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For last week’s New Yorker, Barry Blitt imagined President Obama’s Super Bowl party: beer, chips, and the leading Republicans tackling each other. For Giants fans, the actual game—and a key late-fourth-quarter sack—may have been even more satisfying. Here’s our coverage, plus a special bonus below: New Yorker football covers, dating back more than eight decades. (As it happens, the Giants and The New Yorker got their start the same year: 1925.)
- Reeves Wiedeman on the magnitude of the Giants’ win. (Earlier, Wiedeman had a rooting guide.)
- Sasha Frere-Jones explains Madonna’s half-time show.
- Ben Greenman rated every Super Bowl ad, after exhorting advertisers not to release spoilers.
- Ben McGrath on how Victor Cruz of the Giants got his start.
- Evan Osnos watches the game from a bar in Beijing.
Plus:
- Steve Coll on Tom Brady and Mitt Romney.
- Amy Davidson on why the Steelers are playing the big game in Dublin.
- Jon Michaud on Super Bowl party ideas from The New Yorker archives.
- Adam Gopnik on a Jets fan’s lament.
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October 27, 1928. By Peter Arno.
There’s more at our Sporting Scene blog, which you can follow on Twitter.
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