Caleb and Reagan’s Blog

With the Super Bowl two weeks from today here are some fun facts about the big game. Source: NFL 2007 Postseason Media Guide unless otherwise noted.

- A visitor to South Florida typically spends $146-$245 daily on hotels, meals, local transport and entertainment. For Super Bowl XLI visitors spent $668.60 daily, not including game tickets.

- The historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay was built in 1957. This football shrine is the oldest stadium still in use by an NFL club. The next oldest? San Francisco’s Monster Park was a built a year later.

- The San Francisco 49ers are the only organization to win more than two Super Bowls without losing one. They are 5-0. Four belong to Joe Montana, one for Steve Young.

- The next three Super Bowl host cities are Arizona (this year), Tampa, and Miami. Dallas will host Super Bowl XLV in their newly built stadium in 2011.

- No offensive players other than quarterbacks, receivers, and running backs have ever been a Super Bowl MVP.

- Super Bowl weekend is the slowest weekend for weddings (Source: USA Today)

- San Francisco police reported arrests for minor crimes dropped from an average of 360 daily to 96 on the day of Super Bowl XVI between the 49ers and
Cincinnati Bengals.

- According to the Associated Press, 80 percent of Super Bowl ticket holders are in executive, management, professional, or sales positions; 35 percent attend the game on corporate expense accounts; 27 percent own their own companies; 25 percent are corporate officers; and 22 percent are on boards of directors.

- For Super Bowl XXXIV, 17 of the 60 ads during the broadcast were bought by Internet companies, compared with 1 for Super Bowl XXXI in 1997. (Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

- For Super Bowl XXXVI Fox used 27 TV cameras. For a typical broadcast they used 12.

- The first four Super Bowls did not use the roman numeral notation.

- You could buy a ticket to Super Bowl I for $6. The cheapest face value ticket this year is $700.

- While the final episode of M*A*S*H is the most viewed television show of all time (Feb. 28, 1983), 8 of the top 15 most viewed shows are Super Bowls.