Evansville tends to have unexpected links with people, places, and things around the world, and that rings true at professional football’s biggest game. Here’s how the Super Bowl has local ties.
1
Number of Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks (Bob Griese) from Evansville
92
1988 Castle High School graduate Bryan Neale’s NFL referee number
1976
The year Los Angeles Rams Head Coach Sean McVay’s mother, Cindy, graduated from Reitz Memorial High School
2021
The year that Cindy McVay watched her son lead the Rams to his first Super Bowl championship
2
Number of times 1992 Reitz Memorial alum Philip Lawrence has performed in the Super Bowl halftime show
XLVI (46)
The Super Bowl in 2012 was catered by Ava Demps and Kimberly Hinton, owners of the since-closed Mary and Martha’s Place, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana