Ten Crazy Numbers About the Super Bowl

Another NFL season has come and gone.  Before the big game kicks off for the 49th time, let's take a quick look at some crazy numbers.

1.  The last five Super Bowls has been the five most watched telecasts in my history.  (And more females watch the Super Bowl than the total number of people that watch the Oscars.)
2.  The average ticket price this year is $6,500 (110% higher than last year).  A ticket to Super Bowl I cost six bucks.
3.  A 30 second commercial this year costs $4.5 million (or $150,000 a second)!
4.  The owner of the Seahawks (Paul Allen) and Patriots (Robert Kraft) have a combined net worth of $21 billion.
5.  On Super Bowl Sunday Americans will eat 1.25 billion chicken wings, 158 million avocados, 3.8 million pounds of popcorn, 11.2 million pounds of potato chips, 8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips, 325 million gallons of beer and over $2 million of soda....It adds up to about 2400 snack calories per person (second only to Thanksgiving).
6.  About 43 million Americans will host a Super Bowl party and over $14.3 billion will be spent on food, drink, decorations, and apparel.  (The average party will have 17 people.)
7.  The University of Wisconsin (aka JJ Watt's old school) has more players playing in this year's Super Bowl than any other college: James White and Jonathan Casillas of the Patriots and O'Brien Schofield, Russell Wilson, David Gilreath and Mike Taylor of the Seahawks.
8.  About 36% of fans are rooting for the Seahawks, 31% for the Patriots, and 33% don't care.
9.  Brady and Belichick are 1-4 against the spread in the Super Bowl.  This year's game is a pick 'em.
10.  After 50,000 computer simulations of the game, the most likely score is Seattle 24, Patriots 20.

Interestingly, it is estimated that about $3.8 billion dollars will be bet illegally on the game--38 times more than what's bet legally.  May the best team win!

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