Super Bowl fast facts

By Julie VerHage

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02/06/12 10:26pm

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02/06/12 10:26pm

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As a lover of everything related to New York City, I am a happy girl having watched the Giants come away with a win. Hence, instead of a blog focused solely on finances, I am going to throw in a fun combination by talking about some financial details related to the Super Bowl.

Darren Rovell, sports reporter for CNBC, had so many awesome facts about the Super Bowl that I couldn’t resist making it the topic for the week. All of these facts came directly from Darren Rovell’s twitter account. They range from sports facts to the financial impact of the commercials. If you have any that you want to share, comment on the thread below!

From @darrenrovel:

Mitch Modell tells me [Darren Rovell] that the 2 hours after the Giants win, the company had its biggest sales in its 123-year history.

This Year’s Super Bowl overnight rating of 47.8 is 3rd highest behind last Year’s Super Bowl & Super Bowl XXI (Giants-Broncos)
The Super Bowl generated 12.2 million social media comments, up almost 600% vs last year’s game (Source: Bluefin)

The most commented on Super Bowl ad in social media circles was David Beckham’s H&M ad, according to Bluefin.

USA Today’s Ad Meter results: 1. Doritos “Man Best Friend,” 2. Volkswagen “Dog/Star Wars,” 3. Skechers “Mr. Quiggly.”

Giants players earned a total of $172K each for the playoffs (via @SportsTaxMan). That’s 38% of Victor Cruz’ regular season salary.

Most NY Modell’s stores will be open until fans stop coming in. NYC Herald Square guaranteed to be open at 5am tomorrow.

The most valuable Super Bowl ring in gold & diamonds is the Pats ring from Super Bowl XXXIX. It’s worth $33,397 (Cash4Gold)

Only 4 companies have made Super Bowl rings: Balfour, Diamond Cutters, Jostens & Tiffany.

Retail value of 2012 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Centennial Edition presented to Manning is $70,390.

This was the first time in a 16-game regular season a team with fewer than 10 wins came away with a Super Bowl victory. Source: @AndrewSiciliano

This will be known as the Super Bowl of the Car Ads. They spent a record of $77.5M on spots this game (Source: Kantar Media)

The NFL does not pay the Super Bowl halftime performers. Madonna & others do it for publicity.

Players who sign “I’m Going To DisneyWorld” contingency contracts have to agree to keep their signing a secret.

In 2008 when the Giants & Patriots last played in the Super Bowl, a 30-second ad cost $90,000 per second. Yesterday it was $116,666 per second.

About 120 different balls were expected to be used in yesterday’s Super Bowl.

The odds that the 1st scoring play in the game will be a safety by either team is 60/1 (Lucky’s)

69% of US TV sets were tuned into last year’s Super Bowl. The viewership was 77% tuned into MASH finale in 1983.

Bud or Bud Light has won the best Super Bowl spot on USA Today’s Ad Meter 11 out of the last 13 years.

The 2010 Super Bowl had the most ads, with 104 commercials. (Source: Kantar Media)

No alcohol is allowed at all at any point in NFL locker rooms.
There are six NFL teams (Bears, Browns, Giants, Lions, Packers, Steelers) that don’t have cheerleaders. These 6 teams have won five of the last 7 Super Bowls.

Last year, Super Bowl ads without celebrities performed 9.2% better than ads with them (Source: Ace Metrix)

Advertisers spent more on the 2011 World Series (7 games) $268.8M vs. the 2011 Super Bowl $227.9M (Kantar Media)

A parking lot near Lucas Oil Stadium was charging $200 per vehicle the morning of the game.

The lowest face value Super Bowl (ticket) this year was $800.

That’s a 2400% increase from Super Bowl I, which was $12 factoring in inflation.

Americans will eat 30 million lbs of snacks today (Calorie Control Council)

Domino’s will sell 11 million slices today. That’s 127 slices sold per second.

US Super Bowl partygoers will eat 11.2 million pounds of potato chips = 1.8 billion grams of fat (Calorie Control Council)

I highly encourage you to follow “@darrenrovell”: https://twitter.com/#!/darrenrovell on twitter. Stats like these are awesome.

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