
If you're looking for a broad indicator of the economic recovery, the Super Bowl may be it. Spending is expected to jump from 2010, and that could very well be a sign of things to come. |
![]() | Their Commercials Got Game—Oh Baby! Companies deemed to have the best TV spots during the Super Bowl tend to get a short-term bounce in their stock price. E*Trade anyone? |
![]() | Budget Crunch Sidelines New Super-Stadium Projects Cash-strapped cities and states are finding it almost impossible to justify fat financing deals for state-of-the-art football arenas. |
![]() | Plasma TVs: Price Pinches Popularity Chances are you'll be watching the big game on a smaller-sized, lower-priced LCD set, even if the picture quality isn't as good as its rival. |
![]() | Tips to Avoid Super Bowl Scams Excited fans can easily fall prey to bogus offers, from tickets to sweepstakes to travel packages. "They become easy pickings,” says one fraud expert. |
| Super Bowl: NFL Does Noble Job Recovering From Ticket Snafu How was it possible that 1,250 seats weren't ready? How was it possible that the outside contractor was finishing up 2,000 other seats in the upper endzone minutes before game time? It was a crisis for a lot of people who spent their hard earned money to see their team. And the story was only touched upon once, briefly, during FOX's pregame show. |
| Super Bowl: Have Fan-Created Spots Rendered the Ad Firm Dead? At $100,000 per second, Super Bowl ads are already expensive. But the success of spots like Doritos and Pepsi Max this year proves that the big guys don't have to pay ad firms to make the ads. Simply hold a contest and crowdsource it. |
![]() | Super Bowl: National Anthem Controversy Continues For most of the people watching last night, the controversy involved Christina Aguilera messing up the words to the National Anthem. But to those who actually bet on it, it was a much bigger deal. |
![]() | Financial Super Bowl Fallout From Bad Weather? The horrible weather week that was called by Dallas meteorologists as the worst week in 15 years definitely put a smacking on the Super Bowl economy. |
![]() | Official Rules: Darren Rovell’s Headline Contest What would be the best headline describing the Game for the next day’s newspaper? |
![]() | NFL Stars Who Managed To Go Broke Thought the money can be easy, holding onto it is not—and you might have seen one or two of them in the Super Bowl. |
![]() | NFL's Best Cheerleaders Squads Team owners are finding lots of way to cash in on their allure. Neverthless, you won't see any in this Super Bowl. |
![]() | Darren Rovell's Best Super Bowl Ads For some, the TV spots are as much fun and as important—as the game itself. |
| Best-Selling NFL Jerseys For Women Some 40 percent of NFL fans being female, jerseys tailored for women have become popular in recent years. |
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