1:00pm Central time, February 7, 2010 – CBS’s pregame for Super Bowl XLIV begins, brought to you by chips, beer, Bourbon Street, and Dwight Freeney’s ankle.
3:45pm – Katie Couric interviews President Barack Obama on the Super Bowl. Next, Keyshawn Johnson and Cris Carter debate health care.
5:00pm – Rihanna and Jay-Z open the kickoff show on CBS, brought to you by Hyundai, who proudly announce they are not Toyota.
5:12pm – Solomon Wilcots reports from the Saints sideline, wearing a pink tablecloth and a pink-yet-still-horribly-mismatching tie. HD TV was made for moments like this.
5:20pm – Carrie Underwood performs the National Anthem, clad in white stripper heels and an outfit that can only be described as “Naughty Ice Cream Truck Driver.”
5:21pm – The camera pans the players. Nice of Jeremy Shockey to wash his hair for the occasion. He looks like Kid Rock’s big brother.

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By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 2/8/2010New Orleans explodes with joy after Saints winEcstatic fans poured into the streets of the French Quarter late Sunday as storm-scarred New Orleans celebrated its first-ever Super Bowl win by their beloved Saints.
A city famous for diversions – Mardi Gras, music and colorful politics, to name a few – set aside distractions to focus on the big game.
Even the strippers on bawdy Bourbon Street stopped dancing. Instead, they joined thousands of revelers cheering the Saints on live television sets at nearby bars.
“We have no music, no stages. It’s the first time I’ve seen a club shut down and I’ve been doing this for five years,” said Sam Stonebraker, 34, a host at Rick’s Cabaret.
“The game is pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime event in this city.”

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… Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints! Who dat? Who Dat!,” a crowd in a French Quarter restaurant chanted, after the team scored their first touchdown.
A city famous for diversions – Mardi Gras, music and colourful politics, to name – set aside distractions to focus on the big game.
Even the strippers on bawdy Bourbon Street stopped dancing. Instead, thousands of revelers cheered the Saints on live television sets at nearby bars.
“We have no music, no stages. It’s the first time I’ve seen a club shut down and I’ve been doing this for five years,” said Sam Stonebraker, 34, a host at Rick’s Cabaret, a gentleman’s club. “The game is pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime event in this city.”
On a typical night, the club has 40 “entertainers” dancing on stage – not tonight.
A few doors down, the Temptations strip club was also upstaged by the Saints Super Bowl.

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We’re not sold yet. It’s good timing for Ms. Ortega, the one-time “stripper/professional escort,” if she’s looking to make some fame. It’s curious that the video is sponsored by a shady-looking ringtone company. And, above all, consider how much worth you assign to the word of someone who’ll willingly tell the world she’s the other woman.

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His company will do about 1,000 virtual events this year, he said. “We’re digitalizing the expo event,” he added.
The home page of Strickland’s website, expos2.com, opens with a physical layout of a convention center, with links to programs and exhibits. Navigation is as simple as the virtual home tours that real estate sellers use to display a house. Lectures and presentations are live and interactive, but also can be archived. Costs to mount or attend an exhibition are a small fraction of a physical event.
Ah, but what about those after-hours parties? “I actually had someone say to me, ‘If you keep all those sales people from going to conventions in Las Vegas, how are they going to go to strip clubs?’ ” he said. “I simply didn’t have an answer for that.”

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… The No. 1 body part discussed all week was the ankle injury to Colts superstar defensive end Dwight Freeney. Never has an injury to a non-QB been covered so closely and in such great depth. Obviously this guy is a great, great player. All indications are that he will try to play, but will be very limited. He is clearly the third-best player on the field behind Peyton Manning and Drew Brees. It is a shame he is hobbling because he is a difference maker.
•Boisterous and outspoken New York Jets coach Rex Ryan’s middle finger got him in hot water this week. He was attending a mixed martial arts fight while in Miami and apparently some drunk Dolphins fan would not stop harassing the very confident Ryan. Rex responded by flipping the moron the bird. I only have two comments on the matter that cost Ryan a $50,000 fine by the Jets.
No. 1: When you are in Miami, why would you go to some stupid MMA fight? Were all the strip clubs and martini bars closed?

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Aymond: Boring week will finish with huge bang in Miami
Brady Aymond baymond@theadvertiser.com
February 7, 2010
FT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Super Bowl XLIV shouldn’t have a hard time matching the week-long hype.
With the exception of New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams’ “remember-me” shots comment aimed at Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, the week leading up to tonight’s big showdown has been pretty tame.
There’s been no reports of curfews missed.
There’s been no players getting arrested at strip clubs.
There’s been no word of brawls breaking out at Super Bowl parties in South Beach.
As a reporter for a Thailand newspaper put it on Thursday, “This has been a pretty boring Super Bowl week.”
The story lines are quite compelling.
Drew Brees vs. Peyton Manning; No. 1 vs. No. 1; Archie’s team vs. Archie’s son.

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At the same time, he’s just started investigating a case about a murdered immigrant family from Senegal, which is likely the work of drug lord Big Fate (rap star Xzibit). As his actions grow more extreme, the viewer is pressed to wonder whether Terence will manage to solve the case before his bad behavior catches up with him.
Veteran filmmaker Herzog’s (Rescue Dawn, Nosferatu the Vampyre) works are known for their quirky, conflicted protagonists and explorations of the limitations of Western society. Bad Lieutenant delivers on both counts.
Terence is often abhorrent, more villain than hero. He’s worse than most of the criminals he chases. He’s hooked on drugs, gambling and women, and prone to violent and erratic acts. Nothing is taboo – he teams with a drug baron to feed his habit and pay off debts, he offers his prostitute girlfriend up to thugs, he even tortures two elderly women for information.

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Benefits of the big game are difficult to measure, especially in South Florida. Tourists would have flocked to Miami in February, even if there was no Super Bowl. While it’s true that hotels jack up their room rates for the big games, the profits they make flow back to their out-of-town owners and not to the economy in the Miami area, says Philip Porter, a professor of economics at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
“The studies [saying there are big benefits from the Super Bowl] are just guesses, not studies,” says Porter. “While there is a lot of money being spent there is no opportunity for the city to grab it.”
Local residents also may spend their money on Super Bowl tickets instead of on goods and services in the community. Other locals may leave the area to escape the crowds generated by the big game. When the Super Bowl was in Tampa, operators of strip clubs in the city dubbed the “lap dance capital” laid off local dancers and hired more famous out-of-towners to entertain the tourists, Porter says.

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… ‘But just resist that for one week and then we’ll come back here, and I’ll pay for everyone’s plane ticket. And then I’ll show you around Miami, local style.’ “
It sounds simple, but history has shown time and again that some players can’t resist that temptation, even before the biggest games of their lives.
Two of the most infamous incidents involving Super Bowl players on the eve of the game happened in Miami. In 1989, Cincinnati running back Stanley Wilson was caught using cocaine on the night before the game, his third offense under the NFL’s drug policy, which got him banned from the league. Ten years later, Atlanta safety Eugene Robinson was arrested by an undercover police officer for soliciting a prostitute on the night before the game — on the same day that he had been awarded the Bart Starr Award for his high moral character.

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