Super Bowl XLVI kicks off today! Do you have your snacks ready?

Super Bowl XLVI will kick off tonight at 6:29 Eastern time today at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.  We know who will be playing for the world championship of American football.  We know who is going to play at the halftime show.  We even know what some of the commercials will be.  However, the 46th edition of the Super Bowl comes with a whole lot of interesting facts.  Mental Floss has put together a brief history of the Super Bowl, and it is surprisingly fascinating.

With the kickoff of Super Bowl XLVI, it will mark the record-setting 17th time that NBC has shown the Super Bowl, breaking a tie with CBS. ABC, despite being the creator of Monday Night Football, didn’t host a Super Bowl game until 1985!  Fox, the modern NFL powerhouse, didn’t get its first Super Bowl until 1997!  The first Super Bowl (AKA the AFL-NFL Championship Game) was simulcast on NBC and CBS, and it was the first (and last) Super Bowl to do so, and the last NFL game to be simulcast until the December 2007 game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants; that game was broadcast on both NBC and CBS as the Patriots tried to complete a perfect 16-0 regular season.

Fittingly, Super Bowl XLVI will pit the Giants and the Patriots once again in a rematch of the 2007-08 Super Bowl game that saw the undefeated Patriots get beaten by the Giants in a revenge game.  Now, it’s the revenge game II!

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