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DateFebruary 5, 2012
StadiumLucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana
FavoritePatriots by 3 1/2[1]
RefereeJohn Parry
Ceremonies
National anthemKelly Clarkson
Halftime showMadonna
TV in the United States
NetworkNBC
AnnouncersAl Michaels and Cris Collinsworth
Cost of 30-second commercial$3.5 million.[2]

Super Bowl XLVI will be an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2011 season. It will be the 42nd annual championship game of the modern-era NFL and is scheduled to be played Sunday, February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kickoff time is scheduled for approximately 6:30 p.m. EST. This will be the first Super Bowl to be played in Indianapolis, and the first time in the 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, the home of Lucas Oil Stadium, will feature an outdoor Super Bowl Village and other programs at the Indiana Convention Center.

Per convention as an even-numbered Super Bowl, the Patriots as the AFC representatives will have the home team designation. Super Bowl XLVI will be the sixth Super Bowl in which the two teams had competed in a previous Super Bowl match up, as the Giants and Patriots had previously met in Super Bowl XLII.[3] Both head coaches (Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick) and both starting quarterbacks (Eli Manning and Tom Brady) return from Super Bowl XLII.

Host selection process

Three cities presented bids for the game:

NFL franchise owners selected the Indianapolis bid at their meeting on May 20, 2008.[8]

A labor dispute had threatened the postponement or cancellation of the game during the spring and summer of 2011; league officials had set contingency plans to postpone the game one week if it had been necessary to postpone regular season games into the second week of January.[9] Since the dispute was resolved well before the start of the regular season, no postponements were implemented, and the game remained as originally scheduled.

Background

New York Giants

Main article: 2011 New York Giants season

With a 9–7 record during the regular season, the Giants returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2008, when they won the NFC East and finished the season as the NFC's #4 seed. The Giants entered their week 17 match up with the Cowboys with both teams tied for the division lead with 8–7 records. The Giants took a 21–0 first half lead and while the Cowboys closed the gap to make the score 21–14 early in the 4th quarter, the Giants held on to defeat the Cowboys 31–14, clinching the divisional title and a playoff berth. Then they advanced to the playoffs by defeating the Atlanta Falcons in the Wild Card game 24–2, then they defeated the teams with the two best records in the NFL, knocking off the 15–1 Green Bay Packers 37–20 and the 13–3 San Francisco 49ers 20–17 on Lawrence Tynes's game winning field goal in overtime.

New York's offense was led by Pro Bowl quarterback Eli Manning, in his seventh season as the team's starter. Manning set new career highs in nearly every statistical category in 2011, throwing for a franchise record 4,933 yards and 29 touchdowns, with 16 interceptions, giving him a 92.9 passer rating. His top target was receiver Victor Cruz, who caught 82 passes for a franchise record 1,536 yards (3rd in the NFL) and 9 touchdowns. But he had plenty of other targets, including Hakeem Nicks (76 receptions, 1,192 yards, 7 touchdowns), Mario Manningham (39 receptions and 523 yards in 12 games) and tight end Jake Ballard (38 receptions, 604 yards, 15.9 average)

Running back Ahmad Bradshaw was the team's leading rusher with 659 yards and 9 touchdowns. He was also a reliable weapon in the passing game, hauling in 34 receptions for 267 yards and two touchdowns. Brandon Jacobs also made a big contribution on the ground, rushing for 571 yards and 7 touchdowns.

New York's defensive line was led by defensive ends Jason Pierre-Paul and Osi Umenyiora. Pierre-Paul racked up 86 combined tackles and ranked fourth in the NFL with 16.5 sacks, earning him the only Pro Bowl selection on the Giants defense, while Umenyiora recorded 9 sacks and 2 forced fumbles. New York also had an excellent secondary led by Corey Webster, who intercepted a career high 6 passes. Defensive backs Kenny Phillips and Aaron Ross added four interceptions each, while safety Antrel Rolle picked off two passes and led the team in combined tackles with 96.

