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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Pittsburgh Steelers are Super Bowl champions for a record sixth time after beating upset-minded Arizona 27-23 in what arguably was the most exciting Super Bowl ever.
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NEWSChannel 2 staff members have made their predictions for Sunday's big game. Click here to see who Steve McMurray (Steeler's fan), Kristen Copeland and others picked.
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TAMPA (NBC Sports) Cliff Hite has called himself a "nationally-known knucklehead." He isn’t. He is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, a former college quarterback at the University of Kentucky, a long-time high school teacher and a smart football coach.
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(NBC Sports) - What do the players who have been there remember most about being in the Super Bowl? Tom Curran and Gregg Rosenthal find out and share some of the memories.
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(NBC Sports) - When Donovan McNabb’s 4th-down pass fell incomplete (Pass interference? You hush!) last Sunday in the NFC Championship Game, Will Leitch was there to witness it. Leitch, 33, is renowned for being the founder and former editor of Deadspin.
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(NBC Sports) - When Donovan McNabb’s 4th-down pass fell incomplete (Pass interference? You hush!) last Sunday in the NFC Championship Game, Will Leitch was there to witness it. Leitch, 33, is renowned for being the founder and former editor of Deadspin.
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TAMPA, FL (NBC Sports) - Downtown Tampa was as quiet as the inside of a coffin. A few early arrivals were picking up credentials at the convention center, where they'll be holed up this week. Piles of Steelers postseason media guides were already out for anyone who wanted to read a season's worth of press clippings, but there wasn't a scrap of information out about the Cardinals.
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(NBC Sports) - Until this year, no team ever had three 1,000-yard receivers. But the 2008-2009 Arizona Cardinals did. With Larry Fitzgerald (96 catches, 1,431 yards), Anquan Boldin (89 catches, 1,038 yards in 12 games) and Steve Breaston (77 catches, 1,006 yards) at Kurt Warner’s disposal, the Cardinals have – statistically – the most daunting trio of pass-catchers ever to play in a Super Bowl. Are they the best group ever?
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(NBC Sports) - It is one thing to rule the NFL. It is another to change it. Oftentimes, the team that rules the NFL by winning the Super Bowl ends up changing it as well. It is a time honored tradition that every other team in the league studies everything the Super Bowl winner has done, and often imitates what has worked best.
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(NBC Sports) - The Pittsburgh Steelers, winners of 12 regular season games and owners of one of the nastiest defenses in football, are 7-point favorites over the 9-win Arizona Cardinals, a team that didn’t get truly hot until it got to the postseason. Pittsburgh’s got history. Arizona’s got ... deserts and cactuses. It seems like a Super Bowl mismatch. Here’s how all the perceived mismatches of the past (a betting line in which one team was favored by more than a touchdown) shook out.
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(NBC Sports) - There are teams more renowned and teams that are more glamorous than the Pittsburgh Steelers. But for nearly 40 years now, there hasn’t been a franchise in any sport that is more true to the town whose name it bears, more down-to-earth, and more consistent.
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(NBC Sports) - Everyone's ready to write off the Arizona Cardinals. Las Vegas made Arizona 7-point underdogs to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII. The Cardinals are just the second team with only nine regular-season wins to reach the NFL's biggest game. Arizona closed the regular season with just two wins in its final six games and allowed at least 35 points in each of those losses. Still, maybe everyone's been too quick to write off the Cardinals. Here are 10 reasons why.
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(NBC Sports) - The Cardinals' defense these past two weeks has left many of us rubbing our eyes, squinting and taking another look. Our minds are telling us their defense is an oasis in the desert — surely a mirage. But our eyes keep saying something else.
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PITTSBURGH, P.A. (NBC Sports) - In September 2007, a few days before the Pittsburgh Steelers faced Ken Whisenhunt's Arizona Cardinals, Steelers defensive end Brett Keisel took a stab at what the game meant to Whisenhunt.
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