CLEVELAND, Ohio – The folks at the personal-finance website WalletHub have crunched a few numbers on the Super Bowl. The New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams meet in Super Bowl VIII in Atlanta on Sunday, Feb. 3. $112,000: Bonus each player of the Philadelphia Eagles received for winning last year's game. $56,000: Patriots' per-player bonus after the 2018 game. $41,000: Tax bill for the Eagles' Super Bowl bonuses. 1994: Year Rams quarterback Jared Goff was born. 1995: Year Patriots quarterback Tom Brady graduated from high school. $46 million: Cost of hosting this year's Super Bowl in Atlanta ($20 million came from businesses.) 10,000: Volunteers needed for 10 days of Super Bowl festivities. $1.5 billion: Cost to build Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. It opened in 2017. $324 million: What Mercedes-Benz paid for naming rights of the stadium. 200,000: Uber and Lyft pickups at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the 10 days leading to the game. 17: Average number of people at Super Bowl parties. 24: Percentage of Americans who plan to attend a Super Bowl party. 51.7 million: Cases of beer sold on Super Bowl Sunday. 1 in 10: Number of people will miss work the day after the game. 23: Percentage of Super Bowl watchers who say the commercials are the best part of the game. 5.3 million: Social shares for Volkswagen's ad during the 2011 Super Bowl. It is believed to be the most ever. 2.96 million: Twitter followers for New England tight end Rob Gronkowski. It's the highest among all Rams and Patriots players. 31: Percentage of American adults likely to bet on the game. $50,000: A wager at a Las Vegas casino placed on the Rams at 7-2 odds. If the better wins, he or she will receive $175,000. 30th: Cleveland's overall ranking among 244 places on WalletHub's list of best and worst cities for football fans in the United States. (Cleveland ranks 27th for pro football cities and 235th for college football.) Here is the full report on Super Bowl numbers from WalletHub.<doc-sep>Share this Story: BY THE NUMBERS: 53 fun facts about Super Bowl LIII BY THE NUMBERS: 53 fun facts about Super Bowl LIII Photo by Jamie Squire / Getty Images Article content ATLANTA — Can’t wait ’til next Sunday night, huh? That’s when the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots square off in Super Bowl LIII. Once again, to kick off Super Bowl week, here are 53 fab and fun facts ’n’ figures for your football fulfillment, 1-to-53, with roman numerals in brackets: We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or BY THE NUMBERS: 53 fun facts about Super Bowl LIII Back to video 1 (I) — Number of Super Bowl victories by the Rams, whether based in Los Angeles or St. Louis (1995-2015). The one big win came after the 1999 season, when the St. Louis Rams knocked off the Tennessee Titans 23-16. 2 (II) –— Number of previous Super Bowls played in Atlanta, both at the now-defunct Georgia Dome. The first one, after the 1993 season, saw Dallas drub Buffalo 30-13. The second one, after the 1999 season. So yeah, the Rams won their only Super Bowl here. This year’s is at one-year-old Mercedes-Benz Stadium. 3 (III) — Number of Rams plays who have been on a Super Bowl champion team: RB C.J. Anderson (Denver, 2015), CB Sam Shields (Green Bay, 2010) and DB Aqib Talib (Denver, 2015). Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 4 (IV) — Number of times New England QB Tom Brady has been named MVP of the Super Bowl, in the Patriots’ five championship wins during his starting tenure going back to 2001. 5 (V) — Numbers of rushing touchdowns this post-season by Patriots RB Sony Michel. That’s an NFL record for rookies in a single playoff year. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or 6 (VI) — Largest margin of victory of the Patriots’ five Super Bowl wins this century. That came two years ago, when the Pats knocked off the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime. 7 (VII) — Number of Super Bowl rematches. Before Patriots-Rams: Dolphins-Redskins, Steelers-Cowboys, 49ers-Bengals, Cowboys-Bills, Patriots-Giants, Patriots-Eagles. 8 (VIII) — Number of retractable ceiling “petals,” or panels, that when closed constitute the dome atop Mercedes-Benz Stadium. It opens and closes in 12 minutes. The entire octagonal roof structure weighs 55 million pounds. