By Brian Boone
The name of the game here is big. Okay, the name of the game is “the Super Bowl,” but the greatest show on American soil always puts up some huge numbers in any and every way.
133.5 million How many viewers tuned in to the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2025, featuring red-hot rapper Kendrick Lamar. That’s more than watched the game itself.
127.7 million The number of people that watched the 2025 Super Bowl, also a record.
53 million The Super Bowl lead-out show is usually the second-most watched broadcast of the year, after the Super Bowl itself, so the networks put something splashy up to follow the game. Nobody has matched the numbers put up by the January 1996 post-Super Bowl episode of NBC’s Friends, which drew 53 million viewers.
75 That’s the combined total of points from the 1995 Super Bowl, the highestscoring ever. San Francisco beat San Diego 49 to 26.
49.1 The percentage of American households that watched Super Bowl XVI in 1982, still a record.
21 That’s the cumulative score of the least offensive Super Bowl ever. In 1973, Miami beat Washington 14 to 7.
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11 The most Super Bowls ever hosted by one city. Miami and New Orleans have each done it 11 times.
8 In millions, that’s how much it costs for 30 seconds of advertising time during the 2026 Super Bowl broadcast.
6 The record for most Super Bowl titles by one team is 6. It’s a record shared by the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
4 That’s the most times a team has won a Super Bowl without ever winning one at any other point in history. The Minnesota Vikings have been to the big game four times and come up empty handed, while the Buffalo Bills lost four in a row in the early 1990s.
2 Only twice has the Super Bowl gone into overtime. In 2017, the New England Patriots won 34 to 28 to get past the Atlanta Falcons, and in 2024, the Kansas City Chiefs needed a few more minutes to beat the San Francisco 49ers, 25 to 22.
1.47 In billions, that’s how many chicken wings Americans collectively consumed during the 2025 Super Bowl.
1 That’s how many times a team has played the Super Bowl on its home turf. Raymond James Stadium in Tampa had long been selected to host the 2021 Super Bowl, and the Tampa Buccaneers wound up winning it over the Kansas City Chiefs.