I remember the first Super Bowl in 1967 when the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Soon thereafter, a little more than half a century ago, Joe Namath predicted that the Jets would beat the Orioles, and in a memorable upset, did. The TV audience rating was 13% higher than the most popular program then, Laugh-in.
Good, but nothing compared to last year, when the game drew a household rating of 41.1, more than FIVE times the next best current program. And Super Bowl 54 had the smallest viewership in a decade. Starting with around 50 million, the recent number has hovered in the 100 million range. Nearly 50% of anyone watching television from 6:30PM to 10PM EST will be looking at Kansas City versus Tampa.
- In the 1963/4 period, President John F. Kennedy's funeral and the Tokyo Summer Olympics were up to 600 million. The population of the world then was 3 billion. Today, 7.7 billion. But consider that those Olympics last two weeks.
Man on Moon in 1969, also 600 million.- 1975 and 1975 boxing matches of Muhammad Ali: 1 billion.
- Ali versus Leon Spinks in 1978 and Larry Holmes in 1980: 2 billion.
- The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics drew 3.6 billion, but that was for the entire event.
A 30-second ad in 1967 cost $42,500. Last year this was up to $5.6 million. Every year I have leaked to you those commercials, but this year, here is everything, so now you don't need to bother about even watching the game:
- There was an early rumor that Budweiser would not be showing up this year. Not true.
You'll see Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Alexa, Jason Alexander, John Travolta, the Manning brothers, Matthew McConaughey, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Lil Baby, GameStop, Robinhood, Dan Levy, John Cena, Tony Romo, Lil Nas X, Nick Jonas, Maya Rudolph, Will Farrell, Awkwafina, Joe Montana, and more.
I usually wait for half-time to go the bathroom, for the entertainment to me is usually something avoidable. And I have a whole half an hour of freedom. This time, The Weeknd, who is Abel Tesfaye (all that bandage is part of his persona, surely opening up the matter of what surprise will he spring tomorrow). Sure he has three #1 selling albums. He won't have any special guests. At least last year the Bowl had Jennifer Lopez and Shakir, with friends. Actually, turns out that more people watch the halftime than game, for in 2015, Katy Perry, Lenny Kravits and Missy Elliot drew an audience of 121 million.
Incidentally, Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan (county and hip hop) will sing the National Anthem, and the under and over time is at one minute 59 seconds. The only other duet was for SB XL, where Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin took 2 min 8 sec. Sullivan has sang this song for previous other games, and they lasted from 1:38 to 1:49. Good luck on your bet.
Super Bowl 56, incidentally, will be held in Los Angeles. Can you believe the game returns to Tampa in 2023? But this Sunday #55 takes place there too. Forget the game, here are the crazy propositions, why anyone would want to even bet on the first one is a mystery to me:
First, few have a sense on what these numbers really mean. So go to the right column of this blog to BETTING ODDS CALCULATOR and click on Go to. You will be sent to a site that tells you what is what. For example, for -105, type those terms into the American Odds box. Then press the submit orange button on the bottom. You will see that the Implied Probability will be 51.22%. Saying it another way, you need to bet $105 dollars to win $100.
For the pre-game, will the coin toss be heads or tails? Heads at -105, tails at -105. This means, of course, that the house is the only one who makes a profit. If you bet $100 on both, you lose $95. But note that there were five straight heads from 2009-13.- If the Chiefs win the toss, the odds are defer at -2500 or receive at +800. Why anyone would bet on receive is beyond belief because they have been given this option 8 times all year and alway chose to defer. Yeah, but...what if...?
- Oh, another prop is that the team that wins the toss will win the game: no -105, yes -105. For the record, the team that won the toss also lost the game, for the past six years.
Which Anheuser-Busch ad will air first?- Bud Light +120
- Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade +175 (but this will be the old one)
- Michelob Ultra +175
- Michelop Ultra Organic Seltzer +200 (they've spent a lot of money for this ad, and this showing will be a first)
- How many commercials will have a dog?
