Premium ContentMouse over Home then click on Premium Content for information.• The trophy weighs 6.7 pounds, stands 20¾ inches tall and is valued at more than $25,000. It's made of sterling silver by Tiffany and Co. and takes 72 hours to make.
• The Trophy, originally called the “World Championship Game Trophy,” was named after the late coach Vince Lombardi of the then-two-time Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers before the 1971 Super Bowl.
• The words “Vince Lombardi” and “Super Bowl XLVI” are engraved on the base along with the NFL shield.
• Oscar Riedner, former vice president of design for Tiffany and Co., designed the trophy in 1966 during a luncheon with former NFL Commissioner Peter Rozelle. The original sketch was drawn on a cocktail napkin.
GAME SITE
• Sunday's game will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
• The stadium has a seating capacity of 63,000.
• This is the first Super Bowl played in Indianapolis.
NETWORK COVERAGE
• The game will be covered by NBC-TV to more than 200 stations throughout the United States.
• Westwood One Radio will broadcast to 600 stations within the United States. The Armed Forces Television will also provide broadcast to 175 countries throughout the world.
• The game will be distributed internationally by the NFL and NFL International to more than 185 countries and broadcast in 30 different languages.
PLAYERS' SHARE
• Each player on the winning team will receive $88,000. That's $73,000 more than the players for Green Bay received in 1967 when they won the inaugural Super Bowl.
• Each player on the losing team will receive $44,000. That's $36,500 more than the players from Kansas City received after losing the first Super Bowl.
PLAYER UNIFORMS
• New England will be the home team and has its choice of wearing its colored or white jersey.
GAME OFFICIALS
• There will be seven officials and five alternates appointed by the commissioner's office.
ATTENDANCE
• To date, 3,512,727 have attended Super Bowl games. The largest crowd was 103,985 at the 14th Super Bowl at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
OVERTIME RULES
• At the end of regulation playing time, the referee will immediately toss a coin at the center of the field, according to rules pertaining to the usual pre-game toss. The captain of NFC team (the visiting team) will call the toss.
• Following a three-minute intermission after the end of the regular game, play will continue by 15-minute periods with a two-minute intermission between each such overtime period with no halftime intermission.
• The teams will change goals between each period.
• Both teams must have the opportunity to possess the ball once during the extra period, unless the team that receives the opening kickoff scores a touchdown on its initial possession, in which case it is the winner.
• If the team that possesses the ball first scores a field goal on its initial possession, the other team shall have the opportunity to possess the ball. If (that team) scores a touchdown on its possession, it is the winner. If the score is tied after (both teams have a) possession, the team next scoring by any method shall be the winner.
— Compiled by The Associated Press and The World-Herald
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The Super Bowl is Sunday. Why in the world didn't somebody in the media mention this?
The hype this year was out of control. On Thursday when the groundhog was pulled out of his hole, instead of the weather he made a Super Bowl prediction.
I had the worst nightmare. Steven Tyler and Christina Aguilera were singing a Super Bowl national anthem duet accompanied by vuvuzela.
A half-billion people around the world are expected to watch the Super Bowl. Because it's on NBC, an estimated 211 viewers will still be tuned in at the end.
Reportedly, Bill Belichick arrived in Indianapolis in "a playful mood." I'm trying to confirm that "Belichick" and "playful" are indeed oxymorons.
Belichick was described as playful and Patriots receiver Chad Ochocinco as tight-lipped. This sounds like one of those Tom Hanks movies where two guys get struck by lightning and swap personalities.
An interesting stat: The televised pregame show is expected to last so long that Ochocincowill have a different name at the end of it than he did at the beginning.
The game features Tom Brady, who's making his fifth trip to the Super Bowl and is married to a supermodel, against Eli Manning, who's won one Super Bowl and is from the family that's a quarterback dynasty. Fans who like to root for the underdog may want to sit this one out.
Because it's in Indiana, this will be the first Super Bowl where the video board flashes high school basketball scores.
Nobody knows what happened on media day because every reporter rushed out after a rumor that the souvenir shop across the street unveiled a new Tim Tebow poster.
During the pregame show one competitor was seen slipping on shoulder pads and knee pads. It was Madonna preparing for the halftime show.
Madonna will perform at halftime. I'm looking forward to one 30-minute-long wardrobe malfunction.
Blimps are banned from the Super Bowl. I'm trying to confirm if that includes Tony Siragusa.
It's estimated that 50 million cases of beer were sold in the seven days leading up to the Super Bowl. This is like homecoming week at Missouri.
The winner of the Super Bowl is considered the best football team in the world that is not presently a member of the Southeastern Conference.
And finally: A camel at a New Jersey zoo picked the Giants. If the Patriots win, I just hope we don't have to endure any weeping men go, "But — but — the camel said ..."
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