The Story of How the Super Bowl Came to Be

Our American Stories

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, today, the Super Bowl is the most-watched event on television—between 90 and 110 million people tune in to the "big game" each year. Americans consume 1.45 billion chicken wings (enough to circle the Earth three times), eat 28 million slices of pizza, and drink 325 million gallons of beer on this unofficial holiday. But it wasn’t always this way. Dennis Deninger, author of The Football Game That Changed America, tells the story of how the Super Bowl as we know it came to be—from nothing.

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0:04.5	To whom much has given, much is expected. The guilt comes from, am I doing enough?
0:09.3	Me, Michelle Obama, to say that to a therapist. So let's unpack that.
0:13.9	Having been the first lady of the entire country and representing the country in the world,
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0:29.6	I'm Clayton English.
0:31.6	I'm Greg Glott.
0:32.6	And this is season two of the War on Drugs Podcast.
0:34.6	Yes, sir.
0:35.6	Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war this year,
0:38.3	a lot of the biggest names in music and sports.
0:41.6	This kind of starts that in a little bit, man.
0:43.9	We met them at their homes.
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0:47.5	Stories matter, and it brings a face to it.
0:49.6	It makes it real.
0:50.4	It really does.
0:51.4	It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs Podcast Season 2
0:55.8	on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
0:58.8	you get your podcast.
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