The 2011 Giants are the first team in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl after having been outscored by their opponents in the regular season (394 points scored, 400 points allowed).[10]

New England Patriots

Main article: 2011 New England Patriots season

The Patriots finished with a 13–3 record, winning the AFC East and clinching the AFC's #1 seed in the playoffs. New England lost two straight games in weeks 8 and 9 against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Giants, respectively, before rallying to win their remaining regular season games. In the playoffs, New England defeated the Denver Broncos in the divisional round and the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game.

Back at the helm of the offense was 12-year quarterback Tom Brady, who earned his 7th Pro Bowl selection. Starting every game of the season, Brady completed 65.6% of his passes for a career-high 5,246 yards (the second highest total in NFL history) and 39 touchdown passes, with just 12 interceptions and a rating of 105.6. Brady also added 109 yards and three scores on the ground. His main weapon in the passing game was Pro Bowl receiver Wes Welker, who led the NFL with 122 receptions (22 receptions ahead of second place) for 1,569 yards and 9 touchdowns. New England also had two of the best tight ends in the NFL: Pro Bowler Rob Gronkowski, who set new tight end records for receiving (1,327 yards) and touchdown catches (17); and Aaron Hernandez, who caught 79 passes for 910 yards and 7 touchdowns, while also rushing for 45 yards. Another big element of the passing game was veteran receiver Deion Branch, who caught 51 passes for 702 yards and 5 scores. Receivers Chad Ochocinco, Tiquan Underwood, Julian Edelman, and Matthew Slater made minor contributions to the passing attack; the latter two also served as emergency defensive backs.

New England had several key contributors in the ground game. Their main rusher was BenJarvis Green-Ellis, who rushed for 667 yards and 11 touchdowns. Running back Stevan Ridley added 447 yards and a 5.1 yards per carry average. Danny Woodhead contributed 351 yards with a 4.6 YPC average, and gained another 437 yards returning kickoffs. New England also had a solid offensive line, which was anchored by Pro Bowl guards Logan Mankins and Brian Waters. With all these weapons, New England ranked third in the NFL with 513 points.

The Patriots' defensive line featured two Pro Bowl selections: Vince Wilfork, who generated 3.5 sacks, two interceptions, and one forced fumble; and Andre Carter, who contributed 10 sacks and forced two fumbles. Defensive End Mark Anderson was also a major force on the line, earning 10 sacks and two forced fumbles of his own. Behind them, Rob Ninkovich excelled at linebacker, gaining 74 tackles, 6.5 sacks, and two interceptions. In the secondary, cornerback Kyle Arrington had a breakout season. After recording just one interception in his first three years, Arrington picked off 7 passes in 2011 to lead the NFL in that category, while also leading the team in tackles with 88.

Playoffs

Main article: 2011–12 NFL playoffs

As the #1 seed in the AFC, New England earned a first-round bye and home field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. In the divisional round, the Patriots defeated the Tim Tebow-led Denver Broncos 45–10. The Patriots dominated the game the whole way through, setting new franchise postseason records for total yards (509), points (45), and margin of victory (35). Tom Brady completed 18 of 25 passes for 246 yards and a postseason record five touchdowns in the first half. The Patriots defense had a breakout performance: Tebow was held to just 9 of 26 completions and was sacked five times.

In the AFC Championship Game, the Patriots faced off against the #2 seed Baltimore Ravens. Brady was out-dueled by Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, who threw for more yards and touchdowns on the same number of completions and attempts. Nevertheless, New England managed to take a 23–20 lead in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard run by Brady. With 1:44 left in the quarter, Baltimore got the ball back with one last chance to tie or win the game, driving all the way to the New England 14-yard line. But the Patriots managed to hold them there, with cornerback Sterling Moore breaking up two consecutive Ravens pass attempts in the red zone, including one in the end zone. Facing fourth down, the Ravens attempted a 32 yard field goal by Baltimore kicker Billy Cundiff that would tie the game and possibly bring it to overtime. In one of the most memorable endings in NFL playoff history, Cundiff missed the kick wide left, allowing the Patriots to advance to the Super Bowl.