- over 4.5 at -250
- under 4.5 at +170
- How many commercials will show a person wearing a mask?
- over 2.5 at -450
- under 2.5 at +275
Many must have already been taken off the board, for you can click on that ad link I just showed above to learn the correct answer, so if you can bet, you can't lose:- Who will speak first in Frito-Lay's pregame commercial? Peyton -200 or Eli +160 (the correct one is Peyton!!!)
Lionel Messi goals +120 versus Travis Kelce touchdowns -140. I was wearing my Messi shirt when I took my second Moderna shot on Friday (shown in Saturday posting).- Will Andy Reid (KC coach) wear a face mask (-500) or face shield (+250).
- Will any player wear a MAGA hat on the field: yes +700 or no -6000. Note, if you still don't know the difference between those pluses and minuses, +700 is 12.5% and -6000 is 98.36%
- This is gruesome, but will Tom Brady exit the game with a broken hip? Yes +700 and No -6000.
Who will Joe Biden pick to win the Super Bowl?- declines to pick -120
- KC Chiefs -120
- TB Bucs +250
- Wonders if both can win +500
- Actually, he kind of did pick the winner on January 20:
BREAKING: New president Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday declaring “no one shall doubt or underestimate the ability of #Bucs QB @TomBrady to lead Tampa Bay to the Super Bowl in 2021 despite being 43 years old.”
Will a streaker run on the field?- Yes +550
- No -1100
- Wait a minute, there was a streaker in SB LIV Miami. It was model Kelly Kay Green. Nah, can't be, but she certainly looks like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Did you know that the Supreme Court legalized sports betting in 2018? They left it up to states. I have had a miracle of a season in the 15 Craigside pools. I've won so many that I've lost all respect. This Super Bowl, most residents might have one number for total score. I started with two to double my chances, but in subsequent days, some of these winnings never got to me, so the organizers wondered what to do with four dollars. I gave them four more numbers, so after the game, if the Chiefs and Bucs score a total of 42, 54, 66, 72, 87 or 91 points, I win again.
I should also brag that the three ESPN fantasy NBA teams I drafted are all in first place. Two of them will almost surely end up winning their league because in the rotisserie game I found a flaw in the ESPN system, and I'm so far ahead that no one can ever catch me. What is it it? Just fill your roster every day, for there is no limit to free agents and games played. No one else is doing this because they hate to lose their favorite players. The head-to-head league is a bit iffy because there is maximum of seven new players/week. As it is, I'm still undefeated, but know that luck will be the reason I might win the final playoff.
To close, trivia to remember if you are ever on something like Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Five universities have produced both a President of the USA and a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Which school has produced the most? They are Michigan, Naval Academy, Miami and Delaware (Joe Biden and Joe Flacco). Plus Stanford, which is a tad ahead with Herbert Hoover and two QBs, Jim Plunkett and John Elway.
- The mother of QAnon guy Jacob Chansley (that's him on the right), who was jailed on January 9, was worried: He gets very sick if he doesn't eat organic food.
- Good News of the week:
- A Melbourne (Australia) resident found an exhausted bird in his backyard on December 26 drinking from a fountain.
- Kevin Celli-Bird (that's his real name) called the pigeon, a Blue-bar, Joe, for guess who.
- Noticed a blue band, and found out that the owner was from Montgomery, Alabama, and that the pigeon had disappeared during a race in Oregon on October 29.
- Authorities asked Kevin to catch and turn in Joe for fear of a foreign avian disease, as he posed a threat to local bird life and the poultry industry.
- GOOD NEWS: However, on January 15 they announced that the leg band was probably a fake and he was really a local bird. Joe the Pigeon lives.
- The truth is that Joe is indeed from the USA, but what he probably did was hitch a ride on a cargo ship for the 8,000 mile trek.
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