After two monotonous weeks of the sports world dissecting everything as if it were Peyton Manning's 8th grade lab frog, Super Bowl XLIV is here. The Cold, Hard Football Facts had the entire extravaganza covered like a couch-potato Snuggie. Of course, we're so cheap we don't own a Snuggie. We just wear our bathrobes backwards.
Here's a look back at two weeks of stat-filled non-hype from the pages of Cold, Hard Football Facts.com. The Chief Troll is down in Miami covering the game, and we'll be blogging from the stadium throughout the afternoon and into the evening. Stay tuned!
We rank every Super Bowl in history, from one that not even fans of the winning side enjoyed, to another that spawned a celebrations in 44 of the 50 states.
Our road to the Super Bowl took us past the mom-and-pop barbecue stands of the Carolinas, where we found inspiration to shred the data and provide you our analysis – and the winner – of the big game.
The Chief Troll joined our pals Dennis & Callahan from Boston’s sports radio WEEI to slowly digest the Super Bowl like a basket of beignets at Café du Monde.
Everything you wanted to know about the Saints and their first appearance in the Super Bowl, packed into a glitzy 210 pages from the organization’s media staff.
Everything you wanted to know about the Colts and their first appearance in the Super Bowl, packed into a glitzy 76 pages from the organization’s media staff.
Drew Brees and Peyton Manning enter Super Bowl XLIV with an average passer rating of 104.8. Only Joe Montana and Dan Marino in Super Bowl XIX a full quarter century ago boasted a higher average passer rating (105.9) among Super Bowl quarterbacks.
Saints fans believe Drew Brees walks on water. We don't know about that. But we do know that the man who leads New Orleans into its first Super Bowl boasts the third best postseason passer rating in NFL history. Eleven TDs and just two picks in 186 attempts will do that to a guy.
Some things will never die. Like Clint Eastwood, for example, or the belief that defense wins championships. But both have seen better days. In fact, if you want to earn a fistful of dollars, defense is not the sure bet it once was. The Saints and Colts provide further evidence.
We hit up the best chefs, restaurants and cookbooks of New Orleans to bring you the complete tailgate of traditional Big Easy favorites, including the trio of dishes from the Hank Williams classic: "Jambalaya, crawfish pie and file gumbo."
Yes, we occasionally dabble in asocial media … beats cowering in fear of the sun, which is our usual MO. Join the 1,279 other Trolls who have seen the light!
Yeah, killing two weeks before the Super Bowl gets old real fast. But over the years we’ve filled the downtime by gawking at the bombshells of Fox. Beats looking at football spreadsheets 24x7. Today, for the first time, we present our findings to an adoring pigskin public: the Fox Foxes starting 11.
Quarterbacks always generate hype. So when two of the game’s elite passers meet in the Super Bowl, the hype that already surrounds almost every football game reaches a fever pitch. We look at how Brees-Manning shapes up against the most eagerly anticipated QB showdowns in NFL history.
Some quarterback match-ups provided plenty of explosive pre-game hype. But only a small handful of others actually produced on-the-field fireworks.
You can bet on pretty much anything in the Super Bowl, and this years battle provides more than its share of things on which to waste your money, from the length of the national anthem to the survivability of Pete Townshend’s guitar at halftime.
The NFL provides a long list of statistical details about the popularity of the nation’s biggest sporting event, from its record TV viewership year after year to the record amount of guacamole Americans consume on Super Bowl Sunday.
It was a storybook year for the Saints, who set franchise and even all-time NFL records in countless categories during this, its first Super Bowl season.