New York finished the season as the NFC East champion and the #4 seed in the conference. The Giants defeated the #5 seed Atlanta Falcons in the Wild Card round 24–2, the first playoff game at MetLife Stadium. Eli Manning threw for 277 yards and 3 touchdowns with no interceptions, while the Giants defense shut down the Falcons, the only Atlanta points coming from a safety given up by Manning's intentional grounding penalty in his end zone.

The Giants then moved on to face the #1 seed and the defending Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the divisional round. The Giants never trailed in the game, winning 37–20. One of the key plays in the game was a Hail Mary pass by Manning to Hakeem Nicks, giving New York a 20–10 lead at the end of the first half. As they did to the Patriots' record-breaking offense in 2007, the Giants generated significant pressure on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, sacking him four times and disrupting his talented receiving corps. This was the first time in NFL history a 15–1 team failed to make it past the divisional round in the playoffs.

The Giants faced the #2 seed San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game. After a series of defensive standoffs in the fourth quarter, the game went into overtime. Both teams continued to struggle on offense, until New York linebacker Jacquian Williams stripped the ball from San Francisco wide receiver Kyle Williams after a punt return. The Giants recovered the ball at the 49ers 24 yard line, setting up a 31 yard field goal attempt by Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes. Unlike Cundiff earlier in the day, Tynes' kick was successful, giving the Giants a 20–17 victory.

Miscellany

The Giants joined the 2008 Arizona Cardinals and 1979 Los Angeles Rams as the only other team to advance to the Super Bowl with fewer than ten victories since the NFL expanded to a 16-game season in 1978, and have won six consecutive playoff games away from their home stadium, dating back to their victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2007 Wild Card round. That includes their Super Bowl XLII victory over these same Patriots, although that game was played at a neutral site (and the Giants were the designated "away" team for the game). The Giants will again be the designated "away" team for Super Bowl XLVI.

The Patriots return to the Super Bowl for the fifth time under head coach Bill Belichick after Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX and XLII. It is their seventh appearance overall and the Giants' fifth, with both teams having three victories. The Patriots lost Super Bowls XX (to the Bears), XXXI (to the Packers), and XLII (to the Giants), while the Giants' lone loss in Super Bowl play came in Super Bowl XXXV (against the Ravens). If the Patriots lose the Super Bowl, they would be the first team to lose at least one Super Bowl in four decades (1985, 1996, 2007). As a result of that, it would make the New York Giants the first teams to win a Super Bowl in 4 decades (1986, 1990, 2007)

With the victory in the 2011 AFC Championship Game Tom Brady and Belichick became the first quarterback-head coach combination to reach the Super Bowl more than four times, beating the record held by Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll of the Pittsburgh Steelers' 1970s Super Bowl teams. Belichick tied Tom Landry for second most appearances as a head coach in the Super Bowl, behind only Don Shula's six.

This is the fifth matchup of head coaches who have previously won Super Bowls: Tom Landry and Chuck Noll twice in Super Bowls X and XIII, Tom Flores and Joe Gibbs in Super Bowl XVIII and Bill Walsh and Don Shula in Super Bowl XIX.

The Giants join the Steelers and the Denver Broncos as the only teams to advance to at least one Super Bowl televised on all four major broadcast television networks. The Giants' appearances in Super Bowls XXI and XXXV, and winning XXI were televised by CBS, their victory in Super Bowl XXV was carried by ABC, and their most recent appearance aired on Fox. A Giants victory will make them the first team to win at least one Super Bowl televised on all four major broadcast television networks.

