(Podcast length 5:13 mins)
Talk sports confidently leading up to the battle of the gameday buffet, commercials and the game between Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals with your all-inclusive Super Bowl Guide.
Transcript
1. Let's talk about This year's halftime show is every millennial's dream featuring five rap and R&B stars: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar. Blige is the only one of these artists who has performed at the Super Bowl before (2001). Combined, the five performers have 43 Grammys and 21 Billboard No. 1 albums. Did you know that halftime performers are not paid for their performance? The NFL pays the production costs, but there's no appearance fee.
2. The price of a Super Bowl commercial increased this year with NBC charging $6.5 million for a 30-second spot, up from the $5.5 million CBS fetched for last year's game. This year, newcomers to the Super Bowl commercials include crypto.com and wholesale chain Sam's Club, which Wal-Mart owns. Now you just have to be prepared to explain to your Aunt Laudie what cryptocurrency is.
Want a sneak peek into the 2022 Super Bowl commercials? Here you go.
3. After Thanksgiving, the Super Bowl is the second-highest calorie intake day in America. The average person will consume 11,000 calories - more than four and a half times the recommended daily calorie intake.
As a country, here's what we're eating, by the numbers:
1.3 billion chicken wings (the most popular Super Bowl food)
325 million gallons of beer (Coors Light is the most popular, followed by Miller Lite and Bud Light)
200 million pounds of avocados
88 million pounds of cheese
2 million pizzas
Here are 15 party-pleasing recipes for your Super Bowl party.
4. The Super Bowl is known for its fun prop bets, bets on individual things that will happen throughout the game. Here are some popular prop bets in Super Bowl:
The over/under of the length of country singer Mickey Guyton's national anthem
Who will win the opening coin toss?
What color is the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach?
Want to place your bets? Check out our Sports Betting 101.
5. What about the teams taking the field? Rams coach Sean McVay and Bengals coach Zac Taylor are the youngest head coaches ever to meet in the Super Bowl. It's been 33 years since the Bengals played in the Super Bowl. The Rams played in the Super Bowl in 2019 when they lost to the Patriots. Of the last 16 champions, 13 of those teams were wearing white jerseys. The Bengals elected to wear their black jerseys.
Did you see that Cincinnati Public Schools will be closed on Monday after Super Bowl so everyone can support their team? Now, if we could only get the Super Bowl moved to a Saturday, so we didn't have to get up for work the next day…
How to watch:
Location: SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, home to the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers
Watch: Sunday, February 13, 2022 - kickoff time for the Super Bowl is 3:30 pm PT/6:30 pm ET. You can watch on NBC, Peacock or with a live TV streaming subscription on services like Hulu and YouTube.
With the game kicking off around 6:30 pm ET, you can estimate that halftime will be around 8 pm ET.
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