A Finney thing happened…

Football-writing family all over Super Bowl

This will be a special week in Miami for one newspaper family from New Orleans. Peter Finney Sr., 82, will cover Super Bowl XLIV as sports editor and columnist for The Times-Picayune. Peter Finney Jr., 53, will cover the game for The Post. And Deacon Peter Finney III, 25, will be in Miami covering the Saints and their special religious ties with the city for the North American College, the Catholic seminary in Rome.

The elder Finney has been covering sports in New Orleans since he graduated from high school in 1945 and has seen and reported on more bad football than anyone else in the Who Dat Nation. Peter Jr. covered the Jets, college basketball and golf for The Post for nine years and returned to New Orleans in 1993 as editor of the Clarion Herald, the Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Peter III was ordained a transitional deacon last summer and will be ordained to the priesthood in July in New Orleans.

Peter III will have plenty to cover. Saints owner Tom Benson religiously has invited legions of bishops, priests and nuns to his private box to watch Saints games this year. On Thursday, Benson will fly the city’s most famous religious leader, 96-year-old Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, to Miami on his private plane. Hannan has missed only one Saints home game this year, after suffering a stroke. But he bounced back and has been to every game since.

Hannan is releasing his autobiography this spring. He is the only living American bishop to have attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and he delivered the eulogy at the Nov. 25, 1963, funeral Mass of President John F. Kennedy.

Just ‘ice’ for all

A group of disabled athletes will make history at today’s Devils game as they culminate a 1,370-mile journey to 54 rinks in 54 hours. The group has been visiting every rink in New Jersey to convince rink owners to offer ice time to the disabled and to collect signatures for their petition at http://www.everybodyskates.com. U.S. Olympic captain Jamie Langenbrunner and other NHLers already have signed.

Guitar heroes

Triple Guitars night at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency tomorrow night will get fans on their feet as ex-Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams, Grammy winning-guitarist Earl Klugh and fellow guitarist, vocalist and bandleader John Pizzarelli play their guitars on the same stage for the first time to raise funds for Ed Randall’s Bat For The Cure charity and its fight against prostate cancer.

Tickets ($60-75) can be purchased through the Feinstein’s at Loews Regency box office or at feinsteinsattheregency.com. . . . WFAN’s Steve Somers will host the Edison Ballroom’s “Super Tailgate Party” from 5:30-11 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday. Tickets ($125) can be purchased by calling (212) 201-7650, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Haiti relief effort.

Jets sightings

Mark Sanchez, back in New York following the Jets’ 30-17 loss to the Colts on Sunday night, stopping in for a quick one at the Pig N Whistle on 47th Street. . . . Darrelle Revis and Braylon Edwards, easing the pain at Pink on W. 27th with friends including Knicks star Larry Hughes, Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain and singer Missy Elliott.

Aus-some party

Late Friday night/ early Saturday morning, the Garden, BNP Paribas and Australian models from the Ford Modeling Agency — Ashley Hart and Alexandra Knight — hosted a viewing party for the Australian Open final in which Serena Williams defeated Justine Henin. The party started at 1 a.m. at The Australian bar/restaurant in Midtown, and the match started at 3:30 a.m. The models, tennis fans Ashley and Alexandra, will be front row for the BNP Paribas Showdown at the Garden on March 1.

“The Australian Open is actually in my hometown, we used to go all the time,” Hart told The Rumble. “Everyone sits around in bikinis, drinks cold beer and watches the matches, it’s just so much fun.”

She now lives in NYC and “loves every minute of it,” despite the winter freeze. Back in Australia it is beach weather. “I can’t wait to see the Williams sisters at the Garden,” says Hart. “But I doubt it will be bikini weather.”

Fans gorged on Australian meat pies and sausage rolls, and answered tennis trivia questions and downed genuine Australian beers Coopers, Fosters and James Boags, as well as the specialty drink — “Ozmos” — the Aussie version of the Cosmo.

Met fan in Miami

There’s no great mystery on how Colts tight end Dallas Clark became a Mets fan. Growing up in Livermore, Iowa, all of his friends rooted for the Cubs.

“I just wanted to be different,” said Clark who took batting practice with the Mets during the final summer at Shea Stadium in 2008. “I liked [Darryl] Strawberry and [Dwight] Gooden and I enjoyed watching [Lenny] Dykstra and [Wally] Backman always get dirty.”

The Mets sent Clark a good-luck package as his Colts prepare to play the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV next Sunday.

He meant Italy

Knicks P.A. announcer Mike Walczewski made sure to apologize to Toronto center Andrea Bargnani on his return trip to the Garden Thursday night. On Toronto’s last visit less than two weeks ago, the Garden celebrated “Italian Heritage Night” because of the NBA’s three Italian stars were on display, Danilo Gallinari, Bargnani and Marco Bellinelli. Nevertheless, during intros, Walczweski made a rare error as he read off Bargnani’s name, bellowing, “From Spain.” Walczewski’s eyes had darted to the next line of the hometown of Jose Calderon. Oops. . . .