Super Bowl 2020 trivia: 44 facts about the sports event

Super Bowl 2020 is an annual event. This game will decide the winner of the NFL 2019 season.

This year Shakira and Jennifer Lopez will headline the half-time show. So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the event!

1. Super Bowl LIV is the 54th Super Bowl
2. And the 50th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game
3. The game will decide the champion for the NFL’s 2019 and 100th season
4. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers will play against the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs
5. The game is scheduled to be played on February 2, 2020
6. The game will take place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
7. This will be the 11th Super Bowl hosted by the South Florida region
8. And the sixth Super Bowl hosted in Miami Gardens
9. Miami Gardens hosted Super Bowl XLIV ten years earlier
10. The game will be broadcast in the United States by Fox
11. And the halftime show will be co-headlined by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira
12. Super Bowl LIV will be televised by Fox
13. Per the three-year rotation between Fox, NBC, and CBS, the NFL’s three network broadcast partners
14. Along with Fox Deportes in Spanish
15. Similarly to its Thursday Night Football broadcasts, Fox plans to produce its Super Bowl LIV broadcast in 1080p high definition with Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) high-dynamic-range (HDR) color
16. Upconverted to a 4K ultra high definition feed available through participating pay TV providers and streaming devices
17. Fox constructed a broadcast plaza in South Beach along Ocean Drive
18. Which is originating FS1’s studio programs during the week leading up to the game
19. And will serve as the main location for its pre-game show
20. The plaza also features public activities such as the “Fox VIP Screening Room”, an exhibit promoting the upcoming Fox series Lego Masters
21. And a 70 ft (21 m) Masked Singer-themed ferris wheel
22. Fox charged between “north of” $5 million and $5.6 million for 30 seconds of commercial time during Super Bowl LIV
23. On November 22, 2019, Fox announced that it had sold its entire in-game advertising inventory
24. As part of NFL initiatives to adjust and optimize commercial load during games, Fox will air four breaks per quarter rather than five
25. But each break will be 30 seconds longer
26. Fox’s executive vice president of sports sales Seth Winter said these changes had increased the early demand for commercial time during the game
27. It was reported that two candidates in the 2020 presidential election had bought spots during the game
28. Including the re-election campaign of Donald Trump, and Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg
29. The game falls on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, the first major contest of the 2020 Democratic primaries
30. It was reported that due to concerns from other advertisers, only Fox network promos will air alongside the political ads during their respective breaks
31. Expected to be early in the game and at halftime respectively
32. In contrast to its largest collection of Super Bowl ad buys in 2019, perennial sponsor Anheuser-Busch purchased only four 60-second spots
33. Fewer than previous years
34. On May 13, 2019, Fox announced that its lead-out program will be the season 3 premiere of The Masked Singer
35. In Canada, Super Bowl LIV will be televised by CTV
36. In December 2019, considering an appeal of a prior decision at the request of Bell Media, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a ruling that had allowed the CRTC to restrict use of the simultaneous substitution (simsub) regulations for the Super Bowl in order to allow access to the U.S. commercials
37. Which they had deemed, by public response, to be an integral part of the telecast
38. The court held that the CRTC’s exception in policy overstepped its power under the Broadcasting Act
39. Citing that it does not allow the CRTC to “impose terms and conditions on the distribution of programming services generally”
40. In Brazil, Super Bowl LIV will be televised by ESPN Brasil and exhibited in the movie theatres chains Cinemark, UCI and Kinoplex
41. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the game will broadcast on the free-to-air channel BBC One
42. And paid-subscription channels Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Mix
43. Demi Lovato will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner”
44. On September 26, 2019, it was announced that Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will be the featured acts in the halftime show