✔ Super Bowl XLVI Match Thread LIVE ✔

This is the offical match thread for Super Bowl XLVI LIVE from the Indianapolis Colts Lucas Oil Stadium

Thought I would get this going nice and early. Lets break the record books and get this article going. A thousand comments is fairly realistic.

Game Information

Super Bowl XLVI is 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.

Team News

At this point it looks like everyone fit apart from the Patriot's Rob Gronkowski. It looks like the Gronk may have injured his ankle so his fitness is in doubt.

Eli Manning and Tom Brady return.

Previous SIGNIFICANT meeting

Super Bowl XLII New York Giants 17 New England Patriots 14

The Giants beat the Patriots with that dramatic helmet catch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XeNefwABw



Enjoy

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