Because the Giants and Patriots draw their fanbases from New York City and Boston respectively, the Super Bowl is expected to echo the fierce rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball.[11][12]

The Patriots' most recent Super Bowl victory has been followed by a championship from each of Boston's other major professional sports league franchises with the Red Sox winning the 2007 World Series, the Celtics winning the 2008 NBA Finals and the Bruins winning the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. The Bruins' championship completed the fastest ever succession of all four major professional sports championships won by teams in a single metropolitan area, with the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup six years, four months and nine days after Super Bowl XXXIX. A Patriots victory in Super Bowl XLVI would result in an even shorter time-span encompassing all four major championships - four years, three months and eight days being the time between the end of the 2007 World Series and Super Bowl XLVI.

The Patriots and Giants faced each other in New England during the regular season; the Giants won that game, 24–20. Incidentally, the Giants and Patriots had also faced each other during the regular season prior to Super Bowl XLII as well with the Patriots winning this game and the Giants going on to win that Super Bowl.

Super Bowl XLVI marks the 13th Super Bowl that is a rematch of a regular season game. The loser in the regular season is 7–5 in these games, including 5–1 the last six times this has happened.

Lucas Oil Stadium is the home of the Indianapolis Colts, which shares connections to both the Giants and Patriots. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning is the older brother of the Giants' Eli Manning, while the Colts and Patriots share an intense rivalry.

Super Bowl pre-game news and notes

The Patriots, as the designated home team, had a choice of wearing their home dark blue jerseys or their white away jerseys. Briefly, there was speculation that the Patriots might wear the white away jerseys in order to switch the jerseys from Super Bowl XLII, where the Patriots wore dark blue and the Giants wore white[citation needed]. Also, the Giants are 4-0 in playoff games in their white away jerseys since the 2007 season. However, the Patriots announced on the Monday following the Conference Championship Games that they will be wearing their customary dark blue home jerseys as the home team in Super Bowl XLVI.[13]

Broadcasting

United States

In the United States, the game will be televised nationally by NBC.[14] It will also be streamed online, both to computers (via NBC.com) and mobile devices (via Verizon Wireless's NFL Mobile app), the first legal online streaming of a Super Bowl telecast in the USA.[15][16] Al Michaels will call play-by-play for NBC, marking the eighth time that he will be behind the microphone for a Super Bowl and the second time he will be calling a Super Bowl for NBC. Cris Collinsworth will be the analyst for the game, his second as an analyst and first since he was in the booth for Super Bowl XXXIX for Fox. Michele Tafoya and Alex Flanagan will be the sideline reporters.

Super Bowl XLVI will be carried nationwide on radio over Dial Global's Westwood One affiliate with Kevin Harlan as commentator and Boomer Esiason as analyst, with James Lofton and Mark Malone as sideline reporters. Locally, the game will be carried by the New York Giants Radio Network (flagship WFAN) and the New England Patriots Radio Network (flagship WBZ-FM). Bob Papa will call the game for the Giants with Carl Banks as his analyst and Howard Cross as sideline reporter. Gil Santos will be at the microphone for the Patriots with Gino Cappelletti as analyst and Scott Zolak as sideline reporter. Santos and Cappelletti return for their sixth Super Bowl as broadcast team for the Patriots while Papa calls his third for the Giants and Banks is analyst for his second. This will be the first Super Bowl broadcast for the Giants that will not feature Dick Lynch as analyst, as he retired from the Giants following the 2007 season and died in 2008.

