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Speaker 1: door Englewood, California, the City of Champions, will crown an
Speaker 1: NFL champion when it hosts Super Bowl fifty six and
Speaker 1: SO five Stadium. In fact, it will be the second
Speaker 1: consecutive year that a team is actually going to play
Speaker 1: on its home turf, with the Rams welcoming in the Bengals. So,
Speaker 1: of course, here on the NFL Explaining podcasts, we're talking
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, gutting you through all of the lesser
Speaker 1: known facts about the big Game, and of course always
Speaker 1: joined by my good friend at ded Kinka Walla. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. This is why you know this is Look,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow said it a few weeks ago, this is
Speaker 1: why you work so hard. You work to get to
Speaker 1: these moments. And we're at that moment. Mike, we are,
Speaker 1: we are. Do you have a favorite memory? Oh, Mike,
Speaker 1: that that is like asking do I have a favorite child.
Speaker 1: It feels as if every Super Bowl story has something
Speaker 1: special to it. But you know what, I'll give you one.
Speaker 1: I was a writer at the Wall Street Journal. I
Speaker 1: was covering the Giants and the Giants at the time.
Speaker 1: As you know, we're coached by Tom Coughlin, who was
Speaker 1: about as strict as they got. A few were five
Speaker 1: minutes early. You were late. You had to make sure
Speaker 1: that your feet were on the floor in a certain way.
Speaker 1: When you were in a meeting room, so Tom Coughlin
Speaker 1: didn't often show the personal side of him. Well, the
Speaker 1: Giants upset the Patriots for the second time in four
Speaker 1: years in Indianapolis. I go down to the field and
Speaker 1: I see Judy Coughlin, Mrs Cofflin, Tom Coflin's wife, who
Speaker 1: is truly, genuinely one of the warmest human beings on
Speaker 1: the planet. And Judy Coflin sees me and she spreads
Speaker 1: out her arms and she gives me this really big hug,
Speaker 1: and what are you gonna do? Of course you're gonna
Speaker 1: hug Judy Coflin. She's about as happy as can be.
Speaker 1: And then right next to her is Tom Coughlin, strict,
Speaker 1: tough Tom Coughlin, who takes no prisoners, and he sees me,
Speaker 1: and Mike Key goes to hug me. And I think
Speaker 1: that it's such a personal thing. It's such a personal journey.
Speaker 1: And the Super Bowl for fans maybe about commercials and
Speaker 1: bingo boxes and things like that, But for these men
Speaker 1: and women who are parts of organizations, who give every
Speaker 1: single ounce of their blood, sweat and tears to get
Speaker 1: to this moment, it's as personal as it can be.
Speaker 1: It's as personal of a journey. It's as magical as
Speaker 1: anything that I get to be a part of. You're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the pinnacle and it's memories, a d
Speaker 1: D for a lifetime for the players, the fans, the coaches,
Speaker 1: a fan base, you know, like the Bengals for example,
Speaker 1: locking on the door like they are. You know, there's
Speaker 1: generations of fans that just haven't seen this before. So
Speaker 1: it really is pretty cool. Well, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's what makes this episode so tremendous is
Speaker 1: that we could sit here and we could talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the Philly Special, which I was present for,
Speaker 1: we could talk about the helmet catch or all of that.
