Team Facebook Pages
The San Francisco 49ers have a slight edge on the Baltimore Ravens, 1.7 million likes compared to 1.4 million. While that may sound like a lot, let’s put that into perspective.
The Dallas Cowboys have over five million likes on Facebook. (If you needed any evidence that they are America’s team, there you are.) Furthermore, 14 out of the 32 professional teams have less than a million likes. In total on Facebook, 1 in 10 Americans have showed their fandom for at least one NFL team by liking its page. Here is a list of the NFL Teams Facebook Pages, ranked by number of "likes" as of Super Bowl Sunday.
- Dallas Cowboys
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- New England Patriots
- Green Bay Packers
- New Orleans Saints
- Chicago Bears
- New York Giants
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Oakland Raiders
- San Francisco 49ers
- Indianapolis Colts
- Denver Broncos
- New York Jets
- Baltimore Ravens
- Minnesota Vikings
- Miami Dolphins
- San Diego Chargers
- Washington Redskins
- Atlanta Falcons
- Seattle Seahawks
- Detroit Lions
- Houston Texans
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Cincinnati Bengals
- Carolina Panthers
- Arizona Cardinals
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Tennessee Titans
- Buffalo Bills
- St. Louis Rams
- Cleveland Browns
- Jacksonville Jaguars
New Way of Watching
Let’s be real, bars are crowded and parties can get awkward.
Thanks to CBS Sports, your problems were solved, America. You’re welcome. CBS Sports had its first live stream of the Super Bowl online, featuring countless camera angles and a Twitter feed. The most popular feature was the “Fan Cam,” that brought fans four unique camera angles. With all of these features blowing your mind, watching the game from home was actually cooler than being out.
Twitter Bowl
Without commercials, the Super Bowl accumulated 22.1 million tweets Sunday evening. Overall, 49 percent were positive, 25 percent were neutral and 26 percent were haters. Mobile devices were responsible for 88 percent of the tweets, 60 percent of them were sent by iPhones. Before the game even started, the Sandy Hook Elementary School Choir’s singing of America the Beautiful with Jennifer Hudson gain quite a bit of attention.
As expected, spikes in Twitter posts concerning the Super Bowl were in direct correlation with big plays in the game, especially touchdowns. The top four mentioned athletes were Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco, Colin Kaepernick and Jacoby Jones. This is how the game broke down in tweets per minute:
- Power outage: 231,500
- Jacoby Jones 108-yd touchdown return: 185,000
- Ravens win: 183,000
- Jacoby Jones 56-yd touchdown reception in the second quarter: 168,000
- 49ers first touchdown: 131,000
Overall, the Super Bowl on Twitter was 3.01 times higher than last year (52,556,473 compared to 2012’s 17,456,217.)
Beyonce Bowl
People have a love/hate relationship for Beyonce, but the bottom line is that she killed the half time performance, both on stage and in the social media world. Her sister, Solange Knowles, helped her cause by posting “Beyonce Bowl” on Twitter. After 29,000 retweets, the hashtag #BeyonceBowl was born. Over the span of the Super Bowl, there were 7.3 million mentions of Beyonce. Here’s how halftime looked in tweets per minute:
- End: 268,000
- The fantastic reunion of Destiny’s Child: 257,500
- Single Ladies: 252,500
Super Bowl Blackout
Who turned the power out? Who, who who? The answer turned out to be an electrical relay device, but there have were countless memes debating what happened. Eleven percent of the day’s tweets on Twitter were about the 34-minute power outage, a total of 5.8 million. As far as tweets per minute went, 231,500 per minute were sent during the frenzy.
Additional reporting provided by Krista Pirtle.