This is a repost from last year, right before the Super Bowl with some updated numbers. I don’t mean to be a fun-hater, and I’ll be partying just like the rest of you, but it’s important to keep things in their proper perspective.
Keep in mind that half of the world lives on less than $2.50 a day.
One 2012 update, from this Fox Sports slideshow
- 1.25 billion hot wings will be consumed. Those would come from 312.5 million chickens that would feed, that’s right, 1.25 billion people.
2011 numbers:
- A 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl will cost $3,000,000.
- A ticket on the 50-yard line, lower level, costs almost $16,000
- 106.5 million people watched the Super Bowl last year on CBS.
- 8 million pounds of popcorn will be consumed, 28 million pounds of chips, 53.5 million pounds of avocados for guacamole requiring a total of 222,792 football fields worth of farmland to grow.
- 325.5 million gallons of beer will be drank which would fill 493 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Meanwhile:
- $3,000,000 would provide hospice care for those dying of HIV/AIDS over four years in Uganda, or vaccinate 3 million children for measles across Africa, or provide mosquito nets, better access to medications, and free HIV/AIDS testing in Rwanda. (That’s only three ads right there)
- 75% of the world makes less than the cost of that football ticket… in ten years. (according to the Global Rich List)
- Up to 10,000 adult and underage girls are expected to be sex-trafficked to Dallas-Fort Worth [Indianapolis this year]
- 223,000 acres of corn would feed 25,000 people for a year (according to rough calculations from this site).
- 325.5 million gallons would give enough potable water to 616 million people for a day, or enough for 1.7 million people for a year. (This is only a dent, though, as 1 billion people are without drinkable water)
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.” (1 John 2:15-17)