Speaker 1: But instead we're going to take you through the origin
Speaker 1: story of the game itself, which really is fascinating, Mike,
Speaker 1: and we'll try to, as we like to do, give
Speaker 1: some fun facts that are tangential to the game that
Speaker 1: proved just how big it's really become. So should we
Speaker 1: start at the beginning, Mike, Yeah, let's kick it off,
Speaker 1: all right. The National Football League has been around since
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty and in the late nineteen fifties there was
Speaker 1: a young Dallas businessman named Lamar Hunt who wanted nothing
Speaker 1: else but to own an NFL franchise. So, with the
Speaker 1: league's rising popularity and household names like Jim Brown and
Speaker 1: Johnny Unitis, owning a team seemed obviously, like I said,
Speaker 1: the opportunity of a lifetime. Unfortunately, after multiple attempts Lamar
Speaker 1: Hunt could not buy a franchise, so he came up
Speaker 1: with a different plan. He gathered a group of wealthy
Speaker 1: businessmen who also would have liked to buy an NFL club,
Speaker 1: and he created a rival pro football league. And this
Speaker 1: collection of men, who would be nicknamed the Foolish Club,
Speaker 1: still started their own league, and they called it the
Speaker 1: a f L, the American Football League. So, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Mike the NFL had legitimate competition in stadium
Speaker 1: attendance and TV rights, in the draft, and of course
Speaker 1: in signing star players. Hunt and the a f made
Speaker 1: such a substantial impact that by nineteen sixty six, the
Speaker 1: two leagues agreed to merge, and in June of nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six, they agreed that their respective champions would play
Speaker 1: in an annual season ending championship game. Why not, right
Speaker 1: The first couple of years the game was actually called
Speaker 1: the a f L NFL World championship games, so we
Speaker 1: now retroactively called those super Bowl one and two, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't until a DD year number three that the
Speaker 1: game officially became known as the Super Bowl. It was
Speaker 1: actually Hunt who jokingly pitched the name super Bowl based
Speaker 1: off of the children's toy super Ball, which I actually
Speaker 1: looked up. They don't necessarily make them anymore. There's some
Speaker 1: iterations of it, but besides the point, and it was
Speaker 1: his daughter's toy that prompted the idea about bouncing rubber ball,
Speaker 1: just getting it done. So it really is a huge
Speaker 1: watershed moment for the a f L, who opened to
Speaker 1: that point it was really seen as the lesser league
Speaker 1: than the NFL. You got Broadway Joe Joe Namath leading
Speaker 1: the Jets to a monumental upset, putting the a f
Speaker 1: L on the map. Super Bowl now it's often running
Speaker 1: and we got to mention that Hunts Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: actually won Super Bowl number four in the final season
Speaker 1: of the a f L versus the NFL, and with
Speaker 1: the league's finally fully officially merging by nineteen seventy, I
Speaker 1: think it's a good time to kind of turn and
Speaker 1: let's talk about how the road to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: has evolved. By the merger, there were eight teams that
Speaker 1: qualified for the playoffs, so you needed to win a
Speaker 1: divisional game and a championship game to reach the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That stayed intact until nineteen seventy eight, when the league
Speaker 1: added one wild card team per conference, so the winner
Speaker 1: of each wild card game slid into the eight team
Speaker 1: playoff bracket. In nineteen nine, the playoff field expanded to
Speaker 1: twelve teams, adding a third wild card team to each conference,
Speaker 1: and unless you were one of the four squads with
Speaker 1: the first round by, under that format, you need to
Speaker 1: win three games before reaching the Super Bowl. And then
Speaker 1: this past season one was the first year that we
Speaker 1: had a fourteen team playoff, so the number one seed,
Speaker 1: the top seed, got that by, but everybody else had
Speaker 1: to play. And here's one little cute fun fact. Since
Speaker 1: the NFL started seeding teams for the postseason, which of
Speaker 1: course was in ninet, every single Super Bowl Mike has
Speaker 1: featured at least one team that was either a number
Speaker 1: one or number two seed. Until this year, the Bengals
Speaker 1: and the Rams are both four seeds. Still feel good
Speaker 1: about the cream rising to the top. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know what's so funny you say that, But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this. In the a f C, the Titans were
Speaker 1: the one seed. I don't know that I would say
Speaker 1: that they were the cream. I definitely came into the
Speaker 1: playoffs thinking that the Bengals were the most complete football team.
