Super Bowl Facts and Figures (Infograph)

The hottest ticket in sports is the upcoming Super Bowl featuring the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers. Not only is the game the most watched event on television but it is also one of the hardest tickets to get your hands on.  Here’s a look at the Facts and Figures behind the Super Bowl audience. Click to enlarge.

Source: Pro Life

Peyton’s Tipped Pro Bowl INT

Watching the Pro Bowl game after turning the Pro Bowl Bingo Card into a drinking game and guess what? Peyton Manning threw an INT. OK, he’s still one of the best out there but we all have seen PM toss a few more INTs this year than normal. Even in the Pro Bowl he gets busted.

Falcons BC Brent Grimes tips up a great interception and somehow comes down with the catch. Guess that’s why he’s here today as Grimes helps to put the NFC up 14-0.

It didn’t go much better for Manning and the AFC soon after that as he tossed a pass in to the Patriot’s Wes Welker who then gets stripped by the Redskins DeAngelo Hall who also picks up the ball and takes it into the endzone to put the NFC up 28-0.

I’m not saying that AFC coach Bill Belichick told Welker to do this to make Manning look bad but I wouldn’t be surprised.

Teach Me How to Raji

Packer fans are a bit excited about their team heading to the Super Bowl and they’re dancing in the streets….kinda.

In the NFC Championship game against Chicago, Bears QB Caleb Hanie kicked Jay Cutler in the knee during halftime in an attempt to get into the game. It worked and Hanie was put in and promptly threw this INT to big B.J. Raji who rumbled into the endzone.

Once there Raji did a little dance that has attracted the attention of Packer Backers around the nation.

So strap on your Cheesehead and get moving. Here’s how it goes:

Pro Bowl Bingo

A friend of mine suggested that our Pigskin Doctors Pro Bowl Bingo game could be used as a drinking game as well. If you got tricked into watching football this weekend either from thinking the Super Bowl was Sunday or just in the habit of watching football on weekends, then you’ll be sad to learn there is only the Pro Bowl.  The NFL’s annual event for their All-stars returns to Hawaii this year but will not feature a lot of players including all the Steelers and Packers elected to the game.

So if you like to drink and are watching the Pro Bowl be sure to break out this handy little Bingo to play along with.  Click for a larger image and enjoy the game.

NFLPA Super Bowl Commercial : Let Them Play

Sports biggest event is looming as we head into the bye weekend before the Super Bowl so it’s time to start focusing on the important things like the upcoming Super Bowl commericals.   After the big game the NFL heads into a limbo of sorts as players and owners are looking at a possible lockout.

Will there or won’t there be a season next year?

There’s no telling at this point but the lines in the sand are being drawn by both sides.  During the Super Bowl the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) will air a commercial to get their message out.

The commercial is titled “Let Them Play” and focuses on the lookout as the NFL celebrates its most successful season ever.  NFL owners are preparing to lock out players and fans from their game starting in March and the NFLPA believes the Owners have not opened their books or offered justification for this threat. The players want to play and the fans want to see them play.

The NFLPA also has set up an online petiton to gather public notice. You can sign the Block the Lockout Petition and for more information, please visit http://www.nfllockout.com/.

Pro Bowl Charging Up To 700 Dollars For Ad During Unwatchable Football Game

The NFL moved the Pro Bowl from after the Super Bowl to the bye week before the big game in a devious attempt to trick people who are used to tuning in on Sundays into watching the game. Not a bad idea if you stop and think about it but it doesn’t make for the best game since all the All-Stars from the Super Bowl teams won’t be in the Pro Bowl.

The Onion Sportsdome takes a look at the advertising for the game. Commercials spots are selling for hundreds of dollars to companies looking to advertise their tire shops and commemorative coins to hundreds of deadbeats and shut-ins who watch the Pro Bowl.

Jeff Fisher Out In Tennessee

Jeff Fisher and the Tennessee Titans are parting way.

I’m as shocked as you are right now. After 16 seasons as the longest coach to stick with one team (but not one city), Fisher and the Titans announced today that they would like to see other people. It was made official when Jeff changed his Facebook status to “single.”

Fisher was set to earn $6.5 million in the final year of his contract.

In his time with the Titans/Oilers, Fisher compiled a rather unimpressive 142-140 record but did hold onto one of the best mustaches in the league. That win/loss record seems worse than it really is as the Titans made the Super Bowl in 1999 only to come up a few yards short of a victory. Fisher did have 6 winning seasons with the Titans and five 8-8 years.

