Super Bowl XLII

Can you translate the Roman numeral (without looking it up)?  I will admit, I know the Xs, Vs and Is, but everything else I had to ask my husband.  My husband is one of the high IQ people that really tick you off because they know things that you don't.  So the X is a 10, the L is a 50 and the I is a 1.  But it is tricky because if the smaller number is before the larger number you have to subtract it.  Personally, I like to stay on the right side of my brain!  My husband told me the answer is Super Bowl 42.  So hoooray for you left brainers who are carrying all of those useless facts around in your head waiting for the right moment to impress us right brainers!

Who is watching the Super Bowl this year?  As a family, we prefer college FB, but who in their right mind would pass up the chance to participate in one of the world's most popular food gorging days of the year.  It is 2nd only to Thanksgiving.

Here are a few more useless, but fun, facts about Super Bowl Sunday:

• 8 million pounds of guacamole is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday.
• 14,500 tons of chips are eaten along with that guacamole.
• The average number of people at a Super Bowl party is 17.
• 5% of Americans will watch the game alone.
• Of the top 10 most watched television programs of all time, 9 of them are Super Bowls.



• Budweiser has been the exclusive Super Bowl beer advertiser for the past 13 years.
• The Super Bowl is measured in Roman numerals because a football season runs the span over two calendar years. The year the season began in 2006 and ends in 2007.
• Since the 1980s the Super Bowls have always started around 6pm Eastern Standard Time.
• More drivers are involved in alcohol-related accidents on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year (except St. Patrick's Day), according to the Insurance Information Institute.
• 35% of people who attend the game write it off as a corporate expense.
• Over 700,000 footballs are produced annually for official NFL use and 72 of them are used for the Super Bowl.



• Super Bowl fans spend more than $50 million on food during the 4 days prior to the super bowl.
• Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest winter grilling day of the year.