Super Bowl Games
On once occasion, you probably have met a person who breaks the ice with a line “don’t you know that…?” When you start hearing those words, you know that you are hearing another Super Bowl trivia geek. Some people might find them annoying, but sometimes you get to learn a lot from those people. Geeky may not be a good term for them. May be the word “fanatic” is more appropriate. See, these people love to watch Super Bowl games. And what’s interesting about these bunch of NFL fans is that they get to remember a lot of facts and figures of all the Super Bowl games. Gosh, how did they do that?
Well, if you have been starting to love these guys, why don’t you start looking at the facts and figures too of the biggest Super Bowl games? It helps to really know a lot, not just little, so you’ll have something to say the next time someone tells you “don’t you know that…”
Every one loves stats and records, but this article will start on the number of attendees. As much you want you to physically be present in the stadium, but for location concerns and sometimes tickets getting sold out issues, you just can’t be there seeing the action in flesh and blood. The biggest attendance ever recorded in the history of Super Bowl games was that XIV Super Bowl in Pasadena. The number of spectators totaled to a whopping 103,985. Reason for such a record is very obvious. The Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena City in California is one of the biggest in America. With construction cost amounting to $272,198.00, the Rose Bowl Stadium can accommodate a seating capacity of 104,594. The Rose Bowl Stadium was also the site of the 1973 NCAA game between Ohio and USC. The said event recorded Rose Bowl’s biggest number of attendees.
The 1980 Super Bowl XIV, however was not the first hosting job for Pasadena. The city first hosted Super Bowl during the XI event. For the first time in ten years, SuperBowl games attendance reached 103,438. Pasadena then hosted the XVII Super Bowl with a recorded 103,667 attendees, the XXI Super Bowl with 101,063 and the XXVII Super Bowl with 98,374. By 1997, the capacity of the stadium was lowered due to widening of the soccer field.
Another noteworthy part of Super Bowl games are the performance by recording artists. Although the teams themselves are the main crowd-drawers of Super Bowl, organizers and the NFL people commission artists and Hollywood biggies to help in the ushering of the annual sporting event. The latest performances in Super Bowl featured Prince, a very popular music icon and singing the national anthem was Billy Joel, another pillar in America’s music industry.
Artists have always been very visible not only in the Super Bowl but also in other national sporting league’s major event. But the performances in the NFL’s annual event have always been the most captivating and, not to mention, controversial too.
During the Super Bowl XXXVIII event in 2004 at Houston, Texas 200,000 American citizens called the FCC to protest what was called the Half-time Controversy of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. The said incident reported the two popular icons’ performance during the half-time break. The two performers performed suggestive moves and at the finale, Timberlake ripped off Jackson’s front clothes that revealed her right breast.
The incident was a big stir in the National Football League and since then new polices have been enforced regarding half-time shows and performances. These Super Bowl facts and figures are just some of the most interesting “don’t you knows”. Next year’s Super Bowl game will surely be filled with another set of attention-grabbing happenings. Make sure you are there when it happens.