Every year the Super Bowl grows in ticket prices, halftime shows, and expectations for the game. This year the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will be meeting for the first time at this year’s Super Bowl. The 2015 Super Bowl had a record-breaking average TV-audience of 114.4 million viewers, and the average “30-second ad-spot during the Super Bowl broadcast cost an estimated 5.25 million U.S. dollars in 2019”, according to statista.com. With the average cost of a Super Bowl ticket being $3,335 as of January 30, 2017, the Super Bowl has been the most watched American television broadcast of the year. With this massively watched annual event, there are an array of unique facts and statistics that you otherwise wouldn’t know. Down below will be a list of 10 of the most interesting, shocking, or unique facts of the Super Bowl over the years.
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- Peyton Manning is the only starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl with two different teams: the Indianapolis Colts in 2007 and the Denver Broncos in 2016.
- The 1985 Bears recorded a hit rap song called “Super Bowl Shuffle,” which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. (It lost to Prince & The Revolution’s “Kiss”.)
- Super Bowl bonuses are a thing. In 2017, every player on the Pats’ championship roster earned $107,000 for winning. The defeated Falcons received $53,000 each as a consolation prize.
- In 1993, Michael Jackson’s halftime performance had higher ratings than the game itself.
- Phil Simms was paid $75,000 to shout “I’m going to Disney World” on the field moments after his Giants won Super Bowl XX1. Disney also paid Denver’s John Elway the same amount of money to yell the same thing-just in case his team won.
- When Jacksonville, Florida hosted Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, the city didn’t have enough hotel rooms to meet the NFL’s requirements. So in their bid to serve as the Big Game’s host, they had to recruit five docked cruise ships as “floating hotels” for the event.
- In Las Vegas, more than $115 million is (legally) bet on the Super Bowl every year.
- The Vince Lombardi Trophies are made by Tiffany & Co. out of sterling silver.
- A power outage at New Orleans’s Superdome put Super Bowl XLVII on hold for 34 minutes.
- In 1989 the Super Bowl halftime show was broadcast in 3D. In it, a magician dressed like Elvis Presley had the entire stadium participate in a round of “Is this your card?” trick.
If you’re hosting the game on Sunday or as heading out to a sport’s bar to watch the big game, bring up these facts to your football fanatic friends and see if they’re aware of these unique facts about the Super Bowl.
