Eli Manning, the Superbowl XLVI MVP, led the Giants organization with a 21-17 win over the Patriots.

A win on Saturday night would send Brady and the New England Patriots to the AFC championship game and end the Tebowmania season of the Denver Broncos.

Michael Vick had 187 yards passing and 45 rushing, and McCoy had 95 yards on the ground.

“Are you ready for some football”, slogan pulled from ESPN.

NFL brothers and Washington, DC natives Vernon Davis of the San Francisco 49ers, and Vontae of the Miami Dolphins have spent their off-season participating in several philanthropic endeavors.

Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am is featured on Usher’s hit single “O.M.G.”

City Council members voiced support for entertainment company AEG’s stadium plan and its potential to deliver needed jobs to the community while returning an NFL team to the city for the first time in some 15 years.

Vick was selected to start Sunday after leading the NFC with more than 1.5 million votes, far ahead of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, the NFC’s second-leading vote-getter at 948,410.

Woodson said he voted for Obama, and jokingly suggested that meant the President owed it to him to back the Packers.

His final season was filled with turnovers and oddities _ the final play of Favre’s career will apparently be a jarring sack by the Bears on a rock-hard college football field.

Quarterback Michael Vick looked at the positive side. “Just a few more days to get ready !” he wrote.

This is the Cowboys’ worst season since 1989. And is destined to be among the worst in franchise history.

Ochocinco and Ochouno read for season opener.

The people of New Orleans will embrace him now tighter than some of their kinfolk. It didn’t hurt, of course, that when Brees arrived in 2006, both he and the city were at a crossroad.

New Orleans always has been a football town, even when the Saints were the Aints _ back in the days Archie Manning led the team and fans wore paper bags on their heads to prevent being identified as supporters. But that four-decade love affair morphed into something more meaningful in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.