Super Bowl Interesting Facts & Trivia

With plenty of highs & lows throughout history, the Super Bowl boasts interesting facts, trends, trivia, records & more!

Super Bowl Facts: Wins

• The NFC leads the AFC in all-time Super Bowl wins 20-18. In the early history of the Super Bowl, the NFL and AFL won two World Championships each.
• Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, and Pittsburgh Steelers have won the most Super Bowl titles with five apiece.
• The player with the most Super Bowl rings is Charles Haley, who is the only player to have been on five Super Bowl winning teams in NFL history.
• Super Bowl tickets have featured Mike Ditka, Tony Dungy, and Tom Flores each winning a Super Bowl as both player and coach.
• In Super Bowl 24, the San Francisco 49ers posted a whopping 55 points, which is still the most amount of points scored by a Super Bowl winning team. Moreover, the 49ers’ 55-10 victory is still the largest margin of victory in any Super Bowl game.
• Jon Gruden was the youngest coach (39 years, 162 days) to win a Super Bowl ring. He did so during Super Bowl 37 when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers pounded the Oakland Raiders 48-21.
• With a Super Bowl 34 win over the Tennessee Titans, St. Louis Rams coach Dick Vermeil became the oldest coach (63 years, 92 days) ever to win a Super Bowl title.

Super Bowl Facts: Losses

• The Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, and Minnesota Vikings have each lost four times at the Super Bowl.
• The Buffalo Bills once lost four-straight times.
• If you owned Super Bowl 6 tickets, you may remember that the Miami Dolphins managed only three points in their loss to the Dallas Cowboys, which is the fewest amount of points to be scored in a game in NFL history.

Super Bowl Facts: Setting Records

• Many fans with Super Bowl tickets are already well aware that the Dallas Cowboys have played in the most Super Bowls with eight appearances.
• San Francisco 49ers QB Joe Montana snagged the Super Bowl MVP trophy three times, the most in Super Bowl history.
• Throughout the history of the Super Bowl, Jerry Rice of San Francisco 49ers fame has set a number of single-game records, including most receiving yards with 215 yards and most receiving TDs with three. During his Super Bowl career, Jerry Rice also set records with eight TDs, most receiving yards with 589, and most receptions with 33.
• In Super Bowl 38, ticketholders witnessed the longest pass go down in the record books when QB Jake Delhomme connected with Muhsin Muhammad for an 85-yard TD completion.
• Fans with Super Bowl 40 tickets saw “Fast” Willie Parker break the record for longest run in a Super Bowl game with 75 yards.
• While with the St. Louis Rams, QB Kurt Warner garnered a record 414 passing yards in Super Bowl 34.
• Super Bowl 41 tickets featured the explosive Devin Hester, who set a record for the fastest score from the start of the game at 14 seconds when he returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown.

Super Bowl Facts: Trends & More

• The first Super Bowl game to be numbered was Super Bowl III. The first two Super Bowls were dubbed “The AFL-NFL World Championship Game.”
• There are still six NFL teams that have not yet punched their first Super Bowl ticket: Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, and New Orleans Saints.
• The longest winning streak in the Super Bowl for any team or coach has been two in a row.
• So far, no coach has won a Super Bowl ring with two different clubs.
• Even with three games tied in the final minute, fans with Super Bowl tickets have yet to see a Super Bowl overtime.
• There has never been a shutout in the history of the Super Bowl. The lowest point total for a team in the Super Bowl was 3 points.
• Teams with higher seeds are 13-12 in the Super Bowl.
• The second-largest food consumption day in the U.S. is Super Bowl Sunday, trailing only Thanksgiving.

Super Bowl Facts: Host Cities

• The cities of New Orleans and Miami have hosted the Super Bowl the most times with 9 apiece
• Tampa, Florida, and San Diego, California, have been the Super Bowl host city three times each.
• New Orleans, Miami, and Los Angeles have hosted 25 out of the 42 Super Bowl games so far.
• The Super Bowl has taken place in northern cities only three times. Moreover, the Super Bowl has never been scheduled outdoors in cold temperatures.