DO NFL PLAYERS DRIVE THEMSELVES TO GAMES? There’s a subreddit called NFLNoobs with some very random NFL-related questions. Load it up and refresh it each day for possible new content during Super Bowl Week. Like this one: “I’m sure the star players have their own drivers and what not, but what about your average starter or just anyone with the team? I doubt many of them live close to the stadium, but then there’s certainly traffic near the stadium even hours before they’re required to be there with tailgating and general game day atmosphere. I also find it random thinking of a star receiver making the game winning catch in a playoff game, then awkwardly driving himself home three hours later on an hour long commute.” (LINK) Arizona Cardinal Jonah Williams commented: We drive ourselves from the team hotel to the stadium on gameday. The team-enforced deadline to be at the stadium is usually 2.5-3 hours before kickoff. I’ll usually get there 4+ hours before so there’s no stress with traffic, etc. Then we drive home after. Often sit in the same traffic as everyone else going home. I much prefer it to the buses we take for away games. It’s nice to sit in a quiet car alone to clear my head before and after a game.
Not to single out a “big box” store by name, but these numbers are seriously staggering, so it is no wonder that WALMART LOVES THE SUPER BOWL _
• Walmart sells enough hot dog buns the week prior to Super Bowl Sunday that if lined up end-to-end would stretch 2,422 miles.
• More than 2½ million pounds or 246 miles of lunch meats will be sold at Walmart prior to Super Bowl Sunday.
• Walmart will sell enough frozen pizzas to stretch the length of the Grand Canyon, nearly 300 miles in length.
• Walmart will sell enough Velveeta cheese this week to fill an entire Olympic size swimming pool.
• An average Walmart store will sell enough soft drinks to fill two average-sized swimming pools.
• More than 2 million pounds of ice are used by consumers during the three days leading up to the Super Bowl, which is roughly the weight of 1,000 full grown elephants.
MEMORY LEAGUE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP _ The day before the NFL Super Bowl, the world will witness a new Memory League World Champion — or perhaps a repeat champ. In 2025, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. To win last year, the then 20-year-old Indian college student went up against others with challenges like memorizing the order of 80 random numbers faster than anyone else. His competitor will be revealed this week during the 29th match of this years Memory League World Championship. Late neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire studied mental athletes like Rajakumar and found that many of them used the ancient Roman “method of loci” (rhymes with “LOW sigh”), a memorization trick also known as the “memory palace.” The technique generally involves visualizing a large house and assigning memories to rooms. Mentally walking through the house fires up the hippocampus, the seahorse-shaped engine of memory deep in the brain.