Speaker 1: And here we are knocking on the door for another
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion, who hopefully maybe Cincinnati fans are definitely
Speaker 1: hoping that this would be the case that they got
Speaker 1: that Lombardi Trophy. And I think the hardware is one
Speaker 1: of those things that we all focus in on, and
Speaker 1: it actually is Tiffany made so. Tiffany and Company Vice
Speaker 1: president Oscar Reidner actually drew the design of the original
Speaker 1: Super Bowl trophy on a cocktail napkin who says good
Speaker 1: things don't happening bars. Originally called the World Championship Game Trophy,
Speaker 1: it was renamed the Lombardi Trophy in V one following
Speaker 1: the coaches death. Now weighs seven pounds, which clearly is
Speaker 1: light enough to toss from one party boat to another,
Speaker 1: potentially creating a little bit of havoc at least some
Speaker 1: tense moments. But since super Bowl number one, the winning
Speaker 1: team is actually received permanent possession of a sterling silver
Speaker 1: trophy created by Tiffany and Company. It doesn't come in
Speaker 1: that little Tiffany green box though green. That's blue. Clearly
Speaker 1: you're not buying a lot of Tiffany. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, let's go back to Super Bowl one
Speaker 1: between the Packers and the Chiefs for a minute, because
Speaker 1: I think there are a few interesting things to note
Speaker 1: and it'll show to Mike how far we've come. So
Speaker 1: super Bowls in l A this year. That first Super
Speaker 1: Bowl was indeed at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. Now,
Speaker 1: the attendance was just under six It would be the
Speaker 1: only Super Bowl not played during a pandemic that has
Speaker 1: not been at full capacity. And because there were separate
Speaker 1: TV deals for the a f L and the NFL,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was actually simulcast on both NBC and CBS,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't until Super Bowl seventeen that the game
Speaker 1: was actually broadcast all around the planet. Today, the game
Speaker 1: is broadcasting over one hundred and eighty countries. It's in
Speaker 1: twenty five different languages. But it's really truly crazy about
Speaker 1: the first game is that most of the world never
Speaker 1: even saw footage of Super Bowl one, because following the game,
Speaker 1: both TV stations scrubbed their tapes so they could be reused.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness for NFL Films, which also had cameras at
Speaker 1: the game. They were eventually able to piece together all
Speaker 1: of the footage that they got, and in two thousand sixteen,
Speaker 1: Super Bowl One was indeed reaired. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't download it from the cloud. Alright, Mike,
Speaker 1: how about this one? Do you have any idea who
Speaker 1: the first halftime show was? What? We got? Marching bands,
Speaker 1: marching bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling Stade,
Speaker 1: bear Down, here we Go, and trumpeter l Hurt. There
Speaker 1: were also three hundred pigeons and ten thousand balloons. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how any of this really actually compares
Speaker 1: to Flying Lady Gaga, who came in from the top
Speaker 1: of Energy Stadium, and as we know, there was all
Speaker 1: sorts of anxiety about the roof being open and closed
Speaker 1: and how could she get in and all of that.
Speaker 1: But that first Super Bowl did have a flying demonstration
Speaker 1: by the Bell Rocket Airman. They flew hydrogen peroxide propelled
Speaker 1: jet packs around the stadium. Something tells me we'll get
Speaker 1: a little more flare with Dr Trey in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl celebration. That's what my gut's telling me. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Packers players, by the way,
Speaker 1: they earned a fifteen thousand dollars. That was the bonus
Speaker 1: for winning the game. The Chiefs earned seventy dollars each.
Speaker 1: Now this year's winning players collect ten times that amount.
Speaker 1: Cool one fifty for the winners, k for the losers.
