Super Bowl LVII Trivia | 55 facts about the sporting event

Super Bowl LVII was named the American football game played to determine the champion of the NFL for the 2022 season.

Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the game.

1. Super Bowl LVII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2022 season
2. It was the 57th Super Bowl
3. The game was played on Sunday, February 12, 2023
4. At State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona
5. Kickoff time was at 4:30 PM MST (UTC-7)
6. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles, 38–35
7. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named the game’s Most Valuable Player
8. Both teams finished the regular season with a league-best 14-3 record
9. The Chiefs were playing in their fifth overall Super Bowl
10. Having played previously in Super Bowls I, IV, LIV and LV
11. The Eagles were looking for their second Super Bowl victory after Super Bowl LII
12. Having also appeared in XV and XXXIX
13. Three of the previous five Super Bowls had featured either the Chiefs or the Eagles
14. Though this was the first time the two teams would meet in the championship
15. The Chiefs’ victory was their second in four years and their third overall
16. After the Eagles went into halftime up 24–14, the Chiefs mounted a comeback to win the game 38–35 with a Harrison Butker game-winning field goal
17. The 73 combined points was the third-highest scoring Super Bowl game
18. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player (MVP), completing 21 of 27 passes for 182 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing six times for 44 yards
19. Mahomes became the first quarterback since Kurt Warner in 1999 to win an NFL MVP and a Super Bowl title in the same season
20. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts went 27 of 39 for 304 yards passing and one touchdown
21. Adding 70 yards and three more touchdowns on the ground
22. Tying the all-time record for rushing touchdowns
23. It was the fourth Super Bowl hosted by the Phoenix metropolitan area, with the most recent previously being Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, also held at State Farm Stadium (then called University of Phoenix Stadium)
24. The game was televised nationally by Fox
25. The halftime show was headlined by Rihanna
26. Beginning with Super Bowl LVI, a new system was introduced to select Super Bowl hosting sites
27. Discarding the previous process that allowed cities to submit bids for the hosting rights, the league unilaterally chooses a single hosting site for each game
28. The chosen city then puts together a proposal that is voted upon at the league’s owners’ meetings
29. Arizona was the first location chosen under this process
30. Its proposal was accepted unanimously on May 23, 2018
31. The official logo was unveiled on February 14, 2022
32. It follows the updated logo template introduced by Super Bowl LVI, with imagery of a desert canyon and sky (the latter resembling Arizona’s state flag) to reflect the landscapes of the host region
33. In February 2022, over 200 liberal religious leaders, including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Dr. William Barber II, petitioned NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to move Super Bowl LVII out of Arizona after they accused the Arizona legislature of enacting unnecessary voting restrictions with HB 1003, SB 1485, and SB 1819
34. Arizona Democratic Party vice-chair Brianna Westbrook also voiced her support to move the Super Bowl after the Arizona legislature passed SB 1138 and SB 1165, which restricts access to gender-affirming care for minors, and bans transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams
35. The game and surrounding festivities included acknowledgements of the Indigenous peoples of Arizona
36. These are the Ak-Chin Indian Community, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Gila River Indian Community, and Tohono O’odham Nation were named as Host Committee Partners
37. And the official branding for the game features artwork by Lucinda “La Morena” Hinojos, featuring the White Tank Mountains adorned with 22 diamonds representing the Native American tribes that have a presence in Arizona
38. This marked the first time an Indigenous artist was commissioned to create official artwork for the Super Bowl
39. An 8,500 square feet (790 m2) mural in downtown Phoenix was also commissioned in collaboration between Hinojos and other Indigenous artists
40. For the first time, a land acknowledgement was read during a ceremony on February 6 attended by representatives of the Host Committee Partner tribes
41. While dance troupe Indigenous Enterprise performed during Super Bowl Opening Night
42. As part of entertainment outside State Farm Stadium on the day of the game
43. The presence of the Kansas City Chiefs led to continued calls against the use of Native American imagery by the team and its fans (including the “tomahawk chop”)
44. Including by the Kansas City Indian Center, the National Congress of American Indians, and the first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
45. Groups of Indigenous activists organized a protest rally outside State Farm Stadium
46. American country singer Chris Stapleton was the singer for the national anthem
47. Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
48. And R&B singer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds sang “America the Beautiful”
49. All three songs were also interpreted in American Sign Language by actor and Arizona native Troy Kotsur
50. With “America the Beautiful” additionally interpreted in Plains Sign Talk by Collin Denny
51. On September 23, 2022, Apple Music was announced as the new naming rights sponsor of the Super Bowl halftime show
52. Replacing Pepsi, which had sponsored the previous ten halftime shows
53. Barbadian singer Rihanna was announced as the headliner of the halftime show on September 25
54. It marked Rihanna’s first live performance in over five years
55. In a red outfit, she performed songs such as “Where Have You Been”, and “Only Girl (In the World)”