Super Bowl Trivia!

Here we go again! No, I’m not watching. I haven’t actually watched a Super Bowl since Seahawks-Broncos, and that was eleven years ago. (And I doubt I’d have watched had the Bills made it, in all honesty. That would be way too stressful!) Anyway, here’s some random trivia if you want to show off to your friends at your Super Bowl party.

1. The highest combined point total in a Super Bowl is 75 points, in Super Bowl XXIX (49ers 49, Chargers 26).
2. The lowest combined point total in a Super Bowl is 16 points, in SB LIII (Patriots 13, Rams 3).
3. The Patriots scored the fewest points to win a Super Bowl in SB LIII, with 13.
4. The Eagles scored the most points in losing a Super Bowl in SB LVII, with 35.
5. The oldest existing venue to have hosted a Super Bowl is the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. The oldest existing still-used NFL stadium to host a Super Bowl is the Superdome in New Orleans (which is hosting today’s game, as luck would have it!)
6. The Rose Bowl is the last stadium to be played in a stadium that was not home to an NFL team.
7. The Rose Bowl is also the only one of the four venues still standing from the Buffalo Bills’ run of four consecutive Super Bowl appearances.
8. According to The Simpsons, Homer grew up rooting for the Denver Broncos.
9. The Baltimore Ravens and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the only teams undefeated in multiple Super Bowl appearances, at 2-0 each.
10. The other unbeaten teams in the Super Bowl are the Jets and Saints, both 1-0.
11. The current longest period between one team’s multiple Super Bowl victories is 50 years, by the Chiefs (wins in SB IV and then LIV).
12. The Jets have gone the longest since their last Super Bowl appearance, at 56 years and counting (last appearance, SB III).
13. The 2024 Chiefs enter today’s game as the only two-time defending Super Bowl champion to ever reach a third consecutive Super Bowl. If they win they will be the first-ever “three-peat” champion.
14. Before the Chiefs this year, the 1990 49ers and the 1994 Cowboys are the closest any team has come to pulling off the elusive three-peat. Both those teams reached the NFC Championship before losing.
15. The Eagles become just the fifth team to reach the Super Bowl with the NFL’s leading rusher (Saquon Barkley) on the roster. The others were the Cowboys in XXVII and XXVIII (Emmitt Smith), the Denver Broncos in XXXIII (Terrell Davis), and the Seattle Seahawks in XL (Shaun Alexander).
16. In possible bad news for the Chiefs, teams winning 15 or more regular season games are only 2-5 in ending the season with a Super Bowl win.
17. In possible bad news for the Eagles, only one team has reached the Super Bowl scoring 50 or more points in the Conference Championships, the 1990 Bills who won the AFC Championship Game that season 51-3. They proceeded to lose the Super Bowl to the Giants, 20-19. The Eagles scored 55 points in this year’s NFC Championship.
18. Super Bowl XLI (Indianapolis Colts versus Chicago Bears) featured the matchup whose two cities were closest together.
19. Last year’s Super Bowl, LVIII, played at Allegiant Stadium near Las Vegas, had the lowest in-game attendance in Super Bowl history, at a reported 61, 629 people, other than SB LV, played under COVID restrictions at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa (Buccaneers 31, Chiefs 9).
20. Not one of the 14 highest-scoring single-season teams in NFL history has gone on to win the Super Bowl that season.
21. As of today, prior to kickoff of SB LIX, there has never been a punt returned for a touchdown in a Super Bowl.
22. Only the Dolphins (SB VI), Rams (SB LIII), and Chiefs (SB LV) have failed to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
23. There has never been a shutout in the Super Bowl.
24. By the NFL’s quarterback rating system. Ben Roethlisberger has the worst rating by a Super Bowl winning quarterback in history, when he won SB XL for the Steelers despite a rating of 22.6.
25. Matt Ryan’s rating of 144.1 in SB LI is the best performance by the losing quarterback in Super Bowl history (Patriots 34, Falcons 28).
26. Buffalo invented the single best food to watch football with, so why the NFL continues to refuse to grease their path to a Super Bowl victory is beyond me. (This one may not be an actual trivia item.)

That’s all! Enjoy the game, or whatever you end up watching instead of the game!