MIAMI (AP) -Fast food brought Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher and Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade together.

They were standing in line at an airport McDonald's a few years back, both sneaking looks to see if one would recognize the other.

Finally, they spoke.

``Urlacher?''

``D-Wade?''

With that, a friendship was born. And on Sunday, Wade - a proud Chicagoan - will see Urlacher and the Bears play the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium.

Wade has no recollection of the Bears' last title; he had just turned 4 when Chicago rolled past the New England Patriots 46-10 in the Super Bowl 21 years ago. So he's enjoying this experience, made especially sweet for him by the fact that it's happening in the city Wade led to last season's NBA championship.

``You keep seeing the highlights, you hear the song 'Super Bowl Shuffle' and you see all the great players that played,'' Wade said. ``But in my era of growing up, there hasn't been too much success in Chicago Bears football. So this is lovely.''

Wade is tight with some other Chicago players, including running back Thomas Jones (who lives in South Florida during the offseason) and defensive end Adewale Ogunleye, a former Miami player whom Wade simply calls ``O'' because he cannot pronounce his name.

``I'm just excited for them, all of them, that they have this opportunity to be in the Super Bowl,'' Wade said. ``And that it's happening in my backyard.''

---WALKTHROUGHS: The Colts and Bears have been practicing elsewhere all week, but now, they finally get to run on the turf at Dolphin Stadium.

They'll have walk-through sessions on the field Saturday, their final workouts before the Super Bowl.

Each team was there on Tuesday for media day but didn't work out, spending the day instead doing interviews and getting their pictures taken.

---WELCOME VISITORS: Newly hired Miami Dolphins coach Cam Cameron looked out a window and thought he saw the future.

``All week I've been sitting in my office, and the Indianapolis Colts are practicing out back,'' Cameron said.

The Colts borrowed the Dolphins' complex to practice for the Super Bowl, and Cameron liked what he saw.

``We're going to build a team very similar to the team you're seeing practicing - quality people,'' he said. ``It's going to be interesting to see how we evolve these next couple of years. Knowing the Super Bowl will be back here in three years is a pretty exciting thought.''

Cameron, from Indiana, knows Colts coach Tony Dungy and tried to recruit Peyton Manning as an assistant at Michigan. For that reason, Cameron said, watching the Colts on his team's field didn't make him uncomfortable.

``You know the kind of people who are out there,'' Cameron said.

---BACK-TO-BACK: Tampa Bay tight end Alex Smith successfully defended his championship in the ``Madden Bowl,'' beating Cincinnati wide receiver Chad Johnson in the final of the tournament.

This year's Madden field pitted eight NFL players playing the popular video game against one another.

Smith's reward?

``Going to South Beach,'' Smith said.

---COIN TOSS: Norma Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt - who coined the phrase ``Super Bowl'' - will join Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino on the field for the coin-toss ceremony immediately before Sunday's title game.

Lamar Hunt died Dec. 13 following a long battle with prostate cancer. He and his wife attended each of the previous 40 Super Bowls together.

---GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP: It'll be the United States against two-time defending champion Canada in Saturday's final of the NFL Global Junior Championship.

Both teams posted a pair of shutout wins Wednesday in the opening round. The Americans beat Panama 27-0 and Mexico 16-0, while Canada got past France 14-0 and Japan 7-0.

Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor, this season's NFL Defensive Player of the Year, will handle the coin toss before the game.

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