Interesting Facts About This Year’s Super Bowl LVIII
From Staff Reports
Now that Super Bowl LVIII is set with the Kansas City Chiefs facing the San Francisco 49ers, let’s take a look at some of the facts surrounding the game – both present and past – from a myriad of published reports.
• The 2024 game will take place on Sunday, February 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. It will be the first time Las Vegas has hosted the Super Bowl.
• This year’s game will be Super Bowl 58 (LVIII) and televised by CBS, Nickelodeon and Paramount+ and streamed on NFL+, NFL.com and the NFL app.
• The CBS Broadcast Team will be Jim Nantz (play-by-play), Tony Romo (color commentary) and Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Jay Feeley as the sideline reporters and Gene Steratore (rules analyst).
• Grammy-winning R&B singer Usher will perform the halftime show.
• Country Music Hall of Famer Reba McEntire will sing the National Anthem and Grammy-nominated Post Malone will sing America the Beautiful during pregame ceremonies.
• Tickets for Super Bowl LVIII, available on Ticketmaster, start at $11,363 before fees. This follows the trend of previous years, where official ticket vendors priced tickets between $2,500 and $10,000, with secondary market prices slightly higher.
• Last year’s 38-35 victory by the Kansas City Chiefs over the Philadelphia Eagles in Phoenix was the most-watched U.S. telecast of all-time with 115.1 million viewers.
• The first Super Bowl took place on January 15, 1967 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Green Bay Packers in Los Angeles. Green Bay won 35-10. QB Bart Starr of the Packers was the MVP.
• Tickets for the very first Super Bowl in 1967 cost an average of $6. The average cost of a ticket to the past five Super Bowls is $6,382.
• The first two games were actually not called the Super Bowl, but simply the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. It officially became the Super Bowl (III) in 1969 as Joe Namath led the New York Jets to a 16-7 victory over the Baltimore Colts in Miami.
• Each team playing in the game gets 108 footballs with 54 for practice and 54 for the actual game. In a typical Super Bowl, around 120 balls are used.
• Sarah Thomas was the first female to referee in a Super Bowl (2021).
• Americans will eat around 1.4 billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday.
• The New England Patriots have appeared in the most Super Bowls – 11. The Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers are next with 8.
• The player with the most Super Bowl wins is Tom Brady with 7 and the coach with the most Super Bowl wins is Bill Belichick with 8.
• The player with the most MVP awards in a Super Bowl is Tom Brady with 5, while Joe Montana is next with 3. Last year’s Super Bowl MVP was QB Patrick Mahomes.
• 12 teams have never won a Super Bowl – Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, Minnesota Vikings, Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, Los Angeles Chargers and the Cleveland Browns.
• Players on the Super Bowl winning team will receive a check for $157,000 while the players on the losing team get $82,000.
• Miami has hosted the Super Bowl the most with 11, followed next by New Orleans with 10.
• The Lombardi Trophy, which is awarded to the Super Bowl winning team, weighs 7 pounds and costs $50,000.
• In 2024, a 30-second Super Bowl ad will cost an average of $7 million. The first Super Bowl TV ads in 1967 went for $40,000.
• Last year, some 50 million Amercans placed bets on the Super Bowl totaling an estimated $16 billion.
• Last 5 Super Bowl results:
2019 – LIII … New England 13, Los Angeles Rams 3
2020 – LIV … Kansas City 31, San Francisco 20
2021 – LV … Tampa Bay 31, Kansas City 9
2022 – LVI … Los Angeles Rams 23, Cincinnati 20
2023 – LVII … Kansas City 38, Philadelphia 35
