{"id":1713,"date":"2020-01-29T21:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2020-01-29T21:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:10:58","slug":"super-bowl-liv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl LIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Super Bowl LIV is on tap for this Sunday. For some reason I haven\u2019t heard quite as much hype about it this year\u2026 maybe San Francisco and Kansas City just don\u2019t generate that much interest. From what I\u2019ve heard, Kansas City seems to be favored to win, but I\u2019m not sure of the current point spread. I guess it really doesn\u2019t matter about the favorite \u2014 as the saying goes, \u201cthat\u2019s the reason they play the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s game is in Miami \u2014 I\u2019m not sure what the weather forecast is, but I\u2019m pretty sure it won\u2019t snow. Snow has yet to fall during a Super Bowl. The other thing that probably won\u2019t 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2014 the teams homes were separated by only 164 miles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four teams have never reached the Super Bowl \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <em>lose<\/em> a Super Bowl.<br>There has never been a Super Bowl that neither team has failed to score a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record for the most consecutive Super Bowl appearances\u00a0 is held by the Buffalo Bills \u2014 they played in Super Bowls XXV, XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII\u2026 and lost all four. The Minnesota Vikings also managed to lose four Super Bowls, but not consecutively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There seems to be a Super Bowl record for just about anything you can name that\u2019s in any way associated with the game. I remember watching the first Super Bowl in 1967 \u2014 I had no idea it would become the annual spectacle it\u2019s become today \u2014 or \u2014 that I\u2019d have a use for those Roman Numerals\u00a0 I had to learn in grade school\u2026.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Bowl LIV is on tap for this Sunday. For some reason I haven\u2019t heard quite as much hype about it this year\u2026 maybe San Francisco and Kansas City just don\u2019t generate that much interest. 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