Here are some delectable fast facts to chew on between now and Super Bowl XV in Tampa on February 3...

Tickets for the first Super Bowl in 1967 cost an average of $6, which was apparently too pricy for many as there were 30,000 empty seats! Last year the average price of a Super Bowl ticket was reported to hit $10,835 on the resale market.

Speaking of ducats, unlike most sporting events today, the Super Bowl only issues and accepts paper tickets to attend the game.

These six words have been imprinted on every Super Bowl game football since day one: "Commissioner," "Wilson" and, "Made in the U.S.A".

Super Bowl ads are super expensive, approaching $6M for a 30-second spot this year. The most expensive ad in Super Bowl history ($12.4 million in 2011) changed the life of the brand and the city of Detroit. Watching Eminem driving a Chrysler 200 around the city not only marked the renewal of Chrysler but also increased sales by 50% and helped energize the Motor City's auto industry.

Balls. Balls. And more balls. Each team playing in the Super Bowl gets 108 footballs. 54 are for practice and 54 are for the actual game. During a typical Super Bowl, 120 balls are used. (The additional ones are kicker footballs, used for all kicking plays.) Wilson craftsmen and craftswomen at the Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio complete each football by hand.

The NFL uses roman numerals to avoid confusion about when the Super Bowl is played. Lamar Hunt, the former owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, came up with the roman numerals system after NFL officials wanted to avoid confusion based on the fact that the championship game is played they year after the corresponding season has ended.

The football on top of the Lombardi Trophy is the exact size of an official "The Duke" football, which is 55 cm through the middle, 71 cm around the ends. That's one big trophy!

As a perk, every player in the big game gets a loaner car to drive around during the week leading up to the Super Bowl.

Nobody goes hungry on Super Bowl Sunday. It is the second biggest eating day for Americans - Thanksgiving is the first. 10M pounds of ribs are sold during the week, 1.5B chicken wings will be devoured, over 11M pounds of potato chips, 8M pounds of guacamole and a 50% increase in pizza orders on Super Sunday, compared to a regular Sunday all help football finals overdose on grub. In addition, over 52M cases of beer are sold on Super Sunday. Now you know why Anheuser-Busch has spent nearly a half billion dollars on Super Bowl ads since 2006.

And finally, it's been reported that 92% of the people who bet on the Super Bowl have lost money doing so. All I can say is, shame on them for not first reading the Playbook Football Newsletter Super Bowl Report.