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31 unusual facts about Super Bowl


1992 Stanford Cardinal football team

Walsh served as Stanford's coach for two seasons (1977 and 1978) before leaving to coach the NFL's San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl championships.

1994 LSU Tigers football team

Hallman was named LSU's coach in November 1990 after leading the Golden Eagles to 26 victories over three seasons, mostly on the strength of future Super Bowl winning quarterback Brett Favre.

2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season

The Mavericks are also the third team to win a major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, joining the Dallas Cowboys' five Super Bowl titles and the Dallas Stars' only Stanley Cup, leaving the Texas Rangers as the only team to not win a major sports title in the area, as they have not won the World Series.

Atholl Highlanders

The Atholl Highlanders USA has the distinction of being the first pipe band to play at the Super Bowl, when it appeared at Super Bowl XXXIV.

Brain Droppings

In the audiobook, he omits the Broncos when they win two Super Bowls.

Cachet

They commemorate everything from the first flight on a particular route, to the Super Bowl.

Capcom's MVP Football

A tournament mode permits players to take his team through the playoff bracket and into the Super Bowl.

College Football All-Star Challenge

During the years Fox showed the Challenge, it was held at the same site as that year's Super Bowl.

Comparison of Canadian football and rugby union

During the period entertainment is be played for the crowd, ranging from marching band performances in high school and college games to big-name entertainment (e.g. U2 and Prince) for the Super Bowl.

Computer Football Strategy

The basic choice of teams span from the 1966 Green Bay Packers (the winners of Super Bowl I) to the 1982 Washington Redskins (the winners of Super Bowl XVII - the most recent Super Bowl as of the game's release).

Daniel Schlereth

Schlereth's father, Mark, was a professional football player who spent twelve seasons in the NFL with the Washington Redskins and Denver Broncos, and was a starting guard on three Super Bowl championship teams.

Direct response television

Many advertisements during the Super Bowl have been DRTV ads and encouraged direct response via websites and 800 numbers.

Employment website

The industry attempted to reach a broader, less tech-savvy base in 1998 when Hotjobs.com attempted to buy a Super Bowl spot, but Fox rejected the ad for being in poor taste.

Goodyear Blimp

In 1976, Goodyear allowed use of its blimps for the filming of Black Sunday, based on the novel by Thomas Harris, about a distressed former prisoner of war blimp pilot who helps Middle Eastern terrorists attack the Super Bowl with a lethal device attached to the airship's car.

John Tantillo

He has been particularly outspoken about what he perceives as the money wasted on Super Bowl advertising.

Kansas City crime family

In 1975 Civella was imprisoned on gambling charges for betting on the 1970 Super Bowl played between the Minnesota Vikings and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Macintosh Office

Apple announced Macintosh Office in January 1985 with an ill-fated, poorly received sixty-second television commercial, dubbed Lemmings during the Super Bowl.

Madden NFL '94

This was also the first of the Madden games to have Super Bowl teams available for play without any special codes.

Marion Black

In February 2013, "Who knows" was featured on a TV BlackBerry advertisement shown during the U.S. Super Bowl game.

Miami, Manitoba

The radio station ran a contest for an all expenses paid trip to Miami to watch the Super Bowl, but did not mention that they were referring to Miami, Manitoba and not the one in Florida.

NFL Global Junior Championship XI

The Championship was played during the week leading up to the Super Bowl, in the same city that was hosting the game.

NFL Honors

The television special is held the night before the Super Bowl, the league's championship game, at the game's host city.

NFL Sports Talk Football '93

Being officially-licensed allows this game to use all the real NFL team names, and the phrase "Super Bowl", where previously teams only represented cities, and played for the 'Sega Bowl'.

Pigskin 621 A.D.

At one time, the makers of Pigskin 621 A.D. offered tickets to the Super Bowl as part of a sweepstakes promotion associated with the arcade game.

Pro-Football-Reference.com

The site provides statistics for teams dating back to the pre-Super Bowl days.

Souper Bowl of Caring

The Souper Bowl of Caring utilizes Super Bowl weekend in America to mobilize young people to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities.

Susan Golding

In 1995, Golding helped spearhead a deal to expand Jack Murphy Stadium in order to keep the San Diego Chargers in town and attract a second Super Bowl to the city.

Television special

Other forms of TV specials are one-time comedy or musical events, one-shot seasonal programs (e.g. Christmas television specials), irregular sports events (e.g. the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl), live coverage of a popular cultural event (such as the Academy Awards or Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) or spontaneous interruptions of active programming to cover an important news event (election coverage, however, is generally scheduled).

Troy Aikman NFL Football

Players can either play or coach an exhibition game or an entire regular season (including the Super Bowl).

VertigoXmedia

The company's products and services were used by broadcasters for live TV productions, such as live news, sporting events such as the Super Bowl, and special events such as elections.

Walt Disney Entertainment

Walt Disney Entertainment is a former wing of the Walt Disney Company that produced all shows and parades for Disney worldwide, including everything from the Disney-created Super Bowl Half-time shows to theme parks.


1969 Pittsburgh Steelers season

Rocky Bleier, who played his rookie season the year before and would later be a major contributor to the Super Bowl championship teams, was fighting in Vietnam during this time and would actually be wounded in combat just before the start of the season.

