Northern California is playing host to the most spectacular sports party on the face of the planet over the next week.
Many who will be caught up in the festivities have no institutional memory that there was a Super Bowl I before there was a Super Bowl L.
Some were lucky enough to see Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Dwight Clark, Roger Craig, Bubba Paris, Wendell Tyler and friends including John Candy take apart Dan Marino and his Miami Aquatic Mammals 38-16 at old Stanford Stadium during Super Bowl XIX.
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SIGN UP HERE It has been said that unless you can see the end at the beginning, you are not going to get off to a very good start. Did anyone who was around for Super Bowl I think that the highest priced ticket of $12.00 would turn into the $10,000 tickets being sold for this week's event in Santa Clara?
A look at how the three Super Bowls compare...
| Super Bowl I | Super Bowl XIX | Super Bowl 50 | |
| Date | Jan. 15, 1967 | Jan. 20, 1985 | Feb. 7, 2016 |
| Location | LA Coliseum | Stanford Stadium | Levi's Stadium |
| Matchup | Green Bay Packers 35 Kansas City Chiefs 10 |
San Francisco 49ers 38 Miami Dolphins 16 |
Carolina Panthers Denver Broncos |
| MVP | Bart Starr | Joe Montana | ? |
| Coaches | Vince Lombardi & Hank Stram | Bill Walsh & Don Shula | Ron Rivera & Gary Kubiak |
| GMs | Vince Lombardi & Jack Steadman | John McVay & Mike Robbie | John Elway & Dave Gettleman |
| Owners | Citizens of Green Bay & Lamar Hunt | DeBartolo family & Joe Robbie | Pat Bowlen family & Jerry Richardson |
| Attendance | 61,946 (Only non sellout in Super Bowl history) |
84,059 |
? |
| Price of admission | $6/$10/$12 | $60 average |
$850-$2,500 |
| Price of an ounce of gold | $35 | $317 | $1,099 |
| TV viewers | 51.18 million | 77 million | 114.4 million estimated |
| Players' share | Winners -- $15,000 Losers -- $7,500 |
Winners -- $36,000 Losers -- $18,000 |
Winners -- $97,000 |
| No. 1 song | "To Sir With Love" by LuLu | "Careless Whisper" by Wham featuring George Michael | “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars |
| No. 1 movie | "Heat of The Night" | "Out of Africa" | "Birdman" |
| No. 1 book | "The Arrangement" by Elia Kazan | "Skeleton Crew" by Stephen King | "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins |
| No. 1 TV show | Bonanza | Dynasty | NFL Sunday Night Football |
| Price of a gallon of gas | $.30 | $.93 | $2.40 |
|
MLB champion |
St. Louis Cardinals | Kansas City Royals | Kansas City Royals |
| NBA champion |
Philadelphia 76ers |
LA Lakers | Golden State Warriors |
| NHL champion | Toronto Maple Leafs | Edmonton Oilers | Chicago Blackhawks |
| NCAA football champion | USC | Oklahoma | Alabama |
| NCAA basketball champion | UCLA | Villanova | Duke |
| President | Lyndon Johnson | Ronald Reagan | Barack Obama |
| National Anthem | UCLA Choir | San Francisco Boys & Girls Choir | ? |
| Halftime show | Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt & Grambling Street Marching Band | Tops in Blue -- US Air Force Band | Beyonce, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, etc. |
| Cost of 30-second commercial | $37,500 | $368,000 | $5 million |
| One year tuition, room & board at Stanford | $16,000 | $29,786 |
$60,749 |
Other odds and ends...
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By the numbers
3,836,514 -- Total attendance through first 49 Super Bowls
103,985 -- Number of people at highest attended Super Bowl -- SB XIV in the Rose Bowl
$50,000 -- Cost of the Vince Lombardi Trophy given to the winning team
$36,500 -- Cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ring -- last year's New England Patriots
5,500 -- credentialed media members to Super Bowl 50
$5,000 -- NFL stipend per championship ring for each winning team player
106 -- Uniform number of head linesman Wayne Mackie
70 -- cameras will be used in the Super Bowl 50 broadcast
13 PSI -- Regulation level of inflation pressure for NFL game ball
5 -- Gallons in the Gatorade container dumped on the winning coach
4 -- Number of franchises who have never played in a Super Bowl -- Cleveland, Detroit, Houston and Jacksonville
Resale prices on Super Bowl 50 tickets on StubHub.com
$1,222 for upper sideline
$27,983 for lower prime club
$5,461 up from average price
Revenue
$210 million dollars estimated gross from this year's Super Bowl 50
$140 million in ticket revenue
$70 million in suite revenue
Expected food/drink consumption by Americans on Feb. 7
325 million gallons of beer
1.25 billion chicken wings
8 million pounds of tortilla chips
All about altitude
Super Bowl I -- Los Angeles, 233 ft.
Super Bowl XIX -- Palo Alto, Stanford Stadium, 56 ft.
Super Bowl 50 -- Santa Clara, 88 ft.
Charlotte (home of the Panthers) -- 725 ft.
Denver (home of the broncos) -- 5,280 ft.
Highest point of Levi's Stadium -- 176 ft.
Tallest building in San Francisco -- Transamerica Pyramid 853 ft.
Tallest building in Santa Clara -- 88, 286 ft.
Tallest building in Denver -- Republic Plaza, 714 ft.
Tallest building in Charlotte -- Bank of America, 871 ft.
Paying the quarterbacks
Cam Newton -- $20 million
Peyton Manning -- $17 million
Minimum player salary -- $435,000
Bart Starr (1967) -- $100,000
Joe Montana (1985) -- $1 million
Super Bowl royalty
Tom Henschel of Tampa, Don Chrisman from Maine and Larry Jacobson from San Francisco are the only three fans who have been to the first 49 Super Bowls. Make sure you say hello and buy them a beverage on Sunday at their golden 50th.