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After Super Bowl, Steelers Just Wanted Some Time With Their Kids


During Super Bowl week, players are, for the most part, separated from their wives and children. The teams don't want any distractions, so they put the players up in a separate hotel from the families. And that means at the end of a long week, most of the players just wanted to spend a little time with the kids. After Super Bowl XLIII, I went down to the area where the victorious Steelers were meeting the press and got pictures of MVP Santonio Holmes and four of his teammates with the little ones.

Super Bowl Officiating Was Just Fine

TAMPA, Fla. --The friendly young man who took my bag at the rental car area of the Tampa airport guessed I had been in town for the Super Bowl and wanted to talk football.

"Man, I couldn't believe some of those calls," he told me. "It's the Super Bowl. How do you call that stuff?"

I wasn't really in the mood for a conversation about the finer points of NFL officiating, but if I had been, I would have asked, in all sincerity, "What stuff?"

Best Super Bowl Passers? Kurt Warner, Kurt Warner and Kurt Warner

TAMPA, Fla. -- The player I'll remember most from Super Bowl XLIII is Kurt Warner. From the way he patiently answered every single press question (and, unfortunately for those of us who need juicy quotes, was media savvy enough not to say anything the slightest bit controversial), to his being named the NFL's Man of the Year just before kickoff, to his brilliant performance on the field Sunday night, Warner dominated this Super Bowl, even in defeat.

43 Observations From Super Bowl XLIII

TAMPA, Fla. -- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said it best, just before awarding the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

"Some said we couldn't top last year's Super Bowl," Goodell said. "But the Steelers and Cardinals did it tonight."

That sentiment pretty well sums up what we just witnessed Sunday in Florida, but here are my other observations (43 of them, to be exact) after taking in Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium.

Michael David Smith on The Team 990

TAMPA, Fla. -- On Friday I talked to Picard from The Team 990 in Montreal about the week of pre-Super Bowl hype, the weather in Tampa, and yes, the actual game that we're all about to watch.

We also talked about Commissioner Roger Goodell's State of the League press conference (I'm still mad at the NFL PR staff for not taking my question) and I gave my pick for the game.

Listen to the audio after the jump or right-click here to download the MP3.

Stadium Is Empty, Steelers Fans Dominate Super Bowl Tailgating

TAMPA, Fla. -- Three hours before kickoff of Super Bowl XLIII, the stadium, as you can see from the picture I just took on the right, is mostly empty.

But even though the fans haven't arrived, there's no doubt that this will be a pro-Steelers crowd.

Cris Carter Will Get the Art Monk Treatment in Hall of Fame Voting


TAMPA, Fla. -- I believe Cris Carter will one day be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But in talking to some Hall of Fame voters both before and after Saturday's selection meeting, I also believe that Carter, like fellow possession receiver Art Monk before him, will have a long wait before enshrinement in Canton.

Hall of Famers Bruce Smith, Randall McDaniel Recall Past Battles

TAMPA, Fla. -- Although their careers overlapped, Bruce Smith and Randall McDaniel only played against each other a handful of times. But when it was announced today that both Smith and McDaniel had been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I asked them both what it was like to play against each other.

My Super Bowl Week Questions




TAMPA, Fla.
-- Above you'll find my questions at the Super Bowl week press conferences of Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt, Walter Payton Man of the Year Award finalist Matt Birk, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin and Pro Football Hall of Famer Bruce Smith.

Bob Hayes' Sister Reads His Words After Posthumous Hall of Fame Selection

TAMPA, Fla. -- The best moment of this Super Bowl week took place this afternoon in a conference room at the Super Bowl media center, when Lucille Hester, the sister of former Cowboys wide receiver Bob Hayes, read a letter that her late brother wrote to her before he died, detailing what he wanted to say if he was ever selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

That selection came today, and the letter that Hester read brought goose bumps and audible gasps to those in the room.

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