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South tops North in Senior Bowl
Caldwell scores game-winning TD with no time left
Posted: Saturday January 26, 2008 7:38PM; Updated: Saturday January 26, 2008 8:35PM

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- For once, Andre Caldwell and Erik Ainge had a dramatic finish that both could cheer.

Florida's Caldwell scored on a 2-yard end around off a handoff from Tennessee's Ainge on the final play of the Senior Bowl to cap a 14-play, 86-yard final drive and lift the South to a 17-16 win over the North on Saturday.

After careers spent battling for the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division in a bitter rivalry, they made for an odd pairing on the winning play.

"It's fun to end your college career like that," said Ainge, whose 13-of-21 passing and 159 yards all came in the second half. "I'll remember handing the ball to a Gator to win for the rest of my life."

Caldwell plunged into the end zone, getting hit by Terrence Wheatley at the goal line, and promptly celebrated the fourth-down score with a Gator chomp. Georgia's Brandon Coutu then made the extra point.

"I knew I was going to get hit," Caldwell said. "I just lowered my head. To get in the end zone was a great feeling."

Ainge, who was invited to the all-star game after Louisville's Brian Brohm bowed out, took over at his own 14 with 2:48 left after the North was stopped on fourth down. He completed six passes and benefited from a pass interference call and some nice runs for extra yardage by his receivers.

He completed an 18-yarder to Caldwell on fourth-and-10 from the South's 14, then hooked up with Houston's Donnie Avery for a 22-yarder across the middle. The South got another first down on a pass interference call and Harry Douglas of Louisville caught the ball across the middle and managed to outrun everyone to the sideline to stop the clock after a 23-yard gain.

Tulane running back Matt Forte then gained 14 yards on a catch and run down to the 2. Ainge threw three incompletions in the end zone, leaving only 2 seconds on the clock for a final play.

"On that last play, you have a chance to call anything because it's the last play," said South coach Mike Nolan of the San Francisco 49ers. "Whereas the ones prior, he just had to keep it alive and not use up all the clock. A play like that you call it the first or second play and we never get another play off. It was a great call and it worked."

Ainge earned South offensive MVP honors. Forte ran for a game-high 59 yards and had 38 receiving to land the overall MVP award.

North coach Lane Kiffin of the Oakland Raiders was the subject of some drama of his own on the eve of the game. The Raiders denied a report on ESPN.com Friday that cited unidentified sources saying that owner Al Davis asked Kiffin to resign.

"I'm not going to comment on that," Kiffin said after the game. "It's got nothing to do with this game, and these guys' last game here."

Asked if he would be the Raiders' coach in the fall, he said: "I hope so."

Michigan's Chad Henne, the North offensive MVP, accounted for both his team's touchdowns with a 36-yard pass to Lavelle Hawkins of California in the first half and a 4-yarder to Missouri tight end Martin Rucker with 14:32 left in the game. He and Ainge were the only quarterbacks to avoid costly mistakes.

The defensive players accounted for many of the big plays before the South's final drive. Southern California defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis outshined his college quarterback, John David Booty, by sacking Andre' Woodson of Kentucky to record a safety for the North.

Those two points were the margin until the fourth quarter, and Ellis was the North's defensive MVP. LSU linebacker Ali Highsmith received South defensive honors.

Henne had staked the North to a 16-7 lead with considerable help from Chauncey Washington. The Southern California tailback ran for 30 yards on three carries during the drive that ended with Rucker's TD.

Henne completed five of nine passes for 64 yards but was reduced to spectator at the end.

"They just did a great job on the last drive," he said. "Erik made some great throws and the receivers made some great plays. Everybody played well. It's an all-star game, so everybody has something to be proud about."

Henne was the only one of the five quarterbacks who had significant time and no turnovers in the first half. Booty was intercepted by UTEP's Quintin Demps in the end zone to stop a promising drive. He finished with 72 yards passing, second only to Ainge.

Woodson lost a fumble in addition to getting tackled for the safety by Ellis, widely regarded as the game's top prospect. Woodson did have a 6-yard touchdown pass to Tennessee tight end Brad Cottam.

Hawaii's Colt Brennan was 2-of-6 for 29 yards with an interception. Delaware's Joe Flacco was 2-of-7 for 22 yards and a pick.

