The Dark Side Of The Super Bowl
The Big game is finally upon us, and as a Football fan, you have to love the matchup on the field. But the Super Bowl isn’t just about the game – it’s about the EVENT. Parties, commercials, and endless hype all characterize a two-week period when nothing seems to be sacred. So, as you will see, the Super Bowl is as much about the food and the cultural anomalies, than it is the game itself.
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Playing For: The Lombardi Trophy
Site: Sun Life Stadium – Miami Gardens, Florida
Date: February 7, 2010
Game time: 6:00 PM (ET)
Stadium Capacity: 74,000
Television: CBS
The Super Bowl was first played on January 15, 1967, between the winner of the NFL and the winner of its rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It is a game that switches hosts every year, but mostly stays in the South of the United States.
New Orleans and Miami have hosted the Super Bowl the most at nine times. Super Bowl XLIV will be broadcast in 232 Countries and will be broadcast in 34 languages. The Super Bowl has the distinction of having the 11 most watched Television broadcasts in American history.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have won more Super Bowls than any other franchise (6), while the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers have won five apiece. The Dallas Cowboys have appeared in the greatest number of Super Bowls (8). Seventeen of the NFL’s 32 teams have won at least one Super Bowl. Only four active NFL franchises have not appeared in the Super Bowl – the Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Houston Texans.
The history of the Super Bowl is storied indeed, but legends are often made by the person who is able to eat twelve bowls of chili, or one hundred Hot Wings at the Super Bowl party. Super Bowl is the top at-home party event of the year, ahead of New Year’s Eve, believe it or not. In fact, statistics show that only five percent of people actually watch the Super Bowl alone!
Here are some obnoxious statistics that will either make you proud or ashamed that you participate in the Super “Gluttony” Bowl!
- Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest day of food consumption behind Thanksgiving.
- Guacamole Consumed on Super Bowl Sunday 8 Million Pounds
- Chips Consumed on Super Bowl Sunday 14,500 Tons
- It is estimated that Americans will eat 90 million pounds of chicken wings, which breaks down to 450 million individual wings!
- Super Bowl Sunday is Domino’s Pizza’s biggest day of the year, selling more than 1.2 million pies.
And the money spent on Super Sunday?
Here’s a sample of the over-indulgences.
- Tortilla Chips — $10.2 million
- Light Beer — $9.2 million
- Regular Beer — $8.7 million
- Potato Chips — $7.8 million
- Regular Cola — $7.7 million
- Frozen Pizza — $7.3 million
- All remaining Carb Bev — $5.5 million
- Mexican Sauce — $5.3 million
- Ice Cream — $4.7 million
All of the partying, overeating, and general overdoing it directly results in a twenty percent increase in Antacid Sales Monday After Super Bowl and a workforce of whom six percent call in Sick Monday After Super Bowl.
Super Bowl is a true cultural phenomenon. It is debatable whether or not something good comes out of the day.
Why the hell don’t they move the game to Saturday? It would give those over indulgers a day to recover before returning to the grind of work.
Enjoy Super Bowl XLIV folks, and enjoy the heartburn that comes along with it!!!
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