By UT San Diego 12:36 p.m.Feb. 1, 2014

It's the quintessential American holiday where families and friends gather and large amounts of food are consumed. No, it' not Thanksgiving Day, it's Super Sunday.

On this frigid evening in East Rutherford, N.J., the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks meet to decide football supremacy: the leagues top offense vs. the leagues top defense; the No. 1-seeded team in the AFC vs. the No. 1-seeded team in the NFC; The Mile High city vs. The Emerald City.

But before gathering with cohorts around that new, 55-inch Vizio, you may want to brush up on some Super Bowl trivia. Here are a few tidbits that will get the conversation started as you contemplate whose idea it was to play this thing outside in a cold-weather city anyway.

This Jan. 23, 1984, file photo, shows the Apple Macintosh that was unveiled in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/File)

Do Super Bowl commercials matter? Thirty years ago, Apple introduced it's Macintosh computer during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. In November, Forbes listed Apple as the world's most valued brand at $104.4 billion.

While today's game is expected to break the record, the coldest Super Bowl game was played at Tulane Stadium (SB VI) where the temperature on the field at kickoff was 39 degrees. The warmest was in Los Angeles' Coliseum (SB VII) where the thermometer reached 84 degrees at kickoff.

Honorable mention goes to San Diego's Super Bowl XXXVII - 81

Golden Chopsticks' chicken wings.

Proclaiming the "Great Wing Shortage" of 2013 over, the National Chicken Council says that 1.25 billion chicken wings will be consumed during Super Bowl XLVIII.

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