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We'll be open for Super Bowl Sunday. Steelers play the Seahawks and we'll be providing hot wing and drink specials.

When it comes to a game as big as a Super Bowl and plays can go either way, you never want to have that happen. But that's something that you have to live with, as a player or a coach, knowing that it is going to be weighed on a person's judgment. That's why they brought in replay, to try to take away some of the error in judgment by the referees. But you can't go back and fix everything. You really want to make more plays than the other team so you don't have to worry about the referees coming into play.

We're all professionals here -- been there, done that. We have leaders in this locker room. It really doesn't matter. If they brought him back, we'd still have a job at hand to do. . . . We believe we can get it done. We just came off a Super Bowl season, so why wouldn't we think that?

We don't care who or where. We just want to play. If we can have the same effort we did tonight, it doesn't matter what their name is, what color their jersey is, what bowl it is. If we play the same way we did tonight, we'll be all right.

We were 1-2 and we needed this victory badly. So for us it was the Super Bowl Champions, but at the same time it was just the next game on our schedule.

Those guys made spectacular catches in the Super Bowl. I wanted to be compared to those guys. I never thought I belonged on the list because they had Super bowl rings. You can put me on the list now.

With all the adversity that everybody in New Orleans has gone through, I'm thankful to the city of Lafayette for opening their arms up to this bowl and hosting this game. Because if those things don't happen, there are two teams that are at home today.

We received a written request from the BCS to take appropriate action as it related to bowl games. The BCS didn't feel it had the governance structure to do what was necessary.

Yes, that's true. It's all part of the ongoing evolution in TV programming how to work with these facts, and events like the World Series and college (football) bowl games, and still maximize the appeal of our schedule.

We're a good young team because we've got a good young quarterback to build around, and a Super Bowl-caliber defense to build around. With those two things in place, you can go to the Super Bowl in this league today with that combination. Look at the Ravens.

We don't see that with Oregon. Oregon's come here with a great attitude. When Hayden Fry came in here with Iowa, he always said their goal was to go to the Rose Bowl first, but if they couldn't, he preferred coming to the Holiday. I think the Pac-10 and Big 12 feel that way now. I don't see it as a problem.

We each had our own bowl we ate from. Sometimes they didn't wash it out. This woman, I don't know why she did it.

We're already in a bear market for small- and mid-cap stocks. Big caps have been in a Super Bowl market and we are correcting that.

We really struggled. The only team that beat them twice in that Super Bowl year was New Orleans. They ran the ball effectively, and that's what you have to do against Tampa.

We can win the Super Bowl without him. He's a selfish, greedy bum. We don't need him causing problems around here.

We are thrilled to play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. This is going to be a great experience for our team and our fans to participate in such a historic bowl game.

We are thrilled to play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, ... This is going to be a great experience for our team and our fans to participate in such a historic bowl game.

We are the tropical fruit bowl of Australia. I would say every tree has been flattened. It looks like an atomic bomb has hit the place.

We had gusts of winds in the Orange Bowl over 30 miles per hour out of the north, and we began to worry a little bit about the light towers and the fixtures. They had been certified, but we wanted to be sure. There wasn't any danger.

We had a lot of opportunities to go to a bigger bowl game. This is what we got -- gotta work with it. We got to correct this thing.

We had very good plans against him about where to place our fielders and how to bowl to him. We were successful but I do miss watching him bat now. He is a stroke player and we tried to take away his boundary shots.

We had to win two games on the road to get to the Super Bowl and that's what we did. It was a challenge, but we got it done.

We've learned a lot this year. Any time you can win a bowl game it really gives you some momentum.

We have to keep the nucleus together, and plug in some new faces, and we'll be fine. One thing about winning a Super Bowl is that everybody wants a player off that Super Bowl team. They're very hot commodities. Unfortunately for our team, you can't pay everybody.

We couldn't be more delighted with the success of Super Bowl XL.

