Omaha!: The annual festival of television commercials known as the Super Bowl will be broadcast on CBS today. It will be accompanied by a football game to be played between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos in Santa Clara, Calif.

The halftime show features Coldplay, a band that comes from a country where soccer is called “football.”

The game is being hyped as a matchup between two great quarterbacks, but really it’s a confrontation between a great quarterback and one who used to be. The 39-year-old Peyton Manning sat out a good part of the season with a foot injury and finished with the worst pass completion average in the league. But he did get to the Super Bowl and he’s a canny veteran.

But wise analysts on the sofa say don’t go to the refrigerator for a beer when Cam Newton and the Carolina offense have the ball. He’s 6-5, 250 pounds, and only 26 years old. When he runs he can carry several tacklers. The Rooney Report’s sports analysis division has run the numbers through its Super Bowl prediction algorithm and determined that the Panthers will crush Denver.

Hermit Kingdom: North Korea launched a three-stage rocket today that’s believed to be part of that country’s effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile. It comes just a month after North Korea tested a nuclear bomb. Secy. of State John Kerry called the launch a “major provocation” threatening the Korean Peninsula and the United States as well.

Debatable: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was the man to beat up in last night’s Republican debate in New Hampshire. Chris Christie, Jeb! Bus and Donald Trump all piled on, but it was Christie who did the major damage. After Rubio delivered one of his memorized and rehearsed lines about restoring America, Christie said, “See Marco — Marco, the thing is this: When you’re president of the United States, when you are a governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech when you talk about how great America is at the end of it — it doesn’t solve one problem for one person.”

Christie in particular may be reaching the end of the line if he doesn’t do better than Rubio in New Hampshire. But it’s getting to the point at which several candidates will fall out of the lineup.

Taiwan: At least 124 people remain trapped in the rubble of a 17-storey apartment building that collapsed in Tainan, Taiwan early yesterday. Many of them are believed to be alive. The city was hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. Twenty-four people are reported dead so far.

Fat Content: The Body Mass Index your doctor uses to tell you you’re fat is misleading about the actual state of your health, according to a new study from UCLA.

BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of the person’s metric height. A healthy BMI is considered to be 18.5-24.9 — obese is 30 or higher.

But UCLA also figured in body function and chemistry; blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol, glucose, and more. It turns out that nearly half of overweight people and 29% of people counted as obese by the BMI were actually perfectly healthy. And nearly a third of people evaluated as healthy by the BMI standard actually were not.

The Obit Page: John L. Tishman, the construction executive who oversaw the building of some of the landmark high-rises in New York, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles has died at age 90. He was the master builder. Tishman supervised the building of three of the world’s first skyscrapers over 100 stories: the John Hancock Center in Chicago, and the twin towers of the World Trade Center taken down in the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Funny or Die: Bernie Sanders made a cameo appearance last night on Saturday Night Live in a skit about a sinking ship that turned into a political monologue. As the women and children are ushered to lifeboats, Larry David complains that he should be saved because he’s rich. Sanders comes out of the darkness saying, “Hold on, hold on.” He says, “I am so sick of the one percent getting preferential treatment. Enough is enough. We need to unite and work together if we’re all going to get through this.

Larry David says, “Sounds like socialism to me.”

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