'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
The Nielsen Company said Monday that the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers was the third most-viewed program in television history. Both the 2010 and 2011 games hit the 111 million mark.
Amy Freeze can talk football and forecasts.
For the first time, fans will be allowed to attend Super Bowl Media Day.
An NFL official says the Super Bowl next February in Indianapolis could be moved back one week if the 2011 season is delayed.
The NFL wants this year's Super Bowl to go smoothly.
With all that snow blocking roads, closing airports and even forcing a game to be postponed in Philadelphia, it's easy to wonder how the NFL and the Big Apple would handle a blizzard in February 2014. You know, when the Super Bowl is in town.
"It hasn't been a strategy for the NFL. But it's come to us as a happy consequence," Frank Supovitz, the league's senior vice president of events, told NFL.com _ the day before the vote was taken.
"We've been working on the Super Bowl together with the Saints the last three years. ... The level of partnership has never wavered for a moment," he said. "The NFL and Super Bowl have had a long and deep relationship with the city and with the team and one of the pleasures of my career has been working with the team on the reopening of the dome (after Katrina). We've been very, very close partners with the city and the team and I don't expect that to change."
