2012 Super Bowl Kickoff Time, program TV, presenters and more

2012 Super Bowl Kickoff Time, program TV, presenters and more:  Super Bowl Sunday has arrived, and with it admirers ability feel they accept jumped in a time machine. Super Bowl XLVI will see the New England Patriots (15-3) yield on the New York Giants (12-7) just four years afterwards these two teams akin up in one of the added memorable Super Bowl amateur in NFL history, a 17-14 achievement by the Giants over a ahead best Patriots team.

Here in a abridge is aggregate you charge to apperceive about Sunday's big game:

Time: Kickoff is appointed for 6:29 P.M. EST

Location: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN

TV Coverage: The bold will be televised nationally on NBC. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth will accept the alarm from the booth.

Online Streaming: NBC will be alive the bold live, for free, at NBCSports.com

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Giants vs Pats: perspective the Scout

Giants vs Pats: perspective the Scout:  INDIANAPOLIS -- Let's overlook about the debris allocution and salsa dancing and abeyant legacies, and let's get down to some absolute football: Giants vs. Patriots, Super Bowl XLVI.

Two well-respected scouts batten to ESPNNewYork.com on the action of anonymity, alms their takes on the matchup. Here's a sampling of their comments:

"The Giants' adeptness to break score-for-score with New England is of abundant importance; it helps betrayal the deficiencies in the New England defense. If you abatement too far behind, it changes aggregate ... I absolutely admired New England's central canyon blitz adjoin (Joe) Flacco in the championship game; it was bigger than antecedent weeks. That's area you wish to burden Eli Manning, up the average ... In the San Francisco game, I saw some problems with the Giants' abhorrent line, abnormally up the middle. They absolutely struggled with San Francisco's big people. Eli got hit a lot in that game.

"New England has an central casual offense, with the two bound ends, (Wes) Welker and (Danny) Woodhead. (Deion) Branch is competent on the outside, but it's mostly an central attack. That's an absorbing antagonism because the Giants accept the ambit aspect to their canyon coverage, but can they awning inside? How the Giants bout up in their nickel aegis will be an absorbing antagonism to watch.

"If you appearance Tom Brady something twice, he'll get a acceptable bean on it. You accept to beard pressure, feign pressure, beard your intentions. Baltimore absolutely kept Tom on his toes. That's what the Giants accept to do ... The Giants' three-receiver amalgamation is traveling to be a harder antagonism for the Patriots. (Victor) Cruz and (Hakeem) Nicks are actual good, abnormally afterwards the catch, and (Mario) Manningham has appear on a little bit. New England has to be cerebration continued and harder about how they're adverse to avert Cruz and Nicks. (Bill) Belichick is abundant at demography abroad one affair from your offense, but the Giants accept added than one thing.

"Both teams accept faced adversity. The Giants accept asperous a lot of storms, and they've able that 'Next-Man Up' mentality. New England has done it with smoke and mirrors on defense. Hell of a apprenticeship job ... This is traveling to be a fourth-quarter game. I'll accord a slight bend to the Giants. They've won the harder way, they've won on the road. New England hasn't had too abounding superior opponents, and New England about got exhausted at home. If Lee Evans makes that catch, they're not even here."

Super Bowl 2012, Giants vs. Patriots: press conference by Tom Coughlin, Friday 02.03.12

Super Bowl 2012, Giants vs. Patriots: press conference by Tom Coughlin, Friday 02.03.12:  To the champ goes all the spoils. To the also-ran comes a black offseason. It's the way the NFL playoffs operate, one bold either to beforehand or go home. In the Super Bowl, the champ is a champion, the also-ran abutting but no cigar.

The New York Giants apperceive what it's like to face abolishment games. They've already won three in the postseason, and the end of the approved division accustomed with the aforementioned array of win-or-it's-over pressure.

During a columnist appointment on Friday, drillmaster Tom Coughlin discussed how his aggregation has acclimated the ascent stakes to coin into a cohesive, assured unit.

"As you know, the Washington game, aback in the approved season, we did not play well. Washington came in and played actual well. Following that game, I artlessly absolved into our aggregation and said, ‘Look, we accept two amateur to go. We accept to win two games. If we do that we get into the playoffs and we can be the champions of the NFC East.' From there, it has been one abolishment bold afterwards another. The players accept been responding very, actual well. They appear calm as a group."

Of course, Coughlin admits the Giants' advance from a .500 aggregation in austere crisis of missing the playoffs into a aggregation one win abroad from getting crowned Super Bowl champions has not been all about mentality.

"There's been no catechism that our aplomb architecture is additional by the players on defense," Coughlin said. "We all of a abrupt were able to get our absolute arresting aggregation together. We've fabricated some advance forth those curve that's accustomed us the boost. We've played in accord with all three units in those 5 games. Of course, appropriate teams came through for us out in San Francisco adjoin a very, actual acceptable San Francisco team. We were able to about-face the brawl over at the end of the bold and win it. It's been that way. We've had our backs to the wall. The players accept performed actual able-bodied beneath that circumstance. Our leader, our quarterback, has been a actual air-conditioned chump and has done actual able-bodied backward in the fourth quarter, (in) abounding amateur this year, and put us in a position area we're traveling to win."

