TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up this Sunday...who will be watching? I'm really not a football fan (sorry), but I do enjoy this day. I love watching the commercials, eating all of the delicious food, and spending time with family.
Oh, and let's not forget the halftime show! All in all, an entertaining evening. Here are some Super Bowl fun facts to get you pumped for the big game...
Enjoy!
Melissa
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact."
HINT: (1927-2003), was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman.
RANDOM TIDBITS
The average Super Bowl 50 ticket price is set at just over $6,350 as of this writing. Compare that to the nearly $4,100 average ticket price on last year's Super Bowl during the same two weeks before the big game, and it seems likely Super Bowl 50 will set a new record.
Estimates suggest that during the Super Bowl, we consume 4,000 tons of popcorn, eight million pounds of guacamole with 14,500 tons of chips, and over 1.2 billion chicken wings, among other snacks. We will wash that down with over 325 million gallons of beer.
While many people watch the Super Bowl simply for the football action, bets on the "Golden Game" have taken on a life of their own as fans place bets on everything from the outcome of the game to the result of the opening coin toss and how long the National Anthem will be sung. According to Superbowlbets.com every year an estimated 200 million people worldwide wager approximately $10 billion on some form of Super Bowl bet.
This is the only year that the NFL is abandoning the classic Roman Numeral designation, thinking that Super Bowl 50 sounds more appealing than Super Bowl L. However, next year Roman numerals will be back with Super Bowl LI.
Only four teams have never reached the Super Bowl. The recently added Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans have not done so, nor have two of the league's oldest members: the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns.
Last year's Super Bowl topped the list with 114.4 million viewers being treated to an exciting game that came down to the last seconds before New England sealed a victory over Seattle with a goal-line interception. Of the top ten individual television broadcasts ever, all but one are Super Bowls.
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QUOTE: "At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact."
ANSWER: George Plimpton.
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