joining me from the site of super bowl xlix is lynn swann and rachel nichols.ks for joining us, guys. lynn swann, i want to talk to you. talk about what it feels like you won four super bowls with the steelers in six years, you had that famous 64-yard catch and run in super bowl x. what do the players feel like in a few hours, the anticipation. >> just that. it's the anticipation, the excitement that 30 other teams are sitting at home watching them play for the championship and one team is going to walk away with a ring. i should say another ring. it's kind of interesting because seattle will come into it having just played and won a super bowl. so they feel like, okay, this is where we're supposed to be. a lot of guys from the patriots who have never been in the super bowl. so guys like tom brady will be trying to get them to focus and say, look, don't think you're going to get this opportunity every year. the games you played in, you lose, missed opportunities to get to the super bowl. so take advantage of this moment. everybody, play as hard as you can and l

rachel nichols is ready for the game. special text about a player on another kind of watch. >> reporter: absolutely. we've had a ton of discussion this week about the corner back richard sherman. his girlfriend ashley is nine months pregnant with their first shield child, a son. if question was what happened if she went into labor. babies do not pay attention to calendars or a schedule. he had her here in phoenix in case she went into labor today. he said she's not experiencing any labor pains now. she's good to go. he will be playing in the game. does not have to be faced with the decision of where to be today, hospital stadium. the decision made for him. stadium. he wanted his son to do him a solid by staying in there and he and i texted this morning that his son is obedient already. >> let's talk about pressure on the stadium. there are fans who are hot under the collar. they bought tickets and they don't have seats now. >> reporter: this is really a shame. a lot of people bought tickets from ticket brokers which is le

rachel nichols is covering the big game for us.tive right now there. >> absolutely it was actually very foggy this morning, the 230g was so thick, they had to shut down the phoenix airport, that matters to you if you're trying to fly into phoenix for the game today, so the fog has lifted the blue sky is out, they're opening the roof up in the stadium over the last few minutes and the airport is open began important. cans are report to you that the high school steel drum band who's playing today, they can do the hop. >> very good. i understand you've been talking to some dynamic folks there while there are a lot of, you know, pro ballplayers, who may not necessarily be in the game but they're there and you've gotten their take on who has the advantage. >> reporter: we had a very interesting conversation with randall cobb, you remember the green bay packers had a very real -- but he was on the field as a receiver with the seattle seahawks secondary, that legion of boom defense that we hear so much about. and during that game those gu

rachel nichols back with me now.that play. >> okay. >> but the patriots have returned to gillette stadium. i'm wondering if the deflate gate controversy has gone away now, as that victory has taken the heat off. >> i would say the opposite. now you have the super bowl champions, who are under suspicion of possibly cheating the game. not playing with integrity. this is going to be a bigger problem for the nfl now and a dicier investigation, because the pressure has now ratcheted it up. how did they get there, to be raising that trophy? did they bend the rules? >> i want to listen now to some of your one-on-one interview with patriots owner robert kraft. let's take a listen. >> how did all the accusations about the footballs and deflate gate affect this team and how did it influence how this win feels? >> i'm pretty proud, especially i'm proud of brady and belichick and the way they've handled themselves. people can throw anything out there and leak anything and then you folks in the media take that as fact. it's hard

. >> charlie: from the site of the game, rachel nichols of cnn. >> we've had deflategate deflategate, deflategate for what seems like years but only 10 or 12 days really going into the game. the only way i see it really impacting the game sunday is to help the new england patriots. that team thrives on the us against the world mentality. you can bet bill belichick will be playing a clip wheel. other former players and announcers et cetera, are saying the patriots cheated to get to the super bowl and maybe didn't deserve that place and he will tell his team that you need to go out and show everybody that you do inside deserve to be here. if you beat the seahawks on a fairfield, no one will question you. >> charlie: we talked toll jeanine poggi about the advertisements. >> over 112,000 people watched the game, the only time people sit to watch the commercials. every other time, people dvr the tv shows skilling the commercials, no one wants to watch brand messaging except in the super bowl. south a really great platform. >> charlie: this evening bret bret of the "wall street journal" tal

the one-time he slipped was when he threw syria shade on rachel nichols, one of the few women revealeduestion in this press conference, and she asked about the conflict of interest around the fact the nfl is basically hiring its own independent investigators, that is the problem. the bc roger goodell snap and all you can think is, how sincere really is this? >> for years, the nfl has disputed evidence that its players suffer a high rate of severe brain damage. however, according to september article in the new york times the league stated in federal court documents expects nearly one third of retired players to develop long-term cognitive problems. traumatic brain injuries at a far higher rate than the general population. last week, nfl commissioner roger goodell praised the league for its recent efforts to protect its players. >> we're doing more to protect our players from unnecessary risks. hits to defenseless players this season were down 68%. and there were similar decreases in other areas pertaining to the safety of the game. we reported yesterday that concussions were down 25% t

the one time he broke from script was to show nasty shade at rachel nichols, the woman in the audiencer, who asked him about the conflict of interest in these cases. that's when the mask slipped a little bit. he's up there talking about integrity and all that he has learned but when you get to the end of the day, it's about is the register moving and everything is a reactive pr race. >> given that so we reported earlier in the show about how many billions have come in. that if you're a business and looking at the bottom line yeah, there's been a lot of scandal, there's been a lot of problems, but the bottom line this guy is doing the job you brought him to do. he's made it more profitable and more money coming into the nfl. so when he's asked, do you think you should resign? he's like no. >> and that's what it comes down to. i think we need to remember going back to the ray rice thing it was when sponsors started to speak out about this that the league actually felt the need to address this in some somewhat meaningful way. i think that that's really important when you talk about female

rachel nichols asked him about his win. >> i will celebrate with my team my family.port from everyone. >> reporter: how long is the party going to go on for? >> i don't know until we go to bed, which we may not. ha ha. >> i tell you what chris, malcolm butler did look a little tired earlier in an interview with us talking about this big game winning play right here. and the patriots they are probably still celebrating right now. they will be celebrating for quite a while. we don't know if they will be able to get back to boston with that big snowstorm hitting the east. >> one for the ages it will be remembered. i tell you, one of the big reasons is we love sport because it's life written large. right. you look at it today, tom brady, if he had lost he would have lost six trips to the super bowl. the kid, butler malcolm butler two plays earlier, he tips the ball he misses it. this guy camps it almost scores. now he's the hero. >> i can turn on a dime. >> one minute i was eating steak. now i'm hating myself. >> i know that's so great. >> that's not really unusual. >> t