Divorce from Peyton Manning, becoming increasingly inevitable Colts

Divorce from Peyton Manning, becoming increasingly inevitable Colts:  INDIANAPOLIS – It’s of little abruptness that the Peyton Manning-Jim Irsay accord would abide to splinter. Statements to the contrary, these two artlessly don’t arise able of circumstantial any more.

They could accept at atomic fabricated it through the Super Bowl armistice though.

Word bankrupt Thursday, via ESPN, that Manning had been “medically austere by two doctors” to resume his football career afterwards missing the absolute 2011 division because of a close injury. The address eventually included an email from Dr. Robert Watkins, who performed a close action on Manning, adage as much.

The account beatific the football apple into a agitation over the abeyant ramifications. Would the Indianapolis Colts still abstract Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck aboriginal all-embracing in April? Would Manning become a aperitive barter anticipation and wind up on a contender? Where would he end up and in what affectionate of shape?

Then Irsay, the Colts’ abrupt owner, snuffed it aboriginal Friday by tweeting: “Peyton has not anesthetized our concrete nor has he been austere to play for The Indianapolis Colts.”

And so on it went: Once more, the Colts and the approaching of their signature, sure-bet Hall of Fame quarterback acceptable the allocution of Super Bowl XLVI.

So abundant for the pair’s collective columnist absolution endure anniversary that was advised to “dispel any misperception that there ability be any harder animosity amid us.”

Manning and Irsay haven’t had abounding absolute discussions of backward but are appointed to accept banquet calm (along with added NFL folks) at a pregame affair Sunday. Who knows how that arena plays out.

Irsay’s backward night tweet, which came afterwards he captivated a absonant 500-person affair (guests included John Mellencamp, Meg Ryan and added celebs) at the Indiana Capitol, had the actualization of annoyance. It was a aciculate admonishment of the “cleared to play …” bend that about anybody assumes was leaked out of Manning’s affected – unless you accept Manning’s doctor would altercate his accretion after his patient’s permission.

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Yahoo Sports aboriginal appear beforehand in the anniversary that even if he is “cleared to play” he doesn’t acquire the backbone to bandy the brawl with the all-important velocity.

The absolute affair could be just semantics in an advancing soap opera.

Perhaps a lot of cogent is that this is still the account of the day even as Indianapolis continues to excel at hosting its better accident ever, a appellation bold featuring no beneath than Manning’s adolescent brother, Eli, of the New York Giants adjoin the New England Patriots.

Couldn’t the “cleared to play” adventure accept waited until next anniversary – abnormally if there appears to be abundant abashing that not even the Colts are acknowledging its accuracy?

“Jim and I will allocution at the appropriate time,” Peyton Manning said on Tuesday. “[Right now] there’s annihilation to allocution about.”

Tom Brady is as advertised

Tom Brady is as advertised:   I wish to be Tom Brady.

I wish a broken in my button you can abundance pistachios in.

I wish to be 6-foot-4 and air-conditioned as the Anchorage DMV and accept eyes so blooming that if I pass, the angels accept to authority on to something.

I wish to be Tom Brady and accept an Indianapolis policeman allure me allure me to breach the law, as happened Monday night.

"I got to drive down a one-way artery in the adverse administration to esplanade to go to dinner," he said." I was active to the restaurant, and the cop saw us and said, 'Just cull appropriate up.' That was the coolest thing."

People, I'm allurement here.

It's fashionable to dump on Tom Brady lately. Baltimore Ravens DE Haloti Ngata says Tom Brady whines to refs about getting hit. Baltimore's Terrell Suggs calls Brady's three Super Bowl titles "questionable." ESPNNewYork.com's Rich Cimini wrote a cavalcade this anniversary headlined, "Tom Brady not as abundant as advertised."

Not as advertised?

I'd advertise my sister to the North Koreans to be at my fifth Super Bowl, attached John Elway's almanac for QBs. I'd allotment off both aerial and a pinkie to be on the bend of attached Joe Montana's and Terry Bradshaw's almanac of four Super Bowl rings. I'd do a year in Leavenworth to see what my Victoria's Secret supermodel wife ability be cutting in the auberge apartment afterwards if I do.

Not as advertised?

Then why, at atomic already a year, does he get arrive to be the best man at the marriage of a guy he's never heard of?

Why were humans actually blind off his car as he pulled abroad from St. Elmo Steak House the added night?

Why did the NFLPA wish his name aboriginal on its accusation adjoin the league? Because Tom Brady vs. anybody is usually a lock, that's why.

So, amuse …

Let me accept Kenny Chesney as a buddy.

Let me accept Seal as a acquaintance and accept him say, "I'm bedeviled with Tom Brady," as Brady was reminded this week.

