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Super Bowl Myths and Legends

A compendium of the most popular legends and rumors associated with the Super Bowl. How many have you heard?

Published Jan 28, 2020

Updated Feb 13, 2023
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Over the last few decades football's championship game, the Super Bowl, has surpassed baseball's World Series as America's premiere sporting event. In fact, the Super Bowl has now transcended its status as a mere athletic contest to become a great national celebration on a par with many of our political and state holidays. A two-week build-up of massive media coverage leads into a day of partying, overeating, drinking, wagering, and the (anti-)climax of a football game itself. As we should expect, an event of such tremendous national importance has engendered its own unique set of legends, legends that express a number of our national values. Anthropologist Alan Dundes has noted that "Super Bowl legends usually involve numbers and a sense of enormity. The idea of big numbers, of being bigger than other people, is very American."

Here is our review of some of the more popular legends and rumors associated with the Super Bowl:

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A tweet claimed to have leaked the script for Super Bowl LVII.
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Updates

Updated [Feb. 13, 2023] with an assortment of new rumors and legends.

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