LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – John Mara and niece Rooney Mara are hoping for a Super Bowl and Oscar win. Rooney Mara is the niece of John Mara, the owner of the Giants, Bob Costas reminded news moments ago on the pre-game Super Bowl show. John Mara told news that he thinks his family will be able to pull off both wins.

A win tonight wouldn’t be the first for the Mara family in the Super Bowl. But a win at the Oscars would be the first for Rooney. She earned her first nomination for the stellar performance in the Girl With a Dragon Tattoo.

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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – When the Giants vs. Patriots game kicks off in Super Bowl XLVI today, there will be a Live Stream online, for free, commissioned by the NFL. Giants vs. Patriots fans, and even fans of the Super Bowl XLVI pre-game show, will get over five hours of free live streaming video online today, the league confirms to news. Today represents not just a stark contrast to broadcasting coverage of past NFL Super Bowl games, but also a willingness of the NFL to embrace internet users as much as television viewers.

In previous years, the mere mention of a live stream online of a Super Bowl game suggested an illegal clip, ripped from one of the local or national TV carriers. Over the years, the NFL has been reluctant to stream its programming telecasts online.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Bob Cook, Thomas Henschel, Larry Jacobson, and Don Crisman recently came to fame as the four men that never missed a Super Bowl. Bob Cook of Wisconsin had attended 44 Super Bowls. But shortly before this year’s Super Bowl on February 6, Cook told his wife he was just too ill to attend. A die-hard Packers fan, Cook was suffering from a blood infection and congestive heart failure. His wife decorated his hospital room and his two daughters went to the game in his place.

But today Cook’s family confirmed that he passed last week.  His wife Sarah said Bob took great pride in his Visa commercial and enjoyed the fame the TV advertising spot brought him.

When asked by news earlier this year why he enjoys the Super Bowl so much, Cook said he never wants football season to end. He says that as soon as the Super Bowl is over he is thinking about the Draft, and as soon as the Draft is over he is thinking about the pre-season.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Super Bowl tickets lawsuit is seeking millions from Jerry Jones, the NFL and the Dallas Cowboys concerning the roughly 1000 fans who didn’t get Super Bowl seats as represented and sold.

The valuation of the Super Bowl Tickets lawsuit is still uncertain. The ticket holders’ alleged actual damages are claimed at $5 million. But local news is reporting the suit added a state trade law violation, bringing in trebling of damages, along with a cause of action for punitive damages.

There were roughly 1250 fans who didn’t get seats to the Cowboys Stadium as promised. Of those, roughly 850 fans were relocated. But reports claim that the suit is roughly upon all 1250 fans.

Michael Avenatti of Eagan Avenatti is the counsel. His case filed in Dallas federal court asserts breach of contract, fraud and deceptive sales practices.

In an interview to Bloomberg this week, Avenatti says the debacle wasn’t a random error. Rather he tells news that he NFL and Jones “knew they weren’t able to deliver” the seats as represented and sold.

Earlier today, NFL Greg Aiello’s tweeted “If you are 1 of those roughly 400 people and we do not have your contact info, you should email [us]“, Another report says that the NFL and the Cowboys have not commented. The NFL offered multiple options to the displaced ticket holders detailed here .

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NEW YORK (LALATE) – Max Page (photo above) shined in the Darth Vader “Star Wars” commercial last night for Volkswagen. But Max Page told news today that he didn’t know that his Darth Vader role would land him a national spot during the Super Bowl, until half way during production.

When Max Page appeared on the Today Show Monday, the surprise was that Page in fact resembles Anakin Skywalker.

When he inked the Volkswagen Passat commercial, Max Page thought he was just doing another commercial. He’s done several TV commercials before, but none that ran nationally. He’s even appeared on The Young and the Restless. But the six year old had the surprise of his life halfway during shooting for VW.

That’s when the director and producer told him the commercial was going to be played in the Super Bowl. A longer version of the commercial has aired on YouTube for a week and had already generated 15 million views by Sunday. Page has reportedly lived his whole life with a pacemaker, born with a congenital heart condition.

Page’s ad drew top praise today. However, many critics found fault with a whole list of other Super Bowl commercials, from persons hit the crotch, a woman being decked, a Groupon ad making reference to Tibet.

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