From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
June 9 1093 4732 1185 246 82
July 22 1205 7128 1293 1120 572
Aug 12 1504 6556 1242 835 130
Sept 9 1208 6222 1136 1168 82
Oct 21 1225 6849 571 703 85
Nov 25 2304 12025 620 518 118
Dec 30 3880 14748 1224 299 465
Jan 14 4142 15512 1151 189 712
Feb 3 4005 14265 1209 107 398
Mar 2 1989 9490 1726 110 194
April 6 906 11787 4211 631 37
May 4 853 13667 3025 3786 59
June 1 287 10637 2346 3205 95
July 7 251 8440 1595 817 411
Aug 4 656 10120 1118 532 423
Sept 22 2228 9326 839 279 124
Oct 6 2102 8255 543 315 59
Nov 3 1436 7830 186 458 23
Dec 1 1633 8475 266 477 28
Jan 7 2025 6729 148 285 140
14 2303 7872 238 430 128
21 2777 9091 396 489 103
26 3143 10,554 606 575 94
27 2689 10,261 662 627 71
28 2732 10,516 779 862 133
Feb 2 2990 12,012 946 991 175
9 2785 11,827 1295 1241 213
10 2465 11,110 922 659 203
11 1917 11,193 1121 804 146
Summary:
- The decline of new deaths/day is happening in the USA.
- We have also lost the lead in most new cases/day:
- #1 Germany 229,989
- #2 Russia 203,949
- #3 Brazil 166,003
- #4 USA 149,318
- #5 France 131,376
- #6 Japan 100,097
The Super Bowl is not as popular today as 7 years ago, even with streaming, but remains as the most watched TV event in the USA. There will be around 100 million watching tomorrow. Here is a comparison:
- Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 drew 114.4 million viewers.
- #1 to #9 were all Super Bowls.
- #10 was the 1983 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen final show of M*A*S*H.
- #10 to #21 were Super Bowls.
- #22 was the Leon Spinks vs Muhammad Ali second fight in 1978 with 90 million.
- #23 to #30 were again all Super Bowls.
Worldwide, though, the Super Bowl does not get close to making the top 100. Here is what the world watched:
- #1 the UEFA Euro 2020 (soccer matches) in 2021 had an estimated audience of 5.23 billion!!!
- #2 amazingly enough, the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics with 4.1 billion.
- #3 London 2012 Summer Olympics with 3.6 billion.
- #16 ICC 2019 Cricket World Cup 3 billion.
- #17 Michael Jackson memorial service in 2009, 2.1 billion.
- #23 Muhammad Ali vs Leon Spinks II in 1978, 2 billion.
- #29 Funeral of Princess of Wales Diana in 1997, around 2 billion.
- #33 Live Aid, 1985, 1.9 billion.
- #36 Elvis Aloha from Hawaii in 1973, 1.5 billion.
- #48 First inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009, 1 billion.
Of course, the USA has only around 4% the world population, 334 million to 7.9 billion. Yup, we are getting awfully close to 8 billion. One projection has it occurring as soon as the end of this year.
So back to SBLVI on 13February2022:
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- SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, home of the Los Angeles Rams.
- Interestingly enough, the Bengals are the home team, and will call the coin toss plus choose which uniform to wear.
- Actually the structure is in Englewood, California, which is 12 miles away.
- Few know that SoFi is SoFi Technologies, a San Francisco-based online personal finance company which paid $30 million for use of their name for 20 years.
- Game starts at 6:30PM EST on NBC.
- No TV set, stream on Peacock or fuboTV
- Al Michaels of Do You Believe in Miracles fame of the 1980 Winter Olympics will be the play-by-play announcer.
- Rams' quarterback Matthew Stafford was the first overall pick by the Detroit Lions in 2009 and spent 12 mediocre years there.
- Bengals QB Joe Burrow was the first pick of the Bengals in 2020. He led LSU to the NCAA championship that year. This becomes important, for I could not make up my mind as to what I would be eating for my "tailgate" tomorrow, as there is nothing particularly distinctive about Southern California or Cincinnati food...so I will go Louisiana Cajun.
- Bengals are definite underdogs, by 4 points. The under/over is 48.5.
- Bengals first SB appearance since 1988. Before this season, had not won a playoff game since 1990.
- Youngest head coaching matchup: Sean McVay (36) and Zack Taylor (38). Taylor once worked under McVay.
- About betting, here are some of the typical propositions:
- Color of liquid poured on the winning coach:
- Orange +250 (29% probability)
- None +350
- Blue +400
- Clear +450
- Yellow/Green +450
- Red/Pink +600
- Purple +1000 (9%)
- Will a player propose after the game? Remember, February 14 is Valentine's Day.
- Yes +400 (20% probability)
- No -650 (87% probability)
- Which media company commercial will air first. Clearly this information has already been leaked:
- Meta -170 (63%)
- Amazon Prime +225
- Google +275
- Players to watch, Rams' receiver Cooper Kupp and Aaron Donald, Bengals QB Burrow/receiver Ja'marr Chase, both from LSU, and DJ Reader.
- How appropriate, but Mike, the mascot of LSU, is a Royal Bengal Tiger. Football is played in Tiger Stadium. The original Mike, reigning from 1936 to 1956, was purchased from Little Rock Zoo with money raised by collecting 25 cents from each LSU student.
- Country singer Mickey Guyton will perform the national anthem and there will be five performers at halftime: Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Mary Blige.
- Who will win this game? Of course, the Cincinnati Bengals. This is the year of the Tiger. Perhaps LSU will also do well, with a new coach, Brian Kelly, who came from Notre Dame.
The Super Bowl is the only athletic event I watch where I go to the restroom when the game is playing. The commercials have lost some luster, for they get leaked early on purpose. Here are, for example, Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost for Amazon Alexa, Demi Moore and Mila Kunis for AT&T, Snoop Dogg and Martha Steward for Bic Lighters, Arnold Schwarzennegger for BMW, another Bud Clydesdale and a lot more.
In the first SB of 1967, the price of an advertisement was around $40,000. This year, it is up to $6.5 million for a 30-second spot.
I can go on and on, but I'll next turn to what I will eat.
- When I was in Cincinnati, I noticed they had some top-class restaurants. However, Super Bowl food is not supposed to be of gourmet quality. The best they can do is chili dog, ice cream and smiley face cookies.
- Paul Brown Stadium doesn't have anything particularly distinctive, with cheese sandwiches, chili, Buffalo Wings and beer.
- SoFi Stadium has good Mexican dishes, and I was tempted to go down that lane. Except I don't like the Rams. Never have because I've long been a San Francisco 49ers fan.
- So it came down to Cincinnati. Then deeper to Joe Burrow and his link to Louisiana, which led to food from that state.
- Too complicated to prepare gumbo, jambalaya and beignets.
- A po'boy, submarine-type sandwich made with French bread, seemed reasonable.
- But there is Popeye's. The first opened up in New Orleans, while the second outlet appeared a block from where I lived when I was at LSU. There are now 2451 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants worldwide in 30 countries.
- But what do I drink? Can't get Jax Beer in Honolulu. Started in Jacksonville, Florida, so that's why it is called Jax. But now wholly brewed in New Orleans. Saw it ordered in Streetcar Named Desire (97/90 ratings from Rotten Tomatoes), which was filmed there. Pat O'Brien's Hurricane is just too sweet. Gin fizzes are popular. I'll figure this out by tomorrow.
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