Super Bowl info:
Both winners and losers get paid
Whether or not your favorite player triumphs, just securing a spot in the Super Bowl is a win for their bank account. According to
Athlon Sports, each player on the winning Super Bowl LV team will score $130,000. Losers, meanwhile, will reportedly receive $65,000.
But halftime performers don't make a dime
Sorry, The Weeknd. No matter how A-list a performer is, headliners are not compensated for performing during the big game.
"We do not pay the artists," NFL spokesperson Joanna Hunter told
Forbes in 2016. "We cover expenses and production costs."
Fans of recent acts like Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and Maroon 5 shouldn't sweat it, though, as the sheer exposure is worth millions of dollars. Last year, the halftime show drew more viewers than the actual game, per
Billboard.
Americans snack a lot
Super Bowl Sunday is the second-highest day of food consumption in the U.S., behind only Thanksgiving, according to the
United Food and Commercial Workers union.
Wings, specifically, seem to be hotter than ever. The National Chicken Council’s
annual report speculates that Americans will
devour a record 1.42 billion wings on Super Bowl Sunday this year, up 2% from 2020.
Commercials are crazy expensive
A 30-second spot during Super Bowl LIV went for as high as
$5.6 million in 2020, and this year is no different:
USA Today reports that CBS is charging between $5.5 million and $5.6 million for half-minute ads during Super Bowl LV.
17 million people might skip work the next day
If the thought of facing a work day the morning after the biggest night in football sounds like too much to bear, you’re not alone. In 2018, an estimated 13.9 million Americans called in sick on "Super Sick Monday" and
more than 17 million did the same in 2019 and 2020, based on extrapolations of U.S. workforce data.
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