touchdown reception, which gave New York a 17-14 victory.

"Hopefully, we will have the same result," said defensive end Osi Umenyiora, one of the Giants who harassed Brady four years ago. "We still have one more game to go, but this is truly unbelievable."

While that run to the Giants' third Lombardi Trophy was largely unexpected, this one may have been even more so. New York's up-and-down season hit a low point Dec. 18 in a lifeless 23-10 home loss to Washington, which left the club at 7-7 and needing to win its last two games to make the playoffs.

Helped the following week by the intensity of a rivalry game with the Jets, the Giants (12-7) responded by taking that contest 29-14 and defeating Dallas 31-14 in Week 17 to capture the NFC East.

The victory over the Jets coincided with players such as defensive end Justin Tuck and linebacker Michael Boley getting healthy enough to play up to their usual high standards. Umenyiora returned against the Cowboys following an ankle injury that kept him out four games.

"We came together against the Jets and we started playing very well as a defense," Umenyiora said, "but definitely health had something to do with that. Obviously, we had a lot of guys who are key components who missed a lot of games. The minute we were able to get everyone together, we all took off."

As in January 2008, coach Tom Coughlin's team has powered through the playoffs behind a ferocious defense, beating Atlanta in the first round before knocking off top-seeded and defending champion Green Bay 37-20 the next week, then No. 2 seed San Francisco 20-17 in overtime in the NFC title game.

The Giants have allowed 39 points in the postseason, and they've given up 67 while producing 20 sacks during their five-game winning streak, with no opponent throwing for more than 251 yards in that span.

"They have great quickness (on the defensive line) as well as power," New England coach Bill Belichick said. "Those inside guys can really knock the line of scrimmage back."

While the defense has played a major role in the Giants' surge, the constant this season has been Manning. The QB took a leap into the ranks of the NFL's elite in his eighth year, passing for a career-best 4,933 yards -- fourth in the league -- with 29 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.

Despite being the MVP of Super Bowl XLII, Manning has spent part of this week answering questions about his superstar brother. Peyton Manning didn't play this season following neck surgery that has put his future in doubt, but his presence has loomed large with this game taking place at the Colts' stadium.

"Oh you meant Eli? I got it now," Patriots linebacker Gary Guyton said when asked about coming to Indianapolis with Manning in the headlines.

Peyton cheered on Eli from their family's luxury suite during Super Bowl XLII, and he seems likely to be on hand to do so again. Peyton Manning led Indianapolis past the Patriots in the AFC title game after the 2006 season en route to his only Super Bowl championship.

Incredibly, the attention on the Mannings and the Giants' improbable run has somewhat overshadowed the fact that perhaps the NFL's best quarterback will be playing Sunday after guiding the AFC's top-seeded team on a 10-game winning streak.

As great as Brady was in 2007, when he threw for 50 touchdowns and eight interceptions, the two-time league MVP was nearly as good this season. He posted a career-best 5,235 passing yards -- the second-highest total in history -- with 39 TDs, 12 INTs and a 105.6 passer rating.

He turned in a stellar performance in New England's playoff opener Jan. 14, throwing for an NFL postseason record-tying six touchdowns in a 45-10 rout of Denver, but he struggled in a 23-20 victory over Baltimore in the AFC title game.

Brady posted a season-low 57.5 passer rating, threw two interceptions and saw his streak of 35 games with at least one touchdown pass end. He threw for just 239 yards.

It was enough for New England (15-3) to keep its win streak alive -- one that began the week after the Patriots and Giants renewed hostilities Nov. 6 in Foxborough in their first meeting that counted since the Super Bowl.

Brady threw for 342 yards and two scores, but New York intercepted him twice and Manning orchestrated a drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Jake Ballard with 15 seconds left, giving the Giants a 24-20 victory.

There's no doubt Brady will be highly motivated to come out on top against the Giants this time.

