The Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is one of the major events in all American Sports. Millions of people tune in to watch it that the commercials are one of the reasons people tune in. Many companies spend a lot of money just to get a few seconds during the super bowl. The Super bowl has grown quite a lot ever since the first one ever happened.

Super Bowl I was played on January 15, 1967, following the 1966 regular season. The first ever super bowl was played by the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas Chiefs. The Green Bay packers had won the championship beating them 35 to 10. From than on the super bowl has been played every year for the past 49 years it has been played. The major winner of the super bowl has been the Pittsburgh Steelers with six championships won, the only teams that have successfully beaten the Pittsburgh Steelers have been the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. The "Super Bowl" name was derived from the bowl game, a post-season college football game. The original "bowl game" was the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California, which was first played in 1902 as the "Tournament East-West football game" as part of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and moved to the new Rose Bowl Stadium in 1923. (NFL).


Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 had an average audience of 112.2 million viewers, the most watched telecast in U.S. history. Seattle Seahawks victory over Denver Broncos by a score of 43 to 8, it was the most lopsided Super Bowl score in 21 years (Forbes). The super bow is known for its commercials and not only that the amount of money spend in these commercials.A :30 ad in the 2015 Super Bowl cost $4.5 million, the most expensive ad in history and a 12.5% increase from last year’s game. On average, Super Bowl ad rates have grown 10.8% annually.(Forbes).

Its no surprise on how much the super bowl has amounted over the past years. It is going to achieve even more as the love for this sport grows among American people.