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For those of us who watch the Super Bowl for the always entertaining (and sometimes historic) commercials, here are some things to watch for.

The Sports Assassin, writing on Yardbarker.com, reported rumors of a Best Buy commercial featuring Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osborne. There is also buzz that Rosanne could be featured in a Snickers commercial similar to the breakout ad featuring Betty White last year.

And Kim Kardashian reportedly has a smoking hot Sketchers ad.

Former Packer Desmond Howard and former Giant Phil Simms - both now in the broadcasting booth - went toe to toe Saturday at an event in Dallas.

Simms was angered by remarks made by Howard, now an ESPN analyst, about Tennessee quarterback Matt Simms, the former Giant's son. Howard said Simms took offense to an on-air comment about the Tennessee-LSU game that fans would see "three of the worse QBs in the SEC."

Howard tweeted that Simms said "he wanted 2 take a swing at me."

Simms acknowledged through a CBS spokeswoman that he had "a private conversation that became heated."

Last season's champion Saints are just the second team ever to win a Super Bowl after (a) trailing at the half and (b) failing to score a touchdown in the first half. The Saints got only two field goals by Garrett Hartley and trailed the Colts, 10-6.

The New York Giants trailed New England, 7-3, at halftime in Super Bowl XLII, but went on to win, 17-14, when David Tyree discovered he could catch passes with his helmet.

With the Hall of Fame in the news on Saturday, it seems a good time to look at one of its more obscure exhibits.

The Giants-Bills Super Bowl that ended the 1990 season is best known for Scott Norwood missing a field goal on the game's final play. But the Giants, who entered as the underdogs, used a superior defense to win, 20-19, the only Super Bowl ever decided by a single point.

The game plan devised by Giants defensive coordinator Bill Belichick is enshrined at the Hall of Fame.

Nine teams have been to at least five Super Bowls, led by Pittsburgh and Dallas with eight each.

New England and the Denver Broncos, both with six, come next. Oakland, Miami, San Francisco, Green Bay, and Washington all have been in five.

And even though no one has won more Super Bowls than the Steelers, with six, they're not even close to the all-time NFL title winners. In fact, they's won only half the titles Green Bay has. The Packers have won 12 NFL championships - nine of them in the pre-Super Bowl era.

A reserve wide receiver for the Cowboys named Percy Howard came into Super Bowl X and promptly caught a 34-yard touchdown pass from Roger Staubach.

That was the only reception he had in his entire career. He was a rookie in 1975 and was cut before the next season.

One of the four men featured in a national commercial for never missing a Super Bowl will not be at Sunday's showdown between Pittsburgh and Green Bay. Family members said Saturday that 79-year-old Robert Cook of Brown Deer, Wis., is hospitalized and had sent his two daughters to Arlington, Texas, instead. There was no further word on his condition.

The Pittsburgh Steelers placed Pro Bowl rookie center Maurkice Pouncey on injured reserve Saturday, a day after ruling him out for Sunday's game with a high left ankle sprain. Center-guard Dorian Brooks was signed from the practice squad, but backup Doug Legursky will start. . . . The NFL and the players' union met with their full negotiating teams for the first time since Nov. 22. The two sides met in a Dallas hotel.