Super Bowl Numbers

Super Bowl Numbers - Staggering! 
Here are some of the numbers involved:

Super Bowl Tickets Prices - Average Ticket Price = $3400. Tickets are selling for the low low price of $1600 each to $325,000 for a 30 person suite.

Beyonce's Paycheck for Superbowl = $0.00 (but all other extras needed for the half-time performance is paid for - i.e., performers RB, equipment, lighting, etc...)

The average cost for a 30-second Super Bowl ad in 2013 is roughly $3.8 million dollars.

Last year, an estimated $1 billion+ was spent on food. $184 million on potato chips, $40 million on pretzels and – for the health conscious – $12 million on rice cakes (rice cakes, really?). See more food coverage below.

Aside from worldwide fame, a big ring and the famous Lombardi trophy, Super Bowl winners also receive $83,000!

An estimated $434 million dollars will pour into New Orleans. We’re talking retail and shopping, Hotel, Food and Beverage, Rental Car and other transportation, and Entertainment.

Number of seats on a private spacecraft Axe is making available to its Super Bowl commercial contest winners = 23 (This is for real)

Estimated amount, in pounds, of chicken wings consumed during Super Bowl weekend = 1,250,000,000. See more food coverage below.

Estimated number of employees who will miss work the Monday following the Super Bowl = 7,000,000

Here are some interesting food statistics:
- No fewer than $55 million is expected to be spent on food for The Big Game
Super Bowl Sunday marks the day on which Americans chow the second-greatest amount of food. (Thanksgiving is 1st)
- Almost 15,000 tons of chips and 4,000 tons of popcorn
- Some 12 million pounds of avocado are sold in preparation for the game so that Americans may gorge themselves on an estimated eight million pounds of guacamole - California avocado commission
- 7-Eleven claims a whopping 20 percent in sales of antacid the day after the Super Bowl.
- 36% increase in sales of frozen breaded mushrooms prior to the Super Bowl
- 29% Percentage increase in sales of frozen shrimp
- $237.2 million spent on soft drinks at grocery stores during Super Bowl week
- 30% increase in sales of proceed-cheese loaves the week before last year's Super Bowl
- 68% Increase in sales of flavored snack crackers
- Frozen Pizza is the top Super Bowl seller at grocery stores
- $11.8 million additional sales of beer
- 30.4 million pounds of snack food Americans scarf down on Super Bowl Sunday, twice the average daily amount
- Pizza Hut expects to sell 2 million pizzas on the day of Superbowl XLV which is 60% or 1.3 million more than an average day.

Finally, domestic violence increases on Super Bowl Sunday - and statistics show the same almost every Sunday during the NFL season. Let's not see the numbers in this category increase.

So, enjoy the games and all that goes with it. Enjoy your friends and family. And remember, while you are caught up in the moments, "love the ones you're with." (Thank you, Stephen Stills)

That's all for now. All these numbers have given me a royal headache.

Binbin