The Super Bowl is the biggest football game of the year. Here are 6 little-known facts and trivia about the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl XLIV broke a 27-year-old record for most watched TV event.
Super Bowl XLIV, which was held in 2010, broke a 27-year-old record for most watched TV event. The previous record was held by the TV show M*A*S*H*. The final episode of M*A*S*H*, which aired in 1983, had 105.97 viewers while Super Bowl XLIV ended up having 106.5 viewers thus breaking the record.
4 NFL teams have not even appeared in the Super Bowl.
There are 14 teams that haven't won the Super Bowl but there are 4 teams that haven't even appeared once in the Super Bowl. These teams are the Detroit Lions, the Cleavland Browns, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Houston Texans. The Detroit Lions is the only team from the NFC to not make one appearance in the Super Bowl while the other three teams are from the AFC.
There has only been one MVP awarded to someone on the losing team.
The Super Bowl Most Value Player Award is presented to the most valuable player of the Super Bowl. The award has been given to a player on the winning team for every Super Bowl except one. In 1971 the award was presented to linebacker Chuck Howley even though his team, the Dallas Cowboys, lost to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.
The biggest difference in score took place at Super Bowl XXIV.
When the Super Bowl XXIV took place in 1990 the San Francisco 49ers played against the Denver Broncos. The final score ended up being 55-10 with the 49ers beating the Broncos. This is the biggest difference in score in a Super Bowl game.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have won the most Super Bowls.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have won the most Super Bowls with 6 wins. These wins happened at Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, XIV, XL, and XLIII.
Jerry Rice has scored the most touchdowns in a Super Bowl career.
Jerry Rice, who played for the San Francisco 49ers, scored 8 touchdowns in his Super Bowl career. These 8 touchdowns were scored over the course of 4 Super Bowl games. The next person to have scored the most touchdowns in their Super Bowl career is Emmit Smith, from the Dallas Cowboys, who scored 3 touchdowns over 3 Super Bowl games.
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