Sunday is Super Bowl LX or 60 to most of us. The Super Bowl is the one time of the year when I get to use my Roman Numeral Basics. I is one, V is 5, X is 10, L is 50, and C is 100. A numeral placed after a larger-valued numeral is added, and a numeral placed before a larger-valued numeral is subtracted. An example: XLVIII is 48.
It’s much easier for me to know the number of Super Bowls I have attended. I attended the first one, and it was Number I. Held at the Coliseum. Two tickets for my son and me cost $14. USA Today says that the average ticket price that year was $12, but we were in the cheap seats. Before the start of the game, the announcer had everyone stand up and shuffle toward the 50-yard line. (They didn’t want the stadium to look too empty.) I remember that we shuffled to about the 30-yard line.
This Super Bowl Sunday, DJ and I will watch the game at home. Normally, I record games so I can skip the commercials. Sunday, I am recording the game so we can rewind if we want to see any commercials a second time. This is the only game DJ watches, and she works on one of her difficult puzzles, pausing for every commercial and the half-time show.
Some watchers work for days to get a feast ready for everyone. We will have Colonel Sanders Chicken and Champagne. Perfect combination.
If I were a betting man (wait, I am a betting man), I would place a few dollars on the Seahawks at -4.5. And maybe a little on the under, but they have dropped the under to 45.5. The ‘talkers’ are saying that both teams have great defenses. 45.5 is a little low for a game in California. There will not be a blizzard.
I grew up in Wisconsin, so I have been a Packer fan since Don Hutson. I own one share of the 5,204,435 shares that own the Packers. Great investment, you have no equity, no dividends, can’t trade or sell it, no privileges when buying tickets, etc. You can attend the yearly meeting and vote for leadership, plus get a slight discount on merchandise. Probably one of my better investments, as I can’t lose anything.
The average price of a ticket for Sunday’s game is $4,785. Last year, the average was $6,797, and the record is $12,128 for #58. Prices have dropped. One reason for the record price was that the stadium held only 61,946 people and was in Las Vegas, with lots of big spenders in town. Do you remember who did the half-time show? Usher.
More Trivia:
The Seahawks and the Patriots played in Super Bowl XLIX (2015). That is the game where Malcolm Butler, Patriot’s cornerback, jumped a short post route and intercepted the ball on the Patriots one yard line. The game ended seconds later, Patriots 28-Seahawks 24.
The Russell Wilson pass was intended for Ricardo Lockette. Pete Carroll, who has made so many outstanding play calls, made the call. Seattle fans remember the call, and many mention that Marshawn Lynch was in the backfield. So, let’s get ready for a football game scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in San Francisco. We will have very long timeouts, a very long half-time break, and many experts telling us what we are seeing. And lots of weird commercials. A 30-second ad costs between 8 and 10 million and are sold out. For Super Bowl I, the ads cost around $37,000.
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