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- 643 people will be breaking down the Super Bowl for your courtesy of NBC (ok that a SLIGHT exaggeration)

- What’s old is new again: Troy Polamalu steps into the Joe Greene role for Super Bowl XLIII

- FINALLY! BUD BOWL IS BACK!!!

- Sold drugs as a youth? I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE DRAFTED HOLMES!

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Mastercard and Peyton Manning stretch this teammate thing again (and yes, it’s still funny!)

Headed to the slopes tonight for a three-day weekend. Back on Monday. And don’t worry Ms. Felden, we’ll take good care of your boy

- I like Obama cause he’s not wishy-washy and playing stupid political games. Case in point: He blatantly says he’s rooting for the Steelers!

- Good news: The post-Super Bowl Office episode is good (“Bottom line: It’s brilliant, and I do believe it lifts the curse – with some exceptions – that seemed to bedevil hour-long ‘Offices’ of years past, notably ‘07 when it began with a whole slew of ‘em.”

- More Super Bowl commercials: These broke the mold and caused a stir 

- From one dip guy to another: The Guac Bowl makes me sooooooo jealous!

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Matty joins the family 

- “It took three calls to Detroit authorities over two days before they recovered the body of a man frozen in ice in the elevator shaft of a vacant warehouse”: And you wonder why Detroit was named the most miserable city to live in

- Well if Perez Hilton says it, it HAS to be true: Michelle Obama, preggers? 

- MAN CAVES! “Snoop Dogg’s man cave also features a sofa made out of a car bumper and a direct phone line to Denny’s”

- Hey rook: Can’t pull that sh*t in the NFL anymore. Keep those profanities to yourself next time (f*ing Cowboys)

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Even when the commercial itself sucks, Peyton can bring it up a notch (he’s THAT good!)

- Soundwave returns for the Transformers sequel and has been updated from a tape deck to AN iPOD! (just kidding – he’s a lameass plane)

- Seriously – What’s a Snuggie and why do I keep hearing about it? And NO YOU CAN’T HAVE ONE!

- In the spirit of this weeks earlier posting about character based Kubricks figures, can you guess the Lego Movie star?

- You make the call: Are Blake Lively’s boobs getting bigger? Yesterday (ish) and today

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Peyton shows Eli how it’s done (or rather Archie does)

- How did Starbucks not see this coming? Didn’t they think that one day people would stop paying $4 for a cup of coffee?

- Another sign of the times: Will we soon be saying “No mail on the weekends”

- Look what John Mayer did to her! Jessica Simpson ate herself!

- That’s WHAT she said… and did… and, um… whoa… THAT’S A LITTLE TOO FAR!

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Yes, Eli. You are making a huge mistake. This whole campaign is a huge mistake

- Sir Paul visits The Colbert Report tonight. Hilarity ensues.

- Like the Hulk, Lara Croft will return to the big screen in a better (we hope) way. And yes, I would go see this reboot, but would not see Tomb Raider 3

- First word comes that “Thriller” might be coming to Broadway. Now we hear that John Landis is suing MJ for residuals. This IS Thriller night!

- Nine months before you even suggest this CANTOR, the answer is NO

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Not so funny, but neat anyways: Sprint explores Peyton’s mind 

- Seriously? He’s the f*ing president: Matt Lauer get’s Obama’s first American post-inauguration interview… and NBC is going to air it in the Super Bowl pre-game (gee, wonder if Matt will ask him who he thinks will win)

- It was bound to happen: Watchmen Kubricks join the pop culture pantheon (FYI: Kubricks are those little Lego-like figurines that have been made to resemble everything from Spiderman to Lost characters)

- Let’s be honest: Kate Winslet’s boobs at the SAG Awards made me want to stick my hand down my pants, too… just not in front of her 

- NBC won’t let PETA run this ad (I think it’s because of the pumpkin licker)

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Peyton Manning is going down… 4th floor – getting a massage today

- Seriously, can we get ONE politician who is not corrupt? Blago in Chicgao, the mayor in Hartford, the gay mayor in Portland… ENOUGH!

- Mickey Rourke is taking this Wrestler thing too far

- Ah yes, the annual “best of Super Bowl Commercials” list (Shocker – Apple’s 1984 list made the cut)

- Take a listen to Animal Collective’s show at Bowery Ballroom the other night (PS – I love this band because they are from my hometown of Columbia, Maryland and named their latest CD Merriweather Post Pavilion after the amphitheatre in town!)

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: A throwback: Peyton talks smack 

- Nine storylines to pay attention to this Super Bowl week (besides what will Shag play Saturday night at Black Bear)

- Another 24 movie, this time in Britian? (Side note: Is Jack Bauer’s time almost up?)

- Clooney steps back into the scrubs that made him who he is today

- Marino continues to top the list of best NFL QB’s to never win the big one (if only he had Ricky and Ronnie)

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: The “Pep Talk” campaign didn’t last too long and only about half were funny. This was one of the funny ones

- Gotta love CBS and their willingness to experiment: Katie goes for a prime time test

- The Bus goes 3D (his role is a little different than the last time Pittsburgh was in the Super Bowl)

- Whoa – check out footage of the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane when it first landed 

- The 500 worst passwords, based on nothing (thanks Jason for the link)

Extra Slice – Peyton Manning Week: Last week Sports Illustrated published a great article about Peyton Manning: The Pitchman. In it the author goes through what makes Peyton the ultimate pitchman (his timing, his ability to laugh at himself, etc). “We stop for a Peyton Manning commercial,” the author states. “We shush the room for a Peyton Manning commercial. And then the game returns, and we go back to hoping he gets sacked. Such is the power of comedy. Manning can win over his loudest haters with 30 seconds of bemused idiot-box philosophy.”

In honor of this year’s league MVP and the upcoming Super Bowl (in which he’ll appear ONLY in commercials), we’ll spend the week looking at some of Peyton’s top ads. First up: The classic Mastercard commercial