The Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and NBC’s wild-card playoff games will be streamed on the Internet and on mobile devices for the first time announced the NFL yesterday. The games can be streamed online on NBCSports.com and NFL.com through SNF Extra, which has an HD broadcast, DVR-style controls, additional camera angles, highlights, live stats, and other interactive features.

The NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers has handed out iPads to each of the team’s 90 players as a new type of playbook. This is different from the massive amounts of printed out documents put together by each team for plays. The Buccaneers will be able to view the team playbook, refer to game footage, and review videos of their opponents on the iPad.

Gideon Yu is one of the most prolific investors and executives in the technology sector. He is currently serving as a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, but he will soon become the Chief Strategy Officer for the NFL San Francisco 49ers. Before that he was the Chief Financial Officer of both Facebook and YouTube. Yu also worked as a partner at Sequoia Capital.

The National Football League broke the record for the most amount of viewers ever. Super Bowl XLV drew 111 million viewers, which broke last year’s viewers of 106.5 million. That means that this year’s Super Bowl is the most-watched TV event in U.S. history. [TV Line]

Pete Walsh, the head of technology for the NFL Dallas Cowboys, said that his team and a couple others are considering replacing play books printed on paper with the Apple iPad. This could end up saving 5,000 pages of paper printouts per game. It may be difficult to convince coaches to replace the traditional play books in favor of a glossy screen gadget. One of the league’s primary concern is security. How would it be handled if an iPad with intellectual property football plays end up in the enemy’s hands? Would remotely wiping out the data be good enough? Walsh reports to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. [CNET]

Geo-location check-in service Foursquare is adding a “promoted trending venue” and badge redemption for the Super Bowl. Foursquare is making this venue available for all of their users, meaning that it is not actually a real venue — it is an event.

Given the sexual content that is often displayed in GoDaddy.com’s Super Bowl ads, I figured it would be very hard to get a commercial banned from air-time. Apparently Ashley Madison, a website where people can meet who are interested in having an affair, has crossed the line. Fox has banned the above commercial from airing during this year’s Super Bowl. This commercial stars adult film star Savanna Samson.

Tim Tebow is a quarterback that plays for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League. He played college football at Florida and won the Heisman Trophy. Now the prominent athlete has decided to create a social media presence.