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 9 (IX) — Number of Super Bowl starts by Brady, after Sunday. John Elway (with five) is the only other QB with more than four. 10 (X) — The Patriots’ turnover differential in 2018, to the plus side, which ranked fifth in the NFL. 11 (XI) — The Rams’ turnover differential in 2018, to the plus side, which ranked fourth in the NFL. 12 (XII) — Number of Super Bowls Bill Belichick will have coached in after this year’s, including nine as head coach. That’s 23% of all 53 Super Bowls played. Dan Reeves is second, having coached in seven Super Bowls. 13 (XIII) — Number of multiple-TD rushing performances by Rams RB Todd Gurley since 2015. In that span, no other NFL RB has more than eight. 14 (XIV) — Expected high outdoor temperature (Celcius) for Super Sunday, according to my iPhone’s long-range forecast. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium roof is expected to be closed for the game. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 15 (XV) — Number of opponent drives of 5+ minutes allowed by the Rams and Patriots defences in 2018, tied for fewest in the NFL. 16 (XVI) — Jersey number of Jared Goff, the third-year Rams QB who is now 2-1 as a playoff starter. He’s the fifth Super Bowl QB to wear that number, after Kansas City’s Len Dawson (SB I and IV), Oakland’s Jim Plunkett (SB XV and XVIII), San Francisco’s Joe Montana (SB XVI, XIX, XXIII and XXIV), and Miami’s David Woodley (XVII). 17 (XVII) — Jersey number worn only three times by a starting Super Bowl QB: Washington’s Billy Kilmer (lost SB VII), Washington’s Doug Williams (won SB XXII) and Carolina’s Jake Delhomme (lost SB XXXVIII). 18 (XVIII) — Most career Super Bowl touchdown passes thrown. Do we even need to say it? Yes, Brady. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 19 (XIX) — The Patriots this season have allowed this many points or fewer eight times, including the playoffs. The Rams, six times. 20 (XX) — Number of fake-punt passes that Rams punter Johnny Hekker has attempted in his seven-year career, including playoffs. He has completed 12, for 168 yards and one TD. Last week at New Orleans, he completed a fake-punt throw for 12 yards for a crucial LA first down. 21 (XXI) — Number of Rams players new to the team in 2018. That’s 40% of the roster. 22 (XXII) — Number of passes defensed by John Johnson III of the Rams, second fewest among NFL safeties since 2018. 23 (XXIII) — Number of first downs by passing New England amassed in the Super Bowl two years ago, which broke their Super Bowl record set two years earlier. But that new record lasted one year, as Brady and the Pats last February against Philadelphia compiled 26. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 24 (XXIV) — Age of Goff, in years. He’s one of the youngest QBs ever to start a Super Bowl game. 25 (XXV) — Can you believe it? The number of years since the last of the Buffalo Bills’ record four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s. A quarter-century ago. Never mind that the Bills lost all four. Three came against generationally great teams. It’s hard to see any club (well, other than probably next year’s Patriots) ever again winning a conference championship in four straight years. 26 (XXVI) — Number of Patriots players (nearly half of their 53-man roster) who weren’t on the team when it rallied to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI two years ago. But that means 27 Pats players have won a Super Bowl, compared to the Rams’ three. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 27 (XXVII) — Number of playoff games Patriots PK Stephen Gostkowski has appeared in. Among all NFL players, only three have played in more: Brady (39), Adam Vinatieri (32) and Jerry Rice (29). 28 (XXVIII) — Number of career 100-yard receiving games by Rob Gronkowski of the Patriots, second most by a tight end in NFL history. Only Tony Gonzalez (31) has more. 29 (XXIX) — Number of playoff wins by Brady. Also, the number of post-season games ever played by the Rams franchise (since its founding in Cleveland in the 1930s), after Sunday. 30 (XXX) — Numbers of sets of brothers who now have reached the Super Bowl, with safety Devin and cornerback Jason McCourty of the Patriots reaching it together this year. It’s Devin’s fifth Super Bowl, Jason’s first. They’re identical twins. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 31 (XXXI) — Number of points per game the Rams offence has averaged over the past two regular seasons, under Sean McVay. That’s No. 1 in the NFL. 32 (XXXII) — Number of TD passes Goff threw in the regular season, tied for sixth, and three more than Brady threw. 33 (XXXIII) — Age in years of McVay. He turned 33 last Thursday, making him the youngest head coach in Super Bowl history. And he was raised in Atlanta. He’s exactly half the age of New England’s Belichick, who at 66 would be the oldest winning Super Bowl coach with a win Sunday.<doc-sep>In an NFL season full of offensive records, defence dominated in Super Bowl LIII. A handful of new milestones were set, both on and off the field, including the longest punt seen in a Super Bowl. Fans also had lots to say about the lacklustre halftime show and the lineup of big-budget advertisements that punctuated the game. If you weren’t able to catch the action, here’s what you might have missed: Patriots, Rams set new Super Bowl records The New England Patriots took home their sixth Super Bowl win in Atlanta Sunday night, beating the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 -- the lowest scoring Super Bowl in the game’s history. Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady thew to tigth end Rob Gronkowski, who made a pivotal diving catch, as it set up the team’s winning (and only) touchdown of the game by running back Sony Michel. This marked the first time that a Super Bowl had gone into the fourth quarter without a touchdown. The win marks the sixth title under the combination of head coach Bill Belichick and 41-year-old signal-caller Brady, who claimed the title of oldest winning quarterback in a Super Bowl. The Patriots are now tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl wins by a franchise. Patriots’ wide receiver Julian Edelman earned Super Bowl MVP honours after 10 receptions for a 141 yard performance. Edelman finished the game just 75 yards shy of beating the record for most Super Bowl receiving yards. Los Angeles has led the league in points per game over the past two seasons, but became the second team in NFL history to fail to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl. While the Rams offence couldn’t match the strength of the Patriots defence, Rams kicker Johnny Hekker was able to launch a 65-yard punt to set a new record for the longest in Super Bowl history. The Rams’ cheerleading team also made history as the first NFL team to have male cheerleaders perform at the Super Bowl. As far as retiring, Brady says the win has not changed in mind, having previously said that he will retire at 45. Maroon 5's halftime show lacked the hype This year’s Pepsi Halftime show was headlined by Grammy-Award winning band Maroon 5, featuring short cameos -- if you blinked you would have missed it -- from rapper Travis Scott and former Outkast member Big Boi. Adam Levine and company kicked off the performance with some of their classic rock hits including “Harder To Breathe” and “This Love” but played with less energy and enthusiasm than previous Super Bowl performers. The group closed their show with their more recent, pop-focused tunes such as "Girls Like You” and "Moves Like Jagger,” minus Cardi B. and Christina Aguilera who are featured on the recorded tracks. In November, an online petition was launched calling for the inclusion of popular SpongeBob song called “Sweet Victory” at the Pepsi Halftime show as a tribute to the show’s recently deceased creator Stephen Hillenburg. In an effort to appeal to their younger audience, Maroon 5 made an ambiguous reference to the SpongeBob song in Scott’s introduction. Fans later expressed their disappointment on Twitter, lamenting that SpongeBob’s “Sweet Victory” did not play in full and Scott instead burst into “Sickomode,” letting the intro from Drake consume the first part of the cameo without Drizzy himself. Levine awkwardly danced along with Scott and Big Boi, eventually taking off his shirt and quickly drawing a barrage of criticism online citing a double-standard in reference to the furor over Janet Jackson’s nipple-baring 2004 Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. Viewers were quick to point out on social media that maybe there should have been more SpongeBob and less of everything else. So Adam Levine can perform shirtless but Janet Jackson can’t? This is so very wrong haha. #PepsiHalftime — A Texas Man (@atari2600yeah) February 4, 2019 #PepsiHalftime How can i have my halftime show WITHOUT MY SWEET VICTORY pic.twitter.com/rJAdf0vmiu — small tiddy goth gf (@beanadraganna) February 4, 2019 This is why coke is better. #PepsiHalftime — trash (@dumpsterwaste) February 4, 2019 Advertisements focused on AI, female empowerment There were two main themes that stood out among this year’s Super Bowl commercials: artificial intelligence and female empowerment. Humour was also a central component with fewer political messages than in previous years. Serena Williams appeared as spokeswoman for the dating app Bumble, urging women not to wait to be given power, saying "we already have it." Women were also seen as the faces of beer and car advertisements with Toyota’s ad featuring female football player Antoinette "Toni" Harris and actress Sarah Jessica Parker reprising her role as Carrie Bradshaw to shock servers at a restaurant by ordering a Stella Artois. Advertisements that focused on technology included TurboTax’s robot child commercial and Michelob Ultra showcasing an athletic robot sad that it can't partake in a post-work-out beer. Pringles and Amazon used their TV slots to make fun of smart assistants with Amazon getting celebrities including Harrison Ford to test out rejected Amazon Alexa products. Microsoft also released a heartwarming video titled ‘We all Win’ that showcased new technology designed for kids with physical challenges. But not all ads entertained viewers. A Canadian ad from the union representing the General Motors workers at its closing Oshawa, Ont. plant resulted in a cease-and-desist letter from the automaker. A surprise "Game of Thrones" tie-in with Bud Light confused some while another slot from the company trolled rival beer brands that use corn syrup, hitting a nerve with the corn industry.<doc-sep>
No doubt, Super Bowl LIII will be another one for the history books. You can catch the game on WVLT at 6:30 p.m. But before you watch the game, here's some trivia: Facts from CBS Sports, Patriots, and Rams! 1. Did you know, 1.3 billion chicken wings will be on the menu for Super Bowl Sunday? Plus, 11.2 million pounds of potato chips, and more than 3 million pounds of popcorn. 2. The game will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the home of the Falcons. This is the stadium’s first Super Bowl but Atlanta’s third Super Bowl overall. 3. This is a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI which was played in February 2002. However, Rams quarterback Jared Goff, 24, said on the opening night he doesn’t remember watching that Super Bowl. 4. This is the Patriots’ 11th Super Bowl appearance overall, the most in NFL history. 5. The Patriots are the third team in NFL history to go to three straight Super Bowls. 6. If the Patriots win, they’ll break a tie with the Steelers for the most wins in playoff history. 7. This is Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick’s 12th Super Bowl appearance. 8. This is Tom Brady’s ninth Super Bowl. He already owns the record for the most Super Bowl appearances by any one player. 9. This is the Rams’ fourth Super Bowl appearance and their first since February 2002. 10. Jared Goff is 24-years-old, Tom Brady is 41-years-old. 11. If the Patriots win, Brady will become the oldest quarterback to win a Super Bowl, a record held by Peyton Manning. 12. Both Goff and Brady are from the Bay area. 13. Bill Belichick is 66-years-old, Sean McVay is 33-years-old. The 33-year age gap between coaches is a Super Bowl record. 14. If the Rams win, Sean McVay will become the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl. 15. The Patriots haven’t scored a touchdown in the first quarter of a Super Bowl under Belichick. 16. Gladys Knight will sing the National Anthem. 17. Maroon 5 will headline the halftime show. 18. The Rams will wear their blue and yellow throwback jerseys. 19. The Patriots will be wearing white jerseys. 20. The Super Bowl has only used Roman numerals 50 times. It wasn’t until Super Bowl III that the game first saw the numerals.