If
I painted a picture of a living room filled with fans sporting oversized jerseys,
consuming chips and salsa, wings, guacamole, and of course Budweiser, what day
of the year would most Americans immediately think of? No, I’m not talking about July 4th. I didn’t mention fireworks. I’m talking about the Super Bowl. With a 48.1 Nielsen rating, a widely used
system that measures audience size, the 2013 Super Bowl was the most watched
television spectacle in American history.
Additionally, Americans chow down on 1,083,333 Football Fields worth of
wings, while also consuming 325 million gallons of beer on this joyous day,
according to a study done by the Huffington Post. In fact, the Miami Herald reports that Super
Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving as the largest food consumption day
of the year in the United States.
