Mean Joe Green finally gets Coke ad award

Mean Joe Greene already had his four Super Bowl rings. Now, 30 years later, he also has his CLIO for one of TV's most famous commercials.

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Rosenthal: The best, and most puzzling, of the first half

There is a flip side to all the hideous NFL teams this season: There is a depth of quality teams too. Playoff races in both conferences are packed near the top, and more than 10 fan bases — maybe 14 — have legitimate Super Bowl hopes. It sets up for a highly entertaining playoff chase as the calendar turns to November. Before looking ahead, lets look back on some of the standouts and lowlights from the season’s first half.

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Scoop: Boyle’s wardrobe goof is no dream

This isn’t a dream for Susan Boyle — she really did have a wardrobe malfunction at an Oct. 22 soccer match.

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Brady, Belichick not expecting rout of Bucs

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick aren't expecting another blowout when their New England Patriots face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at Wembley Stadium.

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Curran: NFL teams better off without me-first players

Whatever revenge Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey believes he can exact against the Giants this weekend will be hollow as a drum.

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Ex-LA Rams running back Cullen Bryant dies at 58

Cullen Bryant, who spent 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, was a running back on their 1980 Super Bowl team and fought the NFL's trading rules to remain in town, has died. He was 58.

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At 2-2, Cardinals struggling to take flight

A shade better than mediocre was good enough last season for the Arizona Cardinals, who parlayed a 9-7 record into an improbable run to the Super Bowl.

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McD over Belichick as Broncos defeat Pats 20-17

Kyle Orton is no John Elway, Josh McDaniels is no Bill Belichick and those mustard-yellow uniforms certainly don't have anyone thinking "Orange Crush."

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Curran: Peyton’s nearly perfect, on and off the field

He’s finally gotten there. It took until he was 33 years old and into his 12th season but Peyton Manning is now beloved, admired and respected without qualifiers.

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Turner: Chargers capable of doing better than .500

The San Diego Chargers aren't off to the fast start they envisioned, especially after getting pounded by the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Broncos, Cowboys earn wins in overtime

The Denver Broncos are reminding their fans of Super Bowl seasons past with their 5-0 start. The Dallas Cowboys are just relieved their season hasn't completely fallen apart heading into their bye week.

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Celizic: Look out AFC, the Ravens are back

Celizic: At what point do the experts stop talking about the Steelers — they’re sooooo 2008 — and the Patriots and even the Jets, and start talking about the real power in the AFC? And no, I’m not talking about the Colts, but about the Baltimore Ravens.

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New additions have Flyers thinking Stanley Cup run

The Flyers won two Stanley Cups before the Phillies won their first title. They celebrated with two parades in downtown Philadelphia, the kind of end-of-season frivolity the Eagles have never felt after a Super Bowl.

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Curran: Tomlin lays down the gauntlet to Steelers

Curran: Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s response his team's struggles has been predictably Tomlinesque. That is, supremely focused and unwaveringly confident. He’s not a navel-gazer. Being sub-.500 hasn’t put Tomlin out of his element. In fact, he’s seemingly thriving on the adversity.

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Curran: Doing it Big Ben’s way works — for now

Curran: As age and opposing defenses gain, Ben Roethlisberger’s frantic play will need to change. Until then, the Steelers will ride their wildly successful quarterback as far as he can carry them.

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Cardinals out to prove 2009 was no desert mirage

This is all so foreign to the Arizona Cardinals. They are, incredibly, the reigning NFC champions. A franchise that had one playoff victory in more than a half-century won three last year and came within a breath of a Super Bowl title.

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2-minute Ben: Steelers get past Titans 13-10 in OT

The game lasted 64 1/2 minutes, yet it seemed only eight minutes mattered to Ben Roethlisberger. The two minutes at the end of the first half. The two minutes at the end of the second half. And the slightly more than four minutes in overtime that decided a Titans-Steelers game controlled by two of the NFL's best and most physical defenses, except when Roethlisberger had the ball in his hands and little time to work with.

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Lawyer: Strike alleged rape victim's statement

A lawyer for several Lake Tahoe hotel employees named in a civil suit that accuses Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of rape says the lawsuit and timing of events are the "cold, calculated vengeance of a woman scorned."

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Curran: Brady’s back — how do Pats keep it that way?

Curran: As the 2009 season begins, Tom Brady is once again gunning for the rest of the NFL. And they are gunning for him.

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Cut down day: NFL teams pare rosters to 53

David Tyree has gone from Super Bowl hero to unemployed hero. Tyree was released by the New York Giants on Saturday in the final cutdown that also featured a late trade, with backup tight end Michael Matthews, another Super Bowl veteran, being shipped to the New England Patriots for a conditional draft pick.

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Super Bowl hero David Tyree cut by New York Giants

David Tyree has gone from Super Bowl hero to a receiver out of a job.

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Grossman sparkles in Texans' win, 27-20

Preseason finales give fringe players one more chance to shine and earn roster spots, which is why Friday night was so important for one-time Super Bowl quarterback Rex Grossman.

