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		<title>The 50th Super Bowl Goes to San Francisco Bay Area</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/05/21/the-50th-super-bowl-goes-to-san-francisco-bay-area/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Barry Wilner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BOSTON) — The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFL owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers&#8217; new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season. San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life Stadium. The 2017 Super Bowl will be held in Houston, which also beat out Miami for that game. (MORE: Super Bowl Tech Ads: Survivors and Tragedies Over the Years) The only previous Super Bowl played in northern California was at Stanford Stadium in 1985. Houston hosted the 2004 NFL championship game. When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the decision, members of the San Francisco bid committee let out a roar of approval, then toasted each other with champagne. It was the first time in a decade that a Super Bowl was awarded on the first ballot. &#8220;The Bay Area has been waiting for a (title) game since 1985. We have a stadium now &#8230; we are just thrilled and couldn&#8217;t be happier about this,&#8221; said Daniel Lurie, a leader of the San Francisco bid. &#8220;We are going to get to highlight the best the Bay Area has to offer.&#8221; The Dolphins were denied public money for a stadium upgrade in South Florida following widespread complaints about the public investment sunk into the Marlins&#8217; new baseball home. Multibillionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contends $350 million in stadium improvements are badly needed, but he doesn&#8217;t want to pay for them by himself. Nor does he want a scaled-down renovation of the 26-year-old facility. Miami has hosted 10 Super Bowls, tied with New Orleans for the most. But neither will get the 50th. For years, it was thought the NFL would seek to stage the 50th Super Bowl in Los Angeles, where the first one was played (but did not sell out) on Jan. 15, 1967. But with no franchise<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2346382&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Lights, Bad Refs, Bad Sportsmanship: 5 Lingering Super Bowl Questions</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/02/04/super-bowl-power-outage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl XLVII is behind us, but Baltimore’s 34-31 win over San Francisco is the kind of game people will keep talking about all off-season – and beyond. (And not just because of these awful commercials) Here are five questions the sports world be debating all summer: 1. Why exactly was there a power outage?   It was an odd Super Bowl (I&#8217;ve already written about the wonderful weirdness that was Sunday night). But things turned downright surreal in the Superdome when the lights went out early in the third quarter, causing a 34 minute delay. So what happened? According to the AP: A joint statement from Entergy New Orleans, which provides power to the stadium, and Superdome operator SMG shed some light on the chain of events, which apparently started at the spot where Entergy feeds power into the stadium’s lines. The problem occurred shortly after Beyoncé put on a halftime show that featured extravagant lighting and video effects. “A piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system,” the statement said. “Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in order to isolate the issue. … Entergy and SMG will continue to investigate the root cause of the abnormality.” (Read the full report) New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu said “in the coming days, I expect a full after-action report from all parties involved.” Hopefully, such a report will solve a crucial riddle: Is Beyoncé at all to blame? 2. In the game&#8217;s deciding moments, why did San Francisco ditch the Pistol? San Francisco trailed 34-29 in the game’s waning moments, and had the ball on Baltimore’s seven-yard-line. First down. “I was sitting there thinking there’s no way,” says Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco. “There’s no way we stop them here.” The Ravens did, thanks in part to San Francisco’s oddball play-calling. San Francisco running back Frank Gore had 110-yards rushing in the Super Bowl, and averaged a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344381&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonderful Weirdness of Super Bowl XLVII</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/02/04/the-wonderful-weirdness-of-super-bowl-xlvii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / New Orleans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that just happened. How odd, confusing and thrilling was Super Bowl XLVII? Start with that nutty fake field goal. In the second quarter, instead of kicking a chip-shot field goal that would have put Baltimore up by two touchdowns, the Ravens tried to pull a fast one: kicker Justin Tucker took a direct snap on a 4th and 9 and ran to the left side. He got eight yards and zero points, and the San Francisco 49ers now had the ball. But that didn&#8217;t cost Baltimore, because the Ravens then forced a San Francisco four-and-out. After Baltimore got the ball back, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco connected with wide receiver Jacoby Jones on a 56-yard touchdown strike. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I call him Smoking Joe,&#8221; Jones said of Flacco afterwards. (MORE: Top 10 Siblings in Sports) Jones fell on his rear on that catch, but no 49er bothered touching him. He then got up and scampered into the end zone, and Baltimore went into halftime with a 21-6 lead. After the Beyoncé show, Baltimore started the second half with the longest play in Super Bowl history — Jones ran back a kickoff 108 yards for a touchdown — and was now up 28-6. It had been, what, a decade since we saw a Super Bowl blowout? Ack, we were probably due, even it was taking place against a team regarded as four-point favorites. Then, the blackout: a Superdome power outage caused a 34-minute delay that sent kids to school bleary-eyed. (At 4 hrs. 14 min., it would be the longest Super Bowl ever.) &#8220;We will be starting the game shortly,&#8221; the announcer kept telling the Superdome crowd, though the game didn&#8217;t start shortly. