One of my favorite Twitter accounts is @ESPNStatsInfo.* Mark Simon and his team share facts and stats about whatever games are going on at the time. As you'd expect, they've been cranking out a lot of Super Bowl stuff. Here are a few highlights.
This will make 10 of the last 11 Super Bowls in which AFC QB is Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Ben Roethlisberger pic.twitter.com/XWX9n9CF2a
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 27, 2014
This will be 5th Super Bowl since merger in which No. 1 scoring offense faced No. 1 scoring defense (1st since 1990 season- Bills-Giants)
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 20, 2014
The @Seahawks are the first defense to lead the NFL in points allowed, yards allowed and takeaways since the 1985 Bears.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 25, 2014
If Peyton Manning wins Super Bowl XLVIII, he would be the 1st starting QB to win a Super Bowl with 2 different teams
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 24, 2014
Teams that win the coin toss are 23-24 in the Super Bowl.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 29, 2014
Russell Wilson has thrown 52 TD passes in his first 2 seasons (regular season only), tied with Peyton Manning for 2nd-most in NFL history.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 24, 2014
For @chieli11: Lowest passer rating for starting QB in Super Bowl was 0.0 by Craig Morton in SB XII (Broncos lost to Cowboys). #AskESPNStats
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 30, 2014
Broncos starting OL: played 1,031 snaps together this season (80% of total plays). Seahawks haven’t had an OL unit play more than 212 snaps.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 24, 2014
The Broncos will wear orange in the SB. They have worn orange in 3 of their previous 6 SB appearances - losing them all by avg. of 31.3 PPG.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 21, 2014
Seahawks' 1st playoff game was 1983 Wild Card game vs Broncos on Christmas Eve, a Seattle win. Only time these teams have met in playoffs.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 21, 2014
And while not a Super Bowl fact, this one is worth a mention:
Mike Pettine is 5th head coach the Browns have had since 2008. No other team in AFC North has made any coaching changes over that stretch.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 24, 2014
* In 2012, the mental_floss staff started to put together a list of our 140 favorite Twitter accounts. That's a lot of Twitter accounts. We abandoned the project in the thirties, but @ESPNStatsInfo was definitely on the list. Follow Mark Simon, too!