Super Bowl LIV is on tap for this Sunday. For some reason I haven’t heard quite as much hype about it this year… maybe San Francisco and Kansas City just don’t generate that much interest. From what I’ve heard, Kansas City seems to be favored to win, but I’m not sure of the current point spread. I guess it really doesn’t matter about the favorite — as the saying goes, “that’s the reason they play the game.”
This year’s game is in Miami — I’m not sure what the weather forecast is, but I’m pretty sure it won’t snow. Snow has yet to fall during a Super Bowl. The other thing that probably won’t happen is either team failing to score. Every team that has played in a Super Bowl has scored. But in six Super Bowls the offenses did fail to score a touchdown.
I think it’s interesting that no team has ever played in a Super Bowl hosted in its home stadium. A couple of times games have been hosted in their metropolitan areas, but in a different stadium. The Minnesota Viking are the only team to have come within one win of playing the game in their home stadium. The 2018 Super Bowl was scheduled to be played in the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, but the Vikings lost in the NFC Championship Game that year.
The closest, geographically, the two Super Bowl participants have resided was in Super Bowl XLI when the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears faced each other — the teams homes were separated by only 164 miles.
Four teams have never reached the Super Bowl — the Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars. In addition to these four teams, 12 others have yet to win a Super Bowl: the Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, Los Angeles Chargers, Minnesota Vikings and Tennessee Titans.
The Baltimore Ravens, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (and of course the four teams that never reached the big game) have yet to lose a Super Bowl.
There has never been a Super Bowl that neither team has failed to score a touchdown.
The record for the most consecutive Super Bowl appearances is held by the Buffalo Bills — they played in Super Bowls XXV, XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII… and lost all four. The Minnesota Vikings also managed to lose four Super Bowls, but not consecutively.
There seems to be a Super Bowl record for just about anything you can name that’s in any way associated with the game. I remember watching the first Super Bowl in 1967 — I had no idea it would become the annual spectacle it’s become today — or — that I’d have a use for those Roman Numerals I had to learn in grade school….
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