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t know,&#8221; says Baltimore safety Bernard Pollard of the power outage. &#8220;We kept hearing 20 minutes, then 5 minutes, then 10 minutes, then 15 minutes. That&#8217;s the first time I had to stretch, in the dark, with teammates. Going over drills. It was crazy.&#8221; Great: a power outage was going to delay an already lopsided Super Bowl. Can<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344354&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">San Francisco 49ers punter Andy Lee looks on during a power outage in the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game against the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans, Feb. 3, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Super Bowl XLVII: Scenes from the Superdome</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/02/03/super-bowl-xlvii-scenes-from-the-superdome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tanner Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(More photos: Beyonce Rocks the Superdome, Reunites with Destiny&#8217;s Child)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344272&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Morgan Cox of the Baltimore Ravens celebrates after the Ravens won 34-31 against the San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Feb. 3, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>In the Shadows of the Super Bowl, New Orleans Struggles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / New Orleans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Super Bowl is, well, the Super Bowl of civic cheerleading. It&#8217;s a chance, we are told, for a host city to shine, to soak in the adulation of all the revelrous out-of-towners. They&#8217;ll spend lots of money on hotel rooms and drinks and merchandise, so the Super Bowl gives its host city an economic jolt. In New Orleans, such boosterism is louder than the Mardi Gras parade. At some point on Super Bowl Sunday, you&#8217;re bound to hear breathless talk about how the Super Bowl is a surefire sign of the city&#8217;s rebound. On Friday, in his annual state-of-football press conference, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell played the role of cheerleader-in-chief. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear this city is back bigger and better than ever,&#8221; Goodell declared. (MORE: Can Roger Goodell Save Football?) This statement, unfortunately, is just not true. That&#8217;s not to say that New Orleans&#8217; return to the Super Bowl rotation for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 isn&#8217;t an important step forward. It is, for reasons both psychological — more than seven years later, it&#8217;s still hard to forget the Katrina victims packed into the Superdome after the storm— and pecuniary. Although the economic impact of hosting mass sporting events is often overstated, having tens of thousands of people come to your city to spend money doesn&#8217;t hurt the bottom line. But Super Bowl hype tends to obscure harsh truths about the host city. &#8220;Some things are markedly better,&#8221; says Allison Plyer, director of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. &#8220;Some things are definitely not. We still have a lot of trends that are troubling.&#8221; New Orleans has made real strides. The city has weathered the national recession better than most places. According to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, the number of jobs in the New Orleans metro area rose 0.6% from October 2007 to October 2012, while the U.S. lost 3.0% of all jobs. School reforms have paid off: during the 2010-2011 school year, 68% of the city&#8217;s public-school students attended schools that passed state<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344251&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways To Sound Smart About The Super Bowl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / New Orleans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Football geekdom is a sickness. Just look at the all those burned-out professional Xs and Os wonks, the football coaches. They often sleep in their office, obsessing over formations and coverages, destroying all semblance of a normal life. Then there are the more casual geeks, who spend beautiful October Sundays huddled over their computers, eyes darting between the laptop screen and the Red Zone channel on television, poring over fantasy statistics. Such behavior is not natural. On Super Bowl Sunday, however, it&#8217;s worth putting on a football nerd beanie. You can still watch the commercials and make snarky comments. You can discuss whether Beyoncé is actually singing at halftime. But pay at least a little attention to the game. Why? Because even if you don’t watch football from September through January, or do so but don’t really care about the inner workings of the game, if you act like you know what you’re talking about at a Super Bowl party, you’ll impress everyone on the couch. You’re up on things. You’re spreading a little knowledge. And that can only help your cred, right? Plus, you can fake your way through it. Here are five ways to sound smart about the Super Bowl. Throw them out there, see what happens. And after the Baltimore Ravens or San Francisco 49ers lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans, go back to not caring. For your football indifference, you should be getting the cheers. (LIST: Top 10 Siblings in Sports) 1. Spot The Pistol. When the San Francisco 49ers have the ball, you’ll hear the commentators talking about their “Pistol” offense. But most people watching