Super Bowl

Super Bowl salute: A quick military-themed guide to the big game

By Kevin Lilley on February 2, 2013 Football, Uncategorized

If you’re looking for a thorough breakdown of Super Bowl XLVII — analyzing every angle, grading every position, charting the careers of the brothers Harbaugh back through junior high — you’ve come to the wrong place. You can find said breakdown anywhere. We’d suggest these guys, by the way. Heck, even the folks at the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, better known as DVIDS, are in on the act, if you’re curious how an Air Force public affairs staffer thinks the big game will go. If you’re officially sick of pregame hype but need something to pass the time…

Marines, sailors take in Super Bowl at sea

By Dan Lamothe on February 6, 2012 Football, Marine Corps, Navy

ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP WASP -– If you’re going to watch your favorite NFL team lose in the Super Bowl, it may as well be somewhere interesting. That’s the scenario I found myself in last night as I continue to cover Bold Alligator 2012, a massive amphibious exercise involving at least 14,000 personnel and 25 ships off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia. Like many of the sailors and Marines aboard this gator ship, I had accepted there was a strong possibility the game wouldn’t be on while underway –- only to find out the exact opposite. Not…

Titans owner hosting GIs at Super Bowl

By Sean Smyth on February 5, 2012 Army, Football, Uncategorized

Here’s a classy move: Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams is recognizing soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., and he’s hosting some of them at today’s Super Bowl. Thirty-three Campbell GIs took off early today and made the 300-mile trip to Indy.

Medal of Honor recipient Sal Giunta honored at Super Bowl

By admin3 on February 7, 2011 Army, Football, Uncategorized

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was honored last night during the third quarter of the Super Bowl. The Medal of Honor recipient stood alone at one end zone causing the crowd to erupt once his image hit the big screen. Here’s video of his appearance. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7xfTjfGZvQ[/youtube]

Watch the SecDef's Super Bowl message

By on February 5, 2011 Football

Gates concluded with a few anti-Steelers remarks in the first take of this video, but the flacks convinced him to be bipartisan. That’s my dream, anyway. [HTML1]

Super Hornets get nod for Super Bowl flyover

By Mike Hoffman on January 28, 2011 Navy

If a fighter jet flies over a $1.2 billion stadium, but no one in the stadium can see it; does that fighter jet make a sound? Well, of course it does, it’s a mother bleeping fighter jet, but many are left wondering why the Navy is flying four F/A-18 Super Hornets over this year’s Super Bowl if stadium officials have already said Cowboys Stadium’s roof will be closed for the game. Sure, the schmucks — or lucky bastards, however you see it — who paid a minimum of $600 for a seat will get to see the fly over on…

Operation Watch Super Bowl

By Mike Hoffman on March 16, 2010 Afghanistan

FORWARD OPERATING BASE MIZAN, Afghanistan -– Staff Sgt. Marshall Fitzgerald grew up in Hattiesburg, Miss., as a die hard New Orleans Saints fan. When the Saints finally marched into the Super Bowl, he was all set to watch quarterback Drew Brees pick apart Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts. One problem. He is stationed in Afghanistan. FOB Bullard in the Zabul Province had a TV with Armed Forces Network, but the night of the Super Bowl a blizzard cut out the signal. Panic set in. He raced to the computer in his room and had his wife set up the web cam…

Eckel done in New Orleans?

By on March 4, 2010 Football, Navy

Former Navy star running back Kyle Eckel won a Super Bowl ring with the New Orleans Saints last month, but it appears the restricted free agent might be done in the Big Easy. The Saints have not tendered an offer to the fullback, who was signed during the season to replace injured starter Heath Evans. According to Jeff Evans of the Times Picayune, “it looks as though the club is not interested in bringing back” Eckel, who is one of only four restricted free agents not tendered an offer by the Saints. Meanwhile, New Orleans has signed an another free…

Plenty of U.S. service members were unable to watch the Super Bowl due to operational commitments, but even those who did in many cases missed the always-popular commercials.

Many troops saw Super Bowl, but no commercials

By Dan Lamothe on February 9, 2010 Haiti, Marine Corps

Plenty of U.S. service members were unable to watch the Super Bowl due to operational commitments, but even those who did in many cases missed the always-popular commercials.

AF vet hoping to help Saints win trophy named after grandfather

By on February 5, 2010 Air Force, Football

Turns out the Air Force Academy has a connection to the Super Bowl XLIV. Former Air Force officer Joe Lombardi is the quarterbacks coach for the New Orleans Saints. Lombardi played tight end and was a three-time letter winner at the Air Force Academy. He graduated in 1994 and began his coaching career two years later at the University of Dayton while he was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force base, according to a USA TODAY column. The most interesting part of Lombardi’s story, however, is his connection to the trophy that the Saints and Colts are playing for Sunday. Joe…

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