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• Rodriguez spent part of his weekend on Super Bowl Boulevard at Woldenberg Riverfront Park, waving toward a cruise ship arriving on the Mississippi River into the Port of New Orleans near the large Roman numerals for the Super Bowl.
• -- Julio Cortez -- http://twitter.com/juliocortez_ap
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• LIL WAYNE ROOTING AGAINST SF
• The San Francisco 49ers prevented Lil Wayne's favorite team, the Green Bay Packers, from going to the Super Bowl. So the rapper wants the Baltimore Ravens to get a little revenge on his behalf.
• "I'm salty about the team that beat us, so I gotta root against them, and that team is the 49ers," he said.
• But his desire isn't all based on bitterness.
• "Who doesn't want to see (Ravens linebacker) Ray Lewis succeed? And also who also doesn't want to see (49ers wide receiver) Randy Moss get his first ring as well?" he said.
• "I'm kind of iffy about this game. I don't mind the outcome of it, I think either or, it's gonna be beautiful for both of them."
• Lil Wayne plans to be in a suite for the game -- after all, it's in his hometown. His friends and family all wanted tickets.
• "I had to pay for those tickets and my team isn't even playing in that game -- ah man, that hit the pockets kind of hard," he laughed.
• Lil Wayne is well-documented sports fanatic.
• -- Nekesa Mumbi Moody -- http://twitter.com/nekesamumbi
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• BROTHERLY ADVICE: AARON RODGERS
• Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh are hardly the only high-profile siblings who've squared off in their arena of expertise. The AP is asking some others who can relate how to handle going against a family member in the Super Bowl.
• As the middle of three brothers, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers knows a thing or two about high-stakes competitions with siblings. It wouldn't matter if he was facing one of his brothers in the backyard or the sport's biggest stage.
• "I'd want to beat them pretty bad," the 2011 NFL MVP said. "I really would."
• Less than two years separates Rodgers and his older brother, Luke, now on Fuel TV's "Clean Break," and the two are "very competitive."
• "My older brother and I had a lot of great matchups, great one-on-one games. We competed a lot in sports," Rodgers said.
• There's still a chance Rodgers could wind up facing one of his brothers on the

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