The Super Bowl I halftime show featured the Three Stooges, trumpeter Al Hirt, two college marching bands, two men in jet packs, and 300 pigeons.

Super Bowl XXXVI marked the first time in Super Bowl history that the winning points came on the final play, a 48-yard field goal by New England Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri. Super Bowl XXXVI was viewed by 131.7 million viewers, making it the fifth-most watched program in television history.

Since the Steelers and Packers had both dissolved their cheerleading squads prior to the 2010 NFL season, Super Bowl XLV became the first one in history without cheerleaders.

The San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowls on January 29, 1995, when they defeated the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.

Each team playing in the Super Bowl gets 108 footballs. Of those, 54 are for practice and 54 are for the actual game.

The New England Patriots won Super Bowl LIII 13-3, defeating the Los Angeles Rams who had averaged 32.9 points per game during the regular season. The Rams joined the Miami Dolphins from Super Bowl VI as only the second team not to muster a touchdown in the title game.

In Super Bowl XLVI, Tom Brady completed a Super Bowl record 16 consecutive passes. He finished the day with 276 passing yards and two touchdown passes in a losing effort against the New York Giants who won 21-17.

Super Bowl II was the first to use the Y-shaped goalposts (with one supporting post instead of two) invented by Jim Trimble and Joel Rottman; they had made their debut at the start of the season for both the AFL and NFL.

Larry Brown's two interceptions earned him Super Bowl MVP honors.

In the week prior to the game, Chiefs cornerback Fred "The Hammer" Williamson garnered considerable publicity by boasting he would use his "hammer" (forearm blows to the head) to destroy the Packers receivers. Ironically, it was Willamson himself who was knocked out cold and carried off the field on a stretcher near the end of the game.