The 43rd Super Bowl® will be played this coming weekend and, like many of you, we’ve become caught up in the excitement of the game.

I want to help you out. I know you’ve been so busy with your real estate education over the past weeks that you may have missed some of the pre Super Bowl chatter. Whether you’re hanging out with strangers or hunkered down with friends, we know you’re going to want to make an impression. Face it, on Super Bowl Sunday it’s all about what you know.

We’ve got a few tidbits to pass along to help prepare you for those moments when you want to seemingly offhandedly toss out a little comment that makes you sound like the smartest sports aficionado in the room.

We’re not assuming you’re a complete novice. After all, who would go to a Super Bowl party without some knowledge of football?

* 7.5 Million parties are held on Super Bowl Sunday with 43.9 million party-goers
* 1.5 Million TV sets will be sold during the week leading up to Super Bowl
* Super Bowl is the top at-home party event of the year, ahead of New Year’s Eve
* Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest day of food consumption, second only to Thanksgiving
* $2.6 Million – Cost of a 30-second advertising spot on Super Bowl XLl game coverage
* 100 Radio stations on “Radio Row” in the Super Bowl Media Center
* 10 Most watched television programs in history are all Super
Bowls

It helps when you know the point spread (the Steelers are favored by seven points) and it’s even better when you know something about one or two players that nobody else is likely to know.

For instance, Jared Retkofsky was cut from the Steelers three times before being called back this year to fill in as long snapper for veteran Greg Warren who was placed on the injured reserve list. When he was cut from the team, Retkofsky worked as a mover for two different companies just to pay his bills.

You could impress your friends by mentioning that Raymond James Stadium, often referred to as the “crown jewel” of the NFL by league insiders, is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the University of South Florida Bulls.

More than just a stadium, the Bucs constructed a $3 million pirate ship extravaganza called Buccaneer Cove in the north end zone of the stadium. It features a two-story fishing village facade and an authentic replica of an early 1800s pirate ship that fires cannons when the Buccaneers score a field goal or touchdown.

When the field isn’t in use, the stadium sound system pipes the sound of a crow cawing to keep pigeons from roosting in the rafters.

By the way, if anybody asks who Raymond James is, you can tell them it’s a what, not a who. Raymond James is a financial services firm.

Here’s a great piece of trivia to toss out when that obnoxious friend who seems to know everything has stopped to take a breath: In 1944, because of World War II, the Cardinals (then based in Chicago) combined with the Pittsburgh Steelers to play as one team. The team was called Card-Pitt.

While the Arizona Cardinals might be Super Bowl first-timers, the Cardinals football team is actually the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the nation.

It started as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898. The club was also known as the Normals, Racine Cardinals, Chicago Cardinals, St. Louis Cardinals and finally moved to Phoenix in 1994.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have been around for a long time, too. Founded in 1933 by Art Rooney, they were originally known as the Pittsburgh Pirates. The team changed its name to the Steelers in 1940.

As for me, we’ll I still can’t believe my Patriots didn’t make it to the Super Bowl…..I’ll watch the game ….I have my menu all planned out…couldn’t miss that!!!

Oh by the way, if you happened to miss the fantastic call we had last week on being a Private Money Magnet, my super bowl special to you is a free download of that call. Click here to get it FREE.

Go Pats!

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