Super Bowl Game Facts

• New Orleans has hosted the Super Bowl the most at 9 times. Miami has hosted 8 times, this Sunday will be the ninth.
• Dallas, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh have won the most Super Bowls at 5 times.
• The longest Super Bowl winning streak has only been two in a row.
• Minnesota, Buffalo and Denver have lost the most Super Bowls at 4 times. Buffalo lost 4 times in a row.
• The longest run in a Super Bowl was 75 yards by Willie Parker during Super Bowl XL.
• Mike Ditka and Tom Flores are the only two men to win a Super Bowl both as a player and a coach.
• In 1981, Oakland linebacker Rod Martin set a record with three interceptions.
• In 2000, St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner set a record with 414 yards passing.
• In 1989, San Francisco wide receiver Jerry Rice gained 215 yards on 11 catches.
• PLAYERS SHARE - Winners: $73,000 per man. Losers: $38,000 per man.
• PLAYER UNIFORMS - Chicago will be the home team and use the South bench. The Bears have their choice of wearing its colored or white jersey. 
• TROPHY - The winning team receives permanent possession of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, a sterling silver trophy created by Tiffany & Company and presented annually to the winner of the Super Bowl. The trophy was named after the late coach Vince Lombardi of the two-time Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers prior to the 1971 Super Bowl. The trophy is a regulation silver football mounted in a kicking position on a pyramid-like stand of three concave sides. The trophy stands 20 3/4 inches tall, weighs 6.7 pounds and is valued more than $25,000. The words ``Vince Lombardi'' and ``Super Bowl XLI'' are engraved on the base along with the NFL shield.
• RINGS - The NFL pays for up to 150 rings at $5,000 per ring (plus adjustments for increases in gold and diamonds). The league also pays for 150 pieces of jewelry for the losing team, which may not cost more than one-half the price set for the Super Bowl ring.
• ATTENDANCE - To date, 3,698,356 have attended Super Bowl games. The largest crowd was 103,985 at the 14th Super Bowl at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

• Because many companies spends millions of dollars on commercials played during the Super Bowl, the starting time of the game has pushed back later and later in order to guarantee the prime time audience on the East Coast.
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• The name "Super Bowl" was not used officially until the 3rd championship game in January 1969.
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• There are no known videotapes of the first 2 Super Bowl in existence. The NFL has put a 1 million dollar bounty out for either of the tapes.
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• MTV, who produced the halftime show in which Janet Jackson experienced a "wardrobe malfunction", has been permanently banned from producing another half-time show by the NFL.
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• No NFL team has ever played the Super Bowl in their own stadium.
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• The NFC won 13 Super Bowls in a row, starting in 1985. The streak was broken in 1998 when the Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers.
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• The only undefeated season in NFL history was completed by Coach Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins, after winning Super Bowl VII.
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• The largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl was 55-10, 49ers over the Broncos, in Super Bowl XXIV.
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• The only Super Bowl to be decided by a single point was Super Bowl XXV, with the Bills over the Giants 20-19.
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• The Dallas Cowboys hold the record for most Super Bowl appearances with a total of 8.
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• The Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, and New Orleans Saints have never appeared in a Super Bowl.
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• More food is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year, other than Thanksgiving.

• There are 7.5 million parties on Super Bowl Sunday, with 43.9 million party-goers (National Retail Federation)
• 1.5 million TV sets will be sold the week leading up to the Super Bowl (National Retail Federation)
• Sales of big screen TVs show a fivefold increase during Super Bowl week (National Electronic Dealers Association)
• Super Bowl is the top at-home party event of year, ahead of New Year’s Eve (Hallmark Cards, Inc.)
• Average Number of Attendees for a Super Bowl party is 17 (Hallmark)
• On Super Bowl Sunday, Americans consume 8 million pounds of guacamole (California Avocado Commission)