The Numbers of Super Bowl XXV
Sunday’s Super Bowl by the numbers:
1: Super Bowls the Giants have won.
2: Super Bowl teams this year with 15-3 records.
3: Pre-Super Bowl NFL championships the Giants have won.
4: Eyes used by Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly and New York linebacker Lawrence Taylor to judge a bikini contest during Super Bowl week.
5: Miles around Tampa Stadium in which aircraft, including the Goodyear blimp, will be restricted as part of heightened security because of Persian Gulf war.
6: Consecutive championships won by the NFC.
7: Days off eliminated from past break between conference championship games and the Super Bowl.
8: Relatives of Super Bowl players serving in Operation Desert Storm.
9: NFL teams that have never been to a Super Bowl. They are San Diego, Seattle, New Orleans, Houston, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, Phoenix and Tampa Bay.
13: Writers who have covered every Super Bowl.
25: The silver anniversary of the Super Bowl for the National Football League championship.
26: Years since Buffalo’s last title, the 1965 AFL championship.
0: Bills players with Super Bowl experience.
22: Giants players with Super Bowl experience.
341: Miles between Orchard Park, N.Y., home of the Bills, and East Rutherford, N.J., home of the Giants.
42: Corporate tents set up to entertain 30,000 VIPs before the game.
$295: The cost per person for dinner in the corporate village.
118 million: People worldwide that ABC estimates will watch the Super Bowl broadcast.
56: Countries that will see the Super Bowl broadcasts.
$800,000: Cost per 30-second advertisement on the Super Bowl broadcast.
$30 million-plus: The profit ABC could reap from the broadcast.
3,000: Journalists receiving credentials to cover the Super Bowl.
$150: Face value of ticket.
$2,000: Scalpers’ prices in New York.
8,400: Bags of peanuts to be sold at game.
10,000: Boxes of popcorn to be eaten at game and gallons of soft drinks.
15,000: Gallons of beer to be guzzled at stadium.
46,000: Jumbo hot dogs to be cooked for fans.
72,000: 4-by-6-inch American flags that will be given to fans entering the game.
74,315: Tickets sold.
$3.5 million: What the Tampa Bay Task Force paid the NFL to host this Super Bowl.
$125 million: The economic impact predicted for the Tampa area.
$1,450: Bill for dinner for the Giants’ offensive line at a Tampa steak house this week.
62: Temperature prediction for game time, with a chance of rain and light winds.
10-7: Giants over the Bills.
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