Stones' real hot stuff doesn't air

0 Comments | USA TODAY, February, 2006 | by Michael McCarthy

Sportscasters are only as good as the games they call. Despite broadcasting 16 Super Bowls between them, ABC's Al Michaels and John Madden couldn't turn a mistake-filled contest between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks into a great broadcast Sunday for Super Bowl XL.

Leave it to the entertainers to once again inject controversy into a telecast of a Super Bowl.

While Michaels and Madden were still calling the game, a debate was starting on whether the Rolling Stones edited some racy lyrics from two of their three halftime songs -- or whether ABC censors did it for them.

This was the first Super Bowl broadcast on tape delay, however slight, after the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" during Super Bowl XXXVIII. ABC slapped a five-second tape...