We just didn't execute to the best of our abilities. That's why (Pittsburgh) is the Super Bowl champion, and we're not.

We were hoping it would follow the Holiday Bowl tradition of a high-scoring game and a lot of yards gained. The only pattern we've seen in the Holiday Bowl is people don't turn their televisions off.

We were here through all the moves. So this is a big thing. We finally got to play in the Big East and were finally invited to a bowl game. It's amazing. This is something special. We worked hard. We earned it.

Three games in the Valley in the span of a week (Insight, Fiesta and BCS) will bring at least $300 million into the local economy. That's approaching what a Super Bowl would bring, which is in the neighborhood of $400 million.

You know, there's not many of us left from the Super Bowl year, but the five of us that are may have the Super Bowl in mind at some point going into it.

When I first ran for office 15 years ago, I was told that USF had the same economic impact of a Super Bowl every year. But looking at that number, it seems to have tripled.

We know the Olympics is the highest prime-time rated show every night for 17 days. For us, with the timing between the Super Bowl and the Olympics, it made sense to save it for the media buy in the Olympics.

We get paid well, but this is what really motivates most of the players. Some guys might worry about the money more. But playing in the Super Bowl and winning a (championship) ring is what it's all about for most of us.

We get a certain number of them. We have to pay for extra ones for the walk-ons and whatever we get for bowl games.

We get a certain number of them, ... We have to pay for extra ones for the walk-ons and whatever we get for bowl games.

We generally attend three battle reenactments in the spring and three in the fall. Most years we attend a national event, which is kind of like the Super Bowl of reenacting. Numbers attending those events can easily exceed 10,000 soldiers like myself, complete with cavalry and artillery.

The problem is, everyone knows how the Super Bowl works. Everyone knows they're going to be sold out.

We haven't been officially notified that we're playing the opening game of the season. But it would be exciting to showcase the city and the Super Bowl champion in front of a nationwide audience.

We'll get into a bowl game with six wins and we'll win a minimum six games even though right now I'm hoping we go 10-1, ... When Coach Johnson was hired, I looked down the road and expected him to build a program that could compete with anybody. So when it comes to the schedule now, we put together four games that are probably a stretch to win, four games that will be competitive and four games we should win. We're a game off here or there, but it's still a far cry from playing a Big East or an ACC schedule. That won't happen.

Unfortunately, we didn't make the plays we needed to make. They played well on defense. We didn't execute to the best of our abilities today. Therefore they're the Super Bowl champs, and we're not.

Those were very good football teams. Every year, we'd go to a bowl and the people on the other side would kind of sell us short. I remember the Georgia people kind of chuckled at the farm kids from Ohio and we went out and whipped their butts (21-0) so it was fun.

You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many; the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world.

To go to a bowl game as part of a BCS conference is a pretty big deal. A lot of things came together to make this happen. I always expect big things to happen.

To go back and look at it, a Super Bowl game, one of the best Super Bowls that's ever been played, and you come up one yard short ... you're always going to remember that if you were there when it happened,

We don't have any stars. We don't have a Pro Bowl player on defense, which I don't think is fair because we definitely have guys who play like it. There's no egos on our team. Everybody wants to play everybody.

When you sponsor a bowl game, you get your name in lights. College football fans are the most passionate fans in the world. Bowl games are 90 years old. There is such tradition. You align yourself with that.

We had an opportunity to coach him in the Pro Bowl and that's a special player. Andre Johnson has turned into one of the better receivers in the National Football League.

We had an opportunity to coach him in the Pro Bowl and that's a special player,'' Cowher said.

When you're older, it's harder to stay in this game and play at a Pro Bowl level. I definitely feel it was one of my better years, if not the best. Experience definitely helps, realizing you don't have to rely so much on bulk, mass and strength. You can rely on what you've learned over the years and you can be just as effective.

When he broke his leg I said my only hope was that he would play in the bowl game. Here he goes and plays in the bowl game and he intercepts a pass and runs it back for a touchdown -- that's tremendous.

