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WE’RE DONE. PACK IT UP. The Internet cannot get better than this.
This is Desmond Bryant. He is a defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders (for now, anyway). This is his mug shot. We can’t stop staring. (Handout)
It’s here: Our 2013 Super Bowl Party Game
There was a time when the National Post would refer to the following exercise as a “Super Bowl drinking game.” But we are older and wiser now and realize the importance of having a good base of food prior to libations. So, with that, this is the Super Bowl eating and drinking game. SHARE with your friends. We know how much you like chicken wings.
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Families from Sandy Hook Elementary School were on the field before the New York Giants’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. The Giants won 42-7 but were eliminated from playoff contention when the Chicago Bears beat the Detroit Lions. (Photos: Elsa/Getty Images, Al Bello/Getty Images)
New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz, after learning that he was the favourite player of one 6-year-old victim in the Sandy Hook shooting, wrote “R.I.P. Jack Pinto,” ”Jack Pinto, my hero“ and ”This one is for you“ on his shoes for the Giants game against the Falcons in Atlanta. Cruz said he called the boy’s family after hearing he was a Giants fan and was told they planned to bury him in one of Cruz’s No. 80 jerseys.
“It felt good to honour a family that was going through so much,” Cruz told ESPN. “Messages can go out to these athletes, and some athletes just brush them off. So it felt good to be one of these athletes that really listened to that family, and really did something to pay tribute to them.”Cruz hopes to visit the family later this week, “even if it’s just for an hour” and spoke to the boy’s 11-year-old brother on the phone before the game.
And YOU THOUGHT it couldn’t get worse.
M.D. Jennings was convinced he had the ball pinned to his chest the entire time and would be awarded an interception to cap Green Bay’s comeback victory.
A crew of replacement officials had other views — the ones that counted.
The result is a bizarre ending that gave the Seattle Seahawks a 14-12 victory Monday night that capped a tough weekend for the replacement refs.
“I was very shocked,” Jennings said. “But, the refs got the last say, so it is what it is.”
Russell Wilson threw a disputed 24-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate on the final play of the game, a game that finally ended 10 minutes later when both teams were brought back on the field for the extra point. (Photo: AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, left, hugs wide receiver Torrey Smith after an NFL football game against the New England Patriots in Baltimore. Baltimore won 31-30.
Smith, who was playing less than 24 hours after the death of his 19-year-old brother, had six catches for 127 yards and two touchdowns for the Ravens.
Tevin Jones, 19, died late Saturday night in Virginia. Smith left the team hotel at 1 a.m. Sunday and spent much of the day with his family before heading back to Baltimore.
“I texted my mom when I got to the stadium. That was when I knew I was going to play,” Smith said. “She was excited about it. She said, ’He’d want you to play.”’
The NFL has unveiled its new sleek uniforms designed by Nike. The league and Nike showed off the new look in grand style Tuesday with a gridiron-styled fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. Uniforms for all 32 teams were on display.
That just happened. Tim Tebow is now with the Jets.
Ricky Williams was watching a black-and-white movie on a small screen fastened above his sarcophagus of steel and glass. He was not expecting company that afternoon in mid-August, 2006, and motioned to the doctor to turn off the DVD player so he could at least close his eyes and pretend he was alone, locked in the hissing hyperbaric chamber.
It was during his one-year cameo appearance with the Toronto Argonauts, who added the talented running back to their roster after the National Football League suspended him for a fourth failed drug test. Williams had broken his arm during a game in Regina, and was in a clinic in St. Catharines, Ont., inhaling 100% oxygen at 2,000 times the normal pressure in the hope of speeding his recovery.
It was not his idea to invite a reporter, nor was it the team. It was the clinic, which opened its doors to bask for a moment in the unique spotlight that had followed Williams since he began his escape from the NFL, taking him from a tent in a campground in Australia to a tiny, hissing tube in Southern Ontario. (Photo: Glenn Lowson/National Post)
Nine hundred pounds of Butterfingers were delivered to Copley Square in Boston by online pawn shop company Pawngo. It’s a reference to New England Patriots receiver Wes Welker, who dropped a crucial pass in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. The Butterfingers even came with their own sign: “Thank you, Wes Welker”
A fan throws confetti during the New York Giants Super Bowl victory parade through the Canyon of Heroes.
‘My husband cannot [expletive] throw the ball and catch the ball,’ an angry Gisele Bundchen replied to New York Giants fans who taunted her after the game. The Brazilian model and wife of Tom Brady crossed a line, at least according to some of the Patriots.
NFL apologizes after M.I.A. gives middle finger at Super Bowl halftime show
For all the pomp and excess of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime extravaganza a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. is likely to be the most remembered piece of the show.
The gesture, accompanied by a barely disguised expletive, came during a performance of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin.”‘ At the end of her lines, M.I.A. appeared to sing “I don’t give a (expletive),” although it was hard to hear clearly.
The incident was reminiscent of Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” eight years ago — a surprise risque moment in front of tens of millions of unsuspecting viewers. The brief exposure of Jackson’s nipple during the 2004 halftime show raised a storm of controversy and put CBS in hot water with the Federal Communications Commission.
Giants, Patriots put together another classic
It was never going to be the same game. For all the shared bloodlines with Super Bowl XLII — the same directors, a similar script, the same leading men — this was always destined to be another play, if only because no two football games can possible be exactly alike. So many moving parts, so many new actors, so many games between there and here.
But the New England Patriots and the New York Giants have not put significant distance between one another in the past four years, and in the end, it was another game of mistakes, of grace under pressure, of brilliance at the end. In a Super Bowl that felt almost airtight, it was the Giants who delivered the upset again, at the end, in a come-from-behind 21-17 victory in Super Bowl XLVI at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Here’s our photo gallery from the Super Bowl so far. Captains from The New York Giants and the New England Patriots look on as referee John Parry looks up at the coin toss. New England won the toss. Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
