Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday — the game will take place tomorrow at 6:30 (ET) at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale, Arizona. This will be Super Bowl number 57 (LVII.)
The “home” team will be the Philadelphia Eagles. The designated home team alternates each bear between the NFC and AFC champions. If it is an odd-numbered Super Bowl, the NFC team is the designated home team. If it is an even-numbered Super Bowl, the AFC is the designated home team.
The Green Bay Packers were the first team to ever win a Super Bowl — in 1967. The Packers won over the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10. The MVP of that game was Bart Starr, the Packers quarterback. The game was played was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Twelve NFL teams have never won the Super Bowl, and four teams have never even been to the game. The four teams that have never been to the Super Bowl are the Houston Texans, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cleveland Browns. The other seven teams that been to the game but never won are the Minnesota Vikings (4 appearances,) Buffalo Bills (4,) Atlanta Falcons (2,) Carolina Panthers (2,) Arizona Cardinals (1,) Tennessee Titans (1,) and Los Angeles Chargers (1.)
So who’s won the most Super Bowls? The Pittsburg Steelers and New England Patriots are tied with six championships apiece. Interestingly, The New England Patriots have also lost the most Super Bowls — along with Denver…. they’ve both lost five apiece.
The winning team will receive the Lombardi Trophy — it weighs seven pounds and costs $50,000.
More than 100 million people worldwide watch the Super Bowl every year. In fact, Super Bowl XLIV, in 2010 unseated M*A*S*H’s series finale as the most-watched show in television history.
So the odds are, you’ll be watching tomorrow night…..
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