The Super Bowl is a time when friends and family come together to watch 300 pound freaks of nature crush each other for 11 minutes, and try to emulate said athletes' physique by downing buckets of pizza, chili dogs and chicken wings. Super Bowl Sunday is the United States' 2nd ranked day for food consumption, with Thanksgiving winning by half a gut.

• $55 million will be spent on food alone.
  
• Super Bowl viewers will collectively consume an estimated 156 billion calories.
  
• Americans will buy over 48 million pounds of avocados.

Like 51% of Americans, I usually just watch for the commercials. Instead of cheering for a team, I find an arbitrary reason to root against one of them. I then occupy the rest of my time facing off against 5+ kinds of dip and some form of meat (by)product. I always win, even during 2009's terrifying chicken wing shortage.

If you'd like to eat something that won't immediately congeal in your heart, Fox and NPR, among others, have healthy-ish recipe ideas for the game.

Personally, I hope my food coma from this year's Super Bowl will knock me out until the World Cup starts in June.

--Cody