Super Bowl LVIII is set for this Sunday as the San Francisco 49ers battle the Kansas City Chiefs. The game will be played at Allegiant Stadium, the home of the Las Vegas Raiders. Will Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes take the next step toward becoming the best quarterback of all time, or will San Francisco’s Brock Purdy play spoiler and win the 49ers their sixth Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl is not like a regular season game. Frankly, nothing can compare to the Super Bowl. What started as a game to crown the NFL’s champion has become a daylong event full of parties, pregame coverage, commercials, and a halftime show. With the extra pomp and circ*mstance added to the game, the Super Bowl feels like a marathon, not a sprint. How long is the Super Bowl? Read on to find out the approximate length of Super Bowl 2024 and other details surrounding the event, including the date and time.
Super Bowl LVIII date and time
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Kickoff for Super Bowl LVIII is scheduled for approximately 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on Sunday, February 11. The Super Bowl will air onCBSfor a record 22nd time. Coverage begins at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT, highlighted by The NFL Todayat 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT. The game is available on the CBS app and CBS.com. The broadcast will stream on Paramount+.
An average NFL game takes about three hours and 12 minutes. The length of the Super Bowl is the same as any other game – four 15-minute quarters. However, the Super Bowl is not an ordinary game. There is a heavy emphasis on commercials, which prolong the game. Companies paid $7 million in 2023 for a 30-second spot. Around 70 new commercials ran during Super Bowl LVII, from new ad campaigns and products to high-profile movie and TV show trailers.
The halftime of the Super Bowl is almost double that of a regular season game. A Super Bowl halftime lasts around 25 to 30 minutes compared to 12 to 17 minutes in the regular season. The added time comes from the famous Super Bowl Halftime Show, a 12 to 15 minute musical performance from an A-list entertainer. This year, Usher headlines the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
With the commercials and the halftime show, expect Super Bowl LVIII to take about three-and-a-half to four hours. With a 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT kickoff, a safe bet for the approximate end time of the Super Bowl would be 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT.
What is the longest Super Bowl?
Super Bowl 47 blackout
Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens is the longest Super Bowl in NFL history. From the opening kickoff to the final whistle, Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 clocked in at four hours and 14 minutes.
The game is best known for the blackout that occurred inside the Superdome. A partial power outage happened in the third quarter, suspending play for 34 minutes. The Ravens walked away as Super Bowl champions with a 34-31 win.
to take about three-and-a-half to four hours. With a 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT kickoff, a safe bet for the approximate end time of the Super Bowl would be 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT.
The length of the Super Bowl is the same as all other NFL games: four 15-minute timed quarters, but it is the context of the game that makes the whole process longer, stretching up to four hours at most. The Miami Herald indicates that on average the Super Bowl lasts three hours and 12 minutes.
What time does the Super Bowl start? Kickoff will commence at around 5:30 p.m. CT, but pre-game festivities will begin well before that. Your best bet is to start tuning in around 4 p.m. if you want to see the National Anthem and other pre-game music performances.
And now he's going to do it his way. Usher will be the halftime performer for the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11 as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers.
A skillful drive led by Patrick Mahomes allowed the Chiefs to score the winning touchdown with a three-yard pass to Mecole Hardman with three seconds left on the clock, making the Chiefs the first back-to-back Super Bowl champs since the Patriots did it in the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
The added time comes from the famous Super Bowl Halftime Show, a 12 to 15 minute musical performance from an A-list entertainer. This year, Usher headlines the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show. With the commercials and the halftime show, expect Super Bowl LVIII to take about three-and-a-half to four hours.
The Super Bowl typically goes between three and four hours, meaning you can expect the halftime show to be about an hour and a half or two hours into the action, putting it around 8-8:30 p.m. ET, give or take some time depending on how the game progresses.
Super Bowl LVIII from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas won't be short on star power, and that includes the pregame entertainment lineup headlined by Reba McEntire and Post Malone. The former will sing the national anthem and the latter will sing "America the Beautiful." The big game will be broadcast on CBS (Feb.
Based on the current futures market, the Kansas City Chiefs have an implied 14.3% chance to win the Super Bowl. The 49ers (+650, 13.3%) are the second most likely to win the Super Bowl, followed by the Ravens (+1000, 9.1%).
NEW YORK – February 13, 2024 – An estimated 123.7 million viewers tuned in for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, February 11, according to average audience estimates from Nielsen. The broadcast averaged 120.3 million viewers on CBS alone, making it the largest audience for a single-network telecast to date.
The Super Bowl will be broadcast by CBS, with its top crew of play-by-play commentator Jim Nantz and color analyst Tony Romo on the call. Tracy Wolfson will serve as the sideline reporter, with fellow reporters Evan Washburn and Jay Feely and rules expert Gene Steratore also providing support.
NFL games are scheduled to be played in one hour but usually go on for much longer - the average NFL game takes 3 hours and 12 minutes from start to finish while the average college football game takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to be completed.
The Kansas City Chiefs executed a perfect, Super Bowl-winning drive to beat the San Francisco 49ers with only seconds left on the clock – but due to the NFL's overtime rules, the clock actually didn't matter at all.
Overtime periods are 15 minutes long, and the teams will play until there is a winner. Most importantly, each team will get the opportunity to possess the ball at least once, even if the team that has the first possession scores a touchdown.
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