The Super Bowl is one of the most watched, if not the most watched, sporting event of the year. The Super Bowl is a time when more than a lot of money flies around, whether it is from advertising budgets or delivering pizzas. Either way, most are taking part in it in some form or fashion. 24/7 Wall St. has compiled a list of key statistics for the upcoming Super Bowl.

These statistics come from many sources. They cover people, ticket prices, the amount of food and beer consumed, the economic impact and many more factoids.

According to AdWeek, as of January 28, 2015, all Super Bowl ad spots had been sold. The going rate for a 30-second spot in 2015 was $4.5 million.

Taking a look back, Super Bowl commercials in 2014 cost $4 million for 30 seconds, and the very first Super Bowl commercials cost $42,000 for a 30-second spot.

Projections by the National Chicken Council are that Americans will consume 1.25 billion chicken wings (enough to give everyone in the country about three wings apiece).

The top five pizza delivery days of the year are Super Bowl Sunday, New Year’s Eve, Halloween, the night before Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. The Super Bowl is generally number one on this list.

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In the past couple years, over 4.4 million pizzas were delivered by Dominos, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut. This number is expected to increase for the 2015 Super Bowl, but no public projections have been made.

In 2014, roughly 325 million gallons of beer were consumed.

As of January 29, Google search results for “Deflategate” generated what Google said were about 34,700,000 results.

As of Thursday January 29, the cheapest Super Bowl ticket is $8,070, according to ESPN. Ticket prices were skyrocketing too as brokers bought more tickets, dwindling the supply, and then turned around and sold them on secondary ticket markets for an increased price.

And what about eBay? Here are some current ticket prices: eBay had two tickets up for auction for what was listed as $10,100 after 21 bids, and it also had four tickets with the NFL Red package with pregame and post-game hospitality with a bid of $32,300.00 after 28 bids as of 1:20 p.m. Eastern on January 29. Other eBay ticket auctions at the same time, which had more than five bids on them at the time, were listed as $9,100 for two tickets, $6,900 for two tickets, $10,600 for two tickets, $9,100.00 for two tickets, $8,600 for two tickets, and so on.

What about other fantasy sports betting? Here is how large FanDuel has become, due to having more than 80% market share of the daily fantasy sports industry: “In 2014 we achieved $57,261,642 in revenue for the year.”

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24/7 Wall St has also compiled data from the U.S. census on the home cities of two competing teams in the Super Bowl.

NEW ENGLAND

• 44.8% of Boston metro area residents 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2013; 91.2% had at least graduated from high school. The respective national figures were 29.6% and 86.6%.
• 23.4% of Boston metro area residents five and older spoke a language other than English at home. The national average was 20.8%. (Source: 2013 American Community Survey)
• $72,907 is the median household income for the Boston metro area. The national median was $52,250.
• $363,200 is the median home value of owner-occupied homes in the Boston metro area. The national median was $173,900.
• 30.0 minutes is the average amount of time it took Boston metro area residents to get to work; 68.7% of the area’s workers drove to work alone, 6.9% carpooled and 12.8% took public transportation. Nationally, it took an average of 25.8 minutes to get to work.

SEATTLE

• Seattle ranked 15 on the list of the nation’s most populous metropolitan areas. The estimated population of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash., metro area on July 1, 2013, was 3,610,105. The Seattle area gained 57,514 people from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2013. At the time of the Seahawks’ first season in 1976, the 1970 Census population for the city of Seattle was 530,831.
• 39.4% of Seattle metro area residents 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2013; 91.7% had at least graduated from high school. The respective national figures were 29.6% and 86.6%.
• 22.3% of Seattle metro area residents five and older spoke a language other than English at home. The national average was 20.8%.
• $67,479 was the median household income for the Seattle metro area. The national median was $52,250.
• $307,900 was the median home value of owner-occupied homes in the Seattle metro area. The national median was $173,900.
• 28.6 minutes was the average amount of time it took Seattle metro area residents to get to work; 69.7% of the area’s workers drove to work alone, 9.9% carpooled and 9.3% took public transportation. (Note: The percentage of workers that carpooled is not statistically different from the percentage that took public transportation.)

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Here is a factoid from the American Gaming Association (AGA) for sports wagering: Nevada, Delaware, Oregon and Montana allow some form of sports betting, and the majority of such legal betting takes places in Las Vegas. According to a first-ever estimate by the AGA released in January 2015:

Americans were expected to make $3.8 billion worth of illegal bets on 2015 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. That figure stands in stark contrast to the approximately $100 million bet legally on the Super Bowl each year. In fact, the illegal market is 38 times greater than the legal one.

Las Vegas is a winner too — big time! The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on January 28, 2015:

More than 300,000 tourists are expected to begin pouring into Southern Nevada on Friday for Super Bowl weekend, the NFL’s superhyped championship game Sunday between the defending champion Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots at Glendale, Arizona. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority projects a 1.7 percent increase in weekend visitors over last year to 307,000.

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