SUPER BOWL

Introduction:

The super bowl is the game of the national football league, which is played as a championship game in professional football in America. The super bowl and its ancillary festivities constitute the Super Bowl Sunday, which the famous television broadcasts. Many famous musicians and singers have performed during the halftime and pre-game observances of the super bowl games. This day is considered as the 2nd largest day for consumption of food in the United States of America. The first super bowl was played on 15th January in the year 1967, as an agreement among the American Football League and the National Football League. The super bowl games use Roman Numerals to name each of their games, instead of the year in which the game was played, because the national football league season extends way beyond the eve of the New Year.

Television Coverage Of The Super Bowls:

The super bowl is among the most watched programs on television, in the United States of America. The Nielsen television ratings for the game are very high. On an average, 40% of the households in the United States of America are tuned into watching the television during the game. The meaning of this is that, close to 90 million people in the United States of America, tune into the super bowl games at a given time. In addition to this, there are close to 140 million people who watch the game at some point or the other on the television. This proves the vast popularity of the game in the United States.