The most buzzed about commercial during the CBS broadcast of the Super Bowl? The 15 second promo for Late Night with David Letterman that featured David Letterman, Oprah and Jay Leno. Almost immediately upon airing the spot, one could almost hear the viewing audience ask collectively “how did that happen?” We learned a bit from the NY Times last night, and tonight we heard from Leno, who shared his side of the story.

Glenn Beck opened his show today with a quick review of two of last night’s most talked-about Super Bowl ads. Namely, Tim Tebow and Betty White. But the ad that really got under Beck’s skin was the $2.5 million Census advertisement paid for by the U.S. government. Money wasted!

How, exactly, does this happen: A 15-second Superbowl ad featuring David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and…Jay Leno? After taking shots at Leno for basically the whole month of January — mean ones — and getting a few below-the-belt zingers right back, Letterman is the last person whom I would have expected to see sharing screen time with his former arch-rival.

And yet — turns out it was his idea.

Clad in white with just enough cleavage as befits a nationally-televised sporting event, but just enough coverage to remain firmly Amercia’s bouncy blonde sweetheart, Carrie Underwood sang the national anthem out strong and star-spangled for SuperBowl XLIV, hitting “land of the free” with gusto, rousing the crowd with that high, soaring note as well as [...]

New Orleans wasn’t the only city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, but it came to represent that awful destruction for the entire region. Tonight, with the Saints in the Superbowl, they represent a return from that disaster, and a renewal. So as much as everyone loves Peyton Manning, the Colts’ QB who has a shot of real greatness tonight, he shouldn’t be offended that pretty much everyone outside Indianapolis is rooting for the Saints.