Super Bowl: Did you know...

When editors of The Lima News went looking for a fun and interesting, but totally unimportant look at the Super Bowl, they knew the reporter to turn to … J.D. Bruewer.

• Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis ties Ford Field in Detroit (2006) as the closest Super Bowl locations to Lima at 130 miles.
• The 68,000 tickets sold would be enough for everyone living in Lima, Wapakoneta, Delphos, Van Wert, Alger and all but six of the 255 people living in Buckland.

• Four Ohioans named Super Bowl most valuable players: Len Dawson (Alliance, SB I); Roger Staubach, (Cincinnati, SB VI); Larry Csonka (Stow, SB VIII) and Desmond Howard (Cleveland, SB XXXI).
• Call them The Cleveland Frowns. They’re one of four teams never to play in a Super Bowl. The other three are the Detroit, Jacksonville and the Houston Texans

When’s bed time?

• If you watch the entire game, plan on going to bed between 10 and 10:30 p.m. The average game lasts 3½ to 4 hours.

• Super Bowl tickets were selling online Tuesday for $2,000 to $14,000. That same day Reineke Ford Lincoln of Lima offered online a 2012 Ford Fiesta for $13,200.

 Deal No. 2

• A room at an Indianapolis Days Inn the night of the game is going for $683. You could spend all week in Lima for that and still have money left to get a Kewpee.

• Super Bowl Sunday is second to Thanksgiving as the largest food consumption day in the U.S.
• 8 million pounds of popcorn will be consumed today; Van Wert County produces 30 million pounds in a year,
• This will be the year’s eighth largest beer consumption day, with 325 million gallons going down the hatch.

• Ball hogs: Pittsburgh, Dallas played most games, 8
• Braggers: Pittsburgh most wins, 6
• Biggest loser: Buffalo, lost 4 consecutive games

• Cleveland and Detroit each won four NFL championships before the Super Bowl began in 1967.

• The Wilson football factory in Ada has supplied game balls for every Super Bowl.
• Wilson hand-crafted 228 game balls for this year’s game.

SOURCES: USDA, Beer Institute, U.S. Census Bureau, Associated Press and LimaOhio.com