Are you ready for some Football?! February 1st at 6:25pm marks kick-off for Super Bowl 49 or XLIX. This time honored American tradition of watching football, eating chicken wings and drinking beer wouldn’t be the same without some fun facts and trivia. Ok, maybe it would be but here goes:
Fun Facts:
¨ Of the top 10 most watched American television programs of all time, nine of them are Super bowls.
¨ In 2015, one 30-second Super Bowl commercial will come in at a hefty price tag of $4.5 million. (In the first Super Bowl, it was $42,000)
¨ Over 700,000 footballs are produced annually for official NFL use and 72 of them are used for the Super Bowl.
¨ Americans are expected to devour more than a billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday -- followed by 11.2 million pounds of potato chips, 8 million pounds of guacamole and 3.8 million pounds of popcorn -- all washed down by 51.7 million cases of beer.
Trivia
1. Which player has won the Super Bowl MVP three times?
2. What is the name of the trophy for the winner of the Super Bowl?
3. Which team won the first Super Bowl? What company pays the MVP of the Super Bowl every year to sponsor their business?
4. Which team was the first to win 5 Super Bowls?
Answers to Trivia
1. Joe Montana; 2. The Vince Lombardi Trophy;
3. The Green Bay Packers; 4. Disneyland;
5. The Pittsburg Steelers