We plan to move back eventually. As soon as I get the Sugar Bowl wrapped up, I'll go home and start renovating.

We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?

We sent them to the New Orleans Bowl with a losing record.

We still have a chance to achieve all the goals we've set. We set a goal to win the Big East championship and get a BCS bowl game. We still have that opportunity. ... That's amazing.

We still have a chance to achieve all the goals we've set, ... We set a goal to win the Big East championship and get a BCS bowl game. We still have that opportunity. ... That's amazing.

To me, this is as good as a BCS game. Everybody will be watching us. It's not like one of those rinky-dink bowl games that people don't watch. This is a big-time bowl.

We're at the Super Bowl and the people are thanking us for coming. Thanking us for coming to the Super Bowl? Are you kidding me?

The ratings all week have been tremendous. Interest in the Steelers is just huge, and ratings were very, very high. And this was one of the highest Super Bowl ratings ever.

Times were very hard during the Dust Bowl days, ... Those days were bad.

You look back at the last 30 years, and they've won more national championships than anybody in the country. We have a history with Nebraska going back to the (1986) Fiesta Bowl and, of course, the '97 co-national championship.

We want to compete for conference championships and go to bowl games.

We were all of the mind that if you took care of one game at a time and played hard, anything was possible. I'm not going to tell you we knew we were going to go to the Super Bowl because I don't know that you ever know that, but as the season went along you got the feeling that something special was happening.

We want to have two major bowl games in town. And it's been the luck of this town that we've had high-scoring games.

We believed Brad was the elite coaching candidate. He came from a winning program with the Philadelphia Eagles. He's an NFC guy, knows NFC opponents and played an important role in the development of Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb.

We shocked the world, but we didn't shock ourselves. That's kind of one of those things we all dream about as we grow up, having a chance to win the Super Bowl in the last minute.

Wall Street has a lot of football fans. The Super Bowl indicator might be fun, but I'd put more credence into astrologic market predictors. Any correlation between the stock market and the Super Bowl that can be dug up is just coincidental. There's no way the outcome of the football game has any effect on the stock market.

We let so much get away from us early that it came back to haunt us. It's not any one thing. We just did not play well enough to win. And when you do that in a bowl game, you're not going to win.

We learned how to handle it in the future. You get a good strong nucleus of teammates get together and talk to the guy. You sit him down and say, ?we understand you have problems with them but our common goal is to win football games and to be a Super Bowl team and then we all get what we want.

There are a lot of guys who might be the best, but I'd have to say Chris McAlister. I've played against him a few times and honestly he gets better each time I face him. He just seems to keep maturing in their system, and he's a talented guy. He's a guy who was voted to the Pro Bowl about one or two years later than he deserved to be because he's someone who they can put on the other team's best receiver and just expect him to hold that guy in check.

We came close to filling the plane, and more than half our customers were non-Club Corp. members. It was a very successful event for us, and we've seen a big increase in business because of the Rose Bowl package.

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Why, after he'd just gotten rid of Randy Moss , would the Vikings' Mike Tice want to pick up another high-maintenance receiver, Koren Robinson ? ... I mean, unless Robinson had some really choice Super Bowl tickets he wanted to unload?

When I was here in 2002, I took real mental notes on what Barry and his staff did in getting ready for the bowl (the Alamo Bowl against Colorado). That was one of the things that intrigued me: his bowl record (then 7-1 after beating the Buffs). I think both Mike and Barry have great plans for bowl games. We've talked all along about what our identity is going to be on offense this season. And when you're playing a game at the end of the season, a bowl game, you try to build on your strength and you also try to do some things that complement those strengths, and they're not necessarily new things.

When people talk about Super Bowl dynasties they mention the 1970's Steelers, 1980's 49ers, 1990's Cowboys and the current New England Patriots, but nobody has dominated the Super Bowl like Anheuser-Busch. In recent years, Budweiser has been the MVP of Super Bowl advertising -- making another company the favorite to win the Ad Meter poll was never an option.