Blaine Nye

He played right guard between Hall of Famer offensive tackle Rayfield Wright (1970–1976) and Dave Manders (1970–1972) or John Fitzgerald (1973–1976) at center and helped anchor a dominant offensive line that led the Cowboys to three Super Bowls in that time.

Bonnie Bernstein

Bernstein covered Super Bowls XXXV and XXXVIII for the network and during Super Bowl XXXVIII, she became the first correspondent ever to cover the game for both network television and network radio, filing reports for CBS Sports and Westwood One Radio.

Brendan Connor

In 2008, he did stories on Turkish NBA star, Hedo Türkoğlu, covered the Davis Cup Tennis Finals in Argentina, reported from the Super Bowl in Phoenix, profiled Indy Racing and driver Danica Patrick, South Korean golfers on the LPGA Tour, and produced a series of pre-Olympic stories on athletes and teams headed to Beijing.

Charles Fazzino

He has been commissioned to create artwork for high profile events such as The Super Bowl, The GRAMMY Awards, The Pori Jazz Festival, Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Daytime Emmy Awards, and more.

Dave Randorf

Since returning to TSN, Randorf has covered numerous sporting events, including U.S. Open golf, the Grey Cup, the Super Bowl, men's and women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Memorial Cup, Pan Am Games, and Canada Games.

Hyundai Genesis Coupe

Hyundai took an aggressive stance on their marketing for the new release of this car with Rhys Millen drifting the car to music by Billy Corgan during a Super Bowl advertisement.

Jerry Vainisi

On August 24, 1983, Vainisi replaced Jim Finks as the general manager of the Bears, and led the Bears to its only Super Bowl win in 1985 when the Bears defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX.

Jesse Sapolu

Sapolu is one of six 49ers to own four Super Bowl Championship Rings (1984, 1988, 1989, and 1994), and the only one of those to earn a ring with the '94 team rather than their first title in 1981.

Jim McIngvale

Gallery Furniture, prompted by McIngvale, ran a promotion for Super Bowl XLVIII promising customers a full refund on any purchase of more than $6,000 if the Seattle Seahawks, selected as the team of choice by a coin toss, won the Super Bowl.

Joe Starkey

In addition to his Super Bowl calls, Starkey was play-by-play announcer for the 1998 club's two signature moments - Garrison Hearst's 96-yard touchdown in overtime against the Jets, and Steve Young's game-winning touchdown to Terrell Owens - The Catch II.

Laird Hayes

During his career in the NFL, he has officiated in three Super Bowls: XXXVI in 2002, XXXVIII in 2004, and XLVI in 2012(where he made a call which might be consider one of the greatest calls in super bowl history).

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

Among the more famous performers who were accompanied by the Camp Pendleton color guard have been Frankie Laine, Herb Alpert, Wilson Phillips, Jewel, Trisha Yearwood and the Dixie Chicks, all of whom had performed the National Anthem at either a World Series game, Super Bowl, or, in Wilson Phillips' case, a Major League Baseball All-Star Game that was played at what is now Qualcomm Stadium.

Megan Kalmoe

Her future ambitions include visiting the world's largest and most celebrated parties, including Carnival, Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve on Times Square, Oktoberfest, and the Super Bowl.

Mieke Buchan

SPORTS - Throughout her career Buchan has covered events including the Olympic Games, the US Open, and French Open tennis tournaments (for Tennis Channel), Australian Open Tennis (for Triple M) World Cup Soccer (SBS), the Super Bowl, Formula One, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship (Fox Sports America), the Crown Australian Poker Championship (Aussie Millions), Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Million Dollar Game

Maddox lost his starting job to Ben Roethlisberger in 2005, and was released in 2006, however still became the first former XFL player to be a part of a Super Bowl champion after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL over the Seattle Seahawks.

Offcutts

From this release the band received international recognition, chosen as the theme music behind Sony PlayStation games and included in a major ad campaign screening during the American Super Bowl.

Osi Umenyiora

He is one of three British-born players to have won a Super Bowl ring, joining Scott McCready and Giants teammate Lawrence Tynes.

Paul Uram

He is a member of the U.S. Gymanstics Hall of Fame and he coached on four Super Bowl-winning teams with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.

Pornhub

The Huffington Post explains that in 2013, "CBS...refused to air a short commercial for adult-themed site Pornhub during the Super Bowl on Sunday....The 20-second spot, which features an older couple sitting on a park bench (that's really all that happens), included no explicit content".

Southern University

The Southern University marching band, nicknamed the "Human Jukebox", has been featured in television commercials, music videos and invited to participate in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, Presidential Inauguration ceremonies and 4 Super Bowl halftime presentations.

Steven Krasner

Krasner joined The Providence Journal in 1975 and covered many notable sports events, including three no-hitters and a number of World Series, baseball All-Star games, and Super Bowls.

Ted Gerela

His brothers were also professional kickers; Roy Gerela with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers and Metro Gerela briefly with the Montreal Alouettes (Metro is enshrined in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.) In 1993, his nephew Ted Gerela was drafted in the 7th round of the 1993 CFL Draft by the BC Lions as a linebacker from Rocky Mountain College.