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A Record 111M Tuned in Last Night

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:57:09 CST

For the second year in a row, the Super Bowl has set a new record for American television viewing. The Nielsen Co. said today that an estimated 111 million people watched the Green Bay Packers outlast the Pittsburgh Steelers in football's ultimate game. That tops the 106.5 million who...

Christina Aguilera Explains Anthem Flub

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:00:48 CST

The national anthem, the Super Bowl … it’s a lot for a girl to deal with, and Christina Aguilera says she just got caught up in the moment last night and lost her place in the song. “I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country...

Packers Win Super Bowl 31-25

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:07:17 CST

Aaron Rodgers has turned the Green Bay Packers into Super Bowl champions once again. Rodgers threw three touchdown passes and Nick Collins returned an interception for another score, leading the Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. This was Green Bay's fourth Super Bowl title. The Packers won...

Christina Aguilera Bungles National Anthem

Kate Schwartz — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:46:03 CST

There are three things you have to do when singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl: Look good, hit the right notes, and sing the correct lyrics. Christina Aguilera is two for three. Aguilera, who isn't exactly an anthem novice (she sang the song at Game 7 of last...

400 Super Bowl Fans With Tickets Turned Away

Kate Schwartz — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:47:28 CST

About 400 Super Bowl fans who spent a whopping $900 a ticket (plus airfare, plus the cost of face paint and Cheesehead hats) were sent packing today after their seats were deemed unsafe; another 850 were given somewhere else to sit. Those turned away will get a $2,700-per-ticket refund,...

'Never Missed a Super Bowl' Guy Missing the Super Bowl

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:44:05 CST

Robert Cook has been to the Super Bowl so many times that he’s in a club: the “Never Missed a Super Bowl” club, famously featured in Visa ads. But the 79-year-old Wisconsin man was hospitalized Thursday and will have to miss the big game for the first time since 1967....

Five Super Bowl Myths

Mark Russell — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:00:11 CST

The Super Bowl is like America, writes Michael MacCambridge in the Washington Post —"big, convivial, gaudy, passionate and, surely, self-important." But as popular as the Super Bowl is, there are five big myths about the big game: It's the world's most-watched sports event. Nope, just America's. Last year's Super Bowl...

A Super Bowl First: No Cheerleaders

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:00:05 CST

Not in the Super Bowl this year: the Chicago Bears , the New York Jets … and the cheerleaders. For the first time in the game’s 45-year history, there will be no sideline supporters in attendance, because the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers just so happen to be two...

Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad With Bible Verse

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:37:04 CST

A commercial deemed OK to run during Sunday's Super Bowl: a steamy Kim Kardashian hawking Sketchers sneakers. And one that wasn't: a 30-second spot that includes a Bible verse. Fox Sports has nixed an ad that appears sort of harmless—a bunch of friends who are drinking beer and watching...