A Look Inside Media Day At The Super Bowl
Scenes and observations from the NFL's annual Super Bowl media day - interviews with players and team personnel from the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers on the field at the Superdome...
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Scenes and observations from the NFL's annual Super Bowl media day - interviews with players and team personnel from the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers on the field at the Superdome...
Mario Manningham hobbled into the Superdome stands on crutches and found an out-of-the-way seat to watch his San Francisco teammates go through media day frenzy on the field below, his emotions mixed.
The 37-year-old Lewis, who has announced he will retire after playing against the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday's Super Bowl, dismissed the report as "stupidity."
They may be different in style - Frank Gore of the San Francisco 49ers, Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens - but the featured runners at this Super Bowl have at least one thing in common. Plenty of respect for the other guy.
The Osgood family found four seats for sale on Craigslist through an individual claiming to be a Baltimore Ravens season ticketholder. The cost seemed fair - $5,900, about double the original price.
You could say that the bust was a bust. Federal agents descended on a sidewalk vendor hawking 49ers Super Bowl merchandise in San Francisco on Monday. Agents suspected the hats, shirts and sweatshirts were counterfeit merchandise.
Faidley's crab cakes vs Napa Valley wine. Maryland senators made a friendly wager with California senators on the outcome of Super Bowl XLVII.
The Osgood family found four seats for sale on Craigslist through an individual claiming to be a Baltimore Ravens season ticketholder. The cost seemed fair - $5,900, about double the original price.
Julie has been sent a memo on what she can and can't say regarding the The Game That Must Not Be Named in New Orleans this coming Sunday. She's not very happy about it. See why in this video.
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh seems to be enjoying his time with reporters in New Orleans for the Super Bowl, a departure from the clipped remarks and defensive posture he usually exhibits in interviews.
Ever since he burst on the Bay Area's collective radar as Stanford's head coach, Jim Harbaugh has been a bit of a puzzle to many people.
Super Bowl 47 may be the final game for Ray Lewis, but the 49ers have several players who will approach the game with the same mentality. If Baltimore thinks that Ray Lewis' dramatic return to the field will allow the Ravens to play at the level that has allowed them to get this far, they had better look to the other sideline and what the 49ers are playing for. San Francisco is the hungrier team and playing for far more than their opponent.
Former San Francisco 49er first round draft pick Kwame Harris was due in court Monday on charges that he assaulted an ex-boyfriend during an argument over a plate of rice, according to the San Mateo Daily Journal.
Soon after arriving in New Orleans for the Super Bowl late Monday afternoon, the Baltimore Ravens found out exactly why this football game is different from all the rest.
The 29-year-old Gore has endured plenty of losses, personal heartache (losing his mother to kidney failure) and a startling string of injuries that might've broken a lesser man.
Super Bowl has a pair of fresh faces at quarterback, bona fide nobodies as far as the NFL title game goes. One will leave New Orleans as football's newest star.
The 49ers have quite a luxury with ball-hawking inside linebackers Bowman and Willis wreaking havoc on opposing offenses - and Smith and Brooks doing the same on the outside.
Those second-half shutouts of the Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in the conference title games were only the latest reminder from the 49ers and Ravens that defense still matters.
Now relegated to a backup role with the NFC champions, Alex Smith's time in the Big Easy leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl against Baltimore is hardly how he envisioned it.
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh would do well to practice their impassive faces in front of a mirror before the Super Bowl.
San Francisco kicker David Akers calls his struggles this season a "head scratcher" and said if the 49ers win the Super Bowl it will erase all of his 14 misses this season.
Several San Francisco 49ers said they would have no problem if their sons played football, even though President Barack Obama has questioned the safety of the game.
The reminders continue: it will be all hands on deck and zero tolerance for violence in San Francisco during and after the 49ers' appearance in the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl XLVII will only be played once, and it will be on the field in New Orleans. But with two weeks to fill in between the championship games and the Super Bowl, there's some time to run some numbers.
The man who helped guide the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl victories thinks the team is primed to bring home yet another Lombardi trophy.
