The weather is colder now but the snow has stayed away so far, thank goodness. This Sunday most of us are excited that the Super Bowl will be on and we can settle in to watch the “Big Game,” on TV even if the weather may not be cold and snowy as in times past.

Super Bowl XLVI will be played 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 the 2011 season. It will be the 46th annual championship game of the NFL and is scheduled to be played Sunday, February 5, 2012, 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.

Per convention as an even-numbered Super Bowl, the Patriots as the AFC representatives will have the home team designation. Super Bowl 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.

The Patriots, as the designated home team, had a choice of wearing their home dark blue jerseys or their white away jerseys. There was brief speculation that the Patriots might wear the white away jerseys in order to switch the jerseys from Super Bowl XLII, where the Patriots wore dark blue and the Giants wore white^. Monday the Patriots announced they will be wearing their customary dark blue home jerseys as the home team in Super Bowl XLVI.

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. Michele Tafoya and Alex Flanagan will be the sideline reporters.

A few facts I like to know and hope you may enjoy are following just for your enjoyment:

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