6 Cool Super Bowl Facts to Share with Your Bar’s Guests
In case you live under a rock, Houston is hosting its third Super Bowl Sunday this weekend. While you make sure the kitchen manager prepares the deep fryer, and you’ve ordered enough wings to feed the armies that will gather to watch Brady dominate (sorry, we’re based in New England and just can’t help ourselves), here are some fun facts to help you get through the rest of the week. 1. A commercial spot costs 17 times what it did 50 years ago. In 1967, when the Super Bowl began, a 30-second commercial spot cost $40,000 which has the buying power of $293,534 today. Last year, CBS charged $5 million for the same length spot. More on the cost of advertising in the Super Bowl here. 2. Americans will eat 1.33 billion chicken wings for Super Bowl 51. That’s enough to circle the Earth [...]