Americans to Consume 1.25 Billion Chicken Wings Super Bowl Weekend
As Americans plan their menus for Super Bowl Sunday, the second biggest eating day of the year after Thanksgiving, few items will be more prominent on viewers’ plates than America’s favorite appetizer – chicken wings.
Super Bowl weekend is unquestionably the biggest time of the year for wings. More than 1.25 billion wing portions will be consumed during Super Bowl weekend in 2012, totaling more than 100 million pounds of wings, according to the National Chicken Council’s (NCC) 2012 Wing Report. If the wings were laid end-to-end they would circle the circumference of the Earth – more than twice – a distance that would reach approximately a quarter of the way to the moon.
Some 23 percent of those who watch the big game will eat chicken wings, up slightly in popularity from last year, and second only to dips and spreads (32 percent) on Super Bowl menus, according to the third annual Supervalu Snack Down Survey by Harris Interactive.
NCC Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Bill Roenigk points out that chicken wings will be consumed by three times the number of Americans on Super Bowl Sunday than a typical Sunday throughout the year. About half will be ordered from restaurants and half purchased from retail grocery stores.
“Foodservice and retail grocery stores should really be commended for helping chicken companies take a small part of the chicken and make it such a big part of Super Bowl Sunday,” Roenigk said. “Whether the wings are mildly-spiced, medium-spiced or super-hot, restaurants and grocery stores have made wings a bigger part of menus throughout the year.” Read more
Super Bowl Coach Tony Dungy Featured in Free Halftime Video Kit for Game Watching Parties
Free Video Message Available for Local Event Organizers to Play for Spectators
This year’s football fans gathering at various watch parties will have access to one Super Bowl coach’s personal thoughts during halftime. A free downloadable video kit is available to local game watching party organizers which features Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungy and his wife Lauren. The video message includes a personal appeal to Americans on the subject of the current orphan crisis and adoption. Dungy is involved with The Adoption Journey Project (www.adoptionjourney.org) to help influence more couples to consider adoption.
“The big win on Super Sunday would be to raise awareness about the millions of children who need a family. I would love to see thousands of local community groups and circles of friends gathering together to stop and consider how they can help,” said Dungy, the winning head coach of the 2007 Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis Colts.
“With more than 100,000 children in need of a stable and loving family in the US, if just a fraction of groups gathering to watch the Big Game influence just one family to adopt, we would make a huge dent in this social crisis,” said Marc Andreas, Vice President of Marketing at Bethany Christian Services, the largest adoption agency in the country. Read more
NFL Encourages Fans Shopping for Super Bowl XLVI Tickets to Visit the Official NFL Ticket Exchange
Building on the success and the satisfaction of NFL fans during the regular season, the National Football League (NFL) and Ticketmaster are taking the NFL Ticket Exchange to Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI. Powered by Ticketmaster, the Official Ticket Exchange of the NFL provides fans the ability to buy and sell tickets for Super Bowl XLVI through a convenient and secure, League-approved marketplace.
The NFL Ticket Exchange is the only ticket resale marketplace with the ability to authenticate Super Bowl XLVI tickets, ensuring that every Super Bowl ticket sold on the NFL Ticket Exchange is legitimate. Fans can access the NFL Ticket Exchange online at NFL.com/TicketExchange or by calling (888) 635-5944.
Beginning Jan. 27, the NFL and Ticketmaster are providing football fans added convenience and security with two authorized NFL Ticket Exchange retail locations in Indianapolis. During Super Bowl week, walk-up retail locations for the NFL Ticket Exchange will be open in downtown Indianapolis at The Huddle at Circle Centre Mall (130 S Meridian Street / Corner of Meridian and Georgia Streets) and at the NFL Shop at Super Bowl at the Indiana Convention Center. On game day, fans will be able to pick up their Super Bowl XLVI tickets up until kickoff at The Huddle location. Read more
NFL Legends Prepare to Strike Bowling Pins for Charity Prior to Super Bowl XLVI
As Super Bowl XLVI returns to a cold weather city in Indianapolis, the seventh annual NFL Charities Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic, one of the premier annual fan/player fundraisers, will be hotter and “taller” than ever in 2012.
Former Super Bowl XII Champion and legend Ed “Too Tall” Jones will serve as host of the event which will take place at Woodland Bowling Center in Indianapolis, IN at 12 PM local time on Saturday, February 4. Fans will have the unique opportunity to bowl with more than 40 current and former NFL stars and hall of famers, with all proceeds benefiting NFL Charities.
“I feel privileged to return as event host of the NFL Charities Super Bowl Celebrity Bowling Classic,” said Jones. “The Classic has become a Super Bowl tradition, which is a testament to the enduring popularity and tremendous fundraising power of bowling, one of the nation’s great pastimes.”
Prior to the Classic, the NFL greats will team with professional bowlers to lead a private bowling clinic for local at-risk Indianapolis area elementary school children on February 1 at 11 AM local time at Woodland Bowling Center (private clinic will be open to the media only). Read more