NFL Super Bowl XLIII: Facts And Figures
01/27/2009
SUPER BOWL XLIII FACTS AND FIGURES
AT STAKE
National Football League Championship and
the Vince Lombardi Trophy
PARTICIPANTS
Champions of the American Football Conference
(AFC) Pittsburg Steelers and the National Football Conference
(NFC) Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League
SITE
Raymond James Stadium, Tampa Bay, Florida
CAPACITY
71,000
DATE
February 1, 2009
GAME TIME
6:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
TELEVISION AND RADIO FACTS
Super Bowl XLIII will be carried nationally by
NBC on more than 200 television stations
throughout the United States, plus Bermuda
and Guam.
For the twenty-second consecutive season
and the thirty-sixth time overall, Westwood
One Radio will carry the game on more than
500 radio stations within the United States.
Armed Forces Radio will provide the broadcast
to 180 foreign countries and ships at sea.
Univision Radio will broadcast in Spanish to
more than 30 radio stations in the U.S., reaching
more than 500,000 Spanish-speaking NFL
fans.
Super Bowl XLIII will be distributed internationally
by the NFL and NFL International to
more than 220 countries and the game will be
broadcast in 33 different languages. Thirteen
languages will be featured in live broadcasts
originating from Raymond James Stadium:
English, Danish, Flemish, French, German,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
In addition, the game will be broadcast in
Arabic, Basque, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian,
Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, Galician, Greek,
Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Montenegrin,
Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian,
Swedish and Thai.
NBC TELEVISION SCHEDULE
1:00-6:00 P.M. (EST)—Pregame show.
6:00 P.M. (EST) to conclusion—Super Bowl
XLIII.
WESTWOOD ONE RADIO SCHEDULE
5:00-6:00 P.M. (EST)—Pregame show.
6:00 P.M. (EST) to conclusion—Super Bowl
XLIII and postgame show.
PLAYER SHARES
$78,000 to each member of the winning team;
$40,000 to each member of the losing team
(more than $6 million total for the personnel of
the two competing clubs).
PLAYER UNIFORMS
The NFC champion will be the home team,
will use the West bench, and will have the
choice of wearing its colored or white jersey.
The AFC champion will be the visiting team and
will use the East bench.
SUDDEN DEATH
If the game is tied at the end of the regulation 60
minutes, it will continue in sudden-death overtime.
The team scoring first (by safety, field goal,
or touchdown) will win.
At the end of regulation, the referee immediately
will toss a coin at the center of the field,
in accordance with rules pertaining to the usual
pregame toss. The captain of the visiting
team will call the toss. Following a three (3)
minute intermission, play will continue by fifteen
(15) minute periods with a two (2) minute
intermission between each overtime period.
There will be no halftime intermission. Teams
will change goals between each period. The
rules for game timing and team timeouts shall
be the same as in the regular game, including
the last two (2) minutes of the second and
fourth quarters.
OFFICIAL TIME
The scoreboard clock will be official.
OFFICIALS
Seven officials and five alternates, all appointed
by the Commissioner’s office.
TROPHY
The winning team receives permanent possession
of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, a sterling
silver trophy created by Tiffany & Company
and presented annually to the winner of the
Super Bowl. The trophy was named for the
late Vince Lombardi before Super Bowl V. The
trophy is a regulation-size silver football
mounted in a kicking position on a pyramidlike
stand of three concave sides. The trophy
stands 20.75 inches tall, weighs 107.3
ounces, and is valued in excess of $25,000.
The words Vince Lombardi and Super Bowl
XLIII are engraved on the base along with the
NFL shield.
ATTENDANCE HISTORY
To date, 3,276,834 have attended Super Bowl
games. The largest crowd was 103,985 at Super
Bowl XIV, which was played at the Rose
Bowl in Pasadena, California.
NFL HEADQUARTERS
Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina
MEDIA CONTACTS
Joe Browne, Executive Vice President of
Communications & Public Affairs
Greg Aiello, Senior Vice President of Public
Relations
Brian McCarthy, Vice President of Corporate
Communications
Vince Casey, Director of Football Information
Leslie Hammond, Director of Media Services
Dan Masonson, Corporate Communications
Director
Michael Signora, Director of Media Relations
& International Communications
Dennis Johnson, Public Relations Director,
NFL Network
Clare Graff, Publicity Manager for
Community Affairs
Randall Liu, NFC Information Manager
Corry Rush, AFC Information Manager
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