Archive for February, 2010

Looking back at a decade of memorable Super Bowls

If Super Bowl XLIV is anywhere near as memorable as the last two, we’re in for quite a game today. It’s been a great decade for the big game. Here, Steve Sabol looks back at some of the more memorable Super Bowl moments from the past decade.

Starting the final countdown for Super Bowl XLIV

With just more than six hours to go before the gaze of millions around the world are focused on Super Bowl XLIV, the scene at Sun Life Stadium is relatively calm as workers throughout the venue prepare for kickoff.

The privilege of a Brit covering the Super Bowl

It’s a good job most of my journalistic colleagues back in the UK don’t really know what the Super Bowl is all about. Otherwise there would be a queue of bandwagon-jumping scribes all the way back to London’s Heathrow Airport.

Porter says he’s finished as a Dolphin

Linebacker Joey Porter, appearing on NFL GameDay Morning on Sunday at Sun Life Stadium, said he has played his final days in a Dolphins uniform and plans to play elsewhere next season.

Super Sunday is here: Sunrise over Sun Life

The final prep work around Sun Life Stadium is well under way. Here’s what it looked like (very) early this morning.

Rice goes from catching bricks to the Hall of Fame

Jerry Rice is well known for catching bricks while training to become a professional football player. The soon to be Hall of Famer stopped by the Sirius XM set and Gil Brandt asked him about the genesis of that habit.

Little had faith in the power of 44

Former Broncos running back and new Hall of Fame inductee Floyd Little stopped by the Sirius XM set to sit down with Gil Brandt and Howard Balzer and spoke about his reaction to hearing his name called today.

Even Belichick can goof on talent evaluation

Watching the tears fall down Emmitt Smith‘s face, Gil Brandt was reminded of a conversation he had with good friend Bill Belichick, a frequent visitor to the Walter Camp All-America in New Haven, Conn., where Smith was playing one summer.

A perfect script for Smith

The events unfolding at Saturday’s Hall of Fame news conference are heartwarming.

HOF moment hits home for Rice

While his selection to the Pro Football Class of 2010 was a formality Saturday, the enormity of the situation and the emotion involved was still felt by Jerry Rice.

Scouting a skinny kid from Mississippi Valley State

Watching Jerry Rice up on the stage at the Hall of Fame selection show is a bittersweet moment for Gil Brandt. Working in the front office for the Dallas Cowboys in 1985, Brandt and one of his scouts had their eye on the skinny receiver from little-known Mississippi Valley State, and they were confident they were going to get him.

Rice, Smith highlight seven-member Class of 2010

The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced its seven-member Class of 2010

Randle’s production unprecedented as a DT

As we wait for the official announcement of who will be voted into the Hall of Fame today, I’m sitting here on the Sirius XM set alongside Gil Brandt, pulling little bits of knowledge as only Gil can provide.

Class of 2010 finalists trimmed to seven

Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, John Randle, Jerry Rice, and Emmitt Smith are the five modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2010.

Report: Browns will release Stallworth upon return

According to a report, Donte’ Stallworth won’t be a Cleveland Brown for much longer after his reinstatement into the NFL.

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