Pittsburgh who?
Can you tell I live in Wisconsin?
Super Bowl hype is all fun and games until one team gets blown out in front of an international audience of more than 100 million people.
Who knows what will happen on the night of February 6th. All I know is that I happen to live a stone’s throw away from Green Bay and the entire state is going nuts right now.
It’s been 13 long years since the Packers got invited to the play for the national championship and the fun has only just begun in the Dairy State.
Regardless of who you are planning to cheer for next Sunday, you might enjoy reading these Super Bowl fun facts with a cheesehead slant:
According to the NFL, a record 105,000 spectators will watch the Packers take on the Steelers in Arlington, Texas. About 95,000 fans will be in the seats and suites inside the stadium, along with about 5,000 media members and staff. Another 5,000 people also paid $200 apiece to be in an area outside the stadium watching the game on big-screen TVs.
Interestingly, Green Bay has a population of about 104,000, so there will be more people watching the Green and Gold play in the national championship game than there are residents of Packer Nation.
The white lights that normally shine at night at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, will go dim next week. In their place, the Capitol’s dome will be illuminated in green and gold in an ode to the Packers and their pursuit to bring the Lombardi Trophy home to Wisconsin.
Las Vegas has its money on the Packers coming away with a Super Bowl win. However, bookies are not the only ones getting in on the action. Art museums in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh are wagering loans of major works of art based on the outcome of the big game.
Milwaukee Art Museum Director Daniel Keegan, an avid Packers fan, is betting a “Boating on the Yerres” by Gustave Caillebotte, while Carnegie Museum of Art director and Steelers Lynn Zelevansky is wagering “Bathers with Crab,” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Finally, Packers fans are coming up with some wild and crazy ways to get their frozen fingers on Super Bowl tickets. More than just a few people on Craigslist are willing to wheel and deal for a chance to see the Packers crush the Steelers. A guy living near Milwaukee will trade you his 1979 Corvette for four tickets. Another is offering cash and his Green Bay house across from Lambeau Field for a weekend if you provide him with decent Super Bowl seats.
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