The Super Bowl is more than a game, it’s more than a World Championship, it’s a full on NFL experience. Throughout the weekend there are pregame parties, concerts, and celebrity events that are geared toward entertaining the select few who are lucky enough to hold a ticket to the main event. There’s the NFL experience, which is part pro football carnival and part interactive punt, pass, and kick demonstration for fans and with photo ops, NFL artifacts and access to players, the NFL experience gets you as close to the game as you can possibly get.
2011 SUPER BOWL XLV PREVIEW:
The 2011 Super Bowl is being held on Sunday, February 6th at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Cowboys Stadium is the home venue of the Dallas Cowboys and typically has a capacity of around 80,000 fans. For the Super Bowl the NFL will increase that capacity to over 100,000 people; so the 2011 Super Bowl will have the largest attendance in Super Bowl history.
2010 SUPER BOWL XLIV RECAP:
The New Orleans Saints won the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami. The victory was historic in that it was the first time ever that the Saints have won the Super Bowl. New Orleans earned their Super Bowl championship by defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17. Saints quarterback Drew Brees was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLIV.
SUPER BOWL XLV FACTS:
Date: February 6, 2011
Location: Arlington, Texas
Stadium: Cowboys Stadium
Most Super Bowl appearances: 8: Dallas Cowboys
Most Super Bowl titles: 6 - Pittsburgh Steelers
Most Points in a Super Bowl: 55 - San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIV)
Fewest Points in a Super Bowl: 3 - Miami Dolphins (Super Bowl VI)
Won most Super Bowl MVPs: Joe Montana won 3 MVPs w/ San Francisco 49ers
Played in most Super Bowls: Mike Lodish (6) w/ Denver Broncos & Buffalo Bills
Won most Super Bowls (coach): Chuck Noll (4) w/ Pittsburgh Steelers
Most Career Points Super Bowl: Jerry Rice (48 points) w/ San Francisco 49ers
SUPER BOWL BASICS:
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the NFL, that is played between the winner from the AFC and NFC. The first Super Bowl was played on January 15th, 1967 as the game to determine the Champion between the AFL and NFL. The Green Bay Packers won, and Bart Starr was named MVP of Super Bowl I.
A condition of the AFL-NFL Merger was that the winners of each leagues championship game would meet to determine the world champion of American football. But after the NFL's Green Bay Packers convincingly won the first two Super Bowls, some team owners feared that AFL teams could compete with their NFL counterparts. That all changed with perhaps the biggest upset in Super Bowl history, the AFL's New York Jets, led by Joe Namath, defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in Miami. The next year, the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs defeated the NFL's Minnesota Vikings 23-7 and won Super Bowl IV in New Orleans. Since the leagues merged into one in 1970, the Super Bowl has featured the champions of the AFC and NFC.
The team who wins the Super Bowl receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named for the coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won the first two Super Bowl games. Following his death in September 1970, the trophy was named the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
It is estimated that some 130-140 million people tune in to watch, at least, some part of the Super Bowl.
