| Super Bowl sets record with 48 minutes of ads (AP) |
8 Feb 2010 at 12:29pm
| Think Sunday night's Super Bowl seemed like it had a lot of ads? You're right. Commercials took up nearly 48 minutes of the game -- the most for any Super Bowl. Research firm Kantar Media says the amount of ads that aired on CBS was nearly 3 minutes longer than last year's total, the previous record holder. |
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| Morstead kicks his way into Super Bowl history (AP) |
8 Feb 2010 at 3:47am
| Here's how New Orleans kicker Thomas Morstead spent the final 20 minutes of halftime at the Super Bowl: He sat silently at his locker. "I wasn't worried," Morstead said Sunday night. "I was just terrified." The Indianapolis Colts wouldn't have known it. With one squibbed kick, Morstead -- a punter by trade -- booted himself into the collection of Super Bowl plays... |
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| Colts fans hope to celebrate Super Bowl title (AP) |
7 Feb 2010 at 5:44pm
| Colts fans were fired up as the Super Bowl got under way Sunday, hoping to cheer their team to its second title in four years. The atmosphere throughout Indianapolis was festive even before the Colts started playing the New Orleans Saints on Sunday evening. Bars, especially those downtown, were prepared for big crowds. |
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| Bears make Marinelli defensive coordinator (AP) |
5 Feb 2010 at 5:36pm
| Unable to find outside help, the Chicago Bears have promoted Rod Marinelli to defensive coordinator while rounding out their coaching staff. Coach Lovie Smith announced the move Friday and called Marinelli "among the best defensive coaches in the NFL." "From the first day I became head coach of the Chicago Bears I envisioned Rod as our defensive coordinator," he said. |
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| 10 ads to look for during the Super Bowl (AP) |
5 Feb 2010 at 1:42pm
| Ten ads to look for during the Super Bowl, which airs Sunday on CBS: ANHEUSER-BUSCH: The brewer has five minutes of ads this year to pitch Bud Light, Budweiser and others. Scientists choose to drink when they realize an asteroid is coming and a man loves Bud Light so much he builds his house out of its cans. |
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| This year's Super Bowl ads go goofy and frugal (AP) |
5 Feb 2010 at 1:09pm
| Game on! Super Bowl ads are returning to their goofy roots. Men march across a hillside without pants, toys joyride in Vegas and the miserly Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons" loses his fortune but finds happiness. It's a sign that people are feeling better -- or at least want to feel better -- about the economy, experts say. |
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| An acorn that fell a long, long way from the tree (AP) |
4 Feb 2010 at 7:30pm
| Anyone who remembers the father would barely recognize the son. The late Robert Irsay was a bully, loud and meddlesome to a fault. Those qualities made him one of the NFL's more inept owners and arguably its most reviled. By comparison, Jim Irsay runs the Colts franchise the way the Dalai Lama might. |
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