Super Bowl

For the 10 finalists of the Doritos Super Bowl Crash excitement hangs in the air. One of them will see his or hers Doritos ad air during the game.

It’s not often a defending Super Bowl champion reaches the big game again the following season.

NEW YORK—Even with over 82,000 people at the MetLife Stadium for the Super Bowl in New Jersey Sunday, there was leftover food after the game—and plenty of it.

The Seattle Seahawks ripped apart the record-breaking Denver Broncos offense to convincingly win their first Super Bowl 43–8 at MetLife Stadium Sunday.

If there’s been one knock over the years against the nearly flawless Peyton Manning, it’s been his playoff résumé. The four-time MVP (soon to be the five-time MVP) was largely unsuccessful in each of his first three playoff appearances

NEW YORK—Super Bowl fans have finally arrived. Anticipating the swell of humanity, workers had partitioned off a Midtown stretch of Broadway days before—some locals had no idea why. But when the clock struck noon on Wednesday, Super Bowl Boulevard was already filled with as many fans donning Jets and Giants items as those in Seahawks or Broncos memorabilia.

In August 1971, when New York Giants owner Wellington Mara and New Jersey governor William Cahill introduced designs for a new football stadium to be located in what was then called the Hackensack Meadowlands, Jersey residents could only dream about a time when the Super Bowl might come to their state. It’s taken more than 40 years, but this week the National Football League’s annual championship extravaganza—the country’s biggest sports attraction—finally rolls into town. But Garden State residents who have paid attention to the saga of the Meadowlands Sports Complex these last four decades know that the arrival of the big game is hardly cause for celebration.

NEW YORK—Sunday’s Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will be the most expensive game in its 48-year history. That is partly because of the massive security apparatus, both human and technological. Security officials gave details at a press briefing in Manhattan Wednesday.