Speaker 1: Not too bad. A little extra incentive to go and
Speaker 1: winning that Super Bowl. But now that we schooled John
Speaker 1: the history of the Big Game, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll dive into even more fun facts about the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I bet you have no idea how the phrase I'm
Speaker 1: going to Disney World came about and which NFL player
Speaker 1: was the first to cash in for saying it following
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Speaker 1: on NFL, explained Toddie Kinkaballa and Mike yam with you
Speaker 1: and we're trying to make you smart for all your
Speaker 1: Super Bowl parties. So before we actually got to the
Speaker 1: Britak we mentioned that phrase and Indedia, it's one that
Speaker 1: I'm you probably hear from your kids relatively frequently, where
Speaker 1: it's probably I want to go to Disney World. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to Disney World, which we've seen so
Speaker 1: many times super Bowl m v p s. They say
Speaker 1: it all the time after a game. It's sort of
Speaker 1: one of those fun little catchphrases. Well, I know you're wondering, like,
Speaker 1: where did this thing actually come about? Well, former CEO
Speaker 1: Michael Eisner from Disney and his wife, they were having
Speaker 1: dinner with Dick Rutan and Gina Yeager, the first pilot
Speaker 1: to circle the world without refueling. When they asked him
Speaker 1: what they planned to do next, they replied, well, We're
Speaker 1: going to Disney World. Eisner's wife thought it would make
Speaker 1: a great ad campaign and the phrase was born. So
Speaker 1: Phil Simms actually the first to say it after he
Speaker 1: was named m v P of the nineteen eight seven
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He was paid seventy five K to say that.
Speaker 1: That is Look, I'd say that's good money. In hell,
Speaker 1: I'll say that's great money even nowadays. A d D
Speaker 1: I'll take for sure. I would not only take it
Speaker 1: for that, but my kids would love it if I said, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to Disney World. But you know what Phil
Speaker 1: Simms was m v P. So let's talk about the
Speaker 1: m v ps for a second. The position that has
Speaker 1: earned the most m v P honors is totally unsurprisingly, quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: There have been thirty one quarterbacks named m v P
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl Most, Mike, can you guess which
Speaker 1: quarterback has been named Super Bowl m v P the most.
Speaker 1: There's one guy in particular who just decided that he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to play anymore. And you and I have
Speaker 1: been convinced he had twenty more good season still left
Speaker 1: that we wanted that so it would make us feel young. Yes,
Speaker 1: we did want that. Tom Brady, you are correct. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady has four and Joe Montana has three Super Bowl
Speaker 1: m v P s. I'll tell you this. I was
Speaker 1: actually talking to a running back who is going to
Speaker 1: be playing in this game, and we were talking about
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl m v P. I think that he
Speaker 1: would be pleased to know that running backs have actually
Speaker 1: been named the Super Bowl MVP seven times. Wide receivers
Speaker 1: have also been named Super Bowl m v P seven times.
Speaker 1: Only one time in the history of the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: was a returner named the m v P. But that
Speaker 1: was Dustin Howard in Super Bowl thirty one. And you
Speaker 1: know what, he had two dred and forty four all
Speaker 1: purpose yards and he had a ninety nine yard kickoff
Speaker 1: return touchdown. Seems pretty uh m v P worthy to me,
Speaker 1: don't you think? Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, those
Speaker 1: big players are the ones that sort of stand out
Speaker 1: the most. I think, what's sort of cool for anyone
Speaker 1: who gets to see those moments in person? Are once again,
Speaker 1: did you circling back to the top of the show,
Speaker 1: the memories that you have surrounding some of those games.
Speaker 1: And there's some fans lucky enough to score some tickets
Speaker 1: for that first Super Bowl, remember super Bowl number one.
Speaker 1: Guess how much twelve bucks to see the Packers and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, which I get it. You're like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: only twelve dollars, Well, it's really like a hundred dollars
Speaker 1: when you consider inflation in the year two, but there's
Speaker 1: been some significant price increases. Fans. You went to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl back in twenty they paid an average of
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars to see the Chiefs and the Niners
Speaker 1: in that game saw more than sixty two thousand fans
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium in Miami. That was well short
Speaker 1: of the largest crowd in Super Bowl history. Five largest
Speaker 1: crowds in the history of the game all played yes
Speaker 1: at the Rolls Bowl in Pasadena. I was actually just
Speaker 1: there the other week for the NFL p A Collegiate Bowl,
Speaker 1: but the top three saw attendance over one hundred and
Speaker 1: three thousand. The Rolls Bowl has yet to host another game,
Speaker 1: but the largest attendance for a non Rolls Bowl game
Speaker 1: super Bowl forty five at Jerry's World, which welcomed in
Speaker 1: over nine thousand fans. That's a whole lot of beverages
Speaker 1: and hot dogs to be able to serve at those stadiums. Well,
Speaker 1: most folks will actually be watching from the comfort of
Speaker 1: their home Smike, and let's just say that the ratings
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl have been robust for quite some time.
