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The Super Bowl is here. After 17 weeks of regular season play and three rounds of play-offs, only two teams remain. On Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints at the Sun Life Stadium, Florida. Here’s your…

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The Super Bowl is here.

After 17 weeks of regular season play and three rounds of play-offs, only two teams remain.

On Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints at the Sun Life Stadium, Florida.

Here’s your guide to the top 10 things you need to know about Super Bowl XILV.

1. The cost of a 30-second commercial during this year’s game is around .8million. And more than 0m will be spent on ads aired before, during and after the game.

2. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was actually born in New Orleans! His dad Archie Manning was the Saints quarterback at the time.

3. The half-time show will be performed by The Who.

4. The winning team will get ,000 per man and the losers ,000.

5. The Colts have won five Super Bowls, while the Saints make their bow this year.

6. Saints defensive player Darren Sharper led the league with nine interceptions. Watch out for him, he wears number 42.

7. This is the 10th time the Super Bowl will be held in Miami and the fifth in the Sun Life
Stadium (’89, ‘95, ‘99 and ‘07). This is the 15th time the Super Bowl will be held in the state of Florida.

8. The Colts go into the game with the league’s lowest running attack – only the second time in history that it’s happened. The first was the Arizona Cardinals last year.

9. This year’s coin toss is a bit special. The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis took the coin into space before handing it over.

10. Kim Kardashian is the girlfriend of star Saints running back Reggie Bush.

- You can watch the Super Bowl live on Sky Sports 1 from 11pm and BBC 1 from 10:55pm.

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