Thousands of fans roared as New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team's Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float Tuesday as the victory parade made its way down the Canyon of Heroes, where the city has honored stars for almost a century.
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick can already get sized for their yellow jackets.
Their Hall of Fame legacies are safe, but .... And that’s what happened to both of them Sunday night in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis was once called Naptown and India-No-Place for a reason.
Native son Kurt Vonnegut Jr. referred to it in 1970 as "the 500-mile speedway race, and then 364 days of miniature golf, and then the 500-mile speedway race again." People used to roam city streets on Sundays, picking off pigeons with shotguns as part of "Operation Pigeon-Rid." For decades, there was no reason to stay downtown after dark.
This week, as 150,000 visitors descended on a new, vibrant district before Super Bowl Sunday, even cynics agreed that the city had successfully shed its image as a bastion of boredom in what was once called "flyover country." Hotels, restaurants, theaters and a 3-mile canal walk flank Lucas Oil Stadium and Super Bowl Village. Thousands of residents have moved into downtown apartments and condo complexes are rapidly rising. And visitors have noticed.
British hip-hop artist M.I.A.'s obscene gesture in the Super Bowl halftime show is prompting apologies from NBC and the NFL. But it isn't immediately registering as a moment that viewers latched on to.
Elite and Eli. One and the same.
And now there are two Super Bowl championships and two MVPs to prove it.
Eli Manning is the big man in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday's Super Bowl — in older brother Peyton's house, at that.
Though their teams didn't make it to the Super Bowl, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Cam Newton and Tim Tebow were big winners this weekend in Indianapolis. All four quarterbacks came home with awards Saturday night at the NFL Honors ceremony, along with several other NFL stars.
If you’re an NFL junkie, you’ve probably heard the sound bite.
Come Sunday night, many of us armchair quarterbacks will be talking Xs and Os and down and distance. Others won't be concerned with who happens to be winning or losing, just as long as there is a game being played and a party taking place. Almost all of us, though, will watch at least a portion of the Super Bowl XLVI telecast.
Could it really be “Déjà Blue” all over again? I sure hope so.
I hope this Giant success story has another happy ending.
As true blue as I am, though, another Super Bowl win isn’t a must. Not this time, not ever again.
It almost no challenge to poke fun at the Super Bowl.
Colts owner Jim Irsay threw a high-priced private party in Indianapolis. But will he pay out the big bucks to keep Peyton Manning?
It’s the NFL’s heaven on earth, but before playing in the Super Bowl, numerous participants check in with The Man Upstairs.
Notes from Canton (Ohio) Repository staff writer Steve Doerschuk, who is in Indianapolis to cover the Super Bowl and the Pro Football Hall of Fame election.
This year’s group of Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists had plenty of meat but less pizzazz.
Often the most memorable moments from the Super Bowl come from the obscure who suddenly become legends. David Tyree, Dexter Jackson, Larry Brown, and Timmy Smith are just some of the former no-name players who are forever famous thanks to what sometimes amounts to only a few seconds of greatness.
The Giants, who have faced five straight elimination games, winning them all, will head into Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday confident and ready when they face the Patriots for a second ring in four years.
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick met the media for the final time before kickoff of Super Bowl XLI on Friday morning, remaining mainly quiet about the specific details of the team's preparation for the Giants.
Ask the Giants, any Giant, really, about Jason Pierre-Paul and they all touch on a variation of a theme: He doesn't even know how good he can really be.
Odds that Rob Gronkowski doesn't suit up for the New England Patriots against the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday? Slim to none.
From the outhouse to the penthouse, Victor Cruz has come a long way in his two-year NFL career.
