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Webb wrote:The Steelers took the wild card position that the Dolphins were hoping for.

As we often say in South Florida, "There's always next year".

Webb wrote:The Super Bowl contestants:

NFC
Green Bay Packers 22 OT
Seattle Seahawks 28

AFC
Indianapolis Colts 7
New England Patriots 45

Anthindelahunt wrote:I used to watch the Superbowl but not any longer.
It seems like a ten minute break after every play
and then a never ending series of commercials.

I remember many years ago when they played
the game and not a million ads.Same for CFL.

Anthin.

It will be hard—achingly hard, if not nigh-impossible—for you, a committed sports fan, to divert your attention away from the luminous spectacle of competitive purity that is the 2015 NFL Pro Bowl, presented by McDonald's.

It's a nightmare. Once-defiant competitors, confidently pounding away at the NFL's midsection with Harry Potter movies and Golden Girls reruns, shrink away from the ratings behemoth that is the pre-Super Bowl all-star showcase, hosted (as if aligned by the very forces of fate) at the Mecca of American football, University of Phoenix Stadium in, um, Glendale, Ariz. In prime time.

What can they do? What, I ask, can they do? No mere hundredth showing of The Shawshank Redemption can possibly penetrate the hide of this hulking beast. No Futurama, no Caddyshack can hope to share the floor with the Pro Bowl. Hopeless! Hopeless. When Andy Dalton and C.J. Anderson share a football field, folks, God himself has to buy ad time.

In recognition of the outrageousness of the task before us—the sheer futility of drawing your eyes away from this vital moment in human history—we hereby offer a carefully culled selection of those programming options that objectively and undeniably approach the Pro Bowl's level of quality, spectacle, and cultural significance.

Super Bowl host cities can see a major economic boost when the NFL comes to town.

But the mayor of Glendale, Arizona - home to Super Bowl XLIX - is questioning the money-making potential of this year's big game, CBS News' David Begnaud reports.

"I think if you looked in the till at the end of the day, I think you'll have less money in it than came in," said Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers.

Weiers suspects that when the sun sets on Super Bowl XLIX, the only real loser may be his city.

"I'm sure that we're going to spend $3 million," Weiers said. "I would hope, in tax revenues, that we can actually account for well over a million, probably 1.2, 3."

Roughly, that would be a $2 million loss, and he's basing his projection on history. When Glendale hosted the Super Bowl in 2008, the city estimates it lost $1.6 million.