For those of you around the world not exposed to the Super Bowl in America, it is the only TV program that could possibly knock the Trump impeachment trial, Democratic Presidential primary, and those lying news media off the air for a day.
A lot of fun and fascinating facts follow but here are some teasers. With a television audience between 100 million and 193 million, mostly Americans and American troops throughout the world, it is the biggest show in television history and this is the 54th year. For the past five years it has pulled over 100 million viewers per year.
The Super Bowl halftime show is the largest live concert in the world and a gold mine for invited artists. This year Shakira and Jennifer Lopez dazzled.
It was the favorite San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs who have not won the Super Bowl in fifty long years. The Chiefs were trailing 20-10 with about seven minutes left in the game when the Chiefs stunned the nation with 21 straight points in little over 5 minutes to win 31-20.
The fact the favorites and losers were from Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco, and the Chiefs are from the American heartland where Trump has substantial support, probably gives Trump more talking points.
The Senate impeachment trial of Trump drew about 7 million viewers on a good day so you can see how the Super Bowl, with at least 14 times more viewers, might explain why Trump will be acquitted this Wednesday, yet another a crushing defeat for the Democrats and news media.
Super Bowl 2020 Data. Some 193.8 million adults in the US plan to watch Super Bowl 54 per a survey of more than 7,200 US adults from NRF. That's upwards of 11 million more viewers than last year's projected viewership of 188.5 million.
Here is what the UK had to say about this amazing American spectacle.
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Cultura Colectiva
The Super Bowl In Numbers: Crazy Facts About The Big Game
By: Oliver
G. Alvar
January 23, 2020
As one of the most-watched annual games in the
world and a billion-dollar brand, the Super Bowl consistently gives us
record-shattering numbers every year. Here are the craziest facts about The Big
Game.
Who doesn’t love Super Bowl Sunday? The anticipation of a
winning team rushing through the field after a victorious touchdown, the
excitement of all those play-by-play analyses and strategies that could turn a
close match into a steamrolling of epic proportions. Anything can happen,
nothing is written—and we all love it.
So, the fact that The Big Game is such a commercially
successful event comes as no surprise, does it? As a record-shattering event,
the Super Bowl provides astonishing numbers every year, some of which might
tell us more about American culture than we’re comfortable accepting. Indeed,
Super Bowl Sunday is one of those days that provide a strong argument for the
idea that Americans are the biggest consumerists in the world. That’s a
double-edged sword.
Regardless of what it means, however, here’s how the Super
Bowl looks—in numbers. Read on to find 7 crazy facts about the big game.
It's the second-largest day for food
consumption in the US.
Think about all the beer, hot dogs, and hamburgers consumed
during that Sunday. The Big Game accounts for most food-consumption in America
during a single day, right behind Thanksgiving.
That’s a ridiculous amount of food!
It's second only to the UEFA Champions League
final as the most-watched annual sporting event worldwide.
And that’s even crazier when you consider the UEFA
Champions League Final is watched by many countries worldwide, whereas the vast
majority of the Super Bowl’s audience comes from a single nation. That’s a lot
of Americans watching a single game!
It's frequently the most-watched American
television broadcast of the year.
The Super Bowl broke records in 2015 with an average
TV-audience of 114.4 million viewers, and it hasn’t gone below the 100
million-viewers mark since 2009.
Its commercial spots are among the most
expensive in the world.
The 2017 Super Bowl had an advertising revenue of around
419 million dollars. An average 30-second ad-spot costs around 5 million
dollars since 2016, and not less than 2 million since the turn of the
century!
Each American spends over $80 during Super Bowl
Sunday.
On average, each American consumer plans to spend around 82
dollars on snacks, drinks, television, team apparel, accessories, decorations,
furniture, and any other number of things for Super Bowl Sunday. This average
includes betting. In 2017, about 138 million dollars worth of bets were placed
at casinos across Nevada.
All those crazy figures and record-shattering in spite of
the Super Bowl being mainly for American audiences. After all, Super Bowl
Sunday is so popular in the US, it’s basically become an unofficial national
holiday, which just goes to show America is the most consumer-based society in
the world. But hey, as long as it’s all about football, I guess it’s fine
BBC
The Super Bowl is back this weekend with all the razzmatazz,
build-up and big money that goes with it. And that's before there's even been a
touchdown!
This is the 54th edition of the Bowl, with Kansas City Chiefs
taking on the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. The NFL's biggest event is being
held Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.
The 65,326-capacity stadium will host the event for the sixth time
in 31 years. That's some big numbers already... So here are some more!
San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan will lead his side in
Miami on Sunday, hoping to reproduce the success of his dad, Mike.
Mike coached in four Super Bowls as an assistant, before leading
the Denver Broncos to back-to-back titles over 20 years ago in the late 1990s.
No pressure, Kyle!
22.81 miles per hour
If you could make a noise for how fast Kansas City Chiefs player
Tyreek Hill is, it would be "vroooom!" Luckily there are more
scientific ways of measuring speed - the Chiefs receiver clocked in at 22.81mph
in December against the Los Angeles Chargers. That's faster than the speed limit
for some streets in the UK!
In the interest of fairness, in a close second, 21.87mph is the
top speed of 49ers running back Raheem Mostert.
Happy 43rd birthday
Shakira!
The Super Bowl halftime show is a big deal and this year Shakira
will be performing on her 43rd birthday!
She'll be joined by Jennifer Lopez, as the other confirmed artist.
The halftime show attracts a huge TV audience, sometimes more
people watch that than the game itself.
The most-watched halftime show was 2015 when Katy Perry's
performance attracted 118.5 million viewers, while the game itself drew an
average audience of 114.4 million viewers.
50 year wait
Kansas City Chiefs fans have waited a long time for this! It's 50
years since the Chiefs were last in the Super Bowl, that's before Shakira was
born! At the time they beat the Minnesota Vikings in New Orleans.
Kansas also appeared in the first Super Bowl in 1967, losing to
the Green Bay Packers.
$5.6 million
Half time is such a big deal at the Super Bowl and with millions
of people watching, 30-second advert slots cost $5.6 (£4.2m) million, each! The
cost of all the adverts put together is roughly $400 (£303) million!
Facebook and US president Donald Trump are among those expected to
air commercials.
OVER ONE BILLION CHICKEN
WINGS!
Yes, that's a lot of chicken!
Super Bowl fans are expected to eat 1.4 billion wings on Sunday.
To put that into perspective: The weight of those wings (75.4
million kilograms) is more than 300 times the combined weight of all 32 NFL
teams.
More Super Bowl Facts
So you got this far but you're still confused about what the Super
Bowl actually is, don't worry we have the answers.
If your mates are big American football fans, hopefully we can
help you to at least understand some of what they're talking about on Monday
morning.
And if you're new to American football or just want a reminder you
can find all of the rules of the game here!
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| UK Halftime Show??? |
What is the Super Bowl?
It's the final game of the National Football League (NFL) season
in the United States and is one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
The NFL is what all American
football teams are part of.
The winners of the Super Bowl are crowned 'World Champions' and
get to lift the Vince Lombardi trophy.
This year it's the 54th Super Bowl.
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| 50 years ago Chiefs last won |
How long does the game take?
The game is meant to last an hour with four 15 minute quarters.
It can take much longer though because of the half-time show and
all the ad breaks.
This is why snacks are a big part of fans' Super Bowl parties!
Most people do not want to see the game, just highlights, but want to see the halftime show so here is the full performance by Shakira and Lopez.
