Super Bowl: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional football in the United States, culminating aseason that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl normally uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl I was played on January 15, 1967, following the 1966 regular season. The single exception to this rule is Super Bowl 50, which was played on February 7, 2016, following the 2015 regular season.

The game was created as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion teams would play in the AFL–NFL World Championship Game until the merger was to officially begin in 1970. After the merger, each league was redesignated as a "conference", and the game has since been played between the conference champions to determine the NFL's league champion. Currently, theNational Football Conference (NFC) leads the league with 26 wins to 23 wins for the American Football Conference (AFC). The Pittsburgh Steelers hold the record for Super Bowl victories with six.

The day on which the Super Bowl is played, now considered by some an unofficial American national holiday, is called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been the most-watched American television broadcast of the year; the four most-watched broadcasts in U.S. television history are Super Bowls. In 2015, Super Bowl XLIX became the most-watched American television program in history with an average audience of 114.4 million viewers, the fifth time in six years the game had set a record, starting with the 2010 Super Bowl, which itself had taken over the number-one spot held for 27 years by the final episode of M*A*S*H. The Super Bowl is also among the most-watched sporting events in the world, almost all audiences being North American, and is second to soccer's UEFA Champions League final as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide.

Series details

• Title: Super Bowl
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1967-01-15
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 211 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 3.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 6011

Cast and credited roles

• Alan Roach — Public Address Announcer
• Melissa Stark — Sideline Reporter
• Jim Nantz — Jim Nantz
• Tony Romo — Tony Romo
• Tracy Wolfson — Tracy Wolfson
• Mike Tirico — Play-by-Play Announcer
• Cris Collinsworth — Analyst
• Kaylee Hartung — Reporter
• Evan Washburn — Evan Washburn
• Tom Brady — Analyst
• Kevin Burkhardt — Play-by-Play Announcer
• Tom Rinaldi — Reporter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1967: premiered 1967-01-15; final listed air date 1967-01-15.
• Season 1968: premiered 1968-01-14; final listed air date 1968-01-14.
• Season 1969: premiered 1969-01-12; final listed air date 1969-01-12.
• Season 1970: premiered 1970-01-11; final listed air date 1970-01-11.
• Season 1971: premiered 1971-01-17; final listed air date 1971-01-17.
• Season 1972: premiered 1972-01-16; final listed air date 1972-01-16.
• Season 1973: premiered 1973-01-14; final listed air date 1973-01-14.
• Season 1974: premiered 1974-01-13; final listed air date 1974-01-13.
• Season 1975: premiered 1975-01-12; final listed air date 1975-01-12.
• Season 1976: premiered 1976-01-18; final listed air date 1976-01-18.
• Season 1977: premiered 1977-01-09; final listed air date 1977-01-09.
• Season 1978: premiered 1978-01-15; final listed air date 1978-01-15.
• Season 1979: premiered 1979-01-21; final listed air date 1979-01-21.
• Season 1980: premiered 1980-01-20; final listed air date 1980-01-20.
• Season 1981: premiered 1981-01-25; final listed air date 1981-01-25.
• Season 1982: premiered 1982-01-24; final listed air date 1982-01-24.
• Season 1983: premiered 1983-01-30; final listed air date 1983-01-30.
• Season 1984: premiered 1984-01-22; final listed air date 1984-01-22.
• Season 1985: premiered 1985-01-20; final listed air date 1985-01-20.
• Season 1986: premiered 1986-01-26; final listed air date 1986-01-26.
• Season 1987: premiered 1987-01-25; final listed air date 1987-01-25.
• Season 1988: premiered 1988-01-31; final listed air date 1988-01-31.
• Season 1989: premiered 1989-01-22; final listed air date 1989-01-22.
• Season 1990: premiered 1990-01-28; final listed air date 1990-01-28.
• Season 1991: premiered 1991-01-27; final listed air date 1991-01-27.
• Season 1992: premiered 1992-01-26; final listed air date 1992-01-26.
• Season 1993: premiered 1993-01-31; final listed air date 1993-01-31.
• Season 1994: premiered 1994-01-30; final listed air date 1994-01-30.
• Season 1995: premiered 1995-01-29; final listed air date 1995-01-29.
• Season 1996: premiered 1996-01-28; final listed air date 1996-01-28.

Source and licence

Adapted from Super Bowl on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.