football can kill you!

so Super Bowl came and went.. and people everywhere sat in front of their tvs, ate and drank and had a merry old time. here are some factoids that you probably never knew!

• More people watched Super Bowl XXXIX (133.7 million viewers) than voted in the 2004 Presidential election or went out to celebrate New Year’s Eve? This year the number was expected to be in the same region.
• In an attempt to capture that market, every big company saves their best ads for the Super Bowl, and pay through the nose too. This year the cost for a 30 second spot was $ 2.5 million!! If you missed the best ads, go to iFilm for a recap.
• Super Bowl weekend is the slowest weekend of the year for weddings. After all, what bride in her right mind would ask her groom-to-be to take the plunge on such a critical weekend for sports fans? Not only would she run the risk of a light turnout at the wedding, but the honeymoon might not live up to her life-long expectations if the groom is distracted for hours during their first full day of matrimony!
• Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest day of food consumption in the country behind Thanksgiving (and the sales of antacid increases 20 percent the day after).. hehe, follows!
• An estimated 11 million pounds of potato chips, 4 million pounds of popcorn and 2 million pizzas are eaten on Super Bowl Sunday. Close to 11 million barrels of beer are drunk, in bars, at home and at the 7.5 million parties (on average) on Super Bowl Sunday.

so there, football can kill you, and i don't mean when a 220 pound linebacker crashes into you, helmet and all, but from all the above! the ER folk dread Super Bowl Sunday, and with good reason too.. across the nation on Super Bowl Sunday, traffic accidents spike (drunk drivers, pissed off drivers!).. domestic violence goes up (not the best time to complain about unpaid bills to the hubby when his team's losing!).. people eat themselves sick, drink until their bladders are too full to urinate (from hearsay: more painful than it sounds), and gag and choke on aluminum beer can tabs (yep, beer can tabs.. apparently people drop them into their beer, then forget!).

hope you had a great sunday, with no mishap!