8: Most appearances by one team in the Super Bowl (Dallas Cowboys)
6: Most victories by one team in the Super Bowl (Pittsburgh Steelers)
17: Number of teams in the NFL that have won at least one Super Bowl
5: Number of active NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl until 2010 (Browns, Lions, Saints, Jaguars, Texans)
17: Average number of Super Bowl Sunday house-party guests
$55,000,000: Average amount of money spent nationwide on groceries for Super Bowl parties
10,000,000: Estimated amount of man hours spent preparing food
15: Estimated number of minutes spent consuming the food
15,000: Average amount (in tons) of potato chips consumed on Super Bowl Sunday
12,000,000: Pounds of avocadoes sold for Super Bowl Sunday
20: Percentage of jump in sales of antacids on Super Monday
1: Average number of partiers per Super Sunday gathering who call in sick the next day
8: Where Super Bowl ranks among holidays with regard to beer consumption (51,713,004 cases sold)
98,732,000: Number of Americans who tuned in to the 2009 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, the most-watched Super Bowl ever
Sources:
associatedcontent.com; The Nielsen Company;
nflplayers.com;
ask.com