Let me accept a $20 million, 22,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom hillside alcazar in L.A. with a pond basin so big it looks like a lagoon. I'd convenance sailing in it.

And yet I overheard a anchorman in Indianapolis this anniversary say, "I wouldn't wish his life."

Pal, your activity isn't a box abounding of bloodless chow worms compared with Tom Brady's.

Do you go to U2 concerts and accept Bono accord you a shout-out from the stage? Tom Brady does.

Do you drive a aboriginal tricked-out Audi A8 chargeless -- in barter for accomplishing annihilation added than alms plan you'd do anyway? Tom Brady does.

Do you appear State of the Union addresses afterwards abating anything, inventing annihilation or cutting anything? Tom Brady does.

Tom Brady wears animal boots and starts an American appearance trend.

Tom Brady wears alarming Bieber bangs and humans anticipate it's cool.

Tom Brady could go about cutting a Hefty bag and accomplish the awning of GQ, which he's done four times.

Look, I'm not allurement abundant here. I just wish what Tom Brady has.

I wish a acrimonious toilet bank in my bathroom.

I wish to accomplish the A lot of Interesting Man in the World dribble if I airing into the room.

I wish to accompany my kids to football amateur with David Beckham's kids. Then maybe we go aback and eat whatever Posh Spice is cooking.

And yet … the Jets' Antonio Cromartie already alleged Brady an "a--hole." A poll endure year begin him to be the NFL's third a lot of hated player. A anchorman asked him the added day how it acquainted to accept had every added Boston pro sports authorization win a appellation back he endure did seven years ago. "Thanks for reminding me," he said.

You wish reminders? Actuality are a few:

Nobody but Tom Brady could yield a aggregation with an 11-man analyze for a aegis to the Super Bowl.

Nobody but Tom Brady could about-face a 5-9 shrimp like Wes Welker into the arch advanced receiver in the league.

Nobody but Tom Brady could win three rings, accord one abroad to his dad and never abrasion the added two. But that's him. He's so apprehensive he's about absurd to compliment. (If you can't accord me the abasement thing, I'm fine.)

And yet … Rex Ryan already wrote that "every American macho hates Tom Brady."

Hates?

Ask his linemen. So far this season, Tom Brady has bought them all actual big-ticket watches, accustomed them four pairs of Ugg boots and ordered in banquet for them from the best places in boondocks at alley games. "A few weeks ago, we got Capitol Grill!" OL Nate Solder says. No admiration he can bawl F-bombs on the bank at them and reside to acquaint about it.

Hates?

Ask the dozens of organizations that get his time. Ask the hundreds of organizations that get checks out of the blue, unasked, abnormally afterwards disasters.

Ask Patriots buyer Bob Kraft, whose backward wife, Myra, admired Tom Brady so abundant she fabricated abiding he came with her on her anniversary appointment to the Holy Land in 2005. "He was like our fifth son," Robert Kraft says.

If the Fifth Son wins this Super Bowl, he goes down as one of the 5 greatest quarterbacks in history. With addition one afterwards this, he goes down as the shut-up-and-listen greatest of all time.

There's no point agreeable him to your wedding. He's already the best man.

Ankle injury to Rob Gronkowski would keep him out a regular season game

Ankle injury to Rob Gronkowski would keep him out a regular season game:  I don't apperceive if you've heard, but Patriots bound end Rob Gronkowski is ambidextrous with an abate abrasion advanced of Super Bowl XLVI. Gronk's agent, Drew Rosenhaus talked a little bit about it on NBC SportsTalk yesterday. Via Pro Football Talk:

Rosenhaus was accurate to point out that he didn't wish to get himself in agitation with Patriots drillmaster Bill Belichick. But Rosenhaus aswell conceded that the abrasion is abundantly bad that, if it wasn't the Super Bowl, Gronkowski absolutely wouldn't be playing.

But it is the Super Bowl, and at this point, I anticipate anybody just assumes that we'll see Gronkowski arena on Sunday. He did yield allotment in convenance on Thursday for the aboriginal time back the AFC Championship game, and arch drillmaster Bill Belichick appear no setbacks.

But if there's aught adventitious that he'd play in a approved division game, one has to admiration how abominably Gronkowski will be hobbled during the game. Can he even be a factor?

And is there a achievability that he will not be a factor, the Patriots apperceive he will not be a factor, and they're traveling through the deception just so the Giants accept to adapt for him anyway? I'm not usually the cabal approach type, but it is Bill Belichick and it is the Super Bowl, so I'm not cardinal out anything.

Rob Gronkowski ability not even exist. He ability just be a alternation of CGI highlights created by Jerry Bruckheimer and fed to ESPN to argue the Giants that they had to adapt for a all-powerful bound end.

Personally, I'm acquisitive for the adverse book ‒ that Gronkowski, with the account of a phenomenon or a needle, can go out there on Sunday and accomplish like he's 100%. Unless you're a Giants fan, we all lose with a bound Gronk.