Going shopping for Super Bowl snacks in 2026 is going to be costly.
Prices for all kinds of food items have increased over time, and as families and friends come together to watch the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks square off, the receipt total now would be significantly different to the past.
So, let’s rewind to the first ever Super Bowl in 1967, when the Green Bay Packers took on the Kansas City Chiefs.
One pizza box back then would go for around $1.50. With one $100 bill, that could fetch 66 pizzas. A bag of potato chips would be 25 cents. That’s good for a whopping 400 bags. Soda would be 15 cents, worth 600 bottles. Chicken wings did not exist just yet.
In 1976 when the Pittsburgh Steelers clashed with the Dallas Cowboys, pizza went up to $2. A 50-cent uptick would still result in 50 boxes. Chips doubled to 50 cents, decreasing in half to 200 bags. Chicken wings, still off the menu.
Chicken wings eventually came to fruition by the 1986 Super Bowl, where the Chicago Bears and Patriots met. They went for about 99 cents per pound, so $100 equals 100 pounds of wings. That’s a lot of meat.
Turning the decade to 2006 when the Steelers contested the Seahawks, a pizza box cost $12.50, worth just eight pizzas. Chips would equate to 33 bags while sodas were at 66 bottles. Wings were about $2 per pound, so the total pounds were half of 1986’s amount.
If we fast travel to today in 2026, pizza is $20 per box, down to five boxes. Chips range between $4-5 for a bag, while good soda is over $3. You could still buy 20 bags of chips, but probably not in this economy. Wings have jumped to $6-8 per pound. No more 100-pound days. Or even 50.
Onto 2036…
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