Here’s a look at stats, facts and the love of football – Orange County Register

With the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day approaching, this week we’re taking a look at love for the game and love in general.

Scroll down for Chiefs and Eagles NFL stats.

hosts with the most

Arizona is hosting the Super Bowl for the fourth time, three of them since 2008. But the Super Bowl gave Miami the most love. It has hosted 11 times and New Orleans has hosted 10 times.

love to watch

Of the 32 most-watched shows in US television history, 30 are Super Bowls.

Total viewership for the 2021 game fell by nearly 10 million viewers from last year. The number of people streaming the game has increased from 3.4 million in 2020 to 5.7 million in 2021.

Super Bowl XLI was watched by 99.18 million viewers in the US. The most watched Super Bowl in history is Super Bowl XLIX, Patriots-Seahawks in 2015.

rating dominance

How much do people love to watch football on TV? In 2022, Variety’s annual list of the 100 most-watched prime-time television shows found that 8 of the top 10 prime-time shows were NFL games and 22 of the top 25 shows were NFL games. NBA Finals Game 6 was the next highest sport to receive ratings. It came in at number 28.

I love these ads

Fox has reportedly set its price for Super Bowl advertising at $7 million for a 30-second in-game window. It marks a steep increase from the cost of running a commercial in previous years. $7 million for 30 seconds is about $233,333 per second. Super Bowl advertising costs per year:

2023: $7 million

2022: $6.5 million

2021: $5.6 million

2020: $5.6 million

2019: $5.2 million

who loves soccer

Colormatics, an advertising company, has compiled the following soccer fan demographics:

male 59%

Female 41%

Age 18-49 years: 70%

Abitur: 68%

Household income over $75,000/year: 54%

Football fans are older than any other sports fan base. More than half (55%) of all NFL fans are over 35 years old.

Football fans have the highest income of any sports fan demographic, with over 70% earning more than $75,000 annually.

Big bets

The Super Bowl is said to be the biggest sports betting day of the year.

In 2018, the Supreme Court overturned the federal ban on sports betting, allowing states to legalize it if they so choose. Now 36 states offer legal US sports betting either in person or online. Arizona joined this group and live betting was introduced in September 2021.

According to Sportsbook Review, Americans wagering increased from $44 billion in 2021 to $74 billion in 2022, a 70% increase.

By 2018, the NFL was working hard to distance itself from betting. But the league has made a complete about-face with the big money at stake.

love and facts

In recent years, it has been claimed that more women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day.

According to Snopes.com fact-checkers, this claim is false.

The following details are from Snopes: The claim that Super Bowl Sunday is “the biggest day of the year for violence against women” is a case study of how easily an idea consistent with what people want to believe implanted in the public consciousness can be anointed as “fact” even when there is little or no supporting evidence behind it. Christina Hoff Sommers chronicled a timeline of how the apocryphal statistics on Super Bowl Sunday domestic violence were widely (albeit erroneously) published over the course of a few days before the January 1993 Super Bowl in Pasadena.

Sources: NFL, The Associated Press, StatSocial, GlobalWebIndex NFL Audience Report, Forbes, CBS, Team Marketing Report NFL Fan Cost Index, National Retail Federation

duel in the desert

The Kansas City Chiefs are in their third Super Bowl in four seasons and meet the Philadelphia Eagles. Both teams were seeded 1st in the playoffs.

Snapshot of the game

The Eagles are 1.5-point favorites against the AFC Chiefs. Both teams bring powerful passing game. The biggest difference might be the two teams’ ability to protect their quarterbacks. Both quarterbacks are mobile and dodge the pass rush, but the Eagles led the league in 70 sacks this season. The Eagles were second to bottom in sacks last season.

The quarterbacks

Patrick Mahomes: Mahomes led the NFL in passing yards and had a 67.1 completion percentage and a 105.2 quarterback rating. Mahomes threw for 41 touchdowns and had 11 interceptions. Mahomes had four rushing TDs and 358 yards carrying the ball. He’s dealing with an ankle injury.

Jalen Hurts: Hurts had 3,701 passing yards in the regular season and a 66.5 completion percentage. His quarterback rating was 101.6 and he threw 22 touchdowns with six interceptions. Hurts rushed for 13 touchdowns and 760 yards.