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The Numbers of Super Bowl XXV

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From Associated Press

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.

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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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