[queenbee]

Too bad Arain foster wasn't there to throw to, it wouldn't have taken 3 tries to get a touchdown.

This is the most coverge any Tenn player has received form SI.com. Probably be the last.

[queenbee]

2008 NFL DRAFT ORDER
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Team W-L Opponents
W/L %

1. Miami Dolphins
1-15 .539

2. St. Louis Rams
3-13 .512

t3. Atlanta Falcons
4-12 .512

t4. Oakland Raiders
4-12 .512

t5. Kansas City Chiefs
4-12 .512

6. New York Jets
4-12 .523

7. New England Patriots (f/SF)
5-11 .465

8. Baltimore Ravens
5-11 .516

9. Cincinnati Bengals
7-9 .461

10. New Orleans Saints
7-9 .477

11. Buffalo Bills
7-9 .516

12. Denver Broncos
7-9 .516

13. Carolina Panthers
7-9 .520

14. Chicago Bears
7-9 .543

15. Detroit Lions
7-9 .543

16. Arizona Cardinals
8-8 .434

17. Minnesota Vikings
7-7 .504

18. Houston Texans
7-7 .516

19. Philadelphia Eagles
8-8 .563

20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
9-7 .469

21. Washington Redskins
9-7 .555

22. Dallas Cowboys (f/CLE)
10-6 .425

23. Pittsburgh Steelers
10-6 .453

24. Tennessee Titans
10-6 .500

25. Seattle Seahawks
10-6 .414

26. Jacksonville Jaguars
11-5 .516

27. San Diego Chargers
11-5 .500

28. Dallas Cowboys
13-3 .496

29. San Francisco 49'ers (f/IND)
13-3 .516

30. Green Bay Packers
13-3 .469

31. New York Giants
10-6 .516

*32. New England Patriots
16-0 .469



t = Tie to be decided by coin flip

* = Slection forfeited or violation of league rules

[mac]

Bee do you give the Giants any chance at all against the Pats?

[queenbee]

I am pulling for the underdogs. But I doubt they will make, unless my Manning boy pulls a miracle out of his hiney.
The Pats now have something to prove and go down in the history books.

[queenbee]

SUPERBOWL WEEKEND.

Anyone want to load up im my private jet and fly out to Arizona for the weekend???

[mac]

You get us there and I got us a place to stay.

Tickets to the game might be the problem.

[queenbee]

Nope my private box has plenty of room for lot's of folks and a deck so we can grill SPAM burgers to go with our salads.

[queenbee]

The New York Giants are popping Airborne like mad to avoid getting sick before the Super Bowl, but cornerback Aaron Ross popped a whole tab instead of dropping it in water -- a "rookie mistake," he says.

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Manning boys bring dad to the Super Bowl 2 years in a row


PHOENIX (AP) -The patriarch of the NFL's first family settled deep into a plush sofa and recalled the day his sons announced they intended to make football their business, too.

"In a way,'' Archie Manning said, "it kind of scared me.''




His two older boys, Cooper and Peyton, weren't much taller than a pair of football pants at the time. They walked into the house wearing expressions so serious Manning wondered what was coming next.

"'Dad,''' they told him, "'you really need to push us a little more.'

"That's not what I do,'' Manning said, chuckling at the memory. "I'd already seen a little too much pushing at the ballpark. But I supported them, and the most I did, really, was explain that it's not just about showing up at practice. It's about the offseason, too, lifting and running and such all the time. But that's exactly what they went out and did.

"When Eli came along five years later, I thought he might go another route, do something different, because he didn't say much. But very quietly, he followed the same path and one day he just comes out and says, 'I want to play quarterback,''' Archie added. "And then he just went to work at it, too.''

Because Eli did, the whole Manning clan is back at the Super Bowl for the second year in a row, this time with a rooting interest in the New York Giants. It's a game Archie never dared dream about while starring for 11 years as quarterback of the woeful New Orleans Saints, followed by one-season stints as a backup with the Oilers and Vikings.

His middle son, Peyton, capped last season's Super Bowl with an MVP-winning performance that gave Indianapolis its first championship. The Colts got knocked out of the playoffs this time around. But Eli's ascendance not only softened that blow, it has made the premise of all those games the Manning boys played on the lawn behind the big house in New Orleans' Garden District a real possibility - brother vs. brother with a Super Bowl on the line.

