Forget soccer, for now. American football will consume millions of viewers’ attention Sunday when the Kansas City Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.
The Chiefs are two-time champs (2020, 1970) and the Eagles won once (2018).
Can you guess the most common first names on the rosters? Last names? Leading states of birth? What about height and weight?
And some families and hometowns will be hyper focused on the big game like the Kelce family from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, which has two brothers on opposing teams: Jason plays for the Eagles and Travis for the Chiefs.
Can you guess the most common first names on the rosters? Last names?
Leading states of birth? What about height and weight? Colleges and conferences most represented? Which players have the most years of experience?
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Big Game Census data visualization answers these questions and more. They can also make you smarter on game day.
Note: Click on the image to go to the interactive data visualization.
Nothing says loyalty more than playing in the Super Bowl for a team from your home state. This year there are four (the Kansas City metro area includes Missouri and Kansas):
Green Bay, Wisconsin, home to the Green Bay Packers, is the smallest metro area with an NFL team. It ranked 158 in population in 2021. The Packers have a 4-1 Super Bowl record and a winning percentage that’s higher than the two teams in this year’s Super Bowl.
Eight of the teams in the top 50 metros have a .000 winning percentage in the Super Bowl.
Can you name the four teams with a perfect 1.000 winning percentage?
Page 495 in the official NFL Record and Fact Book has the answers.
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