Nantucket Island is buzzing with the New England Patriots AFC Championship win that sends them to Super Bowl XLVI.
The New England Patriots will play the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI. The game will air on February 5th at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN on NBC around 6:25pm EST, as well as on NFL.com, NBCSports.com and the Verizon "NFL Mobile" app. The New England Patriots go to Super Bowl XLVI with a 13-3 record while the New York Giants had a record of 9-7. This will be the first Super Bowl to be played in Indianapolis and the first time in history of the game it will be played in consecutive years in a retractable roof stadium. This will also be only the fourth time that the Super Bowl is played in a cold-weather city, after Detroit's hosting of XVI and XL, as well as Minneapolis's hosting of XXVI. Downtown Indianapolis will feature an outdoor Super Bowl Village and other programs at the Indiana Convention Center. The New England Patriots, as the designated home team, had a choice of wearing their home dark blue jerseys or their white away jerseys. They will be wearing their customary dark blue home jerseys as the home team. Super Bowl XLVI will be the sixth Super Bowl in which the two teams had competed in a previous Super Bowl match up. The New England Patriots and the New York Giants met in Super Bowl XLII. Both head coaches and starting quarterbacks return from Super Bowl XLII.
Some tidbits:
Tickets to Super Bowl XLVI are costing between $2,600 and $16,480.
The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 24-20 on November 6, 2011, week 9 of the regular season. Eli Manning threw the game winning pass to Jake Ballard with just seconds remaining.
This will be the New York Giants fifth Super Bowl appearance and the New England Patriots seventh. They both have three Super Bowl victories.
All commercials for the game sold out by Thanksgiving 2011, at an average of $3.5 million per thirty second ad. This is the highest rate for Super Bowl advertising in the event's history. At least one thirty second advertisement commanded a price of $4 million.
The pregame show will be performed by the Indiana University Marching Hundred.
It's been reported that former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson will be performing the National Anthem. This will mark the fourth time in the previous five years that an American Idol contestant has performed the National Anthem. Also reported is the performance of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert signing America the Beautiful. The league has not officially confirmed the news.
Madonna will headline the halftime show of this years Super Bowl and will work with Cirque Du Soleil on a concept for the gig. There is rumor that M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj will possibly perform as well. They are featured in Madonna's upcoming single "Give Me All Your Luvin", which will be performed as part of the show.
Go Patriots!
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