Global News published this video item, entitled “Global National: Feb. 5, 2021 | PM says COVID-19 vaccine campaign still on track despite setbacks” – below is their description.
Christopher Plummer, the Canadian actor who charmed us as Captain Von Trapp in the 1965 movie The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91. Mike Drolet looks back at his extraordinary career.
More cases of the highly contagious COVID-19 variants are emerging. To date, at least 255 cases have been confirmed, and as Abigail Bimman reports, the slow vaccine rollout isn’t helping.
And, some countries are imposing age restrictions on the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, even though new data shows it’s safe. Crystal Goomansingh explains.
For the first time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to questions about allegations involving Canada’s former top soldier. David Akin has the latest.
Exactly one year ago the city of Wuhan, China was under an unprecedented lockdown to contain a mysterious new virus. As Jeff Semple explains, life in the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic has largely returned to normal.
Plus, about a third of the crowd during Sunday’s Super Bowl will be health-care workers. As Mike Armstrong reports, one nurse will receive a special honour right before kickoff.
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In This Story: Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) – also known as American Football – in the United States. Since 2004, the game has been played on the first Sunday in February. It is the culmination of a regular season that begins in the late summer of the previous year.
The game was created as part of a 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and its rival the American Football League (AFL). The first game was played on January 15, 1967, after both leagues had completed their respective 1966 seasons. After the merger, each league was re-designated as a “conference”, and the game has since been played between the conference champions to determine the NFL’s league champion.
The New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers have the most Super Bowl championship titles with six each. The Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances with 11. The National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC) are tied with 27 Super Bowl wins each.
The Super Bowl is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been the most-watched American television broadcast of the year; the seven most-watched broadcasts in American television history are Super Bowls.
In 2015, Super Bowl XLIX became the most-watched American television program in history with an audience of 114.4 million viewers, the fifth time in six years that the game had set a record. The Super Bowl is also among the most-watched sporting events in the world, and is second only to the UEFA Champions League (soccer) final as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide.
Commercial airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year because of the high viewership, leading to companies regularly developing their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. Watching and discussing the broadcast’s commercials has become a significant aspect of the event. In addition, popular singers and musicians have performed during the event’s pre-game and halftime ceremonies.