Speaker 1: According to Nielsen figure, super Bowl fifty one between the
Speaker 1: Pats and the Falcons is the single most watch television
Speaker 1: program of all time. One hundred and seventy two million
Speaker 1: viewers watch that twenty eight to three comeback. In fact, Mike,
Speaker 1: the most viewed TV programs of all time are all
Speaker 1: Super Bowl games. The Mash finale was the most watched
Speaker 1: TV broadcast until that record was broken by Super Bowl
Speaker 1: forty four. That was the Saints and the Colts. They
Speaker 1: brought in a hundred and six point five million viewers.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what happens when you're watching
Speaker 1: at home, which I know that I don't really get
Speaker 1: to do that much, and I'm very very grateful that
Speaker 1: I don't. But if you are watching at home, or
Speaker 1: if you're at a Super Bowl party, you have to
Speaker 1: have good food and drink, right, because apparently Super Bowl
Speaker 1: Sunday is the second biggest eating day of the year,
Speaker 1: behind only Thanksgiving. The estimate of what is consumed on
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday, Mike, one point four billion chicken wings,
Speaker 1: one point three billion dollars spent on beer. Might change
Speaker 1: this here, there might be more hard Seltzer consumed. Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know. Three A hard Seltzer guy beverage of choice. No,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a wine guy and occasionally a beer drinker.
Speaker 1: So and you drink wine even when watching a football game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have no shame. I own it. I can't say
Speaker 1: that I've drank wine on Super Bowl Sunday. All right,
Speaker 1: But what else do we think of when we besides
Speaker 1: amusing football and huge pageantry and the halftime show and food,
Speaker 1: come on commercials, commercials, commercials. Commercials. Of course, that's what
Speaker 1: makes a Super Bowl broadcast so enticing to people who
Speaker 1: love the Bowl and people who are more passive observers
Speaker 1: the commercials. So the cost of a thirty second ad
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl one was seven was in five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Today that would be three hundred thousand dollars. And you
Speaker 1: know what, that would be a bargain, Mike, because right
Speaker 1: now NBC is selling thirty second spots for the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl for wait fat, wait ferat wait for it six
Speaker 1: point five million dollars. And since we're talking advertising, we
Speaker 1: should mention that the National Football League takes a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl trademark very very seriously. So using Super Bowl to
Speaker 1: draw attention to your business is a violation of trademark rights.
Speaker 1: Which is why I like when we keep hearing about
Speaker 1: all these sales. Right now, it's called the big game
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Speaker 1: NFL explained did you let's continue to talk about the
Speaker 1: cash because you threw out some big figures when it
Speaker 1: comes to the commercials, but more specifically the amount bet
Speaker 1: on Super Bowl games. One hundred and thirty six million
Speaker 1: was wagered in Vegas on Super Bowl fifty five. The
Speaker 1: record was a hundred fifty eight million who bet on
Speaker 1: the Patriots Eagle Super Bowl back in but Vegas claims
Speaker 1: that was only around one percent of those wagers. Ash
Speaker 1: says the heavy favorite was the Patriots. But while we're
Speaker 1: on the subject, a couple of little fun facts that
Speaker 1: might help you, just in case you're thinking about placing
Speaker 1: a wager this year. The winner of the coin toss
Speaker 1: has actually lost the last seven Super Bowls. The team
Speaker 1: that scores first thirty six and nineteen. And teams wearing
Speaker 1: and I love this white jerseys have won fourteen of
Speaker 1: the last seventeen Super Bowls. And the Bengals just announced
Speaker 1: that they're going to be wearing black jerseys and white pants.
