"I felt like I didn't start out how I wanted to, obviously," said Manuel, whose first throw was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by cornerback Leodis McKelvin. "The biggest thing for me was just to show that I could fight back, move past it. Obviously, it's not going to be the last interception I throw in my career.".Another advertiser who went all out when it came to highwattage players was Samsung, casting Apatowregulars Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in a comic sendup on Super Bowl ads and the publicityhungry marketers and stars who create them. In a game that brought its own special effects, with Beyonce's electric halftime performance and the Superdome's unexpected power outage, the commercials needed to have something special to stand out. Celebrity endorsers seemed a safe bet to pull that off..

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