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    The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. This game is held at a pre-selected site, usually a city that hosts an NFL team. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held, with Super Bowl I being the 1966 season championship game. The defending champions are the Green Bay Packers who won Super Bowl XLV. On February 5, 2012, the New York Giants and New England Patriots will contest Super Bowl XLVI.

    The game was created as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion teams would play in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game until the merger was to officially begin in 1970. After the merger, each league was redesignated as a "conference", and the game was then played between the conference champions. Currently, the NFC leads the series with 24 wins to 21 wins for the AFC.

    The day on which the Super Bowl is played is now considered a de facto American national holiday, called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been the most watched American television broadcast of the year. Super Bowl XLV played in 2011 became the most watched American television program in history, drawing an average audience of 111 million viewers and taking over the spot held by the previous year's Super Bowl, which itself had taken over the #1 spot held for twenty-eight years by the final episode of M*A*S*H. The Super Bowl is also among the most watched sporting events in the world, mostly due to North American audiences, and is second to Association football's UEFA Champions League final as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide.

    Because of its high viewership, commercial airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year because the viewing count of the Super Bowl is an average of 100,000,000 people every year. Due to the high cost of investing in advertising on the Super Bowl, companies regularly develop their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. As a result, watching and discussing the broadcast's commercials has become a significant aspect of the event. In addition, many popular singers and musicians have performed during the event's pre-game and halftime ceremonies because of the exposure.

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    Frank Gifford on being part of  the CBS broadcast team for the first Super Bowl in 1967

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    Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Michael Jackson, and how he was asked to produce it

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    Hector Ramirez on working on Super Bowl halftime shows  

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    Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing Janet Jackson's infamous "Nipplegate" incident during the Super Bowl halftime show

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    Shelley Berman with Emerson College

    Shelley Berman on Janet Jackson's Super Bowl "nipplegate" incident

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    Dick Enberg

    Dick Enberg on the experience of calling the Super Bowl

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    Frank Gifford

    Frank Gifford on being part of  the CBS broadcast team for the first Super Bowl in 1967

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    Curt Gowdy

    Sportscaster Curt Gowdy on the first Super Bowl, broadcast by both NBC and CBS

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    Sportscaster Curt Gowdy on the some of the Super Bowl  games he covered

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    Kim Kimble

    Kim Kimble on doing hair for performances at the Super Bowl halftime show by Shakira, Beyoncé, and Destiny's Child

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    Barry Manilow

    Barry Manilow on performing the national anthem at the Super Bowl

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    Beth McCarthy-Miller

    Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing Super Bowl halftime shows

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    Beth McCarthy-Miller on directing Janet Jackson's infamous "Nipplegate" incident during the Super Bowl halftime show

    04:41

    Don Mischer

    Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Michael Jackson, and how he was asked to produce it

    10:57

    Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Prince

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    Don Mischer on Super Bowl 49 - how Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" led him back to the halftime and pre-show

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    Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring The Rolling Stones

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    Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Paul McCartney

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    Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; on wanting to top previous broadcasts

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    Don Pike

    Don Pike on acting as technical director for various Super Bowl telecasts 

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    Hector Ramirez

    Hector Ramirez on working on Super Bowl halftime shows  

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    Fatima Robinson

    Fatima Robinson on choreographing the halftime show for Super Bowl XLV (Black Eyed Peas) and the challenges of working on a halftime show

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    Fatima Robinson on choreographing the halftime show for Super Bowl LVI (Dr. Dre and West Coast hip-hop All-Stars) and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the show

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    Tony Verna

    Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978

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    Tony Verna on directing various Super Bowls

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    Keenen Ivory Wayans

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the "Men on Football" sketch on In Living Color; and how it changed the game for the Superbowl halftime show

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