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The
Super Bowl XLVI will be the 46th
annual edition of the Super Bowl in
American football, and the 42nd
annual championship game of the
modern-era National Football League
(NFL). The Super Bowl is the
first time the event will be
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available. 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 season
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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.
Both head coaches (Tom Coughlin and
Bill Belichick) and both starting
quarterbacks (Eli Manning and Tom
Brady) return from Super Bowl XLII.
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. 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.
In the
United States, the game will be
televised nationally by NBC 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. Al Michaels will call
play-by-play for NBC, marking the
seventh 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.
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