Sunday, February 7, 2010

Super Bowl fun facts

Are you watching the game tonight? I am, but mainly for the commercials and to eat yummy finger foods! Here are some fun facts:

151.6 million: Number of people who will watch at least part of the game.

34: Number of languages the game is broadcast in.

1: Number of languages in which the word "football" doesn't mean "soccer."

53.5 million: Pounds of avocados consumed on Super Bowl Sunday

1 billion: Number of chicken wings consumed on Super Bowl Sunday.

7 million: Number of employees who will not show up to work Monday. (Hmmm...I wonder if any teachers will be absent!)

310,000: Pounds of carbon emissions generated by the Super Bowl

22,000: Number of parking spaces at the stadium

$5.6 billion: Amount consumers will spend on Super Bowl related items

$2.8 million: Cost for a 30-second advertisement slot during the game

2.9 million: Number of HD TVs bought for the Super Bowl in 2009.

20 million: Number of Americans attending a Super Bowl party

25%: Percent of women who watch the game and enjoy it.

10 million: Number of man-hours spent preparing food for the Super Bowl party.

10 million: Number of man-hours spent making the movie Avatar.

Tell me one of these fun facts tomorrow and win a prize!

2 comments:

Confucious said...

How can the Super Bowl generate carbon emissions? And what about the number of woman-hours spent preparing the food?

Mrs. Moon said...

I think by all the things associated with it--the planes used by the teams, the energy for the electronics, etc...

I think the man-hours means the universal "man"