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  • New England Patriots – Fixing the Offense, not the Defense

    New England Patriots – Fixing the Offense, not the Defense

    While usually it is the defense and secondary of the New England Patriots that get most of the criticism for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick missing out on a fourth Super Bowl ring these past few years, taking a look at some of the numbers suggest that their offense is just in need of a fix, at least when you look at their playoff performances and not the regular season.

  • Stadiums of the Super Bowl

    The issue of picking a venue and stadium for the Super Bowl has always been a serious one – a battle between cities, especially Miami and New Orleans, but also between traditions and concepts regarding where and how it should be played – fair-weathered cities, Domes or even in harsher conditions.

  • Best Super Bowl MVP Performances

    Best Super Bowl MVP Performances

    Looking for any reason to feel comfortable about heading into the Super Bowl, the San Francisco 49ers have three players featuring among the top 10 MVP performances: Jerry Rice, Steve Young and Joe Montana, beating other memorable games by the likes of Marcus Allen and Phil Simms.

  • Great Players Who Might Finally Win a Super Bowl

    Great Players Who Might Finally Win a Super Bowl

    Among the four remaining teams in the NFL Playoffs, there are a few future hall of famers playing, still without a title ring. One of them will be a Super Bowl champion when it’s all over.

  • AFC Super Bowl Dominance vs NFC Parity

    AFC Super Bowl Dominance vs NFC Parity

    It’s not a big secret that the AFC has been the stronger conference in the NFL, although the last three Super Bowls and four of the last five have been won by the NFC. The big arguing case about parity and disparity? Only 3 AFC teams have made the big game for the last nine years, while 8 teams from the NFC have made it.

  • Competitions With the Largest Payouts in Sports (Infographic)

    Where is most of the money in sports? Probably big sponsorship deals and TV contracts, but because not all of those deals are done directly with players and the teams, tournaments, competitions and leagues have the power of distrubuting the money to their teams and mostly the succesful ones that reach the final stages and win titles.

  • Tom Brady – MVP, But no Super Bowl

    Tom Brady won his second NFL MVP today. He is the first player to win the award unanimously. On the other hand, he won’t be playing for a Super Bowl ring this year, again.

  • The History of the Super Bowl in Pictures Part II

    Part II of our Super Bowl history class, going through Super Bowl XXI with a Phil Simms led Giant beating the Broncos to Kurt Warner’s Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV and their win over the Titans.

  • The History of the Super Bowl in Pictures Part I

    A week before the big game in Arlington, we’re doing a run down of all the Super Bowls, beginning with the first 20 NFL Finals – Super Bowl I (Packers) to Super Bowl XX (Bears).

  • Ranking the Last Ten Super Bowls

    Ranking the last ten Super Bowls (2001-2010) or from XXXV – XLIV.