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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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."

Even while favorite, Patriots are outsiders

Even while favorite, Patriots are outsiders:  This time, on the seventh Super Bowl cruise in New England Patriots history, the anticipation is riddled with uncertainty. Never, in fact, accept the Patriots played a appellation bold in which the aftereffect was so acutely in doubt.

All of which makes the civic angle on this bold all the added curious, because the ample majority of humans assume to be acrimonious the New York Giants.

Let's aback up actuality for a moment and accompaniment the obvious: in the NFL, especially, Super Bowl predictions beggarly nothing. The St. Louis Rams (in Super Bowl XXXVI) and the Patriots (Super Bowl XLII) were ample favorites, and both teams absent the bold outright. Not a individual one of us can adumbrate what will appear on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium, and that would be accurate whether the Patriots were advantaged by seven or 17.

But here's what doesn't accomplish faculty about this bold in particular: the Patriots about accept been a three-point admired from the alpha - the aboriginal Super Bowl point advance in almost 30 years - and yet a lot of anybody alfresco of New England is acrimonious the Giants. Why? Based on what? If did such a conflict become so clear? Everything about Sunday's bold suggests that accessible affect should be breach as analogously as it was in the 1960 presidential election, and yet the calibration seems acutely skewed in favor of New York.

If you don't accept this, you're not alone.

In New England, too, we all apperceive how acceptable the Giants can be. During New York's run to the Super Bowl, the Giants accept played bigger and added complete football than any added aggregation in what Bill Parcells generally referred to as "the tournament." Beginning with a brace of approved division victories over the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys in Weeks 16 and 17, the Giants accept won 5 beeline while acceptance a beggarly 13.4 credibility per game. They accept baffled the top two seeds in the NFC (the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers) on the road. They accept baffled no aggregation with annihilation worse than a .500 record.

Fine. We get it. The Giants are hot. But this is aswell a aggregation with the adequacy to play actual poorly, something anybody seems to accept abandoned in the endure ages or so.

For example, did you apperceive the Giants were in fact outscored during the approved season? Did you apperceive that above-mentioned to Week 16, they were a bare 38 for the year? Overall, their canyon aegis ranked 29th. Their hasty aegis ranked 19th. Their hasty breach ranked 32nd. Simply put, there's a acumen why the Giants went 7-7 through their aboriginal 14 games, something anybody is now too readily dismissing.

So are we just declared to abandon 14 amateur of history out the window?

Yes, yes, yes - that was again and this is now. But those beforehand amateur during the division are still at atomic allotment of who the Giants are whether New York admirers wish to accept it or not, just as absolutely as the Patriots' early-season achievement is a allotment of theirs.

In New England, we apperceive the Patriots' flaws all too well. The Patriots ranked 31st in canyon defense, 17th in hasty defense, 20th in hasty offense. Sounds a lot like the Giants, right? Until New England's AFC Championship achievement over the Baltimore Ravens, the Patriots had not baffled a aggregation that accomplished the year with a acceptable record. Not one. The Patriots faced maybe three teams all year with an aristocratic quarterback - the San Diego Chargers, Pittsburgh Steelers and Giants - and absent two; the alone achievement came adjoin San Diego in Week 2, if Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers looked added like Ryan Leaf.

So let's get this straight: the civic admirers is captivation the Patriots' approved division adjoin them, but not that of the Giants. Does that accomplish any sense? The Patriots still accept Tom Brady. The Patriots still accept Bill Belichick. Vince Wilfork could be the best arresting amateur on either aggregation to be arena in the Super Bowl, something we abstruse if Wilfork manhandled the Ravens in the AFC appellation game.

Everything about this bold screams that it is a 50-50 hypothesis - a accurate bread cast - and yet humans assume to be alleviative it nationally as if the Giants are the accessible choice.

For the Patriots, in some ways, this Super Bowl is clashing any added in which they accept played. In Super Bowl XX, admitting what humans capital to believe, the Chicago Bears were the accessible choice. Eleven years later, the Green Bay Packers were the bright favorite. The St. Louis Rams were the bright aces in Super Bowl XXXVI, the Patriots in Super Bowls XXXVIII and XXXIX. In Super Bowl XLII, the Patriots were 18-0 entering the bold and prohibitive favorites.

Nationally, some askew of civic predictions fabricated sense. But this time?

During the acme of the Belichick era, we all apperceive how the Patriots operated. In 2003 and 2004, if the Patriots won back-to-back titles, the Patriots went a accumulated 34-4 and were acutely the best aggregation in football. Nonetheless, Belichick somehow assertive his players that they were getting disrespected, which we all accounted preposterous. The Patriots were abuse acceptable and everybody knew it - including them - and cipher disrespected them.

Now, years later, it feels as if humans are absolutely searching accomplished New England.

Or maybe they're just a little too focused on the Giants.

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.