{"id":1130,"date":"2008-02-05T20:04:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/02\/05\/football-super-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T01:04:46","slug":"football-super-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/02\/05\/football-super-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Football (Super Tuesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/playoffs07\/news\/story?id=3229763\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/playoffs07\/news\/story?id=3229763', 'espn.com');\" target=\"new\">espn.com<\/a>, last Sunday a whole lot of folks watched the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants\u2019 last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history.<\/p>\n<p>Only the \u201cMASH\u201d series finale in 1983, with 106 million viewers, was seen by more people, Nielsen Media Research said Monday. Sunday\u2019s game eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh in 1996.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brady, Manning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=3229782\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=3229782', 'Vick');\" target=\"new\">Vick<\/a>.  Which one doesn\u2019t belong?  It looks like Vick will have some money in his coffers to use in his defense against various lawsuits coming his way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jailed quarterback Michael Vick can keep all but $3.75 million of the nearly $20 million in bonus money he received from the Atlanta Falcons following a ruling Monday by a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how all the salary cap nonsense works, but I do know that the Falcons would get some salary cap relief for any of the $20 million they could recover.  The Falcons are putting on a brave face by saying this did not really affect them for next year.  I have my doubts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Switching gears to college football action, the January 14, 2008 SI listed Georgia as their number one team going 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cQB Matthew Stafford and RB Knowshon Moreno are among 17 starters expected back on a team that closed with seven strong wins.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it were only that easy.  Going into Signing Day, or Super Wednesday, the January 25, 2008 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer ran an article that Georgia\u2019s 2008 recruiting class was full.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even if Georgia doesn\u2019t add another commitment to its 25-man class, the group will rank among the nation\u2019s best as long as there aren\u2019t numerous defections.  Legge [publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/georgia.scout.com\/index.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/georgia.scout.com\/index.html', 'dawgpost.com');\" target=\"new\">dawgpost.com<\/a>] said it would be \u201cstunning\u201d if the Bulldogs\u2019 class didn\u2019t finish in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scout.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.scout.com\/', 'scout.com');\" target=\"new\">scout.com<\/a>\u2018s top five.  Georgia\u2019s current crop of commitments is rated third in the nation by scout.com and fourth by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivals.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.rivals.com\/', 'rivals.com');\" target=\"new\">rivals.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow may be more fun to watch than the results tonight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to espn.com, last Sunday a whole lot of folks watched the Super Bowl. The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants\u2019 last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history. Only the \u201cMASH\u201d series finale in 1983, with 106 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/02\/05\/football-super-tuesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Football (Super Tuesday)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}