tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91514261484127495502024-08-30T02:23:17.471-07:00Super BowlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05908878665108435176noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9151426148412749550.post-18827389056466779682011-11-25T11:18:00.001-08:002011-11-25T11:18:06.257-08:00Super Bowl<div class="dablink" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1.6em;">For a list of Super Bowl games and champions, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="List of Super Bowl champions">List of Super Bowl champions</a>.</div><table cellspacing="5" class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: left; width: 22em;"><caption class="fn org" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">The Super Bowl</caption><tbody>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Super_Bowl_29_Vince_Lombardi_trophy_at_49ers_Family_Day_2009.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Super Bowl 29 Vince Lombardi trophy at 49ers Family Day 2009.JPG" height="267" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Super_Bowl_29_Vince_Lombardi_trophy_at_49ers_Family_Day_2009.JPG/200px-Super_Bowl_29_Vince_Lombardi_trophy_at_49ers_Family_Day_2009.JPG" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;" width="200" /></a><br />
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded to the Super Bowl winner</td></tr>
<tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;">First played</th><td class="" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; vertical-align: top;">January 15, 1967</td></tr>
<tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top;">Trophy</th><td class="" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi_Trophy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Vince Lombardi Trophy">Vince Lombardi Trophy</a></td></tr>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><hr style="background-color: #aaaaaa; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #aaaaaa; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em;" /></td></tr>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="" height="33" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/AmericanFootball_current_event.svg/33px-AmericanFootball_current_event.svg.png" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;" width="33" /> <b>Recent and upcoming games</b></td></tr>
<tr><th class="" colspan="2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efefef; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_NFL_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2010 NFL season">2010 season</a></th></tr>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl XLV">Super Bowl XLV</a> (February 6, 2011)<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Green_Bay_Packers_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2010 Green Bay Packers season">Green Bay Packers</a> 31, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2010 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> 25</td></tr>
<tr><th class="" colspan="2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efefef; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NFL_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2011 NFL season">2011 season</a></th></tr>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVI" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl XLVI">Super Bowl XLVI</a> (February 5, 2012)</td></tr>
<tr><th class="" colspan="2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #efefef; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NFL_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2012 NFL season">2012 season</a></th></tr>
<tr class=""><td class="" colspan="2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVII" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl XLVII">Super Bowl XLVII</a> (February 3, 2013)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">The <b>Super Bowl</b> is the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_game" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Championship game">championship game</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> (NFL), the highest level of professional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="American football">American football</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="United States">United States</a>, culminating a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_(sports)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Season (sports)">season</a> that begins in the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Summer">summer</a> of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Roman numerals">Roman numerals</a> to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_I" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl I">Super Bowl I</a> was played on January 15, 1967, following the regular season played in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_NFL_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="1966 NFL season">1966</a>, while <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl XLV">Super Bowl XLV</a> was played on February 6, 2011, to determine the champion of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_NFL_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="2010 NFL season">2010 regular season</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">The game was created as part of a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL-NFL_merger" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="AFL-NFL merger">merger agreement</a> between the NFL and its then-rival league, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="American Football League">American Football League</a> (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion teams would play in an <b>AFL–NFL World Championship Game</b> until the merger was to officially begin in 1970. After the merger, each league was redesignated as a "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_(sports)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Conference (sports)">conference</a>", and the game was then played between the conference champions.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">The day on which the Super Bowl is played is now considered a <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_holiday" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="National holiday">national holiday</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_Sunday" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl Sunday">Super Bowl Sunday</a>". It is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Thanksgiving (United States)">Thanksgiving Day</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USDA_4-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-USDA-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup> In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts#United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="List of most watched television broadcasts">the most watched American television broadcast</a> of the year. Super Bowl XLV played in 2011 became the most watched American television program in history, drawing an average audience of 111 million viewers and taking over the spot held by the previous year's Super Bowl, which itself had taken over the #1 spot held for twenty-eight years by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell,_and_Amen" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen">final episode of <i>M*A*S*H</i></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Live_Feed_5-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-The_Live_Feed-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup>The Super Bowl is also among the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts#World" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="List of most watched television broadcasts">most watched sporting events in the world</a>, mostly due to North American audiences, and is second to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Association football">Association football</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="UEFA Champions League">UEFA Champions League</a>final as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">Because of its high viewership, commercial airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year. Due to the high cost of investing in advertising on the Super Bowl, companies regularly develop their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. As a result, watching and discussing the broadcast's commercials has become a significant aspect of the event.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FlaToday_7-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#cite_note-FlaToday-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup> In addition, many popular singers and musicians have performed during the event's pre-game and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_halftime_shows" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl halftime shows">halftime ceremonies</a> because of the exposure.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05908878665108435176noreply@blogger.com0