Super Bowl

Baltimore Ravens edge 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII

The Associated Press — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:01:00 +0000

A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation's biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric, back-and-forth game that ended with Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

Flacco, voted the MVP, threw three first-half touchdown passes to cap an 11-TD, zero-interception postseason. Jacoby Jones returned the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 28-6 lead.

Keeping Those Jerseys Unwashed For The Big Win

Amy Held — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:16:00 +0000

Sports fans and athletes alike are notorious for superstitions. Take Michael Jordan, who would famously wear his North Carolina shorts under his Bulls uniform.

On Super Bowl Sunday, fans on both sides of the country are engaging in some odd behavior: donning unwashed jerseys, sporting fresh facial hair and sitting in that oh-so-special spot.

While the routines may seem silly, superstitions may actually have helped us evolve as a species.

Michael Neapolitan, 58, of Towson, Md., is spending Super Bowl Sunday the same way he has spent game days for the past few years.

3 ways to sound smart at a Super bowl party

Mark Memmott — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:37:59 +0000

If you're invited to a Super Bowl party and aren't quite up to speed about Sunday's big game, join the club. This blogger's a Buffalo Bills fan and tries to kind of tune out around this time of the season because, after all, it brings back some painful memories.

But it is the big story of the weekend, and The Two-Way knows it needs to be covered in some way.

Why chicken wings dominate Super Bowl snack time

Dan Charles — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:33:05 +0000

Take a look at this remarkable graph — is it the stock market? Home sales?

Nope. Click on the blue box in the lower right-hand corner and you'll see that the blue line tracks the number of chicken wings that Americans bought at grocery stores over the last year. See that mighty surge of wing-buying in early February?

Wacky Super Bowl ads are already getting serious play

Brian De Los Santos — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:32:58 +0000

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For Super Bowl ads, more social-media savvy

Elizabeth Blair — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:25:27 +0000

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Why Seahawks fans should cheer for 49ers in Super Bowl

Kirsten Kendrick and Art Thiel — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Seahawks fans may have nothing but contempt for their division rivals the San Francisco 49ers. But when it comes to who to cheer for in the Super Bowl, KPLU sports commentator Art Thiel explains why it’s good to root for the 49ers over the Baltimore Ravens.

Folding empanadas into your Super Bowl spread

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:33:11 +0000

Say "Super Bowl" to Philadelphia chef and restaurateur Jose Garces, and he instantly recalls winter Sundays growing up in Chicago. "While my dad and two brothers and I were watching a Bears football game, empanadas would just appear in front of my lap," he tells All Things Considered for the Found Recipe series.

Every Latin American country boasts its own empanadas — baked or fried pockets of dough stuffed with cheese, meat or some other filling.

Strange History of Super Bowl Halftime Shows

John Kessler and John Maynard — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:49:00 +0000

It all started innocently enough with Al Hirt, Carol Channing and Up With People. Later things got hipper with New Kids and Michael Jackson, and then there was the infamous 2004 "nipple incident". Britney Spears, U-2, The Who...we tackle them all.

And please be sure to waste 4 minutes of your time watching the newest addition to the Record Bin Roulette bag of tricks...SEE THE VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1INmBqD7TZ8

Super Bowl Will Be A Family Affair: Harbaugh Brothers' Ravens, 49ers To Clash

Mark Memmott — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:17 +0000

Super Bowl XLVII will be a never-before matchup of teams coached by two brothers.

The Baltimore Ravens, led by John Harbaugh, will play his younger brother Jim's San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 3 in New Orleans.

Maybe it should be called the Harbowl, as they're saying on NFL.com.

The Ravens are going to the big game thanks to an upset 28-13 win over the New England Patriots Sunday evening in Foxboro, Mass.

The surprising story of a Super Bowl snack

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:32:42 +0000

This Super Bowl Sunday, millions of Americans will watch the game with bowls of corn-based snacks at their side. Whether you prefer Doritos, Cheetos, or even Funyuns, you owe the pleasure of that crunchy munchy to the humble corn curl that started it all: the Frito.

This week, our friends at Smithsonian's Food & Think blog trace the origins of the Frito back to entrepreneur C.E. Doolin's encounter with a Mexican frita, or "small fried thing," made of cornmeal, water, and salt.

Will blue laws make for a melancholy Super Bowl Sunday?

Sara Carothers — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:35:13 +0000

Fans lucky enough to toast a Giants or a Patriots Super Bowl win in Indianapolis this weekend will need to stock up early on their champagne supplies. Indiana is one of just two states that ban the sale of beer, wine and liquor at stores statewide on Sundays.

A patchwork of blue laws are in effect across the country. Named for an antiquated use of "blue" meaning "moral," blue laws prohibit various kinds of activities on Sundays, such as operating a business or buying a car. The sale of alcohol is one of the few blue laws still in effect in many parts of the country.

Super Bowl of seven-layer dip

Tim Haywood — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:17:45 +0000

As many of you know, Sunday marks America's premier "unofficial" holiday, a national fest of gluttony and television watching. Another Kardashian wedding special? Excellent guess, but, no, it's the Super Bowl!

Commonly known as Super Bowl Sunday, others may dub it "National I really have to pee but I can't leave the room because the commercials are better than the game" Day or "Forget the Doritos! I'm eating the seven-layer dip with a spoon" Day.

World Vision under fire for Super Bowl “loser” clothing donations

Tom Paulson — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:15:56 +0000

Ever wonder what happens to all those Super Bowl “champions” shirts and hats that are printed up in advance, but for the losing team?

Given this, World Vision for the past 15 years has been collecting this loser gear left over from the Super Bowl and distributing it to people in poor countries:

World Vision identifies countries and communities in need overseas who will benefit from the gear. This year’s unused Super Bowl merchandise will make its way to Zambia, Armenia, Nicaragua, and Romania in the months to come. On average, this equates to about 100 pallets annually — $2 million worth of product — or about 100,000 articles of clothing that, instead of being destroyed, will help children and adults in need.

So don’t be surprised if you see lots of folks in southern Africa, eastern Europe or Central America mistakenly believing the Pittsburgh Steelers won.

It may sound like a nice enough thing to do, but a lot of folks think it’s actually harmful and even immoral: donating clothing.

The Super Bowl, the Hindenburg Omen, and the stock market

Greg Heberlein and Dave Meyer — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:18:31 +0000

On this week's Money Matters, financial commentator Greg Heberlein and KPLU's Dave Meyer look at a couple of oddball stock market indicators: the Super Bowl and the Hindenburg Omen. These indicators (especially the Super Bowl) have received a lot of attention over the years, but both Greg and Dave say they should be for novelty use only.

The Super Bowl indicator