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" When you consider the best individual Super Bowl performances of all-time, names like Joe Montana, Timmy Smith, and Doug Williams come to mind. But not everyone has a great media day, or a great night before Super Sunday. Well, that depends on your definition of a great night...  5. Thurman Thomas (1992)  Thomas is a Hall of Famer, but he was 0-4 in Super Bowls and is the subject of one of the more embarrassing big-game snafus. As the legend goes, throughout the &amp;#039;91 season, Thomas would superstitiously put his helmet on the 40-yard line before each game. Only before kickoff at Super Bowl XXVI, the helmet was moved for Harry Connick Jr.&amp;#039;s national anthem. A frantic Thomas spent minutes searching for his helmet and missed the first two plays of the game. 4. Jerramy Stevens (2006)  Before his Seahawks took on the heavily favored Steelers in Detroit for Super Bowl XL, Stevens told reporters, &amp;quot;The story of Jerome Bettis returning to his hometown is heartwarming, but it&amp;#039;s going be a sad day when he doesn&amp;#039;t walk away with that trophy.&amp;quot; Harmless enough, but it got linebacker Joey Porter riled up enough to bark back, &amp;quot;A guy running in and out on special teams shouldn&amp;#039;t be sayin&amp;#039; things like that.&amp;quot; The soft-spoken Stevens became tabloid fodder, then dropped three crucial passes in a loss. 3. Adrian Awasom (2008)  Yes, the Giants won Super Bowl XLII. But for any player to get a DUI two days before any Super Bowl these days is, well, inexcusable. Awasom missed out on the greatest upset in Super Bowl history, and is currently not on an NFL roster. (Insert your own joke about how not Awasom that is here.) 2. Eugene Robinson (1999)  The morning before Super Bowl XXXIII, Robinson was presented the Bart Starr Award by a religious group for his upstanding morals and character. That very evening, the Falcons cornerback was arrested for offering an undercover cop posing as a prostitute $70 for oral sex. Oopsie daisy! He posted bail just in time to get burned on the first deep pass of the game, a Rod Smith 80-yard touchdown pass from John Elway. The Broncos beat the Falcons 34-19. Eugene Robinson never won another Bart Starr Award.  1. Stanley Wilson (1989)  Already suspended twice by the NFL for substance abuse, the Cincinnati fullback was discovered with cocaine by his position coach in a hotel bathroom the night before Super Bowl XXIII. A 1999 Cincinnati Enquirer article described the scene: &amp;quot;The player was sweating and shivering. White powder flecked his nose and upper lip. The devil was back, for good.&amp;quot; Wilson was left off the active roster for the game and kicked out of the league forever. The Bengals lost to the 49ers the next evening. Click here to watch the best in Super Bowl halftime&amp;#039;s alternative programming &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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