Bay Area rock band Green Day opened a celebration of the NFL’s 60th Super Bowl game with “Good Riddance” as football greats like Tom Brady, Jerry Rice and Peyton Manning walked onto the field.

After "Holiday"/"Boulevard of Broken Dreams," the band transitioned to "American Idiot" — a song originally written in protest of the Iraq War ...Read more

If you can’t beat ’em, go on the air and join the party.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan and 49ers linebacker Fred Warner were part of NBC’s five-hour Super Bowl 60 pregame show Sunday, a consolation prize for the five-time Lombardi Trophy-winning 49ers failing to get out of the divisional playoff round with a 41-6 loss to ...Read more

MIAMI — A Saturday arrest video out of Doral got increased virality once Miami-Dade online arrest and court records identified the man arrested as 6-foot-5 Atlanta Falcons defensive end James Pearce Jr.

As of noon Sunday, Pearce, 22, remained in Miami-Dade Corrections’ Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. The listed charges in online...Read more

New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel has a chance to join an exclusive group when his team plays the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX.

If the Patriots are victorious, Vrabel will become only the fifth Super Bowl-winning head coach to have also won a Super Bowl as a player.

Tom Flores was the first person to achieve this distinction. While ...Read more

The New England Patriots have a chance to make history at Super Bowl LX.

A New England win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif., would break a tie between the Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most Super Bowl championships. Right now, the two teams are tied with six each.

The Steelers were the first team to win...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — These games aren’t guaranteed.

But once, Pete Carroll spoke and everything seemed possible — infinite confetti, a perpetual parade. It was Feb. 5, 2014, three days after the Seahawks dominated the Denver Broncos, 43-8, in Super Bowl 48. The franchise’s first championship parade started near the Space Needle, before ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Byron Murphy II has already won in more ways than one.

I’m not even talking about the 23-year-old defensive tackle’s ascendant second season, which included 62 tackles and seven sacks. Or the former first-round pick’s penchant for dropping to a knee and stonewalling double teams, an unmovable 306-pound anchor derailing ...Read more

Too much talent.

That’s why the Seattle Seahawks will beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 on Sunday.

The Seahawks boast the better lines, team speed, depth and special teams.

Quarterback Sam Darnold will have to show he indeed has outgrown his turnover issues, but it’ll be the Seahawks who raise the Lombardi Trophy — their ...Read more

In the same setting and against the same team that one potential Seahawks dynasty began its descent, a new one has a chance to arise Sunday.

From the moment the Seattle-New England Super Bowl matchup was set two weeks ago, the history of the Seahawks and Patriots became impossible to ignore.

Could a win Sunday finally avenge the horrific and ...Read more

MIAMI — It only required two seasons of wandering through the wilderness, two years of being irrelevant while the franchises reset.

That’s the timeline it took for the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks to rebuild their franchises, which have coincidentally — or not — played in the 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 (Seattle lost), 2007, ...Read more

A few weeks ago, right as the Seahawks were beginning their playoff run to the Super Bowl, coach Mike Macdonald noted that one way he eases anxiety is to remember all that he has to be grateful.

“Just count your blessings, he said.

Applied to football, Macdonald said when he’s worried about how the Seahawks might defend an opposing offense...Read more

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is following in the footsteps of Tom Brady, far beyond just the football field.

Maye has taken over the reins from Brady as an ambassador for Best Buddies, an international organization that supports countless individuals with intellectual disabilities across New England.

This spring will mark Maye’s third ...Read more

I love the Super Bowl.

I absolutely love it.

I love everything about it: The overdone commercials. The over-the-top halftime shows. The overhyped game.

I love the Super Bowl not in spite of its excess, but because of it.

Because for one strange, glorious, guacamole-soaked, chicken wing–stained, beer-drenched Sunday evening every year, ...Read more

BOSTON — How did Mike Smith get here?

Alone in a wooden cabin atop a remote mountain in Utah, hundreds of miles from home, sitting in the overnight dark. Days of solitude lay ahead of him, questions lingered behind.

Was it his fall in Green Bay?

That crash landing weeks before he worked Packers training camp in 2021, when he was one saw cut...Read more

NEW YORK — Another member of the Ryan family will join the Jets' coaching staff.

The Jets have hired Seth Ryan to be their new passing game coordinator. a source told the New York Daily News. He replaces Scott Turner, who was fired two weeks ago after coach Aaron Glenn revamped his coaching staff.

Ryan, 31, is the son of Rex, the Jets’ ...Read more

It’s not like coming back home is anything novel for Austin Hooper, who still visits De La Salle’s campus in the summer to train with his high school alma mater after 10 years in the NFL. And this isn’t his first Super Bowl, either.

But both? At the same time?

“That’s what makes this one that much more special,” the New England ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former New York Jets linebacker Darron Lee has been arrested and charged in the murder of his girlfriend, who was found brutalized at a home in Tennessee on Thursday before succumbing to her injuries.

The ex-NFL star, 31, is facing charges of first-degree murder and tampering with evidence, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Receiver Cooper Kupp and linebacker Ernest Jones IV have been on this stage.

So has running back Cam Akers.

All three started for the Rams four years ago in a Super Bowl LVI victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium.

All eventually were released or traded by the Rams and wound up with the Seattle Seahawks, ...Read more