20 Fun Facts About the Super Bowl
January 27, 2008 – 5:54 pm 1. No NFL team has ever played the Super Bowl in their home stadium
2. Super Bowl Sunday is the second highest food consumption day in America, only behind Thanksgiving
3. No team scoring more than 32 points has ever lost a Super Bowl and no team scoring fewer than 14 points has ever won
4. The first Super Bowl was played on January 15, 1967
5. MTV received a permanent ban from ever producing a Super Bowl halftime show after producing the show for Super Bowl XXXVIII which famously featured the “wardrobe malfunction” of Janet Jackson
6. No videotapes are known to exist for Super Bowl I or II
7. In 2007, a 30 second commercial cost advertisers $2.6 million dollars
8. The Vince Lombardi Trophy given to the Super Bowl Champions is made of 7 pounds of sterling silver, and is valued at more than $25,000
9. Dallas, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh hold the record for most Super Bowl victories with 5 each
10. Arizona, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, and New Orleans are the only six NFL teams to never reach the Super Bowl
11. Mike Dikta, Tom Flores, and Tony Dungy are the only three people to win the Super Bowl both as an NFL player and as an NFL coach
12. The name Super Bowl was meant to be a joke by AFL owner Lamar Hunt, as it was a combination of the names of the toy the Super Ball and the college football bowl games
13. Between 1985 and 1997 the NFC won 13 straight Super Bowls
14. New Orleans and Miami hold the record for most Super Bowls hosted, with 9 each
15. No Super Bowl has ever gone into overtime
16. 4 stadiums have hosted both a Super Bowl and the World Series, but Qualcomm Stadium is the only stadium to host both in the same year (1998)
17. More than $10 million dollars of tortilla chips are purchased for Super Bowl parties
18. The Super Bowl is broadcast in more than 230 countries worldwide
19. No punt has ever been returned in a Super Bowl for a touchdown
20. There has never been a shutout in the Super Bowl
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