Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

During that season, they won their only NFC Championship Game since the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger, and reached Super Bowl XLIII.

Their only Super Bowl appearance was Super Bowl XXXIII.

Ironically, the Miami Dolphins became a Professional Football powerhouse, winning two Super Bowl Championships, including the perfect season of 1972.

However, in their first-ever Super Bowl appearance, they were defeated 34 – 19, by the defending champion Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII.

In a special meeting prior to Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans on February 2, 2002, NFL owners voted unanimously to approve the purchase.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.

Outside of SNL, George Wendt reprised his role of Swerski in the opening promo of Super Bowl XL on ABC.

In 2012, Cruz appeared in the first ever Nintendo commercial to promote New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Nintendo 3DS XL in which she played the role of Mario in the ad.

The Seahawks ' only Super Bowl appearance was in 2006 for Super Bowl XL.

They won the NFC Championship Game in 2005, and went on to lose in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers ( though it was not without controversy as NFL Films has Super Bowl XL at number 8 on its top ten list of controversial calls ).

The Seahawks wore their home blue jerseys during Super Bowl XL despite being designated as the visitor, since the Pittsburgh Steelers, the designated home team, elected to wear their white jerseys.

Seattle has reached the playoffs in eleven separate seasons, including in the 2005 season when they lost Super Bowl XL to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

This was the only one of the four Super Bowls the Steelers of the 1970s played in that the team wore their white jerseys, and the only Super Bowl the team would wear white at all until Super Bowl XL 31 years later.

The Cowboys would later repeat the option of wearing white jerseys as the " home " team in Super Bowl XXVII, while the Redskins would do so in Super Bowl XVII and, ironically, the Steelers ( who always wear their black jerseys in home games ) in Super Bowl XL due to the team's success on the road that season.

The Super Bowl did return to Michigan for Super Bowl XL but that game was played at Ford Field in Detroit, which by 2006 had replaced the Pontiac Silverdome as the home site for the Detroit Lions.

Maddox is currently the only player to win both an XFL Championship and a Super Bowl ( Super Bowl XL ).

The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the " crescent " with a new " greater than " logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, in use as of February 5, 2006 ( coinciding with Global's broadcast of Super Bowl XL ).

In Super Bowl XL, he returned an interception for a then record of 76 yards.

* Alan Faneca, American football offensive lineman, nine-time Pro-Bowler, Super Bowl champion ( XL )

* Super Bowl winner Kendall Simmons was on offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers when they won Super Bowl XL

In 1968, Gordy purchased the Donovan building on the corner of Woodward Avenue and Interstate 75, and moved Motown's Detroit offices there ( the Donovan building was demolished in January 2006 to provide parking spaces for Super Bowl XL ).

In 2006, Anderson appeared in a MasterCard television commercial for Super Bowl XL.

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

Louis Wright, Steve Foley, and Tom Jackson, the last remnants of Denver's Orange Crush Defense of the 1970s, all retired after this Super Bowl.

As a result of that ratings success, Michael Jackson would be tapped to perform at halftime during Super Bowl XXVII, and more big-name talent would follow ( U2, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen performed in subsequent years ).

Michael Jackson performed during the entire halftime show, starting the NFL's trend of signing top acts to appear during the Super Bowl to attract more viewers and interest.

Among the players signed were defensive lineman Richard Dent ( the MVP of Super Bowl XX ), Charles Mann, and Rickey Jackson, linebackers Ken Norton Jr. and Gary Plummer, and cornerback Deion Sanders.

Tampa Bay safety Dexter Jackson, who had two of those interceptions and returned them for 34 yards, was named Super Bowl MVP.

Jackson became only the second safety and third defensive back to ever be named Super Bowl MVP.

Jackson intercepted another pass on the Raiders ' next drive and returned it 25 yards to Oakland's 45-yard line, making Jackson the first player ever to record 2 interceptions in the first half of the Super Bowl.

In the weeks following Jackson's " wardrobe malfunction " debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne demanded Jackson be dropped from the project.

" Super Express " service to Manhattan is also provided after New York Mets games weeknights and weekends at Citi Field and US Open ( tennis ) games: starting at Mets – Willets Point and operating express to Times Square, also bypassing Junction Boulevard, Hunters Point Avenue and Vernon Boulevard – Jackson Avenue.

** Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy: During the halftime show performance by Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, one of Jackson's breasts is exposed and broadcast on the CBS broadcast of the show in what is later described as a " wardrobe malfunction.

( Their plan ultimately did not succeed as Dick Gephardt, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, and Michael Dukakis split the Super Tuesday primaries, and Dukakis was subsequently nominated.

The television broadcast on ABC was aired live with a five-second tape delay, possibly because of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction controversy during Super Bowl XXXVIII.

In the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, comedian Dave Chappelle jokingly told MTV that his appearance in the VMA was " the biggest mistake since you put Janet Jackson on the Super Bowl .".

The term is credited as having been coined by singers Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson, on February 1, 2004, to explain the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy ; the controversy is in reference to Jackson's right breast having been bared.

* February 1, 2004 – During a performance by singers Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl XXXVIII half time show, Timberlake pulled off a part of Jackson's leather corset, revealing her right breast covered by a piece of jewelry attached to her nipple.

Jackson also served as the pregame / halftime / postgame anchor for ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII in 1988.

A nipple piercing gained considerable media attention after Super Bowl XXXVIII, during which Janet Jackson exposed her right breast on which she had a nipple shield applied to a piercing.

* Phil Collen PC1 Signature Dinky: Dinky style with a Jackson Sustainer / Driver pickup in the neck position, DiMarzio HS2 Stacked Humbucking Pickup in the middle position, DiMarzio Super 3 Humbucking Pickup in the bridge position, Floyd Rose original locking tremolo and gold-plated hardware.

Phil and Grover Jackson decided to make an ergonomically correct guitar with a body like a normal arched-top Super Strat, except the top horn is dramatically bigger, the lower horn has more of a Fender Telecaster shape, and was concaved much like a Spector NS-series Bass Guitar.

In September 2012 Haven announced that ex Castleford Tigers coach Dave Woods would coach the side in 2013, Haven immediately set about strengthening for 2013 signing prop Paul Jackson from Super League side Castleford Tigers.

ESPN football anchors Chris Berman and Tom Jackson sometimes sing " San Diego Super Chargers " when announcing Chargers highlights.

" U Can't Touch This " sampled " Super Freak " by Rick James ; " Dancin ' Machine " sampled the Jackson 5 ; " Have You Seen Her " is a semi-cover of The Chi-Lites song ; " Help the Children " interpolates Marvin Gaye's " Mercy Mercy Me ( The Ecology )"; " Pray " and " She's Soft and Wet " sample the Prince songs " When Doves Cry " and " Soft and Wet " respectively.