The Titans have not won in the postseason since 2004 and that includes starting out 13-0 two years ago only to flop in the first round of the playoffs. In the end the wins didn’t add up and neither did Fisher’s relationship with draft bust Vince Young. Titans owner Bud Adams was a big Young supporter and the rocky marriage of the immature QB and the scruffy coach just never seemed to meld.

No word yet on who the Titans have in mind to replace Fisher but I’m willing to bet that Jeff ends up with a job quicker than the Titans replace him.

Jaime Edmondson Fills Out The 32 NFL teams

The season is over and the only two dang teams without cheerleader squads are going to the Super Bowl. That stinks. Guess we’ll have to head over to our great pals at the Smoking Jacket who have got us covered by showing us their parent company, Playboy, has the next best thing to a cheerleader gallery.

It’s also nice of them to talk to me again after I whooped up some Bunnies during Fantasy Football this year.

Playmate Jaime Edmondson’s poses for the Ultimate NFL Football Gear Gallery. Earlier in the season she posed for some great pics of the teams Playboy editors picked to make the playoffs. Let’s just say they didn’t get hired for their betting skills.

Thanks to popular demand, Jaime Edmondson is now posing for all the teams. Yup. All 32 teams  are featured in very revealing fan wear. The site is SFW for the most part (it is Playboy we’re talking about here) so here’s a sample of some of the greatness. Check out the rest of Playmate Jaime Edmondson’s Ultimate NFL Football Gear Gallery here.

Lions LB Zack Follett Gets Tweets From Satan

Alright, here’s the backstory. Detroit Lions linebacker Zack Follett is a little bit insane. Most linebackers are. You have to be to play that position. Too many hits to the melon and the next thing you know you’re hearing voices.

I remember this guy who played linebacker on our team in highschool. He was nuts. I’m not talking a bit funny. I’m talking he would hear voices calling different plays at the line of scrimmage. It’s hard to get mad at a guy for doing what he’s told but when he’s told by a voice in his head to take off the shoes of the QB and start smacking people around you have to really start to worry about the guy.

Earlier Zack Follett, who has dubbed himself the “Pain Train,” made news when he called QB Matthew Stafford, known affectionately here as “Mr. Glass“, as fragile as a “China Doll” whenever Stafford entered a regular-season game.

Follett, it should be noted, only played 6 games last year after receiving a nasty hit to the head. In a two year span of the two players, both have missed significant playing time with injuries. With that in mind, here’s what Follett said:

“Stafford, good guy,” Follett said, per the Detroit Free Press. “He’s a china doll right now. Anytime he gets hit, he goes down. But the kid is — hopefully, it’s just patiently waiting for him, because the kid is an awesome talent. He has a tremendous arm. The throws that he makes during practice when no one can touch him, he looks like an All-American quarterback, but put him in a game, and you hit his shoulder. So hopefully, say a couple prayers, keep him healthy next year, and the Lions can do some damage in the NFC.”

Understandable, but uncalled for, words of frustration from a player that was one QB away from winning about 4 games last year. Keep you lips closed, Follett. You don’t need to go out in public and badmouth your teammate.

Thankfully, Follett took out his video camera and posted a reply to the comment about Stafford as well as to the people who were offended by his remarks. The result is crazy fun. Follett compares Tweets from angry fans to from Satan, which is very true because Twitter can be evil.

“That’s all you got, bro?!” [h/t Cosby Sweaters for super awesome ranting video]

Zack Follett – Response to my comments made from zack follett on Vimeo.

Packers Elect To Wear Green Jerseys for Super Bowl

The Packers will edge out the Steelers in the uniform department as the NFC team elected to appear in the Super Bowl XLV with their traditional green jerseys.

The Steelers lost the bid to wear their classic black jerseys thanks to the NFL rule that allows the NFC and AFC to switch each year which team is considered the home team. And with that right of being the home team is the choice of jersey color.

As for an edge I don’t know that you’ll find one.  The Pack did lose Super Bowl XXXII while wearing their white jerseys and the Steelers have won one in their whites when they beat up the Cardinals a few years back.  If nothing else it will be good to see Aaron Rodgers nab a Super Bowl ring so every time an announcer mentions his name it won’t have “Brett Favre” attached to it.

Next year will be the AFC’s turn and I fully expect the Buffalo Bills to take the field in Super Bowl XLVI in their baby blue throwbacks.

Also of note is the NFL has decided that the roof of Dallas Cowboys Stadium will be closed for the big game. So no epic shots of the cheeseheads from the blimp cam.

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