Every year,
SuperBowl exacts its grisly toll in death, crime, mental illness and excess carbs.
Approximately 6% of Americans call in sick to work the day after the SuperBowl.
One report estimates that 52.9 million American workers watch the Super Bowl every year. That equals two out of every five people who are employed. Each worker blathers on about the game for about 10 minutes every day at work during Super Bowl week. During the five business days leading up to the game and the Monday after, each worker costs his employer about $15.54—and businesses lose about $821.4 million each year because of water-cooler chatter surrounding the Super Bowl.
Pizza restaurants do more business on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year. Domino’s alone delivers about 1.2 million pies to Bowl jockeys. With a standard large pie boasting 2,048 calories, the Bowl is responsible for Americans ingesting nearly 2.5 billion calories through Domino’s alone.
It’s bad enough that you’re frisked and fondled when you enter the stadium, but every fan who entered the gates in Tampa before 2001’s Super Bowl XXXV was subjected to a biometric face scan.
Serious auto accidents jump 41 percent during the four hours after the last play of the game. From 1975 to 2001 there were, on average, 4,000 serious crashes, 1,900 injuries and 24 deaths per Super Bowl.
More Ads!!! At 1.3 million dollars per 30-second spot, each commercial is very special (or at least SHOULD BE). Research shows that Superbowl commercials are recalled at more than double the rate of commercials run during "normal" prime programming. And with 58 commercials scheduled, it's important to be special, creative, and original. Advertisers reportedly spend over a hundred million dollars just FILMING the commercials -- more than it cost to make "Jurassic Park." I am expecting great things.
During a rehearsal for the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXI in 1997, the bungee cord of 43-year-old performer Laura “Dinky” Patterson malfunctioned, causing her to plunge headfirst onto the 50-yard line of the Louisiana Superdome. She died instantly. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue kept his priorities intact after the accident. “The overriding thing is, we are here to play a football game that will decide the championship of American football,” he decreed. “Death is a tragic thing, but you have to put some degree of perspective. Life is a combination of joy and tragedy.”
As if Wall Street didn't have enough to worry about, this year's Super Bowl match-up suggests there's not a lot of hope for U.S. stocks to end their three-year slide.
Bibliography:
Market Watch
Stuff Issue 63
Statics Today
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