The United States' most lucrative professional sporting league is asking its musical acts to pay to play during the much-hyped Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Even before celebrating fans honked their car horns late into the night on downtown streets here, Seattle Seahawks' players and coaches began to turn their thoughts to the highly intriguing Super Bowl matchup that's now at hand.
Newly anointed Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Lovie Smith met with the local media for the first time Monday. After a year off from football (he was fired at the end of the 2012 season after coaching the Chicago Bears for nine years), Smith began his introductory press conference with an anecdote about how he spent part of his free time in Costa Rica.