Super Bowl Stats: 106.5 Million Viewers, 166 Million Pounds of Snacks...

If you feel like crap today it's probably because you stuffed your face with crap food and drank way too much crap beer.
Nice.

Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV  win by the New Orleans Saints over the favored Indianapolis Colts is not only the feel-good story of the year, according to The Nielsen Company it  is also the most-watched program in the history of American television. The 1983 M*A*S*H finale was the record holder, until Drew Brees lit it up in Miami and inspired a nation with his heroics on the grid iron. (Okay maybe that was a bit over-the-top but the dude GOT IT DONE for the city of New Orleans.)

If 106.5 million people watched the Super Bowl and 166 million pounds of snacks were eaten and 49.2 million cases of beer were consumed, then...

The Nielsen Company estimates 106.5 million people watched the Saints kick some ass; while the M*A*S*H record was 105.97 million. Oh and last year's Super Bowl record has been officially blown out of the water; a mere 98.7 million people watched Ben Roethlisberger and Kurt Warner go at it.

In a Feb. 1 2010 Nielsen news release, 9 out of 10 U.S. households said they were planning on watching Super Bowl XLIV at home or at a friend's or relative's house instead of watching it from a restaurant or bar.

We drank more beer at Halloween than during the Super Bowl? That's scary.

Despite all the cool beer commercials and all the beer-drinking contests  at parties and bars during  Super Bowl Sunday it is not even close to being the biggest beer day. More beer is consumed on the Fourth of July (63.5 million cases for the 2-week period), then Memorial Day, then Labor Day, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then Halloween (odd), THEN the Super Bowl (49.2 million cases). It's shocking, really. We should do something about that for next year. ;)

We ate 166 million pounds of crap food? Really (burp)?

Nearly 166 million pounds of snacks are consumed on average during the Super Bowl.   The most popular snack of choice are potato chips -- 44 million pounds of potato chips!!   Tortilla chips and pretzels were next in line.

The diet starts tomorrow. Tonight I'm thinking more beer and chips. (Leftovers, right? Can't just throw that shit away.)

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