the game probably have no idea what that is. You can tell them: the Pistol is essentially a formation, where quarterback Colin Kaepernick stands a few yards behind the center, awaiting the snap. The running back stands directly behind him; in the traditional &#8220;shotgun,&#8221; the running back stands in front of the quarterback, or to his side. What’s so innovative about that? With the running back behind the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344218&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during his annual press conference ahead of the NFL&#039;s Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, La., on Feb. 1, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Super Bowl Challenge: Trying to Decipher Ray Lewis and Deer Antlers</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/31/super-bowl-challenge-trying-to-decipher-ray-lewis-and-deer-antlers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / New Orleans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore Ravens middle linebacker Ray Lewis has always been one of the most complex characters in all of sports. Over his 17-year NFL career, Lewis’ passion, speed, and ability to crush offense players has thrilled Baltimore Ravens fans, and earned the respect of football followers across the country. But in 2000, Lewis got entangled in a still-mysterious criminal incident that left two people stabbed to death in Atlanta. Lewis was charged with murder, but pled guilty to obstruction of justice &#8212; a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to a year of probation. He testified against two co-defendants; they were both found not guilty in June of 2000. No one else was ever charged in the case. Later, Lewis settled two civil suits against him, for undisclosed sums. Lewis’ football career soared over the next decade. The Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2001, and Lewis took the MVP. By all accounts, he was charitable off the field. The incident almost became a footnote – even corporate America embraced him. He starred in a Visa ad. Lewis did a bunch of Old Spice commercials. The company even labeled him a “Superperson.” This year, the NFL featured him in a cutesy spot promoting its player safety agenda. ESPN has reportedly hired Lewis as a commentator for next season. But Lewis’ January announcement that he would retire at the end of this season, and Baltimore’s subsequent run to the Super Bowl, have given people reason to reexamine his legacy. Did Lewis&#8217; on-field success, and off-field charisma, lead us to gloss over that ugly episode earlier in his career? If so, does that say something ugly about our priorities? Yes, the courts cleared Lewis of the most serious crime. But how can we ever really know what happened that night? Now, a new – though far less serious – accusation has been leveled against Lewis during this Super Bowl week. In a Sports Illustrated story, the owner of a company called Sports With Alternatives to Steroids (S.W.A.T.S.) said he gave Lewis a mix of products including<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344174&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">AFC Championship - Baltimore Ravens v New England Patriots</media:title>
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		<title>What if There Were No Super Bowl?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/30/what-if-there-was-no-super-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory / New Orleans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For probably the first time in NFL history, players are talking about the Super Bowl’s possible extinction, just a few days before the big game in New Orleans between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers. You can thank two people for that: Ravens safety Bernard Pollard and President Barack Obama. Late last week, Pollard told CBS Sports that he did not think the NFL would still exist in 30 years. “I think with the direction things are going — where [NFL rulemakers] want to lighten up, and they&#8217;re throwing flags and everything else — there&#8217;s going to come a point where fans are going to get fed up with it,&#8221; Pollard said. He also said with players getting bigger and stronger every year, it’s nearly impossible to make the game safe. “The only thing I&#8217;m waiting for &#8230; and, Lord, I hope it doesn&#8217;t happen &#8230; is a guy dying on the field,” Pollard said. Such a catastrophe could turn more fans away from the game. Then, in an interview with the New Republic, Obama wrestled with the safety issues that threaten the future of football. If he had a son, Obama said, he’d “have to think long and hard” about letting him play football. &#8220;I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,&#8221; Obama told the magazine. &#8220;In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won&#8217;t have to examine our consciences quite as much.&#8221; Where is football going? That crucial, complex question — which has no clear answer — is at the forefront of Super Bowl XLVII, which kicks off on Feb. 3. During Tuesday’s media day, Pollard — one of the NFL’s fiercest hitters, whose helmet-to-helmet strike on New England running back Stevan Ridley in the AFC title game both caused a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344128&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ben Nix, from NFL security, carries the Vince Lombardi Trophy in preparation for a news conference between San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh and Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game on Feb. 1, 2013, in New Orleans.</media:title>
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		<title>Top 10 Siblings in Sports</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/29/top-10-siblings-in-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Levy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Super Bowl Stadiums: From I to XLV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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