Guest Post: Super Bowl XLV Photo Diary by Diana Klochova

February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
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This past weekend, Diana Klochova contributed a guest post here at MSF in which she interviewed Olivia Manning (mother of Peyton and Eli) during the Febreze Game Day Sports Equipment Drive. Diana is back today with another Super Bowl XLV guest post.

As you may recall, Diana was the winner of the P&G-sponsored Blogger Fantasy Football League* that I participated in this year. Diana’s prize for winning was a trip to the Super Bowl, and she was kind enough to put together a photo diary of her experience at the Big Game yesterday.

Below are the pictures Diana took and her descriptions of them.

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Vick Wins Comeback Player

February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Update: Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Michael Vick won the AP 2010 Comeback Player of the Year Award.

Fantasy Impact: Vick received 29 and a half votes to be the first player ever to return from the NFL from jail, to go on to win this award. Vick was all thanks as he told NFL Total Access, "I have to give all glory to God and thank my coaches and my teammates. They put me in this position, they got me better as an NFL player, as a quarterback. They took advantage of my talents." Vick took over the starting job in week 2 when Kevin Kolb suffered a concussion, and outright won the starting job with his amazing play. He led the Eagles to a 10-6 record, a an NFC East division championship. This will undoubtably give Vick confidence leading into next season, look for him to have another great season behind center for the birds.


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Introducing Angelina Vitale aka “Miss Evelyn”

February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Yesterday before the Super Bowl I gave you sneak peak at two of Chevy’s newest commercials. One of the commercials was entitled “Miss Evelyn” because of the rather fetching young woman who is featured driving the new Camaro.

Thanks to a commenter on that post, I found out that “Miss Evelyn” is a model named Angelina Vitale. And because you expect me to do such things, I found out some more information about her, plus some rather scintillating pictures.

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Video: Pissed off Packers, Steelers fans lament TicketGate

February 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
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There is a radio host here in Dallas, where I live, who often refers to the city as “our fair burgh.” For about 1,200 Packers and Steelers fans who bought tickets, flights, hotel rooms, and took time off of work to watch their teams in the Super Bowl, but who then were told upon arriving at Cowboys Stadium that they would be unable to sit in their seats, “unfair burgh” is probably more along the lines of what they are thinking.

This video shows the reactions of some of the fans who got screwed out of watching the Super Bowl live due to “TicketGate” – otherwise known as Jerry Jones’ Monomaniacal Quest to Set a Super Bowl Attendance Record That No One Cares About.

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Best Super Bowl XLV Commercial: NFL’s “Best. Fans. Ever.” Ad

February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
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And the award for best commercial from Super Bowl XLV goes to…

The NFL.

That’s right, the one entity that did not really need to advertise anything – heck, what could be a better advertisement than the great game on the field that we got? – hit the biggest home run of the night with its “Best. Fans. Ever.” ad.

Immediately after the ad ran, my Twitter feed blew up with people saying it was great. I concurred.

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Ecstasy of Green & Gold: Aaron Rodgers and the World Champion Packers

February 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
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Well I was not exactly right.

Last Friday I predicted the Packers to win 30-24, I guess 31-25 is going to have to do.

But I did predict a Pick Six Over Texas, never mind that it wound up being Nick Collins and not Tramon Williams.

I’m just glad that my overly ambitious Christmas wish has somehow come true, which was six consecutive Green Bay victories. And it’s also good to see that not ALL of EA Sports/989 Sports prognostications come to pass.

I never thought I was asking for that much.

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Green Bay Packers Super Bowl History and Results

February 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
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President Obama is on TV before a big sporting event, which means we are getting pretty close to kickoff! I don’t about you, but I can’t wait. I really think Packers-Steelers is going to be an outstanding Super Bowl.

This is the second of a quick two-post series that will expand on this post and break down the Super Bowl history of the SB XLV participants. Here is the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl history. The Packers do not have nearly as voluminous a Super Bowl history as the Steelers, but they do have a much more rich history of championships overall if you consider the pre-Super Bowl era.

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100 years ago TODAY!

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Ronald Wilson Reagan was born above the local bank in tiny Tampico, Illinois. I’ve been there twice in the past 18 months.

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Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl History and Results

February 6, 2011 By 4 Comments
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As we inch closer and closer to kickoff, I keep finding interesting things to post about. (At least, I think they are interesting. And like Roger Goodell recently said to Mike Tomlin, don’t forget who runs shit around here.)

This will be the first of a quick two-post series that will expand on this post and break down the Super Bowl history of the SB XLV participants. We’ll start out with the Steelers because while the Packers have more NFL championships, no one has as many Super Bowl wins as Pittsburgh.

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Video: Christina Aguilera singing (err…botching) National Anthem at Super Bowl XLV plus her past Star Spangled Banner performances

February 6, 2011 By 23 Comments
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Tonight, Christina Aguilera will be singing the National Anthem before kickoff of Super Bowl XLV between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. (As soon as I can get video up of the performance, I’ll post it here.)

Update: She botched it. Pretty badly. Video below.

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Super Bowl Commercial: The Already World Famous and Beloved Volkswagen “The Force” Ad

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I just posted a couple of Chevy’s Super Bowl ads, including the terrific “Miss Evelyn” ad, and now I’ll roll out another kickass Super Bowl commercial that we’ve been given a sneak peak at.

Chances are, you may have already seen this one, as it has 12 million+ viewers already. And there is good reason for that: it’s a terrific ad.

Behold…the already world famous and beloved Volksmwagen “The Force” ad.

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Super Bowl Commercials: Sneak Peak at Chevy’s “Miss Evelyn” and “Al’s Dealership” Ads

February 6, 2011 By 4 Comments
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As you can tell, I’ve been going nuts with posts this morning as well all get ready for the Super Bowl. Now that I’ve gotten the requisite point spread and injury update posts out of the way, it’s time to start having some fun with Super Bowl commercials.

To kick things off, let’s start with Chevrolet, which has a couple of new vids circulating through the Interwebs that are rather entertaining.

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Green Bay Packers Injury Report for Super Bowl XLV – Updates on Driver, Walden, Clifton, Spitz, Zombo

February 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have been the team with injury spotlight on it during the buildup to today’s Super Bowl, but the Green Bay Packers had a few injuries pop up late in the wake that gave fans reason for concern. In this post, I’ll update the latest injury status on key players like Donald Driver, Erik Walden, Chad Clifton, Frank Zombo, and Jason Spitz.

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Pittsburgh Steelers Injury Report for Super Bowl XLV – Updates on Pouncey, Smith, Polamalu

February 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Injuries have been a big storyline for the Pittsburgh Steelers during Super Bowl week. The most notable injury has been that of starting center Maurkice Pouncey, but Aaron Smith and even Troy Polamalu have had injury concerns as well. In this post, I’ll briefly update you on all of the relevant Steelers injuries.

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Jets to tag Harris

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Update: ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Sunday morning reported that the Jets plan to place the franchise tag on David Harris this offseason, a move that will prevent other teams from getting their hands on one of the players most valuable to his team in the league.

Fantasy Impact: Let’s not forget the Jets have a slew of pending free agents, but it looks like Harris is the one guy they feel the most certain about keeping.


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