Hi ladies,

We’ve been talking about SUPER BOWL for a while now, and TODAY IS THE DAY!!

Yes, this year New Orleans has the honor of hosting the Super Bowl for the tenth time. No doubt you’ll be watching THE GAME with your host families, so I thought you’d like to know a few facts about it.

• The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) which represents professional football at the highest level in the States.
• New Orleans hosted 9 out of 46 Super Bowls and now we’ll catch up with Miami which held it the record ten times.
• Super Bowl is the final game of the season that starts in the late summer of the previous calendar year.
• The game is always played on what’s called the “Super Bowl Sunday”, and for many it’s one of the the most important days in the year, on a par with the New Year Day or Thanksgiving. Yes, ma’am!
• Tickets to Super Bowl cost between $850 and $1,250 (and much more if you buy from scalpers!)
• Our New Orlean’s team, THE SAINTS, won Super Bowl 44 following the 2009 season. The game was played Feb. 7, 2010 in Florida and people danced in the streets of New Orleans until wee hours!!! 🙂
• The broadcast is often the most watched television program of the year. Wiki claims that “Super Bowl XLV, played in 2011, became the most-watched American television program in history, drawing an average audience of 111 million viewers.”  (Population of the USA is a little over 300 million.)
• Because of the tremendous viewership (not only in the States but across the globe) the TV advertisements aired during Super Bowl cost a huge amount of money to make and to place. Consequently, they’ve become an important side show and the public eagerly waits to see which company will come up with the cleverest take.
• Finally, why the bowl in the Super Bowl? The name comes from the shape of the football stadium which is often like a bowl.

Enjoy THE GAME!