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  • A Madison couple and their Super Bowl ticket fiasco 

    After driving from Madison to Dallas, after waiting more than two hours in line outside Cowboys Stadium last Sunday and then clearing security, Craig and Laurie Mathews were finally inside and ready for what promised to be the sporting event of their lives.
    They handed their Super Bowl tickets to a member of the event staff.
    This is what they heard:
    "Your tickets have been deactivated.". .

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  • Records: Cowboys waited months to seek seat permit 

    The Dallas Cowboys didn’t obtain a permit to install temporary seating at Cowboys Stadium until about three weeks before the Super Bowl, despite being informed of Arlington’s requirements five months ahead of the big game, according to records released by the city Friday.

    City and stadium officials then scrambled to prepare the temporary seating for the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers, the records show, but about 1,250 of the seats were deemed unsafe—and about 400 fans who had bought tickets with a face value of $800 had nowhere to sit.

    E-mails between Ed Dryden, Arlington’s chief building official, and Jack Hill, the stadium’s general manager, show the city began asking about the permit last September but didn’t receive a request for it until Jan. 13. More »

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  • Crazy Italian Packers fan celebrates on the Super Bowl field 

    By now you've likely heard about the nightmarish experience hundreds of Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers fans encountered when they arrived at Cowboy Stadium for the Super Bowl this past Sunday. The story you're about to hear is the antithesis to those revolting tales of fandom gone impossibly wrong..

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  • Remembering Our Champions 

    Looking back at the past few Super Bowl champions, you can pretty much some up the team in a few words. 2007 Indianapolis Colts – Explosive Offense. More »

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  • Title etiquette: Packer backers need to behave 

    Packers fans need to follow proper etiquette while in our state, keeping gloating to a minimum and only during appropriate times.. .

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  • Poised Aaron Rodgers steadies Packers 

    w we'd seen it all. Forget Dallas freezing over. More »

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  • Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers: I did not sleep with the Lombardi Trophy 

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  • Packers-Steelers: weighing the importance of Super Bowl story lines 

    For the past two weeks, the Packers’ upcoming matchup with the Steelers has been poked, prodded, yanked, pulled, and stretched to a point where it’s hard to remember the NFC champs will be taking the field to play an actual football game. Not that anyone around here is complaining. More »

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  • A Super Bowl oddity: No cheerleaders for Packers or Steelers 

    A Super Bowl without cheerleaders ... at Cowboys Stadium, no less?

    One of the league's major marketing tools – the sideline sex appeal of women wearing revealing outfits and performing enticing dance routines – will be on hiatus Sunday in Super Bowl XLV. More »

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