Sunday February 13 is Super Bowl Sunday! In honor of the day, people all around the country plan huge parties and invite friends to come watch. Even those that don’t care for football sit down to watch and the commercials have become an event bigger than the game. This week, I found some fun facts to share with you.
Sunday February 13 is Super Bowl Sunday! In honor of the day, people all around the country plan huge parties and invite friends to come watch. Even those that don’t care for football sit down to watch and the commercials have become an event bigger than the game. This week, I found some fun facts to share with you.
The Super Bowl is measured in Roman numerals because a football season runs over two calendar years.
Super Bowl 1 was played January 15, 1967. Tickets were just $12, in today’s terms that’s about $89. The halftime show consisted of two marching bands, acclaimed trumpeter Al Hirt, two men in jet packs, and 300 pigeons.
It is the 2nd most watched sporting event in the world. More than 100 million people worldwide watch the Super Bowl every year. In fact, Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 unseated M*A*S*H’s series finale as the most watched show in television history with over 106.5 million watchers. Of the top 10 most watched American television programs of all time, nine of them are Super Bowls.
The average cost of a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl has ranged from $37,500 at Super Bowl I, to around $2.2 million at Super Bowl XXX-IV in 2000, and by Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, had doubled to around $4.5 million. In 2020, a 30-second commercial reportedly cost between $5 million and $5.6 million. The most expensive however was a 2020 Google/Google Assistant ad and a 2020 Amazon Alexa ad both cost $16.8 million.
Each team playing in the Super Bowl gets 108 footballs, says Kristina Peterson-Lohman, of Wilson Football Factory. Of those, 54 are for practice and 54 are for the actual game. During a typical Super Bowl, 120 balls are used. The remaining balls are for the kickers.
For Super Bowl 50, the company West Coast Turf harvested 75,000 square feet of premium grass on the NFL’s behalf for a fresh layer of natural sod for the game.
Super Bowl XLV was the first one in history that didn’t include cheerleaders. That’s because neither of the game’s participating teams - the Pittsburgh Steelers nor the Green Bay Packers - has a professional cheerleading squad.
According to the USDA, Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest food consumption day-only Thanksgiving beats it! Did you know 8 million pounds of guacamole are eaten just for the Super Bowl? 14,500 tons of chips are eaten along with that guacamole. So many chips!
This week’s recipes were easy to prepare and by doubling or tripling, can easily make enough to feed your crowd. Make your grocery list and meet me in the kitchen this week for easy recipes simply made but oh so good!