Speaker 1: But you know, they lost the coin toss in the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game and they still won the
Speaker 1: a f C. So maybe it's a year for bucking trends.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a nice little factory by d
Speaker 1: Well from white jerseys to the White House. The Steelers
Speaker 1: were actually the first team to visit the President after
Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl in nineteen eighty when Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: told them to come on down. And then after Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan made it a very regular occurrence. You know
Speaker 1: what else happened in the nineteen eighties, Mike. It was
Speaker 1: the first song dedicated to reaching the title game. It
Speaker 1: was the eighty five Bears, and they put together a
Speaker 1: little dance called the Super Bowl Shuffle, and it was
Speaker 1: a little bit cringe worthy, but it was nominated for
Speaker 1: a Grammy. That's not a joke, like it's legit, it's true.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. Chicago's defense was not a joke
Speaker 1: either that year, because they put together a blowout win
Speaker 1: of the Patriots in Super Bowl twenty. And since we're
Speaker 1: talking about the shuffle, I should mention that I did
Speaker 1: just hang out with Ikey Woods, who made the Icky
Speaker 1: shuffle very famous. See that transition right there. I'll take
Speaker 1: that famous Bengals alum who was very, very excited and
Speaker 1: handled the trophy presentation at the a f C Championship Game.
Speaker 1: So let's move on, Mike. I've hit you with some
Speaker 1: fun facts off the field. Let's go through some of
Speaker 1: the more interesting records on the field. How many players, Mike,
Speaker 1: do you believe have won back to back Super Bowls
Speaker 1: with different teams? Oh, the different team I was gonna
Speaker 1: say that. I think there's probably a fair amount that
Speaker 1: have won back to back titles, but the different team situation,
Speaker 1: and that's got to be a pretty exclusive list. I'd
Speaker 1: say less than ten. Less than ten is correct. There
Speaker 1: have been seven Ken Norton Jr. Dan Sanders, Derick Martin,
Speaker 1: Brandon Browner, Chris Long, Lagary Blunt, and Lashawn McCoy. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has obviously a lot of Super Bowl wins
Speaker 1: and a ton of those records. And since he just
Speaker 1: called it a career a d D, you and I
Speaker 1: said we would dedicate like multiple podcast to him. But
Speaker 1: at least in the super Bowl deal will give him
Speaker 1: a whole section to himself. He's the only player to
Speaker 1: win Super Bowl over the span of three decades that one.
Speaker 1: I think it's almost fair to say that one might
Speaker 1: not get touched. His seven Super Bowl wins are more
Speaker 1: than twenty seven franchises have in terms of appearances. The
Speaker 1: teams with at least seven appearances the Pats, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: the Steelers, the Broncos, and the Niners and he has
Speaker 1: more than two times the amount of passing yards in
Speaker 1: Super Bowls as the next quarterback are good friend, and
Speaker 1: if you missed his episode when he popped out with us,
Speaker 1: encourage you to go back. But our buddy Kurt Warner. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: Britty of Chris has ten Super Bowl appearances though, but
Speaker 1: do you want to know the most consecutive appearances in
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. That would go to quarterback Gail Gilbert,
Speaker 1: who had five. He was a backup for the Bills
Speaker 1: on their run of four consecutive losses in the early
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, those Jim Kelly teams, of course, and then
Speaker 1: he joined the Chargers just in time to be destroyed
Speaker 1: by the Niners in the Super Bowl. Alright. The longest
Speaker 1: play in the Super Bowl a kickoff return. It was
Speaker 1: a touchdown to Kobe Jones Super Bowl forty seven. The
Speaker 1: fewest completions by a quarterback in a Super Bowl win
Speaker 1: Bob Greasy Miami six, only throughout seven times in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl eight against Minnesota. The most rushing yards in the game,
Speaker 1: How about this one? Timmy Smith had two hundred and
Speaker 1: four yards in Washington's win over Denver in Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Smith would go on to rush for only six hundred
Speaker 1: and two yards his entire career. Way to show up
Speaker 1: in the big Game. I'll take it. Yeah, seriously, right, Okay?
