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It's been nearly two days, and still nobody's quite sure what caused the Super Black Out of 2013 as an outside investigation takes over. But new evidence reveals there may have been early warning signs ignored by stadium officials, and other theories continue to boil over, from fans of the Saints to, you know, Batman.
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So much for the hype from the early overnights. Super Sunday notched an official rating of 108.41 million for CBS, falling short of last year's record of 111.3 million.
Judging by the discourse on Capitol Hill on Monday, it doesn't appear the blackout is having any substantive impact on momentum for much of anything policy-related — at least not yet.
Some of these commercials (like the one with Will Ferrell) were simply specific to regions. Others were examples of products capitalizing on that unfortunately timed power outage at the Superdome. All of them are pretty clever.
Sometime between the Baltimore Ravens beating the San Francisco 49ers and the Ravens crushing the 49ers, half of the lights in the Superdome went dark, and Twitter lit up with curiosity — and jokes.
In a performance that delivered on promises, Beyoncé gave a rousing Super Bowl halftime show that featured the rumored Destiny's Child reunion, some of her biggest hits, and what appears to be no lip-syncing.
At this year's Super Bowl Alicia Keys performed a fairly subdued version of the national anthem, sitting at her piano.
Despite some pre-game controversy, the performance was undeniably emotional.
The 35-minute blackout may not have exactly helped the ratings, but something like 100 million people still watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers — and it was good year for Super Bowl ads. Watch them all again here.
Every year, there's a shameless Google-grab sweepstakes to answer the age old question: What time does the Super Bowl start?
Should the Scouts be open to gays? It's a clear-cut issue for the President. "Yes," he said during his pre-Super Bowl interview with CBS's Scott Pelley, in which he also spoke out about women in combat, raising rates, and, you know, football.
In the interest of helping you save face in front of your friends, we've broken down everything you might encounter in conversation this Super Sunday, from the game itself to the chicken-wing apocalypse.
If you plan on watching the Super Bowl but haven't bothered to watch any football this year, here's a handy graphic.
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Before answering her "haters," Beyoncé decided to address her Inauguration Day lip-syncing controversy by asking every everyone to stand at her Super Bowl press conference Thursday afternoon. She then proceeded the national anthem, a cappella, like a boss.
Parents, football fans, and bloggers are asking whether the NFL might be exploiting the 26 students scheduled to sing "American the Beautiful" with Jennifer Hudson on the field this Sunday.
Today in viral videos: Dr. Spock gets no love, puppies predict the big game, and Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd, and Bob Odenkirk team up for the Samsung Super Bowl commercial.
The 49ers cornerback's non-apology apology for his much maligned comments on gay players in the locker room won't win him any fans heading into the Super Bowl this weekend, but his offensive remarks already appear to have had an unintended effect.
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The football gossip-mongers are now wondering how Hall of Fame quarterback — and CBS pre-game/halftime analyst — Dan Marino is going to handle a report that he paid millions of dollars to keep an extramarital seven-year-old daughter secret.
Just when the NFL was starting to shed its homophobic reputation and look like an accepting place for gay athletes, one San Francisco 49ers player had to come along and ruin all of that — and all under the Super Bowl spotlight.
The supermodel does figure into the extended cut of the company's Super Bowl commercial released today, but it's really more of a cameo than anything else.
Sure, he was on-point during the 2012 election, but before you place your bets behind the bespectacled number genie, remember that he predicted that this would be a Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl — and that he's gotten a little better at the politics game than anything else.
The Super Bowl is fast approaching and fan allegiances, many long lost to the regular season and others evolving as the playoffs press on, have come down to this: the 49ers or the Ravens. But how'd we get there? And which parts of America have jumped on which bandwagon?
There are now questions as to whether the group will be joining Beyoncé on the field Sunday, with a widely quoted "new" interview debunking the rumors — but we've found a schedule opening that may reveal more than a one-woman halftime show after all.
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We're nearly a week out from Super Bowl XLVII, and all kinds of details are trickling out, from the halftime set list to the ads to the Puppy Bowl. Let's break down what we know about the entertainment parts of TV's biggest day.
Justin Timberlake is making his return to performing music live at the Super Bowl — sort of.
Call it the Civil War of football or, as cheesy headline writers prefer, the HarBowl. Either way, the upcoming Super Bowl will be a dramatic one since the two teams are coached by two brothers.
With Beyoncé already on tap for the half time show — to be joined by her Destiny's Child bandmates — this year's Super Bowl has added another belter to its lineup.
Announcements about halftime performers do not usually come this early in the football season, but an unnamed source has leaked word that Beyonce will play Super Bowl XLVII's halftime show.
Just days after General Motors decided to pull all its Facebook advertising, deeming it "ineffective," the automaker has decided it won't be advertising on the Super Bowl broadcast either. Broadcast networks, consider yourselves warned.
NBC's livestream of this year's Super Bowl shows exactly how important the actual television is in sports watching culture and why it's not going away anytime soon.
In the grand tradition of public celebration in lower Manhattan for the end of wars and victories in sports, the Super Bowl champion Giants got their victory parade in the Canyon of Heroes this morning.
After watching all the buttdowns, awkward graphics, and ads we'd already seen on YouTube, regular Super Bowl viewers may have noticed something strange about yesterday evening's postgame coverage: It was much shorter than normal.
With average viewership of 111.3 million people, Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast beat last year's record for the most watched Super Bowl of 111.0 million, according to the NBC official numbers released Monday afternoon.
Along with rants about the halftime show and tabulations of exactly how much one second of Super Bowl airtime costs, the day after the Super Bowl brings us the time-honored tradition of recapping the commercials that caused an outrage.
As far as shows go, Sunday night's Super Bowl halftime bonanza was a pretty fun one, what with gladiators, glitter, and all that weird 3D stuff happening to the field.
The network made a late attempt to blur it out, but the middle finger of Super Bowl halftime performer M.I.A. appeared crystal clear before some 110 million viewers last night and NBC and its affiliates could pay a hefty fine.
Eli Manning guided the New York Giants to a Super Bowl victory, in a game decided by a final-minute touchdown by Ahmad Bradshaw.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses on with his crusade for gun law reform, an issue he hopes to bring to a wider audience than ever this Super Bowl Sunday.
We've broken down the recycled plot of every Super Bowl movie ad into its precise mathematical formula.
Time's military guy Mark Thompson managed to get ahold of the Excel spreadsheet showing the U.S. military's snack plans for the big game on Sunday.
Also: What Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo have planned for Super Bowl Sunday, Bruce Springsteen's complicated way of not stealing the spotlight, and Walter Kirn joins GQ.com as a political columnist
The Puppy Bowl, which began as a joke between network executives, has blossomed into a counter-programming success garnering more 9.2 million viewers for Animal Planet last year despite going up against the Super Bowl.
If your favorite part about the Super Bowl is the advertisements, you don't need to wait until Sunday to get a taste of the $3.5 million 30-second spots.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Twitter's super excited about Super Bowl Sunday, in part, because they've set up a number of forward-thinking social media marketing strategies with big companies like GE and Audi that revolve around sponsored hashtags.
If you're not a sports person, but you want to make some money off this weekend's Super Bowl, why not bet on whether or not Kelly Clarkson will bare her stomach while singing the National Anthem.
Unlike other networks, which are fearful to put stuff on the Internets, NBC's not worried about losing money on its free stream of this year's Super Bowl.
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