Super Bowl XLVI By the Numbers
1 – Number of Super Bowls that Eli Manning has won. Ironically, it’s also the same number of Super Bowls that Tom Brady has lost.
3 – The opening point spread at most sports books of this year’s Super Bowl. (Patriots –3, that is.)
3.5 – Number of sacks that Osi Umenyiora has compiled this postseason, which ties him for the most along with Houston’s J.J. Watt and Brooks Reed.
4 – Number of defensive ends that the Giants can lineup at the same time. (Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora and Dave Tollefson.)
9 – Combined number of Pro Bowls that Manning and Brady have appeared in.
12.5 – The number that the Patriots were favored by the last time they played the Giants in the Super Bowl.
16 – Number of top-seeded teams from the AFC that have made the Super Bowl since 1977. (Only four were crowned champions, although the Patriots were one of those four in 2003.)
18 – Number of touchdowns Rob Gronkowski compiled during the regular season, second only to Philadelphia’s LeSean McCoy (20).
20 – Teams that fail to score 20 points in the Super Bowl are 1-22 since 1977. The only team since 1977 to score less than 20 points and still win? The 2008 Giants, who beat the Patriots, 17-14.
46 – Well, this one is pretty obvious…it’s the number of passes Brady attempted in the Patriots’ Week 16 win over the Dolphins.
55.5 – The total that most sports books opened at for this year’s Super Bowl.
75.4 – Brady’s passer rating against the Giants in the Patriots’ 24-20 loss in Week 9 of the regular season.
199 – The pick that the Patriots used to select Brady in 2000.
335 – Number of receiving yards Hakeem Nicks has compiled this postseason (best in the NFL).
3,982 – Average price, in dollars, of one Super Bowl ticket.
13,000 – Hotel rooms in Indianapolis. All are booked for the weekend and some at a 1,700% higher price than the conventional fee.
68,000 – Capacity at Lucas Oil Stadium after it was expanded from 63,000 for the big game.
3,500,000 – The cost of a 30-second commercial for this year’s Super Bowl.
50,000,000 – Estimated cases of beer consumed by fans on Super Bowl Sunday.
1.25 Billion – Apparently this is the number of chicken wings that will be consumed on Sunday. God we’re fat…
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0- The number of comments by snd_dsgnr since the Giants made the Super Bowl. Come out, come out, wherever you are!
Here I am, and I’ve got one more set of numbers to add to the list:
31-24 Giants
I hope the best for you . . . I have no dog in the fight!
Somehow, I think the scores will be a bit lower . . . I’ll say 20-17 Giants.
As Yoda says, “Collapse the pocket, they will.”
Good call, Jester – I was starting to get worried about the snd!
Best of luck to your team, snd. Like Jester, I have no dog in this fight but I do have a gift for you: I’ll pick the Patriots tomorrow so I don’t jinx your Giants like I did all season.
You don’t have to thank me, I know you’re grateful…
Jester: I know that Super Bowls usually have lower scores than people think, but I think this will be the exception to the rule. I don’t think the Giants linebackers and safeties and consistently stop the Patriots tight ends, and I don’t think the Patriots corners can consistently stop the Giants wideouts.
Stalter: Appreciate the consideration, but kidding aside I’m actually not particularly superstitious. I think this ends up being a close game, and the winning team will be the one who’s defense was able to just make one or two more stops than the other. I think that defense will be the Giants.
HAH! I was off by 1 point!!!
You both have much to learn, young Padawans!
Dudes, I was off in saying the Giants were gonna sack, which for the most part wasn’t the game winner. But I was thinking that since the Patriots D was stepping up recently, and the Patriots O was hobbled, that the outcome would be the same, but a little off.
That being said, I’d be interested in seeing some “Sabermetrics” on how teams surge into the playoffs vs. teams that “come down” into the playoffs i.e. Green Bay and the Giants seemingly just putting everything together at the end of the season to win the SB, vs. Green Bay, New Orleans, or New England splooging all their energy to dominate the regular season, only to wane at the end.