"It would be hard to tell you until that night what the reaction would be,'' Peyton said. "I believe Eli and I would be pretty good about it.

"But that guy over there,'' he added, with a nod toward Archie, "would have a rough two weeks, along with my mother.''

It's hardly far-fetched. Most people, Archie included, are surprised to find out what a family affair the NFL has become.

Sons have followed their fathers into the league 161 times since pro football opened shop in 1920. Brothers following each other is more common still. There were 313 sets recorded when the 2007 season kicked off. There have even been nine instances of brothers following their father into the family business, with celebrated names like Shula, Matthews, Hannah and Hasselbeck joining the Mannings.

"Now that you mention it,'' Archie said, "In 1984, I was in the twilight of a pretty mediocre career in Minnesota and we had a journeyman tight end named Don Hasselbeck. He had three boys and I had three boys and they used to play together. Think about it: Four of those kids wound up being NFL quarterbacks.''

And there might have been a third Manning in the league if Cooper's playing career hadn't been cut short. He was a wide receiver at Ole Miss who had to quit the game following surgery to correct a chronic spinal condition.

"I try to put myself in his shoes and it would be hard to take,'' Eli said earlier this week.

"But I never heard him have a regret, any bitterness or complaints. He got his cards and played them the right way.''

Cooper, two years older than Peyton, honed the middle brother's competitive skills in a way few coaches could, usually on the small basketball court behind the house that required Archie to step in more times than he cares to remember.

"Every day,'' he said ruefully, again leaning back on the sofa in the G2 Lounge, set up to promote Gatorade's new drink. "You play to 20 by twos and when it got to 18, there was going to be blood before somebody scores. It was just a big fouling match, then a fight, then screaming.

"But Eli was five years back. They abused him a little bit, had fun with him, but they probably took care of him more than anything. It wasn't until Peyton came back from college where they started competing a little bit. But they were never competitors,'' he added, "and they're really not to this day.''

Eli confirmed that version of events. But just as Cooper taught Peyton a few things - not always purposefully - Peyton passed on a few to him.

Because Eli spent several years as the only son still at home, he and his mother, Olivia, bonded closer than she did with either of the other boys. He absorbed her quiet, levelheaded demeanor - "I call her the 'Great Equalizer,''' Archie said, "because she can take a crisis and get it back to normal in no time'' - and happily accepted whatever role his brothers carved out for him in their games.

Most of the time, that meant being the center. But being quiet and easygoing didn't mean he wasn't soaking up important lessons.

"I still remember when Peyton was about to start tackle football in the seventh grade, his first year of playing with pads and everything, and him being nervous about taking snaps under center,'' Eli said. "In pickup games, I'd just snap it from the side, or shotgun-style, but then he actually made me be a real center, you know, he's underneath, and I was doing real snaps.

"And the whole time he's getting mad at me,'' he added, with a familiar shrug, "because I wasn't snapping it with the laces up.''

Peyton doesn't have any stories that revealing, at least none he wants to share, about his little brother. But he's picked up a lesson or two from Eli.

"Eli's taught me not to read the papers,'' he said. "But if somebody e-mails you something and it flashes in front of you, it's hard to ignore. You might want to take that older brother's protective stance, but it's a no-win situation. Soon as I come out and defend him, it's 'Oh, the little brother can't speak up for himself.'

"So I don't say anything. But it's not the kind of thing where I have to call and say, 'Keep your head up,' because his head's in the exact same place after a tough game as it was after they beat the Packers. I think that's his best quality as a quarterback.''

Archie insists the boys learned more of the craft from each other than they inherited from him. Few things, though, have given Eli and Peyton more satisfaction than paying him back, no matter how large or small that contribution was.

"He is enjoying this as much as any of us are,'' Eli said. "This is kind of getting to go to his Super Bowl in his own way.''

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Eli & The Giants, YOU ROCK!!! ;D

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MY BOY PULLED THAT FEATHER OUT OF HIS BUTT AND WAVED IT AT THE PATS!!!!!!
YEE-HAW!

Commercials were bad and seem to get worse every year.
I liked the Hank budweiser commercial, excellent.
I liked the lizard's dncing to Michael Jackson's thriller.
I liked the screaming animals.

[2cedarschick]

Loved the E Trade baby commercials!

[queenbee]

The clown was good.