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AFC teams seeking a Super Bowl berth must go through Foxborough, a place where Tom Brady hasn't lost in the regular season since 2006....

Brad Childress is gone, one season after he famously picked up Brett Favre at the airport, got a contract extension and came within a field goal of reaching the Super Bowl. The Vikings fired Childress on Monday, ending an eventful and often tumultuous run with the team marred recently by player unrest, livid fans and a boss angry over everything from his abrupt personnel decisions to a 31-3 loss at home to rival Green Bay on Sunday that dropped Minnesota's re...

Break out the parkas! The 2014 Super Bowl will be held in New Jersey and it won’t be indoors.  NFL owners have voted to put the championship game in the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands stadium that’s about to become home to the New York Jets and Giants. It does not have a roof and it will be February.

The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of "M-A-S-H" to become the most-watched program in television history....

New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl for the first time in their 43-year history with a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night.

Super Bowl XLIV kicks off today at 6:25 PM ET on CBS. The AFC champion Indianapolis Colts face off against the NFC's New Orleans Saints.

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A 40-yard field goal in overtime by a little-known kicker could become as famous as jambalaya in these parts. The New Orleans Saints, a team with no home and an uncertain future five years ago, are heading for their first Super Bowl. By battering Brett Favre and beating the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 Sunday, they set off celebrations on Bourbon Street that locals never could have imagined in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The Colts (15-2) are now headed back to Miami for the second time in four years and to their fourth Super Bowl in franchise history.

Kurt Warner connected with Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald for three first-half touchdown passes Sunday, and the Arizona Cardinals beat the Brett Favre-led Vikings 30-17 in a prime-time duel of the two veteran quarterbacks and former Super Bowl winners.