Speaker 1: Since the nineteen seventies season, only four teams have won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl without playing a home game in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That would be the two five Steelers, the two seven Shiants,
Speaker 1: ten Packers, and the twenty twenty Tampa Bay Bucks, although
Speaker 1: Tampa did actually get to play the Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: its home stadium, which is what the Rams are getting
Speaker 1: to do. Although the Rams are officially the away team
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, which is just weird. By the way,
Speaker 1: don't you think it's what it is? It's the a
Speaker 1: f C S turn. Well, I think they're going to
Speaker 1: get to use their own locker room and the Bengals
Speaker 1: will use the Chargers locker room. That's my best bet.
Speaker 1: I would hope that that would be the case, all right, Mike,
Speaker 1: Another trivia question for you, how many men have won
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl as both a coach and a player?
Speaker 1: I only no one that I can think of, and
Speaker 1: that's Tony Dungee. You are correct, But joining Tony Dungee
Speaker 1: are Tom Flores, Mike Ditka, and Doug Peterson. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: once again a pretty exclusive list. All right, We'll leave
Speaker 1: you with a couple more factoroids about this year's Super
Speaker 1: Bowl between Cincinnati and l A. Sean McVeigh love the
Speaker 1: young guys. Thirty six years and twenty days as of
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday, by the way, will have made the
Speaker 1: two youngest appearances as a head coach in Super Bowl
Speaker 1: history and is the youngest head coach in multiple Super
Speaker 1: Bowls to be able to coach in that game. Now,
Speaker 1: McVeigh can also become the youngest head coach to win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Zach Taylor, by the way, can become
Speaker 1: the second youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl game.
Speaker 1: You know when you see that, Mike, when you see
Speaker 1: this is the first Super Bowl being coached by two
Speaker 1: men under the age of forty stab talk about feeling old.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you a little bit, But it does,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I mean, in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: is it? It also screams to their ability to connect
Speaker 1: with a lot of their players to have this much success.
Speaker 1: So kudos to both of those guys. Yeah, and let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about the Bengals, because three
Speaker 1: years in a row. Prior to this year, they finished
Speaker 1: last in their division and that's been done exactly once
Speaker 1: before by the Bengals in nineteen eight one. And speaking
Speaker 1: of age a d D. Since you threw it out there,
Speaker 1: how about we go on the other side of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: I know we talked about Brady and gave him a
Speaker 1: lot of love the Rams. Andrew Whitworth started a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty four games for the Bengals from two thousand
Speaker 1: six to be the oldest offensive lineman to start in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in NFL history at forty years and
Speaker 1: sixty three days. And it is awesome that he's healthy
Speaker 1: because I know he's been banged up at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. So once again, I think is all
Speaker 1: of us are kind of focused in on this next
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I know we've covered the commercials and the
Speaker 1: halftime shows, but I think a DD we're going to
Speaker 1: not only get in amazing football game, but we're also
Speaker 1: going to get what I'm going to call the greatest
Speaker 1: halftime show of all time. I don't think there's anyone
Speaker 1: more excited than me. I'm super, super, super excited obviously
Speaker 1: for the product on the field. Can't wait to be
Speaker 1: out there. But yes, halftime show, there is no sense
Speaker 1: of who is this, what's happening? I mean, the league's
Speaker 1: teaser on the halftime show. The two minute video that
Speaker 1: we watched on Twitter got me going, I can't wait,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm with you. Look, I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, we're all expecting a ton
Speaker 1: of fanfare. It's kind of cool for us to go
Speaker 1: through some of these records and some of these cool
Speaker 1: little factoids for the game. And I hope some of
Speaker 1: our listeners who have been checking out this podcast continue
Speaker 1: to not only check out our previous ones to learn
Speaker 1: a little bit more, but they watched this year's Super
Speaker 1: Bowl through a different lens. Um Totally with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: and Hey, everybody thinks as always, that is the Super
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