Chart: Comparing the Minneapolis Super Bowls

May 21, 2014 at 6:14AM
TALE OF THE TAPE

How does the upcoming Super Bowl in Minneapolis compare with the first one in 1992?

XXVI

Category

LII

Jan. 26, 1992

Date

Feb. 4, 2018

Metrodome,

$68 million

Stadium and approx. cost

To be named,

$1 billion

Indianapolis, Seattle, Detroit

Minneapolis' competition

Indianapolis, New Orleans

9.8 inches of snow depth, the most that winter in Minneapolis

Weather

Average temp. Feb. 4 in Minneapolis: 26 (high); 9 (low)

Mark Rypien (WAS) and

Jim Kelly (BUF)

Starting

quarterbacks

Johnny Manziel (CLEV) and Teddy Bridgewater (VIKES)?

MICHAEL RAND

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