Super Bowl XLI
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| Visiting Team | AFC Champion |
| Home Team | NFC Champion |
| Date | February 4, 2007 |
| Stadium | Dolphin Stadium |
| City | Miami Gardens, Florida |
| Favorite | To be determined |
| Pregame | To be announced |
| National Anthem | Billy Joel |
| Coin toss | Dan Marino |
| Halftime show | Prince & Beyonce Knowles |
| TV in the United States | |
| Network | CBS |
| Announcers | Jim Nantz and Phil Simms |
Super Bowl XLI will be the 41st Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. The game is scheduled to be played on February 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, which won the bid in September 17, 2003 after a campaign against Arizona, Tampa Bay, New York City, and Washington D.C.. With this game, the Miami area will tie New Orleans, Louisiana as the city to host the most Super Bowls (9).[1]
[edit] Television and entertainment
The game is scheduled to be televised in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and color commentator Phil Simms.[2] This will be the first Super Bowl aired on CBS since the Janet Jackson incident three years earlier, in Super Bowl XXXVIII; and the first since the Viacom/CBS split at the end of 2005. Extensive pre-game coverage - to be hosted by The NFL Today team of James Brown, Shannon Sharpe, Boomer Esiason and Dan Marino, whose name graces the address of the game site (2269 Dan Marino Boulevard) - will begin 12 noon (US EST) with NFL Films' "Road to the Super Bowl" year in review, followed by "The Phil Simms All-Iron Team", and a four-and-a-half hour Super Bowl Today pre-game show followed by game coverage at 6:25 PM.[3]
This will also be the first Super Bowl announced by Nantz, and he will join Greg Gumbel as the only men to both serve as a Super Bowl play-by-play announcer and as the host of both the pre-/post-game show. For CBS' coverage of Super Bowls XXXV and XXXVIII, Gumbel did the play-by-play while Nantz was the pre-/post-game show host. Nantz will also join Curt Gowdy and Dick Enberg as the only play-by-play announcers to ever call both a Super Bowl and a NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game. Unlike Gowdy and Enberg (who will also contribute to the pre-game coverage), Nantz has not called a Rose Bowl or a World Series, as for many years, those games were telecast on NBC.
Besides co-hosting the pre-game, halftime and post-game shows, Marino will also participate in the coin toss, while Hall of Fame head coach Don Shula will present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winning team after the game.[4]
American singer and musician Prince is scheduled to perform at halftime.[5] Meanwhile, the legendary Cirque Du Soleil has been reported to perform as the pre-game act[citation needed], while Billy Joel sings the National Anthem prior to the game[6].
[edit] References
- ^ Miami awarded 2007 Super Bowl. NFL.com (2003-09-17). Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
- ^ CBS Sports announces NFL TV schedule. CBS Sports (2006-04-06). Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
- ^ CBS Sports NFL schedule. CBS Sports (2006-04-09). Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
- ^ "Marino, Shula to be honored at Super Bowl XLI", SuperBowl.com, 2006-12-14. Retrieved on 2006-12-14.
- ^ "Prince to perform at Super Bowl halftime", SuperBowl.com, 2006-12-10. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
- ^ Joel Heading South For Super Bowl, Shows. Billboard.com (2006-11-28). Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
[edit] External links
- Official Super Bowl website
- Host committee website
- Future Super Bowl sites
- NFL to remain on broadcast TV
- NFL announces new prime-time TV packages
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