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Super Bowl XLIII

Super Bowl XLIII
Sb NameXLIII
VisitorPittsburgh Steelers
HomeArizona Cardinals
Visitor AbbrPIT
Home AbbrARZ
Visitor ConfAFC
Home ConfNFC
Visitor ConfAFC
Home ConfNFC
Visitor Total27
Home Total23
Visitor Qtr13
Visitor Qtr214
Visitor Qtr33
Visitor Qtr47
Home Qtr10
Home Qtr27
Home Qtr30
Home Qtr416
Date, February 1, 2009
StadiumRaymond James Stadium
CityTampa, Florida
Attendance70,774
OddsSteelers by 7
MVPSantonio Holmes, Wide receiver
AnthemJennifer Hudson
ASL translation by Kristen Santos
Coin TossGen. David Petraeus
RefereeTerry McAulay
HalftimeBruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Headerstylebackground:#efefef;
NetworkNBC
AnnouncersAl Michaels and John Madden
Rating42.0 (national)
53.6 (Pittsburgh)
47.5 (Phoenix)
US viewership: 98.7 million est. avg., 151.6 million est. total
Share65 (national)
79 (Pittsburgh)
80 (Arizona)
Commercial$2.4 million � $3 million  
LastXLII
NextXLIV

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Super Bowl XLIII was an American football game pitting the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers against the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Arizona Cardinals to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2008 season. The game was played on February 1, 2009, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The Steelers (15-4) defeated the Cardinals (12-8) by a score of 27-23, earning their sixth Super Bowl win, which gave Pittsburgh the record for most Super Bowl wins and moved them ahead of the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, whose shared record of five they had tied three years prior following their win in Super Bowl XL. Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes, who caught 9 passes for 131 yards and a touchdown, including 4 for 71 on their final scoring drive, was named Super Bowl MVP. He was the third Steelers receiver ever to win the award, following Lynn Swann and Hines Ward.

The Cardinals entered the game seeking their first NFL title since 1947, the longest championship drought in the league. The club became an unexpected winner during the season and the playoffs with the aid of head coach Ken Whisenhunt, who was the Steelers' offensive coordinator in Super Bowl XL, and the re-emergence of quarterback Kurt Warner, who was the Super Bowl MVP in Super Bowl XXXIV with his former team, St. Louis Rams.

Despite the global financial crisis and limited amount of ancillary festivities that are normally held before the game, the NBC television network broadcast attracted an average U.S. audience of 98.7 million viewers, making it the most watched Super Bowl in history to that point (now third behind Super Bowl XLIV and Super Bowl XLV).


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