We would always try to have Notre Dame in our bowl picture, even if that's in the form of an individual contract with the school.

This will be an 'edge-of-your-seat' Super Bowl. We may see the first Super Bowl overtime. The results of the simulation show amazingly close scores.

This Rose Bowl had it all - the hype of two undefeated teams, major media market representation and a game down to the wire. It's everything a network could hope for in a big game.

There can be a lot of distractions during a bowl game. The team that can stay focused can win. I think that's one reason you see a lot of upsets.

The reason we're advertising during the Olympics and not the Super Bowl is because they are very close together this year.

Therein is the key to this whole bowl of spaghetti.

When I signed the deal, I wasn't a Pro Bowl player, ... To go to four straight Pro Bowls, you deserve some type of raise. They said, 'Come into camp and we'll continue negotiations,' and that's why I'm here.

We're representing a lot of groups. We're representing all the underdogs. We're representing the state of Arkansas. We're representing the Sun Belt Conference. We're representing a lot of frustrated fans for the last 30 years or so that haven't been to a bowl game.

We think we can play with anybody in the country. The dream is to play somebody like USC in a bowl game.

We're out there in the corner (of the country) and I think that hurts him. We've got the MVP, four Pro Bowl players and we come out here and it's like we're the JV.

We've built a strong following over the years, making 12 straight bowl games. And we've always traveled well here we brought a lot of people to the Sugar Bowl both the other times we were here.

This year the Super Bowl was moved back, so we won't have to worry about TVs running. The Super Bowl will only affect our first team. They'll be competing at the University of Texas in Austin that weekend.

To see a hungry kid eating a bowl of rice like it's ice cream -- there's a satisfaction in that, that words can't express.

We didn't execute to the best of our abilities, and therefore, they're the Super Bowl champions and we're not.

We had a chance to make history, and that motivated me a little more. You can make history by going 16-0 and winning the Super Bowl and we did the opposite. We made history by winning as a sixth seed.

Weather wasn't an issue and the Super Bowl weekend was a huge boost to the state.

Truthfully, I mean, it was a combination of both, ... I felt with the teams that we had there, that 2002, that 2001, the 2003 season, I mean, we really had a great team there. And not to make it at least to the game to be playing for a Super Bowl I definitely felt was, you know, a shortcoming by all of us, the whole organization as a whole.

This showdown went down to the wire. We were about out of time and had produced our 14th and final attempt. I'm ecstatic about being in the Super Bowl again.

There are little incentives when you bowl in a league, like side pots, high game pots and 30 Clean pots, so I have the motivation to bowl better. Whether I'm bowling in league or a big tournament, I try to have fun. Any time I go do that, I go in and try to incorporate practice into my game. I work on being consistent and making spares.

We always were afraid the bowl that is New Orleans would fill quickly. Now with the water rising today, it appears to be filling slowly.

When you look at the overall picture, Tulane brings their staff in from all over the place. And they haven't played in this stadium. Everyone's very appreciative of the help that the Independence bowl people are giving. A lot of the people involved, running the game operations, have never been in that stadium. But if we're organized, we'll be able to minimize the glitches.

We were talking at a very high level of conversation about principles and values. It's another thing to come up with real solutions. I'm only speaking personally, but if the solution they come up with is only to add a fifth bowl and a little more access, that is not a successful resolution of the issues.

While having the Super Bowl in the Bay Area is exciting for the fans and great for the businesses, our focus is on playing in the game no matter what city it's in.

When I went to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii with my family, I was still in shock. That loss definitely fueled my fire this offseason.

We are excited to welcome one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands in history to the Super Bowl. As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Super Bowl this season, it is fitting we work with the Rolling Stones whose music has thrilled audiences around the world for years.

We are excited to see what Kevin can do during training camp. He is an accomplished athlete who had a great career at Iowa and owns a Super Bowl ring from his time in the NFL. He will be a great addition to the receiving corps.