Yay! Football!

Sports and newscasters made sure to punt plenty of facts our way last night, but we decided to huddle up a few more numbers for you to fumble with (we like puns and we are not sorry):

🧠 Knowledge nuggets.

• In 1971, NFL officials developed the Roman numerals system to help avoid confusion (given that the actual game is played the year after the corresponding football season).
• the NFL controls 75% of ticket supply.
• Most of the quarterbacks in Super Bowl history come from the same five colleges.
• This was the 5th Super Bowl appearance for the Chiefs and the 4th for the Eagles.
• 12 NFL franchises have never won a Super Bowl.

💰 Money money money money money!

• $6382: The average price of a ticket to the last five Super Bowls (2018-2022).
• $7M: The price of a 30-second commercial during Super Bowl ad breaks.
• $445M: The cost to complete the State Farm Stadium (formerly the University of Pheonix Stadium).
• $1B: The estimated economic impact for the greater Pheonix area.

🍕 Super Bowl, AKA “Cheat Day.”

• 40% increase in pizza orders compared to regular Sundays.
• 8K average calories consumed during a Super Bowl party.
• 11.2M pounds of potato chips scarfed.
  57.1M cases of beer sold.
• 139.4M avocados purchased for guac.
• 1.45B chicken wings eaten.