Some of you may actually be watching the Super Bowl later today. According to the Hass Avocado Board, more than 61 million pounds of avocados were shipped into the U.S. last week. Out of this amount of avocados, 93 percent were sourced from Mexico, 3.6 percent originated from California, 2.7 percent came from the Dominican Republic while Chile supplied 0.7 percent. Approximately 26 million individual avocados – are sold in preparation just for the game. To shovel that guac into gaping maws, approximately 15,000 tons of chips are used to scoop it up.
This year, the National Chicken Council predicts that folks will wolf down more than 1.42 billion wings during this year’s Super Bowl, which is up 2%, or 20 million wings, from last year. To put that in visual terms — 1.4 billion wings laid end to end would stretch 19 times from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO, to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL.
Americans will be washing down those snacks by spending $1.2 billion dollars on beer.
Super Bowl LIV played on February 2, 2019 and broadcast by CBS in the U.S., was watched by more than 99.9 million viewers in the United States, slightly up from Super Bowl LIII numbers (Nielson rating were up even more even during the halftime show with Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.) Approximately 17.5 million people called in ‘sick‘ to work the day after the Super Bowl, (could this have been an early indicator of the oncoming Corona virus?) .
This year, since most of you are already working from home, you won’t be able to call in sick.
Enjoy the game
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