Super Bowl Screwups: Infamous Super Bowl Week Awards

Someone will screw up this week. Some player usually does. The Super Bowl spotlight shines too bright and madness seizes their mind and sheer stupidity ensues.

The thinking part of the brain submerges and a beast arises. Or in the better cases just a clown or a man with panic dancing just behind his dazed eyes.

Here's a look at Super Bowl screw ups, maniac meltdowns, and media clowns caught in the media feeding frenzy that is the big Bowl. 

Not to worry lads, only about 100 million people watching.

In the 1989 Super Bowl, running back Stanley Wilson was a key element in Sam Wyche's vibrant Cincinnati Bengals offense that was set to meet his his mentor Bill Walsh's San Francisco 49ers.

Just minutes before the Super Bowl eve final meeting of the Bengals offense Wilson stepped out to get his playbook. Twenty minutes later, a coach found Wilson in a cocaine stupor in a bathroom stall.

Wilson was suspended and the Bengals lost to the 'Niners 20-16 on Joe Montana's game-winning late drive. Wilson might have made the difference and given the Bengals just enough of an edge to score an extra touchdown.

Wilson never played for the Bengals again and is currently doing 20 years in the California penal system for burglary.

In 1999, Atlanta Falcon safety Eugene Robinson had received the Bart Starr Achievement Award, for high moral character, from a Christian group on Super Bowl eve. Later that night he was arrested for soliciting a female undercover cop for $40 oral sex.

The next day the Falcons played the John Elway led Denver Broncos. Robinson was toasted on an 80-yard pass play by Rod Smith which put the Broncos up 17-3. Later in the game he missed Denver running back Terrell Davis on a key play in which Davis advanced the ball to the Falcon's ten yard line effectively finishing the Falcons.

It's doubtful the Falcons win even without Robinson's distracting arrest but it sure didn't help his or the team's concentration.

Center Barrett Robbins was the leader of the Oakland Raiders' offensive line that paved the way for their 2003 Super Bowl showdown with Jon Gruden's Tampa Bay Buccaneers .

Unfortunately, for most of the week, before the game, Robbins went on a binge in Mexico. Spurred by alcohol, steroid, and drug abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression, Robbins had a massive meltdown and ended up hospitalized for the Super Bowl.

The Raiders offense had a meltdown in the Super Bowl as the Buccaneer defense had game planned beautifully for them, or else the Raiders had kept the exact same audible system they ran when Gruden was the Raider head man, either way the Raiders melted down magnificently.

And have been melting ever since.

As for Robbins the pre-Super Bowl downward spiral accelerated. In 2005, in a drug and booze steroid rage he was shot three times during a vicious brawl with several Miami police officers.

Before sentencing Robbins skipped Florida and is currently wanted by the police. If he is at your Super Bowl be afraid. Be very afraid.

During the 1979 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys, linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson was so addicted to cocaine that he hide some in his uniform and consumed it on the sidelines.Before the game he had caused a Super Bowl stir by saying Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Terry Bradshaw was so stupid he could not spell cat if spotted the c and the t.

Henderson, a good player but a constant drug soaked distraction in Dallas, played sub-par in the Super Bowl and the Cowboys lost 35-31. Bradshaw was the Super Bowl MVP.

Henderson was cut by Tom Landry the next year as his cocaine abuse spun madly out of control. Eventually Henderson achieved sobriety and now runs a Drug Rehab clinic in Texas.

Henderson also won $28 million in the Texas lottery.

Baltimore Raven linebacker Ray Lewis wasn't playing in the Super Bowl in Atlanta in 2000, which pitted the Tennessee Titans against the St Louis Rams, but he brought bad news to the league when he was involved in a murderous melee after a post-Super Bowl party.

Two men were stabbed to death but conflicting testimony allowed Lewis to walk free though he did make civil suit settlements with the victims families and was fined, a then record, $250,000 by the NFL.

So who will fall this year?

Who will use stupidity to seize the moment?

So far only a back up defense end, the New York Giants Adrian Awasom, has been arrested at the Super Bowl.

And only for a DUI.

The smoking gun Web site has been silent.

But the week is young.