"All the games you lose, there are plays that you want back," he said at Tuesday's media day when asked about the teams' first Super Bowl meeting. "Certainly, every time you lose, you think there is more that you could have done to help the team win. But when you win, you don't think about any of those things. You think about what you do well."

Fully aware of how dangerous Brady is, New York seems unlikely to change much about its game plan on defense from Super Bowl XLII. With Umenyiora, Tuck -- who recorded two sacks in that Super Bowl -- breakout star Jason Pierre-Paul (16 1/2 sacks) and Mathias Kiwanuka, the Giants will try to put heavy pressure on New England's QB again.

"I think it starts with hitting him, even when you don't actually get sacks, just keeping people around him so he can't step up," Tuck said. "I think he gets a little frustrated when he has to go to his second or third receivers. You can kind of confuse him sometimes with our coverage. I think there are a lot of things that can get him rattled, but it just seems like not too many people are able to do that."

Not too many people have been able to slow down New England's tight ends. Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez have formed a devastating duo and brought a new dimension to the Patriots' second-ranked offense, with Gronkowski racking up 1,327 yards receiving with 17 scores -- records for his position -- and Hernandez totaling 910 yards and seven TDs.

Gronkowski's uncertain health, however, could play a major role in the outcome of this game. He's suffering from a high left ankle sprain and had a walking boot removed Tuesday.

Gronkowski has given little in the way of definitive information on his status, at one point saying his ankle could be from 100 percent to "2 percent" for the Super Bowl.

"I'm improving every day," he said. "The only reason it's getting so blown up is because it's the Super Bowl. It's just like any other injury during any other week."

Even if New York succeeds in limiting the two athletic tight ends, there's the matter of stopping Wes Welker, who topped the NFL with 122 catches and was second with 1,569 yards receiving.

New England's resurgent defense seems likely to receive a stiff test as well.

The Patriots' biggest challenge on that side of the ball figures to be trying to stop the Giants' dynamic receivers. Hakeem Nicks, Mario Manningham and Victor Cruz -- who came out of nowhere with 1,536 yards -- give Manning three big-play threats who have helped carry New York through the playoffs.

Another championship matchup between these teams indoors may only enhance the effectiveness of all the skill players on offense.

"I'm excited about it," said Nicks, who has 335 yards and four TDs this postseason. "It should be pretty fast out there, and I look forward to playing out there and so do our teammates."

The Patriots allowed 411.1 yards per game in the regular season -- 31st in the league -- but they've given up just 325.0 in the postseason.

They've been more effective defensively since safety Patrick Chung and linebacker Brandon Spikes returned from lengthy absences, with Spikes snagging a key interception against the Ravens. Stalwart defensive tackle Vince Wilfork was outstanding in that game with three tackles for loss.

"We haven't had the same group of guys on the field on the defensive side of the ball for three consecutive weeks all year," linebacker and defensive captain Jerod Mayo said. "I think this might be the first time, so the communication is picking up. The guys are really coming through."

While many players on both teams are new, they are coached by the same former Giants assistants who worked together under former coach Bill Parcells. The 65-year-old Coughlin, whose job may have been in jeopardy before the Super Bowl run, and the 59-year-old Belichick will form the oldest head coaching matchup in Super Bowl history -- and one between old friends who know each other well.

"He's an exceptional football coach, and I've said that before," Coughlin told his team's official website about Belichick. "The style and the preparation ... Bill is going to work very hard, as we are, at showing you something and it really isn't what you think it is."

New York Giants vs New England Patriots Live NFL Super Bowl XLVI on Sun, Feb, 5, 2012

Watch New York Giants vs New England Patriots Live NFL Super Bowl XLVI on Sun, Feb, 5, 2012 at 06:29 PM ET. This NY Giants vs New England Live Game will hold at Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN. GIANTS VS. PATRIOTS Live Telecast will coverage by NBC. So Get complete coverage of Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. It's a very exciting live NFL GAME.

