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All Super Bowls need a gridiron narrative, and this one has a few. We have the Patriots' pyrotechnic offense against Seattle's wrecking ball defense, red zone efficiency, turnovers, and New England's quest to stop Marshawn Lynch.
As if wishing made it so, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell described his league — and himself — as having addressed missteps on difficult matters such as domestic violence and being ready to move on.
"You hear that word, you've got to walk out of the room," Garsh said. "Distance yourself."
The Pats will survive this epic battle by a 27-24 margin. They will rollick in confetti and Belichick and Brady will rejoice with their fourth Lombardi Trophy.
This week, each team gets 54 footballs — many are given to charity after brief game usage — and all of them will be taken into custody by the NFL on Friday after the Seahawks and Patriots have prepared them.
Hernandez, 25, is charged in the 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semiprofessional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.
Gambling on the Super Bowl reminds me of boozing on New Year's Eve. Even those who don't partake the other 364 days tend to grant themselves an evening pass from purity.
The road to perfection reached a dead end in the Arizona desert. Now the New England Patriots are back where a Super Bowl championship — and an unbeaten record — barely eluded them seven years ago.
"If you're asking me, does everybody try to find every edge they possibly can to win, then yes. Absolutely," the Saints quarterback said Thursday on WFAN's "Boomer & Carton" show.
The distractions are starting to pile up for the New England Patriots ahead of Super Sunday.
The Patriots and Seahawks wouldn't be playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday if it weren't for their superstars. But both teams got here with lesser-known players coming up big at key times.
The filmmaker — a passionate NY sports fan — said he may attend the Super Bowl on Sunday in Arizona. And he will be rooting for Russell Wilson's Seattle Seahawks.
A day after giving the same one-sentence response at Super Bowl Media Day, Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch had another scripted answer to any questions.
The New England Patriots quarterback sounded under the weather during his session with the media on Wednesday. He rubbed the back of his right hand under his nose at one point.
To a man, woman and child, you will miss them. We need New England, or someone like them, even if we don't like them.
Knicks president and general manager Phil Jackson told the Chicago Tribune in 1986 that the championship squads of 1970 and 1973 deflated basketballs to gain an advantage.
This is an extreme response to "Deflate-gate," but no one can say it doesn't have support.
At Tuesday's media day, any animosity was buried. Each expressed respect for the other, although Revis referred to the fact that in Seattle's defense, Sherman plays only half the field.
I see enough evidence to merit charges. Odds on a conviction are high, I believe. I don't care who pulled the trigger -- or the pin, in this case.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft's pre-emptive strike the previous night took the issue of air pressure in footballs on Super Bowl media day and, well, deflated it.
Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch knew he had to talk. It didn't mean he had to say anything.
Betting on the Super Bowl is undeniably an uncertainty and a risk. A much less risky bet would be that Paul Bessire's PredictionMachine.com has the most thorough and sound reasoning for why the Seattle Seahawks will defeat the New England Patriots.
The New England Patriots are receiving support at a time of controversy from an unlikely location: New York's City Hall.
The NFL's worst nightmare is a New England victory this Sunday. It will cast a pall over the playoffs, and stain the sacred Lombardi Trophy.
Asked about Brandon Browner's comments, Seattle receiver Doug Baldwin didn't seem to take offense: "I would expect nothing less. This is the Super Bowl. What do you expect?"
