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

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.

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.

Although this is the middle of South Florida’s dry season, steady light rain also fell during Sunday night’s Pro Bowl in Miami.

The Vikings score a lot. The Saints score even more. Should be a fun NFC championship game in the Superdome on Sunday night for offense-minded players and fans. Not so much for defenders trying to catch Adrian Peterson, Sidney Rice, Reggie Bush and Marques Colston.