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Jones tries to help Vikings get stadium

Jerry Jones has something Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf wants, and it's not just the Super Bowl rings on Jones' fingers.

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Powell: Sibling sensations: Two good to be true

Powell: With the country’s biggest tennis tournament now in progress and the dawn of another football season upon us, it’s time once

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Saints see Usama Young maturing quickly at safety

Usama Young might be better known for his Super Bowl commercial last winter than anything he's done on a football field in his first two seasons with the New Orleans Saints.

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Just in time for football season, the Lion's Head Tavern in New York City stopped selling 25-cent chicken wings on Monday nights. In Tucson, a sports bar called O'Malleys on Fourth scrapped its fall special of a dozen wings on Monday nights for $4.

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The Arlington Independent School District in Texas decided not to show President Obama's address to students live yesterday because it reportedly didn't want to interrupt its regularly scheduled lesson plans.

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Brett Favre: Committing Treason

For a very long time, Brett Favre could do no wrong in the hearts and minds of Green Bay Packers fans all across the country.

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The ring is cast in 14 karat yellow gold with black antique backgrounds to reflect the Steelers' colors. The Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XLIII ring weighs 104 grams (approximately 3.7 ounces) and incorporates 63 round, brilliant cut diamonds totaling 3.61 carats.

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On Thursday, President Obama will welcome the Pittsburgh Steelers to the White House to honor the team for its recent Super Bowl victory. But, just like in 2006 when the Steelers had a post-title meeting with George W.

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CBS, which will broadcast next year's game, is hoping to persuade the NFL to bring the big game into the Internet age. The network made $30 million off streaming the recent NCAA basketball championship and is eager to apply the model to the Super Bowl.

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Virtual map of tweets reflecting teams, ads, players. Great learning tool for social media, and ad people

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Terrible Times and Terrible Towels - Pittsburgh in the 1970s

It's a terrible thing, but truth be told, I'm not much of a sports fan anymore. Haven't been since 1980, the year I turned nineteen and left my childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to join the United States Air Force. It's not that I don't like sports, I do.

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Upon further review, Nielsen Media Research now says that the Arizona-Pittsburgh Super Bowl game was the most-watched in history.

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Score one for beginner's luck. Denny's first Super Bowl spot, which offered free breakfast to America, seems to have put bums in seats. The restaurant claims it surpassed its estimate that it would serve up to 2 million people during today's eight-hour Grand Slam giveaway.

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Just when you thought Bank of America couldn't abuse the bailout any more than they already have, the nation's largest bank threw a lavish 5-day Super Bowl extravaganza worth $10 million, according to ABC. Apparently, the tents alone for this party alone cost $800,000.

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As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of "tweets." The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.

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Terry McAulay should be headed to Disney World this morning. He should be the toast of Pittsburgh, a guest on PTI and Jim Rome's Jungle and driving whatever luxury vehicle that is awarded to the Super Bowl's MVP.

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Minnie Cartoon #3: Super Bowl Ads

Do the math: The Super Bowl ads cost up to $3 million per half-minute. At that rate, we could have bought 233,333 and a third Super Bowl ads with the $700 billion in bailout money.

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During its Super Bowl ad last night, Denny's announced that it would be giving away a free Grand Slam breakfast -- inconveniently named for the subject of a Super Bowl promotion, but hey -- to anyone who visits its locations on Tuesday, February 3 between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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Sunday's game on NBC, in which the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 on a touchdown with less than a minute to play, drew an average of 95.4 million viewers. The network says 147 million people watched at least a couple minutes of the game.

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Turns out, Jennifer Hudson lip-synched the national anthem before Sunday night's Super Bowl. The reason?

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Every time a certain familiar face showed up on camera Sunday during NBC's Super Bowl pregame show, Channel 4 ran a scroll at the bottom of the screen:

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I'm hoping that we're finally entering into an era that I've been dreaming of my entire life: the rise of the bookish black. The President's election might prove more transformative for black culture than even his most irrepressible admirers could ever dream.

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The Super and the Not-So Super Bowl Ads, 2009 Edition

Advertising during the Super Bowl is an expensive science with a surprisingly low failure rate. A company might put out a clunker of an ad, but it's a clunker of an ad that will be seen by millions upon millions of people.

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The Super Bowl Is Interrupted by a porn clip in the Southwest United States

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The Best Commercials from Super Bowl XLIII

Another Super Bowl has come and gone and those of us not celebrating a victory are left to discuss the commercials, of course.

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KVOA-TV is investigating pornographic material viewed during the Super Bowl by some Tucson area Comcast viewers. Just after the last touchdown by the Cardinals, approximately 10 seconds of pornographic material was shown.

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In recent months, Americans have been disappointed and appalled by Wall Street, banks, the big-budget film "Australia," investment counselors, Detroit, the governors of at least two states, hedge fund managers and even the geese at La Guardia, which used to know better than t …

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Are you going to tune in to today's Super Bowl gam...

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