MATCH DETAILS

COMPETETION NAME: New York Giants vs New England Patriots Live NFL Super Bowl XLVI

COMPETETION: New York Giants vs New England Patriots

TEAMS: New York Giants and New England Patriots

DATE:  February 5, 2012

TIME:  6:29 PM ET

VENUE: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN

COVERAGE: NBC
STATUS: Live

NY Giants Leaders

Passing: Manning - 359-589, 4933 yds, 29 tds

Rushing: Bradshaw - 171 car, 659 yds, 9 tds

Receiving: Cruz - 82 rec, 1536 yds, 9 tds

New England Leaders

Passing: Brady - 401-611, 5235 yds, 39 tds

Rushing: Green-Ellis - 181 car, 667 yds, 11 tds

Receiving: Welker - 122 rec, 1569 yds, 9 tds

Super Bowl XLVI

Super Bowl XLVI is an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2011 season. It will be the 42nd annual championship game of the modern-era NFL and is scheduled to be played Sunday, February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kickoff time is scheduled for approximately 6:30 p.m. EST. This will be the first Super Bowl to be played in Indianapolis, and the first time in the history of the game it will be played in consecutive years in a retractable roof stadium. This will also be only the fourth time that the Super Bowl is played in a cold-weather city, after Detroit's hosting of XVI and XL as well as Minneapolis's hosting of XXVI. Downtown Indianapolis, the home of Lucas Oil Stadium, will feature an outdoor Super Bowl Village and other programs at the Indiana Convention Center.

Per convention as an even-numbered Super Bowl, the Patriots as the AFC representatives will have the home team designation. Super Bowl XLVI will be the sixth Super Bowl in which the two teams had competed in a previous Super Bowl match up, as the Giants and Patriots had previously met in Super Bowl XLII. Both head coaches (Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick) and both starting quarterbacks (Eli Manning and Tom Brady) return from Super Bowl XLII.

Super Bowl XLVI

New York Giants   New England Patriots

    (NFC)                            (AFC)

         1 2 3 4 Total

NYG 0

NE 0

Date: February 5, 2012

Stadium: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana

MVP:

Favorite: Patriots by 3 1/2

National anthem: Kelly Clarkson

Coin toss

Referee: John Parry

Halftime show: Madonna

Attendance:

TV in the United States

Network: NBC

Announcers: Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth

Nielsen ratings

Market share

Cost of 30-second commercial US$3.5 million.

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SUPER BOWL XLVI INDIANAPOLIS PRESENTED BY CHEVROLET

Super Bowl 2012

SUPER BOWL 2012

Watch Super Bowl 2012 live streaming on your Laptop & PC. What is Super Bowl 2012? It is easy to find out what it is. Because this is a live streaming online American football i.e. National Football League (NFL) game. This Super Bowl 2012 live game will be the 46th annual edition and 42nd annual championship game of the modern-era. The First Super Bowl 2012 live game will be played on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. and the played time will be updated by WORLD NEWS PORTAL. It's a very trending, searching and enjoyable game. This will also be only the fourth time that the Super Bowl is played in a cold-weather city, after Detroit's hosting of XVI and XL as well as Minneapolis's hosting of XXVI.

LIVE SCHEDULE

SUPER BOWL 2012

Date: Sunday, February 5, 2012

Time: will be updated

Team: (NFC)-(AFC)

Sport: National Football League (NFL)

Scores: Super Bowl 2012

Status: LIVE

PREVIEW    LIVE TV

SUPER BOWL 2012 playing style

Trophy hunters
The postseason begins with 12 teams whose dreams of playing in Indianapolis on February 5th remain alive. Take a look back at the key moments that got them here.

SUPER BOWL 2012 play

All set
Take a look at how the playoff picture has emerged after the NFL regular season ended and 12 teams take aim at a berth in Super Bowl XLVI.

Super Bowl XLVI Official Trailer