NFL Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005

Countdown to the National Football League's Super Bowl 2005 in Jacksonville

The Super Bowl is the pro football championship game of the National Football League, and the culmination of the NFL playoffs, played between the champions of the AFC (American Football Conference) and NFC (National Football Conference) at a neutral site every January/February of each year. The winning team wins the Vince Lombardi Trophy. At sportsbooks, the Super Bowl is the climactic point of action in NFL football sports betting and sports wagering based on season-long bets, odds, futures, and betting propositions. For the press and media, the Super Bowl is annually America's most watched single-day sporting event and highest rated television program, laced with first-rate entertainment via the Super Bowl halftime shows, commercials, and advertising. And to the fans, the Super Bowl is simply, and mainly, all about the games.

Super Bowl XXXIX is slated on February 6, 2005 at ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. "Building Bridges" is the theme and slogan for Super Bowl 2005, which NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue says is "a theme that runs through a lot of what we do as a league, uniting people with the passion for our sport, bringing communities together."

Taking the theme further, the National Football League began this season what will now be the annual staging of the opening game in the city of the defending Super Bowl champion while also incorporating the site of the next Super Bowl into pre-game programming on national TV. The kickoff game between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts was thus staged on September 9, 2004, in New England. It was preceded by a special, hour-long TV program on ABC that included a segment originating from Jacksonville. Steve Bornstein, NFL executive vice president of media and president/CEO of NFL Network, produced the hour-long program. Bornstein will also be producing the Super Bowl 2005 halftime show.

Said Tagliabue, "We think this is a great way to keep the focus on the game, keep the focus on the top teams in the league, and the great athletes we have."

The NFL football championship game itself shoud prove to be another one for excitement, what with a host of competitive teams in the race for the Super Bowl. There are the Pittsburgh Steelers with QB Ben Roethlisberger, Indianapolis Colts with QB Peyton Manning, San Diego Chargers with QB Drew Brees, New York Jets with QB Chad Pennington, Philadelphia Eagles with QB Donovan McNabb, Atlanta Falcons with QB Michael Vick, and Seattle Seahawks with Matt Hasselbeck, to name a few. Super Bowl 2004 champions the New England Patriots with QB Tom Brady further add to the thrill, remaining to show strength and competitiveness in the current season, dangling before us NFL football sportsbooks and sports betting fans an unexpected but still possible third Super Bowl win.

Fox Television is the televising network for Super Bowl 2005, with WAWS Fox 30 is the Jacksonville local television network affiliate. Emmy-award winning Don Mischer Productions will produce the Ameriquest Mortgage Super Bowl XXXIX Halftime Show starring Paul McCartney. This will be McCartney's second Super Bowl appearance. He provided a memorable pre-game performance at Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans in 2002, the first Super Bowl to take place after the tragic events of September 11.

Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 follows what was a thrilling season in 2004 at Houston, Texas, in which the New England Patriots bested the Carolina Panthers 32-29. Watched by a record 144.4 million viewers in the US, last year's Super Bowl XXXVIII was also rendered memorable by the halftime show in which Janet Jackson, performing with Justin Timberlake, had an allegedly accidental boob exposure. With McCartney gracing the halftime with his presence this year, another mishap of the like will surely be avoided.

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