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2007 Superbowl
Super Bowl XLII
3rd February 2008  6pm EST

     University of Phoenix Stadium
                Glendale, AZ 

The Super Bowl is the climax of the American Football season. The champions of the NFC (National Football Conference) and the AFC (American Football Conference) meet in one the world's great sporting events to decide who will carry away the Vince Lombardi Trophy as annual champions of the NFL (National Football League). These two champions are determined in  a gruelling round of knock-out play-offs between the winners of the four divisions and two wild card teams in in each conference.  
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A summary of information on the web, with additional information from  our American Football Librarian.
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Competition Structure

The American Football Conference (AFC), and the National Football Conference (NFC) each have East, North, South and West Divisions, with four teams in each division who play out the Regular Season.

At the end of the regular season, the winners of each division plus the two teams with the next best record from each conference (Wild Card teams) go on to play in the next phase of the competition.

Wild Card Weekend is followed by the Divisional Playoffs and then the Conference Championships to decide the Super Bowl contenders. See This years challengers
The Calendar 2008

Date Event  
October  Season Start Kick-off
December  Regular Season Ends The Drive
Jan  Wild Card Weekend 20 Yard Line
Jan  Divisional Playoffs 10 yard line
Jan  Conference Championships 4th & inches
3 Feb. Super Bowl Touchdown
Wild Card Weekend: the two Wild Card teams from each conference play the two weaker division winners from the same conference. The winners go on to the Divisional Playoffs.

Divisional Playoffs: the two winners from each conference from Wild Card Weekend play the top two division winners from the same conference. The games are played at the home fields of the top two teams. The winners go on to the Conference Championships.

Conference Championships: the winners of the Divisional Playoffs from each conference play each other to decide who challenges for the Super Bowl. The games are played at the home field of the teams with the top records at this time.

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Watch The Season Unfold
Check out the team contenders from NFL.com official league website

Also check out the top sports servers for their reactions to the emerging teams  Yahoo  USA Today  Sports Illustrated Cbs Sportsline  Espn   Fox Sports  Sports Network                      

See also NFL summary from Sports Network and Daily Racing Form; quick information to keep up with the league standings, stats, injuries....

Which Players are performing well this season?
      Look out for our selection of who to watch as the season unfolds
In the mean time find Sortable team and player rankings with NFL.com Stats

Network Coverage.   Fox will supervise this year's Super Bowl. 2007 in Miami - CBS;
                                      Upcoming Super Bowls and the Networks that will cover them.
Super Bowl History  

The AFL-NFL World Championship Game has been known as the Super Bowl from its inception 1967, according to Super Bowl History. The Title was coined effortlessly one day when Lamar Hunt, architect of the AFL, came across his daughter's 'Super Ball' .  "Why not," he wondered, "call our championship game the Super Bowl?" 

"The year was 1966, and war was raging in professional football. It was a bidding war for talent and it had been going on since the American Football League came onto the scene in 1960 to challenge the National Football League, 40 years its senior. ...." .Read on  from The Super NFL

The Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy was renamed in 1971 after the  former Green Bay Packers Coach and General Manager, following his death,  Sept 3 1970 . Vince Lombardi ;  trophy details
See also Super Bowl History  from Sporting News, HickokSports

All Years Reports from Sporting News  See also Ob1gui's Super Bowl Archives  
Stats. Box scores and MVP for all previous games. from Superbowl.com
 National Anthem Performers at the Super Bowl

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Visiting Glendale links to information to help make your stay  a great one.
 
Ford Field: Dolphin Stadium in Miami home of the Miami Dolphins; Sort out your driving directions to get there.
Detroit  Restaurant Reviews: Miami 10-Best ranks restaurants in Miami based on evaluations in guidebooks, articles and user opinions.
City Guides online: Visitor's Guide to Miami  for attractions, dining, the weather, ......
City Visitor Guide maps, attractions, activities, organisations ..
Other attractions: Map of Area Miami Attractions
Technical Aspects of the game  for those new to the game.

 Useful information from UK Gridiron: The basics;  Terminology, Game Strategy
                                                                   For following the plays: see Offence, Defence,

See also: American Football Basics  from the Redditch Arrows and Encarta definition

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Tickets and Accommodation  Contact us to add your site

  Super Bowl Tickets at Tickco - Premium seats for all NFL playoff games and the Super Bowl at Ford Field.
 Super Bowl tickets at Razorgator.com
 Guaranteed Super Bowl tickets available at AlphaTickets.com!
 Empire Tickets has Super Bowl Tickets and regular season games such as Patriots Tickets, Bears Tickets, Eagles Tickets.
                               

Future Super Bowl Sites from the official website
  2008 (SB XLII) - Arizona
2009 (SB XLIII)- Tampa, FL
   Hosting the Superbowl  The Super Bowl host committee is in charge of the selection process. Usually it is played in warm weather cites, Detroit is a bit out of the norm. Here are some of the cities in rotation.:
    - Miami ,Phoenix, Jacksonville, San Diego, Tampa, Houston
The NFL will also grant a Super Bowl to a city if the city agrees to build a new NFL stadium. The city of Phoenix was granted the Super Bowl in 2008 for building the new Cardinals facility. New York City was denied the Super Bowl because the tax payers voted down a proposition to build the Jets a new facility in Manhattan.
 
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