Fergie: Adult diapers, please!

Under congressional fire: Miami Dolphins’ celebrity owners!

U.S. Rep. Steve King, a Republican from the boondocks — I mean Iowa — asked NFL Commish Roger Goodell a pertinent question in a Capitol Hill hearing yesterday.

If Palm Beacher Rush Limbaugh is too offensive to be a part-owner of the St. Louis Rams, then why are Fergie and singer/actress Jennifer Lopez?

King, who hijacked a hearing about football injuries, said: “I don’t think anything that Rush Limbaugh said was offensive, but with Fergie and with J-Lo, they have, between the two of them, alleged that the CIA are terrorists and liars. They’ve promoted sexual abuse of women. They’ve used the N-word, verbal pornography, recreational drug use, etc. And they are owners of the Dolphins. And it’s also ironic that Fergie was approved as an owner on the very day that you made your statement on Rush Limbaugh.”

JLo

And King left out a few things.

He didn’t seem to remember the time when Fergie was so drunk she peed on herself during a show. And he left out Dolphins part-owner Serena Williams, the Palm Beach Gardens tennis titan whose obscene tirade at a line judge at this year’s U.S. Open was seen by a worldwide audience.

And he’s got the JLo thing wrong. Her hubby, salsero Marc Anthony, is an owner — JLo isn’t listed on the team’s media guide as one. She does accompany him to games and often ends up in game photos.

As for Fergie, the sale of her shares into the team is pending.

Still, Goodell’s response was little else than a typical D.C. topic-shifting ploy. He talked about Donovan McNabb, the Philadelphia Eagles QB whom Limbaugh once called “overrated.”

On his Web site Wednesday, Limbaugh called Goodell a “total weasel.”

King ended his questioning by telling Goodell to listen to JLo and Fergie songs and report back.

“I’d ask you to go back and take a look at the owners of the Dolphins, and . . . the songs that they recorded, review those lyrics, and I’ll provide some of those lyric songs to you,” he said, “and I’ll ask you to come back and respond to that question after the hearing as to whether you’ll put the same scrutiny on those owners who have really shined a negative light on the NFL as opposed to somebody that the NFL apparently just doesn’t agree with his politics.”

The Limbaugh controversy erupted earlier this month when star conservative radio talker was dropped from a group of investors who bid on the hapless Rams. Goodell spoke against Limbaugh becoming an investor, as did players and current team owners — mostly for things Limbaugh may or may not have said concerning race.

Meanwhile Dolphins majority owner Stephen M. Ross, whose Palm Beach home is two miles south of Rush’s, has stocked the team’s ownership with celebrities. The roster includes tennis star Venus Williams, Serena’s sister, and Miami singer Gloria Estefan and husband Emilio. The Dolphins signed a commercial deal with Palm Beach troubadour Jimmy Buffett and had hip-hopper T-Pain redo the team’s fight song.

Said Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene: “We have no comment, except to reaffirm that our limited partners were approved through the appropriate process by the NFL.”

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American Idol star Kris Allen chills backstage on the parking lot of Land Shark Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Minutes later, Allen debuted three tracks from his upcoming album as NFL fans gathered for the Miami Dolphins’ loss to the New Orleans Saints. Strange venue, but Allen, winner of the Fox show’s eighth season, did Before We Come Undone, Written All Over My Face and Can’t Stay Away. The football fans’ favorite: A cover from Britney Spears‘ Hit Me Baby One More Time.

Salsa star and Miami Dolphins part owner Marc Anthony tries to make it discreet as he kisses wife Jennifer Lopez on Monday during the game against the stinking New York Jets. More pictures of couple in their stadium suite in the gallery below.

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Anthony sings the national anthem Monday night

30 Rock cutie Katrina Bowden just couldn’t stay incognito for too long Sunday in Miami Beach. Page2Live’s paparazzo recognized her as soon as the 20-year-old siren, who plays the sexy secretary of Tina Fey’s character on the NBC sitcom, came out of the ocean near the Fontainebleau Resort. And like her Cerie on the show, it seems Bowden was wearing something that was too small for her (See below). Bowden, who’s here to celebrate her 21st b’day, eventually made it to the Dolphins’ game against the Buffalo Bills later Sunday, dressed appropriately.

Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano with wife Jeanette (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Dolphins coach Tony Sparano might be feeling the pressure of a winless season so far, but he hasn’t lost sight of what’s really important. Holding wife Jeanette’s hand, Sparano Tuesday announced that Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills at Land Shark would be used to promote breast cancer awareness.

The players will be wearing pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, sideline caps, helmet decals and captains’ patches. Coaches are planning to wear pink caps and pink ribbon pins, and there will be pink goal-post padding in the end zone. The move, however, stops short of Major League Baseball, where some teams occasionally play in pink.

Earlier this year, the Fins’ tight ends coach, George DeLeone, lost his wife Roberta to breast cancer.

The Miami Dolphins lost Monday night – but they sure looked glamorous doing it.

There were searchlights. Limos. Celebrities. French champagne. Russian caviar.

The only thing missing was a 10-foot replica of an Oscar.

A year after the team couldn’t attract boldfacers even when they paid them, famous folks descended on the stadium like locusts to see the Fins take on the Indianapolis Colts.

Singers Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez try to work their way through the crowd to enter Land Shark Stadium on Monday night.

The celebs arrived one by one, stepping out of limos and onto an orange carpet where sweaty fans lined up six-deep.

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– Who’d have thunk it!? Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am loves the Miami Dolphins so much that he’d put his bod on the line for the team. He posted on his blog this video plea to team owner Stephen Ross to grant him a tryout before the season starts next week. At 5-foot-4 on high heels, however, the self-described “fast” will.i.am may have a hard time finding a position, except maybe kicker. He says he wants to be a punt returner. “Yo, Ross, this ain’t no joke, I wanna play,” will says on the video. The team had no reax to the rapper’s come-ons. A source, meanwhile, tells me Dolphins officials ordered jerseys with Black Eyed Peas hottie Fergie’s name on the back, fueling rumors that the band will play at halftime of the Sept. 21 Monday night home opener.

Forest Lawn

– From the Great Beyond, Michael Jackson is pushing real estate prices up by at least 30 percent. Future stiffs have gone wacko for burial plots near Forest Lawn Memorial Park mausoleum where the King of Pop himself was interred last week in Glendale, Calif. Burial plots that went for $7,000 a few weeks ago now are creeping toward $10,000, reports TMZ. Interested in a crypt for two inside Jackson’s mausoleum? Fuhgettaboutit! They’re now trading for $34,000 a piece.

– Hey, A-Rod, got something to tell us? Kate Hudson, the actress galpal of Miami’s New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez, is stepping out with a big fat sparkler on her ring finger. Spies for the New York Daily News spotted her with the bling at a recent Bombers game. Seeing that it took the lovebirds weeks in the spring to admit they were an item, it’ll probably be years for them to confirm they’re engaged.

Britto

Renowned Miami pop artist Romero Britto consummated his deal with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross to make Land Shark Stadium look prettier. He led dozens of children, cheerleaders and team staff this weekend in starting to paint his tropical-colored designs on the outside walls.

Britto, who dressed up hundreds of dancers for the 2007 Super Bowl in South Florida, promised to be done on time for the team’s home opener, the Sept. 21 Monday Night Football game against the Indianapolis Colts.

Check out the Page2Live gallery of Sunday’s work by Michele Sandberg.

What do you mean he's not so pretty? Look at that babyface!

Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington may be a top-rated passer on the field, but when it comes to his looks, he’s at the bottom!

So says economics professor Jennifer Van Gilder at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.

It could be argued that the prof has too much time on her hands, considering she came up with a computer ranking of the facial beauty of starting NFL quarterbacks.

Ok, Ryan's not bad looking. But will he win a Super Bowl?

But it so happens that she ranked our own passing Chad 28th in the league, giving him a 97.87 rating.

Only Houston’s Matt Schaub, Washington’s Jason Campbell, St. Louis’ Mark Bulger and Philly’s Donovan McNabb ranked lower than Pennington.

At the top of the heap, Atlanta’s Matt Ryan and Minnesota’s Brett Favre have nearly perfect symmetry behind their face-masks.

And facial symmetry is apparently what surreptitiously attracts a human being to another.

Hey, how ’bout a recount? Chad, who’s in New Orleans for tonight’s game, wouldn’t discuss it.

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