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Flirty talk by Aikman and ESPN's Erin a highlight of celebs' Super weekend

Monday, February 6, 2012

Move over, Gisele Bundchen and Tom BradyTroy Aikman and Erin Andrews could be football’s hottest new couple.

The Dallas Cowboys hall of famer-turned-Fox Sports commentator was locked in a long flirting session with the sexy blond ESPN reporter at GQ’s pre-Super Bowl bash at The Stutz in Indianapolis on Friday night.

Aikman and Andrews were all smiles during an intimate conversation at the Lacoste and Patron-sponsored blowout, where a party insider confirmed, “The body language suggested there’s an attraction there.”

Aikman divorced wife Rhonda last year after a decade of marriage.

Meanwhile, LL Cool J performed a set of old-school hits at the GQ soiree, including “Mama Said Knock You Out,” for revelers including Brooklyn Decker (who chatted with her “Battleship” director, Peter Berg), Andy Roddick, Terrell Owens, “True Blood” actor Joe Manganiello, “Dancing with the Stars” champ J.R. Martinez and David Arquette.

LL announced his not-so-secret crush on Victoria’s Secret model and New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez’s rumored squeeze, shouting out, “Kate Upton’s in the house!”

The “NCIS: Los Angeles” star later joked that ”there were so many white people in the room,” it felt like he was rapping for “a country club.”

Playboy’s pre-game shenanigans on Friday took over Indianapolis’ rebranded Bud Light Hotel (normally a Hampton Inn), where New York Giants owner Steve Tisch presided over a VIP table, “Gossip Girl” Jessica Szohr chatted up Playboy bunnies and Jon Hamm transformed into a real-life mad man when a fierce game of dice broke out in the VIP section.

“The best was watching Hamm drunkenly shoot dice,” one reveler told Flash.

The boozing continued as a band of Bunnies joined pop group LMFAO in partying until dawn.

The “Party Rock Anthem” rappers, including frontman RedFoo, kept the festivities going at Saturday’s Rolling Stone/Bacardi bash at The Crane Bay.

They were outdone only by newly-single Katy Perry, who donned saucy football gear to headline DirecTV’s blowout Super Saturday Night Party, co-hosted by billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning.

Perry boosted rumors that her preacher parents are eager to set her up with Denver Broncos golden boy Tim Tebow when she dedicated her suggestive song “Peacock” to him during the concert.

Earlier, Perry flirted with Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, to whom she presented a rookie honor at the Associated Press NFL Awards, quipping: “You’ll be the first straight man I’ve had a photo with in a long time, so live up to it.”

While Peyton’s brother Eli rested up for the Big Game, Manning was spotted behind the DirecTV affair’s velvet ropes with Shaquille O’Neal, Shaq’s girlfriend Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander and an entourage of pals, whom he was overheard telling that Eli was “thrilled” to share the Super Bowl for the first time with his 11-month-old daughter Ava, who traveled to Indianapolis with Manning’s wife Abby.

Connor Cruise — son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman — opened for Perry with an upbeat DJ set at the bash, while fiery Food Network host Guy Fieri was spotted pouring Tabasco sauce down the throat of at least one partygoer at Maxim and Patron tequila’s Saturday festivities at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

But not all the Super Bowl VIPs were partying hard before the big show.

National anthem queen Kelly Clarkson was spotted “talking softly” with fans at the Marriott Hotel yesterday, where Patrick Dempsey and soccer star Hope Solo got drinks — separately — at the bar.