Monday, August 18, 2025

Groupon’s Super Bowl ads next year to feature fading celebs lighting piles of cash...

After taking a few days to evaluate the backlash of their extremely expensive Super Bowl TV ads, executives at online deals site Groupon announced they will run TV ads during next year's big game, but with a tweaked format.

Local man gets congratulatory call from Obama after winning $10,000 Super Bowl pool

Citing a "tireless resolve in the face of hardship and adversity," President Obama congratulated Chicagoan Keith McConnell over the phone Monday after McConnell won $10,000 in a squares pool when the Packers beat the Steelers 31-25 in Super Bowl XLV Sunday night.

Packers, Steelers happy to have been in locker room when Black Eyed Peas performed

Despite several key injuries incurred just late in the second quarter during Sunday's Super Bowl, both the Steelers and Packers said the key positive of being in the locker room at the break was that they were able to avoid Black Eyed Peas eye-gougingly bad halftime show.

Green Bay championship riots out of control; looters target cheese museum and taxidermy shop

Super Bowl celebrations raged into uncharted realms of vandalism late Sunday night in Wisconsin. Thousands of looters dressed in orange hunting bibs set overturned snowmobiles on fire, torched a cheese museum and pillaged a taxidermy shop.

FOX adds Family Guy to Super Bowl XLV broadcast booth

In an effort to take some comedy pressure off play-by-play man Joe Buck, FOX has decided to digitally insert Peter Griffin into the broadcast booth for tonight’s game.

Bears selling commemorative pieces of Soldier Field sod for $1,500

The 2010-2011 Bears season may be over, but the memories can live on forever with commemorative pieces of hallowed Soldier Field sod, available to the public for just $1,500 each.

The Heckler Stat Pack

This week's stats include All-Time Hairstyle Ratings, Toughness Index, Mascot RPI and the Miami Heat Scoring Leaders.