Super Bowl 2014: Sunday’s Game Could Shatter Economic Records

January 28, 2014

Boy, does putting the Super Bowl in New York (actually New Jersey) make quite the difference or what? At least that’s what we’re supposed to think.

Whether it’s viewership, attendance or economic impact, if the projected numbers leading up to this Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVIII come into fruition, it could be the most significant Super Bowl money-maker in history. Just wear seventeen layers of clothes.

According to TicketCity, who compiled stats from the sources listed below, TV numbers are coming in to be projected around 108 million, just five million behind 2012’s record breaking numbers between the Giants and Patriots. Ad revenue looks to be earth shattering at around $300 million as well. However, the most staggering projection…the ‘economic impact’ of $550 million.

Sources say the game will attract at least a half million people to the greater New York-New Jersey area, more then three times the amount of people who went to last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Below is the list of the most significant money-makers of the last 20 years. Sunday, as expected, just might take the cake:

Other fun-filled stats:

The average sale price for this year’s game is $3324, 40% higher than ticket prices for last year’s game. The cheapest ticket currently listed is $1934, with luxury suites on the other end of the spectrum listed for as much as half a million dollars.

Viewership for this year’s NFL conference title games’ was up big from last season (22% for the AFC championship and 17% for the NFC). In fact, total viewership for the title games was on track with 2012, when the Super Bowl broke records with 111.3 million people watching the game.

Sources are estimating a $4 million price tag for the average 30-second commercial at this year’s Super Bowl, the most expensive in the history of the game broadcast.

Metlife Stadium is the second-largest SuperBowl host stadium in the last five years, meaning that even If fans only fill the stadium to average capacity of previous games, 2014 will have the 3rd highest attendance in the last two decades.

Josh Helmuth is the editor of CraveOnline Sports. You can follow him @JHelmuth or “like’ CraveOnline Sports on Facebook.

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