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. The price of a 20-pound box of avocados from the state of Michoacan in Mexico — the country’s largest exporter of the fruit — was under $24 as of February 3. That’s about $2.25 less expensive than it was this same time last year. You could fill approximately 30 million football helmets with guacamole – just for the game (a disgusting visual.) To shovel that guac into gaping maws, the sale of tortilla chips rose 22 percent during Super Bowl week when compared to the week before.
This year, the National Chicken Council predicts that folks will wolf down more than 1.45 billion wings during this year’s Super Bowl, which is slight increase from last years sales (that’s enough to give four wings each to every man, woman and child in the United States.) This figure represents an increase of two percent from last year’s report, the equivalent of 84 million more wings. Phoenix’s State Farm Stadium (home of Super Bowl LVII) can hold 73,000 people. If 1.45 billion chicken wings were distributed to the full stadium, each fan could enjoy 19,863 wings.
Americans will be washing down those snacks by drinking a record amount, a whopping 325 million barrels of beer this year.
Super Bowl LVI was played on February 13, 2022 and broadcast by NBS in the U.S., was watched by more than 112 million viewers in the United States, up from Super Bowl LV numbers (Nielson rating were also up during the halftime show which featured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar.) A record number of people, approximately 18.1 million, called in ‘sick‘ to work the day after the Super Bowl, (of that number, about 10.9 million employees took a pre-approved personal day/PTO).
An easy fix for this problem is moving the Super Bowl to the Sunday before Presidents Day so the day after the game would be a national holiday.
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