Super Bowl 2012

Super Bowl 2012

Super Bowl 2012 (XLVI) will be between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for 2011. It will be the 42nd annual championship game of the modern-era NFL and is scheduled to be played Sunday, February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kickoff time is scheduled for approximately 6:30 p.m. EST.
This will be the first Super Bowl to be played in Indianapolis, and the first time in the history of the game it will be played in consecutive years in a retractable roof stadium. This will also be only the fourth time that the Super Bowl is played in a cold-weather city, after Detroit's hosting of XVI and XL as well as Minneapolis's hosting of XXVI. Downtown Indianapolis, the home of Lucas Oil Stadium, will feature an outdoor Super Bowl Village and other programs at the Indiana Convention Center.

As an even-numbered Super Bowl, the Patriots as the AFC representatives will have the home team designation. Super Bowl 2012 XLVI will be the sixth Super Bowl in which the two teams had competed in a previous Super Bowl match up, as the Giants and Patriots had previously met in Super Bowl XLII. Both head coaches (Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick) and both starting quarterbacks (Eli Manning and Tom Brady) return from Super Bowl XLII.

Super Bowl 2012 Broadcasting in the United States:

In the United States, the game will be televised nationally by NBC It will also be streamed online, both to computers (via NBC.com) and mobile devices (via Verizon Wireless's NFL Mobile app), the first legal online streaming of a Super Bowl telecast in the USA. Al Michaels will call play-by-play for NBC, marking the seventh time that he will be behind the microphone for a Super Bowl and the second time he will be calling a Super Bowl for NBC. Cris Collinsworth will be the analyst for the game, his second as an analyst and first since he was in the booth for Super Bowl XXXIX for Fox.

Super Bowl XLVI will be carried nationwide on radio over Dial Global's Westwood One affiliate.  Locally, the game will be carried by the New York Giants Radio Network (flagship WFAN) and the New England Patriots Radio Network (flagship WBZ-FM). Bob Papa will call the game for the Giants with Carl Banks as his analyst and Howard Cross as sideline reporter. Gil Santos will be at the microphone for the Patriots with Gino Cappelletti as analyst and Scott Zolak as sideline reporter. Santos and Cappelletti return for their sixth Super Bowl as broadcast team for the Patriots while Papa calls his third for the Giants and Banks is analyst for his second. This will be the first Super Bowl broadcast for the Giants that will not feature Dick Lynch as analyst, as he retired from the Giants following the 2007 season and died in 2008.

DISH Network customers can watch Super Bowl 2012 on their local NBC affiliate. Go here for more articles and information on DISH sports and ordering DISH satellite TV . Enjoy the Super Bowl!