Fans can take, collect and play interactive football games and grab official NFL and team logos and helmets that can double as screen savers or come alive with animation, sound and video on a personal home page. New official and copyrighted content, including a streaming media Thing dubbed "NFL Films Super Bowl Theater," containing video highlights from each playoff game, will launch on a regular basis between now and Super Bowl Sunday.

Fans can now experience their ultimate football dreams. In one Thing football game, fans can elude defenders while throwing a touchdown pass and can control a running back who dodges through the defense to run for pay dirt. In another game, users can choreograph an end zone dance by placing buttons for each dance instruction in a sequence that results in the dance of a scoring football player beneath the goal posts.

Things are dynamic, self-contained multimedia experiences that can be animated scenes and characters, puzzles, games, Digital Collectiblesä , point-of-purchase, membership and associates program buttons, digital kiosks, team logos and more. In addition to brand-building functionality and interactivity, Things have unique properties, including the ability to lock, copyright, collect, and control access and brand context. With these capabilities, the NFL can offer secure Digital Collectibles™ that can animate, play games, drive traffic and build brand while also engaging fans directly online.

"We are extremely pleased to join with Lycos and ThingWorld.com to provide our fans with a closer connection to this year’s playoffs. With Super Bowl Things," stated Ann Kirschner, vice president of NFL Interactive, "a fan in Minneapolis, Atlanta or Denver can save one of the official NFL interactive games as a screen saver or collect an official digital logo from one’s favorite team. Things clearly will enable us to get closer to the fan and vice versa."

Things Build Brand and Secure Intellectual Property for the NFL Online – Fans Get Bona Fide Collectibles

"As the host of the official Web site of the Super Bowl, we are pleased to put even more entertainment content onto the site by adding Things," said Jan Horsfall, vice president of marketing, Lycos, Inc. "While fans visit Superbowl.com, whether it’s to monitor scores, highlights or events involving their favorite teams or to participate in sweepstakes and contests, they can now also try their hands at some really great games and take away official collectibles that are sanctioned by the NFL. We believe that the NFL, ThingWorld and Lycos have delivered the most powerful branded online experience available to today’s NFL fan."

ABOUT LYCOS, INC.

Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCOS) is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, the second most visited hub on the Internet reaching 45.2 percent of all Web users. With a unified set of Web sites, the Lycos Network is the fastest growing Web network and the world’s largest online community. The Lycos Network attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building and other Web community services and a comprehensive shopping center. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey and Suck.com. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.

ABOUT THINGWORLD.COM

Founded in August 1996, ThingWorld.com, formerly Parable, provides technologies, tools, services, and a distribution network headquartered at www.thingworld.com, for delivering Brand value through the creation, management and distribution of compelling digital multimedia content (Things) both online and on the desktop.

ThingWorld.com offers a wide range of branding options, from limited edition Digital Collectiblesä and broadly distributed branded content to promotions and brand extension campaigns. Within this range, a growing line-up of entertainment, music, sports and consumer brand companies are serving up their content broadly, selectively or exclusively to specified Web sites, including some of the most highly trafficked portals and communities on the Web. The unique locking and copyright features of Things provide these companies with solutions for securely distributing and extending their intellectual property. Headquartered in Newton, MA, ThingWorld.com is part of the CMG@Ventures portfolio of companies. In addition to CMG, other current investors include BankBoston, The Kraft Group, Venture Management, and Wasserstein Adelson Ventures.