The Sports Xchange: Broncos Notebook: Omaha Is Revisited

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The over-under is 27 1/2. That's not the points scored by one team or the other in Sunday's Super Bowl XLVIII, but the number of times Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning will yell "Omaha," a signal to get the ball snapped. 

Yes, it is too much over a small part of the game, and Broncos coach John Fox on Monday at the team's Hyatt Regency hotel more than implied he was as worn out explaining "Omaha" as perhaps the national television audience was in listening to Manning shout it.

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The Sports Xchange: Seahawks Notebook: Carroll says NFL should consider marijuana

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The teams playing in Super Bowl XLVIII, the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks, are from the two states where recreational marijuana use has been legalized. 

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll on Monday said he agrees with the possibility of the NFL investigating medicinal use of the drug for the best possible care of players. 

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