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FOOTBALL LEGEND : Deion Sanders played in an NFL game and an MLB game on the same day. STATUS : False.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Saints' first Super Bowl title was so big in New Orleans that Mardi Gras, a revered local institution dating back well more than a century, became popularly known as, "Lombardi Gras."

Peyton Manning complained, the NFL listened and now the league is making additional tweaks to the umpire rule.

By now, anyone with premium cable knows more about Rex Ryan and his band of merry Jets than they should. The way Ryan took to reality TV, there's surely a season on "Survivor" or even "Dancing with the Stars" in his future should the football thing not work out. Hard not to like a fat, jolly man who isn't afraid to talk big in a league where big talking tends to be...

By now, anyone with premium cable knows more about Rex Ryan and his band of merry Jets than they should. The way Ryan took to reality TV, there's surely a season on "Survivor" or even "Dancing with the Stars" in his future should the football thing not work out. Hard ...

Billy Sullivan saw big football crowds as the publicity director at Boston College and Notre Dame, and he was sold on the pro game and its televised future when he watched the landmark 1958 NFL championship with his sons on the black and white Zenith in their family room. So when the fledgeling American Football League wanted to put a team in Boston, Sullivan needed no convincing.

NFL stadiums are now built for comfort.

BOSTON (AP) Billy Sullivan saw big football crowds as the publicity director at Boston College and Notre Dame, and he was sold on the pro game and its televised future when he watched the landmark 1958 NFL championship with his sons on the black and white Zenith in their family room. ...

Football League helped make football what it is today Embed multimedia (photos, galleries, audio, map):  Foolish 50th Football BOSTON - Billy Sullivan saw big football crowds as the publicity director at Boston College and Notre Dame, and he was sold on the pro game and its televised future when he watched the landmark 1958 NFL championship with his sons on the black and white Zenith in their ...

The following vignettes were compiled by John Baer, Ed Barkowitz, Les Bowen, Paul Domowitch, Marcus Hayes, Phil Jasner, Dick Jerardi, Mike Kern, Mark Kram, Catherine Lucey, Nate Mink and Daily News staff:

ST. LOUIS - College football is the one major sport in this landthat consistently just can't get things right. Bogged down byhypocrisy, overwhelmed by duplicity and seemingly incapable ofseeing that everyone on the outside can actually see them for theunmitigated phonies that they are, the folks who run collegefootball continue to roll along in their own blissfulignorance. 

THIBODAUX— South Louisiana is well known for many things, including its food, culture, music and rich heritage.

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer

Burwell: College football is the one major sport thatconsistently just can't get things right.

BOSTON - Billy Sullivan saw big football crowds as the publicity director at Boston College and Notre Dame, and...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Donovan McNabb was practicing again, Albert Haynesworth was still running mostly with the backups, and Brian Orakpo opened practice by yelling: "Dallas week! Y'all know what time it is."

It would be the right thing to do, but don't expect it to happen from a player (and an era) with that sense of entitlement. It would be the right thing to do, but don't expect it to happen from a player (and an era) with that sense of entitlement.

Because you asked for it, and because I had to wait six hours between the time when Bill Belichick ended his Monday press conference and when the players were available, here's another installment of "Ask Fearless," the recurring feature of your Blue Ribbon Daily in which readers get to ask insightful questions of your humble scribe, and hopefully receive sufficiently insightful answers in return.

Steelers, Pirates, Pitt, Penn State -- it's all in Jerry's weekly online forum.

DMN FILE PHOTO If Rick Gosselin's crystal ball is correct, the Colts will prevail over the Cowboys in Super Bowl XLV, 40 years after Baltimore's 16-13 win over Dallas in Super Bowl V.