Preparing for Super Bowl Sunday: By the numbers

Super Bowl Sunday is an annual exercise in American excess, from rich ticket prices to even richer foods. A guide to the enormity of it all

Cowboys Stadium in North Texas is expected to hold 105,000 people during this Sunday's Super Bowl.
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The Super Bowl is all about excess: Big crowds, eye-poppingly expensive TV commercials, and of course, gut-busting consumption of pizza and buffalo wings. That the game is being played in Texas this year only adds to the spectacle. (Watch an AP report about the hoopla.) Here's a look at the circus that is Super Bowl XLV, by the numbers:

$10.1 billion

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