Explainer: NFL Super Bowl 2025: All the facts you need to know (updated)

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07/01/2025 19:11

(Updates with end of regular season)
       Jan 7 (Reuters) - The NFL regular season has concluded
and the teams that qualified for the playoffs are set to begin
competing for a chance to make it to the Super Bowl, arguably
the biggest single event in U.S. sports with a huge global
audience. Here's everything you need to know about Super Bowl
LIX, including who is performing at halftime.  
     
    WHERE WILL THE 59th SUPER BOWL BE HELD?
    The NFL championship game will take place in New Orleans at
the Caesars Superdome, home to the New Orleans Saints with a
capacity of 83,000 spectators.
    This marks the 11th time New Orleans has hosted the event.
While heightened security is always a part of Super Bowl
festivities and the game itself, those measures will take on
added significance after the New Year's Day truck attack on
Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured dozens.
     
    WHEN WILL THE SUPER BOWL BE PLAYED?
    The 59th Super Bowl is scheduled to take place on Feb. 9 at
6:30 p.m. ET (2330 GMT). This highly anticipated event on the
American sports calendar draws not just football fans but those
interested in the halftime show and specially created
advertisements. The 2024 Super Bowl drew an estimated 210
million viewers.
        
    HOW ARE THE SUPER BOWL COMBATANTS DECIDED?
    Fourteen teams will compete in the NFL playoffs, seven from
each conference. The four NFC and four AFC division champions
and six wild-card teams - the three non-division winners with
the best records in each conference - will compete in a single
elimination tournament.  
    The final four will play in the AFC and NFC championship
games on Jan. 26, with the winners advancing to the Super Bowl.
    In 2024, the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs defeated the
NFC champion San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime to claim
their second consecutive NFL title.
     
    HAS A WILD-CARD TEAM EVER WON THE SUPER BOWL?
    Yes. Seven teams who qualified for the playoffs as wild-card
teams have won the big prize -- the first the Oakland Raiders in
1980 and most recently the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020.
     
    WHICH TEAMS ARE FAVORED TO REACH THE SUPER BOWL
    Teams begin the playoffs with a clean slate and anything can
happen in the win or go home format. But the two teams that had
established themselves as early favorites went on to earn the
top seed in each conference and a first-round bye -- the Chiefs,
looking to become the first team to win three consecutive Super
Bowls, and the Detroit Lions, one of four NFL clubs that have
never played in the big game. Other top contenders include the
Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings and
Baltimore Ravens. 
     
    WHERE CAN YOU WATCH THE 2025 SUPER BOWL?
    Fox  FOXA.O  will broadcast the Super Bowl and it will also
stream on Fubo TV  FUBO.N . 
    Outside the United States, you can watch the game with
subscriptions from Dazn and other services.    
     
    WHO IS PERFORMING AT THE 2025 SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW?
The Super Bowl halftime show, a 12- to 15-minute musical
extravaganza and one of the most coveted slots on the U.S. music
calendar, will feature Grammy-winning hip hop artist Kendrick
Lamar this time.
    The 37-year-old Lamar from Compton, the heart of the Los
Angeles rap scene, has 17 Grammy wins and performed during the
Super Bowl halftime show in 2022 along with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg,
Eminem and Mary J. Blige.
    Past Super Bowl halftime performers have included such
luminaries as The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Prince, Bruce
Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and Beyonce. Last season's
performance featured Grammy-winning artist Usher. 
     
    HOW MUCH DO SUPER BOWL TICKETS COST?
    Super Bowl tickets are among the most coveted in all of
sports, notoriously hard to find, and their prices are impacted
by the game's location and which teams are playing.
    According to ticket marketplace TickPick, the cheapest
get-in price for Super Bowl LIX will be around $6,600, while the
average ticket price is $9,500.
    The two Super Bowl teams split 35% of the tickets, the host
team receives 5% and the remaining 29 NFL teams each get around
1% and hold lotteries among their season-ticket holders.
    The NFL retains 25% of the tickets for media members,
business and community partners. The league also gives away 500
tickets.
     
    HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ADVERTISE DURING THE SUPER BOWL?
    The Super Bowl is among the world's most coveted televised
events for advertisers given the huge guaranteed audience, with
a premium placed on creativity as Super Bowl commercials can
generate outsized buzz. The price for placing commercials during
the 2025 Super Bowl has not yet been reported, but for the 2024
game a 30-second spot on CBS cost around $7 million. 
     
    WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SUPER BOWL TROPHY?
    The Vince Lombardi Trophy awarded to the Super Bowl winner
each year is named in honor of legendary NFL Hall of Fame coach
Lombardi, who led the Green Bay Packers to victories in the
first two Super Bowl games.

(Compiled by Lisa Shumaker and Frank Pingue; Writing and Editing
by Bill Berkrot)
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