Site: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego (Note: This is the third Super Bowl held in San Diego. The city previously hosted Super Bowls XXII and XXXII).

Kickoff: 3:25 p.m. PST

Participants: Oakland Raiders (AFC) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFC). This is the fifth appearance for Oakland and the first appearance for Tampa Bay.

Pregame Entertainment: Celine Dion, “God Bless America”

National Anthem: Dixie Chicks

Halftime Entertainment: No Doubt, Shania Twain

TV/Radio coverage: ABC will be televising its sixth Super Bowl. CBS Radio-Westwood One will be broadcasting its 16th consecutive Super Bowl, 29th overall. The game will be distributed internationally by the NFL and NFL International to 220 countries and territories in 28 languages.

Super Bowl XXXVI TV audience: Last year’s game was the fifth most-watched program in television history. The game between the St. Louis Rams and New England Patriots attracted 131.7 million Americans (almost one in every two citizens) for all or parts of the game to make it the fifth most-watched program in television history. The first four are Super Bowls (XXX, XXVIII, XXXII and XXVII). In fact, the 10 most-watched shows in TV history are Super Bowls.

Future Super Bowl Sites:

2004 – Houston

2005 – Jacksonville

2006 – Detroit

Other facts and figures:

Eight percent of those watching will be tuning in just to see the ads.

The ads during Super Bowl 1, broadcast by two networks, cost 1/40 the price of ads during Super Bowl XXXIV.

Attendance: To date, 2,844,890 have attended Super Bowl games. The largest crowd was 103,985 for Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

Cost of a 30-second commercial during past Super Bowls:

2002 – $1,900,000

1983 – $400,000

1967 – $42,000

Winner-Loser Shares (per player):

2003 – $63,000-$35,000

1983 – $36,000-$18,000

1967 – $15,000-$7,500

Super Bowl Ticket Prices:

2003 – $400, $500 (Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego)

1983 – $40 (Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.)

1967 – $12, $10, $6 (Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles)