I though some random interesting facts would make for some good reading leading up to the Super Bowl. Unfortunatley the facts that are out there are not really that interesting. But just for the fun of it here's a list I came up with all by myself.
With no help from anyone or the internet at all.1. There have been no quarterbacks with the jersey No. 18, but five No. 8s have won. The most popular jersey is No. 12. It has won 13 times, nine of them in consecutive years.
2. There have been 41 players who have won Super Bowls with multiple teams. No one has won it with three teams. Three of the multiple winners are in the Hall of Fame -- Herb Adderly (Green Bay, Dallas), Forrest Gregg (Green Bay, Dallas), Ted Hendricks (Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Raiders).
3. There have been 16 coaches and assistants who have won a Super Bowl with more than one team. No one has done it with three. Of the 16, Bill Belichick (N.Y. Giants, New England), Mike Ditka (Dallas, Chicago) and Mike Shanahan (Dallas, Denver) won as a player and a coach. Three are in the Hall of Fame -- Willie Brown (Oakland), Ditka (Dallas, Chicago) and Art Shell (Oakland).
4. Five head coaches went to the Super Bowl in his first season with team. Don McCafferty (Baltimore Colts, V), Red Miller (Denver, XII), George Seifert (San Francisco, XXIII), and Jon Gruden and Bill Callahan, XXXVII).
5. Seventeen sets of brothers have played in the Super Bowl. One set, the Griffins, had three siblings. Archie and Ray (XVI) played a few years ahead of their brother Keith (XXII).
6. The oldest coach ever in the big game was Dick Vermeil, who was 63 when his Rams beat the Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV. The next is Weeb Ewbank, who was 61 when his Jets won Super Bowl III. The youngest is Gruden at 39 and John Madden at 40.
7. The three oldest players were Mike Horan of St. Louis (40), George Blanda of Oakland (40) and Jerry Rice of Oakland (40). The two youngest were Jamal Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens (21) and Tony Hill of Dallas (21).
8. There are three players who are tied with most combined interceptions in the Super Bowl, and that number happens to be three picks: Larry Brown, Chuck Howley and Rod Martin. Martin got all of his in Super Bowl XV, yet unlike Brown and Howley, he was not named game MVP.
9. Four quarterbacks have thrown 100 or more total passes: John Elway (152), Jim Kelly (145), Joe Montana (122) and Tom Brady (108).
10. Jerry Rice holds career Super Bowl records in four different categories: Points (48), catches (33), touchdowns (8) and yards receiving (589).
11. Troy Aikman is the all-time leader in passing percentage. He has completed 70 percent of passes (56 of 80). Montana has the best passer rating at 127.8.
12. In 1982, Washington's Mark Mosley became the only kicker ever to win the Associated Press MVP, then he helped the Redskins win Super Bowl XVII.
13. There have been 16 teams that had zero turnovers in the game; 14 of them won. The only two losses were Buffalo (XXV) when Scott Norwood missed a last-second field goal and when Tennessee (XXXIV) was stopped short of the goal line on the last play of the game against St. Louis.
14. The team that is ahead at the half has won 31 of 40 Super Bowls, but there have been two ties.
15. Seven running backs have won Super Bowl MVP honors. The collective score of those seven games is 208-99.
16. The top three single-game totals in rushing yardage were Timmy Smith (Washington, 204), Marcus Allen (Los Anegeles Raiders, 191) and John Riggins (Washington, 166).
17. In the 2006 NFC Championship Game, the Bears came within one penalty of having a perfect game for the first time in history. No sacks, no fumbles, no turnovers and one 5-yard illegal procedure penalty. Conversely, New Orleans had nine negative plays.
18. Both the Colts and Bears scored exactly the same amount of points this season: 427.
19. The Lombardi Trophy is 21 inches tall and weighs seven pounds with a regulation-sized football atop a three-sided base. Tiffany and Co. came up with the design and it costs $25,000.
20. The advertising rates for the first Super Bowl was $42,000 for a 30-second spot. Two years ago it was $2.4 million. This year it is $2.7 million.
21. Tom Sifferman is the first official to work three consecutive Super Bowls -- XXXVII, XXXVIII and XXXIX. Ironically, in his first year in the league, I once argued a call with him and said he wouldn't be back officiating for a second year. Five officials have worked five Super Bowls: Ron Botchan, Al Jury, Bob Beeks, Tom Kelleher and Jack Fette.
22. The city of Danville has the only radio station in Illinois that carries Colts games.
23. When Chicago and Indianapolis played host to their respected conference title games, it was the shortest distance between venues ever for that particular weekend. Soldier Field and the RCA Dome are separated by 181 miles.
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Awesome story here about a combo KFC/Taco Bell in New York that had rats crawling all over the place. There is actually video of the furry little buggars scurrying around.
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