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| Packers' backup Nelson steps up in Super Bowl |
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| AP) - Jordy Nelson sure didn't play like a backup. The third-year pro may have bobbled a few balls, but he had the game of a lifetime in the Super Bowl, catching nine passes for 140 yards and a touchdown in the Green Bay Packers 31-25 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday's Super Bowl. The kid from Kansas State was all over the field, snaring passes from Aaron Rodgers and catching a 29-yarder in the right corner of the end zone to give the Packers a 7-0 lead. He dropped a few, but rebounded nicely, especi |
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| NFL knew last week there could be seat problems |
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02/07/2011 |
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| urs before kickoff that they could be fixed. ``At the end, we just ran out of time,'' NFL executive vice president Eric Grubman said Monday. Four hundred people were forced to give up their seats for the Green Bay Packers' 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night, and instead had to watch the game on monitors or use standing-room platforms in corners of Cowboys Stadium. Another 850 fans were moved from their seats in the temporary sections to other seats. ``It was obviously a failure on o |
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| Collins, fellow FCS Packers revel in Super win |
Division I-AA College Football |
02/07/2011 |
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| players are reveling in their Super Bowl XLV triumph as members of the World Champion Green Bay Packers. Starting free safety Nick Collins, in his sixth season out of Bethune-Cookman, made one of the biggest plays of the Packers' 31-25 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday night when he intercepted Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger at the Pittsburgh 37 and returned the pick for a touchdown and 14-0 lead. He had four tackles in the win. Starting wide receiver Donald Driver, the Packers' all-time leader rec |
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| Rodgers, McCarthy await the challenge to repeat |
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02/07/2011 |
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| than winning a Super Bowl. A bleary-eyed Aaron Rodgers glanced at the Vince Lombardi Trophy on Monday morning and talked about collecting a few more. So did his coach, Mike McCarthy. Rodgers led the Green Bay Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers for the storied franchise's fourth Super Bowl title and 13th NFL championship. Before accepting the game's MVP award and a car, Rodgers spoke of the next goals for him and the team. ``I guess I ran out of motivations, huh?'' Rodgers said with a ch |
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| Goodell calls Super Bowl seat issue 'a failure' |
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02/07/2011 |
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| temporary seating. The league scrambled to find replacement spots for 850 fans and tried to find a places with a view of the field for another 400 people who gave up their seats Cowboys Stadium on Sunday night, when the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 to win the Super Bowl. NFL executive vice president Eric Grubman says the final installation of railings, risers and steps in certain sections was the problem.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information c |
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| Overnight ratings up for Super Bowl |
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02/07/2011 |
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NEW YORK (AP) - Green Bay's victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl has surpassed last year's record-setting game in the Nielsen Co.'s preliminary ratings measurement of big cities. The 2010 game between New Orleans and Indianapolis established itself as the most-watched program in U.S. television history, with 106.5 million viewers. Nielsen didn't immediately have a viewership estimate for Sunday's game. But in an overnight measurement of the nation's 56 largest media markets, this year's ga |
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| Rodgers, McCarthy look at next challenge |
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02/07/2011 |
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DALLAS (AP) - A bleary-eyed Aaron Rodgers glanced at the Vince Lombardi Trophy and talked about collecting a few more. Rodgers led the Green Bay Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers for the storied franchise's fourth Super Bowl title and 13th NFL championship. On Monday morning, before accepting the MVP award for the game, Rodgers spoke of the goals ahead for him and the team. Rodgers said the newest ``challenge goes to repeating'' and that ``being a perfectionist, there are plenty of thi |
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| Steelers' fans subdued with Super Bowl loss |
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02/07/2011 |
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| haved and there were no confrontations with the police as fans and students walked back to their dormitories and apartments. Police were out in full-force in Pittsburgh to prevent the recurrence of rioting and fire setting that broke out after the Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl win over the Arizona Cardinals two years ago. Sunday night's loss apparently took most of the steam out of the crowd. Police reopened barricaded sections of the campus neighborhood, where they had posted hundreds of officers, about an |
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| Nelson's Super game tops Packers' great Max McGee |
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02/07/2011 |
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| erformance in the biggest game of his life. Yes, the third-year pro from Kansas State dropped a few passes that hit his hands, but he more than made up for it: nine catches for 140 yards and a touchdown in Green Bay's 31-25 Super Bowl win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. ``It isn't sinking in yet,'' Nelson said. ``Hopefully, (I'll) see a bunch of highlights someday down the road and realize that is was me. I tried as hard as possible to forget that is was the Super Bowl and treat it like a normal game.' |
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| Packers find way to win without Driver and Woodson |
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02/07/2011 |
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| without Driver wasn't enough, the Packers also had to play the second half without defensive cornerstone Charles Woodson after he broke his collarbone. Somehow, the Packers still found a way to win the Super Bowl. Green Bay's 31-25 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night was a fitting end to the season for a team that found a way to get there despite having 16 players, including six starters, on injured reserve. ``It is just the way our year has been,'' receiver Jordy Nelson said. ``We go into half |
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