The Morning Tailgate: Super Bowl Edition

Among the emerging heroes from last night’s thrilling Super Bowl, we felt one guy outweighed his competition for this morning’s "ceremonial tailgate bratwurst."

That man is Bruce Springsteen’s bandmate—who looked like a fool on national television after The Boss’ errant guitar toss stunned him a "bit."

Springsteen Super Bowl Guitar-Throw Botch from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

Feb. 2

Some time in the 1700s

Quakers and residents of Pennsylvania celebrate Groundhog Day. Hundreds of years later, we’ve yet to realize that groundhogs can’t actually predict the weather. No one can. Not even those freaking meteorologists.

Golf star Ben Hogan falls victim to bad car crash, giving inappropriate jokesters the green light to talk about Hogan in a “driving accident.” Hey, how about that Nick Hogan? Did he drive Ben?

Pete Maravich becomes the first college player to score 3,000 points in a career, breaking this guy's previous record.

Major League Baseball suspends Marge Schott for a year as a result of “disrepute and embarrassment.” Marge always came across to us as a woman equipped with the eternal stench of cigarettes and scotch.

During their five-hour pregame show, NBC featured a handful of musical acts, none of which was more notable than when Bob Costas threw it to the stage for what was supposed to be none other than JSF favorite, Journey, singing their trademark song, “Don’t Stop Believing."

Only instead of watching musical icon and architect of the greatest music video ever, Steve Perry, belt out his inspirational tune, we got to see a guy who looked like a long-haired version of Takashi from Revenge of the Nerds masquerading as the lead singer of the group. 

It looked and sounded like the group had held open tryouts at a karaoke night and found their man.

The Best Buy employee who saved the Super Bowl party with his electronic acumen/ Mizzou QB Chase Daniel

Because it makes all of us feel good, take two minutes to enjoy a Super Bowl-quality run by Tecmo Bowl's Bo Jackson.

The Super Bowl pregame festivities on NBC were nothing, if not annoying. Josh Bacott brings you the meat and potatoes in picture form, which obviously includes Detroit Lions president Matt Millen.

Patrick Imig has Super Bowl XLIII by the numbers. Expect at least one Santonio Holmes pot joke.