Ten surprising Super Bowl facts
February 9, 2016
- Approximately 7 million people call in sick or don’t show up to work the day after the Super Bowl.
- The Super Bowl is the second-most-watched sports game, right after the World Cup.
- 80% of all Super Bowl tickets are sold to the corporate sponsors of the NFL and the Super Bowl.
- 1 out of 12 people watch the game for the commercials.
- Tickets to the first Super Bowl were only $6. Cheap seats to this year’s game are upwards of $300.
- In America, Super Bowl Sunday is second for food consumption, right after Thanksgiving.
- During the first Super Bowl, NBC accidentally missed the taping of a kickoff, so the whole play was reset for the cameras.
- Not only do the players get rings for the Super Bowl, but the referees do too.
- Someone (Dion Rich) has snuck into over 30 Super Bowl games.
- The Super Bowl 50 stadium has a green roof. A unique feature of the stadium is a green roof atop the suite tower. The green roof is 27,000 square feet and provides building insulation and 16 species of vegetation native to the Bay Area.