Today is the day, another Super Bowl Sunday. This is the 58th time that the two best teams in the NFC and the AFC get together to determine the National Football League Championship. The winning team gets the Lombardi Trophy named after the legendary coach, Vince Lombardi. His Green Bay Packer teams won the first two Super Bowl games in 1967 and 1968. Players and staffs get a miniature Lombardi trophy and a Super Bowl Ring.
Last year's game was watched by 113 million people, about 77% of the households in this country and it was the second largest audience for a Super Bowl game. The game is the biggest yearly event which results in parties all day Sunday and more people calling out of work on Monday than any other day of the year.
We all have different memories of specific games or places we were watching the game. Below is some random and unusual facts about the big game and what happens on Super Bowl Sunday:
1. Over 100 million people will throw or attend a party and another 18 million will watch the game from a bar of restaurant.
2. Purchases of food, beverages, decorations and other things for the day exceed $16 billion. Over $1.3 billion of that will be spent on beer in the USA.
3. In 1970, Carol Channing was the first singer to perform at The Super Bowl.
4. The first Super Bowl ticket in 1967 cost $12. The average ticket for this game in 2024 cost $9,850. Yes, $9,850. A front row seat for the Kansas City Chiefs will cost $34,862. Yes, $34,862.
5. In Super Bowl V1, President Richard Nixon made a suggestion for a play to Coach Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins, but it did not work out when the play was run.
6. In Super Bowl 1X, actress Mary Tyler Moore apologized to Pittsburgh Steeler fans at the end of her television show because in the show it had the Minnesota Vikings winning the Super Bowl over the Steelers. In the real game the Steelers won it.
7. Super Bowl XV11 started unlike any other when the referee misread the coin toss, calling it heads when it was tails.
8. Super Bowl XX had the awesome Chicago Bears putting out a rap song called, "The Super Bowl Shuffle" and it sold an impressive half a million copies.
9. Super Bowl XX111 had a 3-D halftime show that featured "Elvis Presto" and "The Bee Bop Bamboozled in 3-D". It did not go well.
10. Super Bowl XXXV111 was the scene of the now infamous wardrobe malfunction with half-time performers Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. Timberlake accidentally or purposely exposed her breast which led to a big controversy about decency on TV.
11. Super Bowl XL11: The New York Giants stunned the undefeated New England Patriots in the final minute of the game. One of the all-time greatest plays in NFL history was Eli Manning's scrambling pass to the leaping David Tyree, who trapped the ball with his helmet at the end of the game that the Giants would win 17-14. "The Helmet Catch" is still my favorite all-time play since I am a Giant fan.
12.Super Bowl XLV11: The lights went out in the stadium that caused a 34 minute delay and afterwards the San Francisco 49er's almost came all the way back to win the game. The blackout is still a mystery.
13.Super Bowl LI: The immortal Tom Brady brings his team back with ten minutes left in the game after being down 19 points and wins the game in overtime.
14. Over 68 million bettors will bet on today's game which will total over $23 billion.
Enjoy Super Sunday!
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