In other countries

Country Channel Notes
Austria Puls 4
Australia ESPN, One HD, Network Ten
Canada CTV, RDS Aired in simulcast with NBC's coverage
Belgium Be Sport 1, Prime Sport 1
Brazil ESPN, ESPN HD, TV Esporte Interativo
Latin America ESPN, ESPN HD, Fox Sports and Fox Sports HD
Denmark TV3+, TV3+ HD
Finland Nelonen Pro 1, Nelonen Pro 2
Germany Sat.1, ESPN America HD
Hungary Sport 1
Italy Sportitalia and ESPN America
Mexico Televisa, TV Azteca
Romania Sport 1
Netherlands ESPN
Norway Viasat Sport Norge, Viasat Sport HD
Portugal SportTV
Poland Polsat Sport
Spain Canal+ 1
Sweden TV10, Viasat Fotboll, Viasat Fotboll HD
United Kingdom BBC, Sky Sports
Ireland BBC, Sky Sports (UK channels)
France W9
Israel Channel 2 (Israel)
Japan NHK BS1, NTV G+

Commercials

All commercials for the game sold out by Thanksgiving 2011, at an average price of $3.5 million per thirty-second ad, by far the highest rate for Super Bowl advertising in the event's history.[17] At least one thirty-second advertisement commanded a price of $4 million.[18]

Pro-life activist Randall Terry has said he is planning to run an ad featuring graphic photos of aborted fetuses during Super Bowl XLVI.[19][20] Terry was not allowed to air the ad nationwide, given that the networks have a policy under equal time rules to reject all political and issue related advertising during the Super Bowl.[21] However, he is able, by Federal Election Commission rules, to force up to 35 local stations (those located in states in which the Democratic Party primaries are within 45 days of Super Bowl Sunday; Terry entered the primary as a dummy candidate solely for the purpose of this advertisement) to run the advertisement uncensored, regardless of whether it meets Standards and Practices or Federal Communications Commission guidelines. As of January 2011, Terry has purchased ad time in 11 markets.[22]

An advertisement from Pepsi will feature Melanie Amaro, the winner of season one of the Fox series The X Factor, as the star of the commercial.[23] And an M&M's advertisement will finally introduce a Brown spokescandy. Other confirmed advertisers include Doritos (continuing its user-generated "Crash the Super Bowl" contest), GoDaddy (featuring The Pussycat Dolls in addition to regular celebrity endorsers Jillian Michaels and Danica Patrick), Bridgestone, Volkswagen (a 60-second spot advertising the third-generation Beetle featuring dogs barking to the tune of "The Imperial March"), General Motors (four for Chevrolet and one for Cadillac), Toyota, Hyundai, Acura (featuring Jerry Seinfeld in an ad for the NSX),[24] Kia Motors (advertising the Optima with a spot starring Adriana Lima), Audi (parodying the Twilight series with an ad for the S7), Honda (starring Matthew Broderick in a reprisal of the lead role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off), newcomers Dannon Yogurt and Century 21 Real Estate,[17] Teleflora, Mars, Incorporated, The Coca-Cola Company, CareerBuilder.com (reprising their "chimp" advertisement campaign), Skechers, Relativity Media (running four advertisements for Act of Valor),[25] Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, and Universal Pictures.[26] Anheuser-Busch has purchased nine slots during the game.[27] An advertisement for Priceline.com killed off the "Priceline Negotiator," ending William Shatner's role as spokesman for the company, a role he has held for over a decade, to make way for a new campaign that will premiere during the game.[28]

Entertainment

Word had leaked as early as October 2011 that Madonna would be the performer for the Super Bowl halftime show,[29] with M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj performing as well; all three are featured on Madonna's upcoming single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" which will be performed as part of the show.[30][31] The league confirmed Madonna as the performer on December 4.[32] Other collaborators on the project include longtime Madonna collaborator Jamie King, Cirque du Soleil, and Moment Factory.

The Indiana University Marching Hundred will be performing during the pre-game show.[33]

On January 12, 2012, it was reported that former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson will sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLVI.[34] It marks the fourth time in the previous five years that an Idol contestant has performed the anthem (joining Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and Jordin Sparks). Husband-and-wife country musicians Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert will perform "America the Beautiful" as part of the ceremonies.[34] American Sign Language Translation for both songs will be performed by Rachel Mazique, the currently reigning Miss Deaf America.[35]

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