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Associated Press
27-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
NextPlat Issues Statement on the Passing of its Executive Chairman and CEO Charles M. Fernandez
The Company Names Rodney Barreto as Interim Chairman of the Board and David Phipps as Interim Chief Executive Officer COCONUT GROVE, Fla., May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NextPlat Corp (NASDAQ: NXPL, NXPLW) ('NextPlat' or the 'Company'), a global e-Commerce provider today issued the following statement with great sadness regarding the sudden passing of Charles M. Fernandez, its Executive Chairman and CEO on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Mr. Fernandez served as the Company's Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since July 2021. NextPlat's Board of Directors has named Rodney Barreto, currently the Chair of the Company's Audit Committee as Interim Chairman of the Board and David Phipps, currently the Company's President and CEO of Global Operations and Director, as Interim Chief Executive Officer as the Board seeks to identify leadership candidates for the roles. Doug Ellenoff, Vice Chairman of NextPlat, said, 'We are shocked and saddened by Charlie's unexpected passing and wish to extend our sincere condolences to his family. Charlie's quiet demeanor and commitment to his family, friends, and to NextPlat, will be missed.' Mr. Barreto has served as Director of NextPlat since January 2022. His business career spans over 35 years including his role at the Barreto Group and as a partner of Capital City Consulting, a corporate and public affairs consulting firm recognized by policy makers as one of the top in its industry in Florida. He is the Chair of the FIFA Miami World Cup Host Committee 2026 and chaired the Super Bowl Host Committees in 2007, 2010 and 2020, helping to raise more than $100 million dollars for the success of Miami Super Bowls. Currently, Mr. Barreto is the Vice Chairman of the Florida Council of 100, and a member of multiple philanthropic Boards. Mr. Phipps currently serves as the Managing Director of NextPlat's UK subsidiary, GTC, and President of its two US subsidiaries, Orbital Satcom and Outfitter Satellite. He previously served as the Company's CEO and Chairman from 2015 to 2021, leading the Company from start-up through to its listing on Nasdaq in 2021. Mr. Fernandez is survived by his wife and three children. Out of respect for the family's privacy during this difficult period, the Company will not be providing any additional comments at this time. About NextPlat Corp NextPlat is a global e-commerce platform company created to capitalize on multiple high-growth sectors and markets including technology and healthcare. Through acquisitions, joint ventures and collaborations, the Company intends to assist businesses in selling their goods online, domestically, and internationally, allowing customers and partners to optimize their e-commerce presence and revenue. NextPlat currently operates an e-Commerce communications division offering voice, data, tracking, and IoT products and services worldwide as well as pharmacy and healthcare data management services in the United States through its subsidiary, Progressive Care. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements. These statements include the capabilities and success of the Company's business and any of its products, services or solutions. The words 'believe,' 'forecast,' 'project,' 'intend,' 'expect,' 'plan,' 'should,' 'would,' and similar expressions and all statements, which are not historical facts, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including the Company's ability to launch additional e-commerce capabilities for consumer and healthcare products and its ability to grow and expand as intended, any of which could cause the Company to not achieve some or all of its goals or the Company's previously reported actual results, performance (finance or operating), including those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC'), copies of which may be obtained from the SEC's website at The Company assumes no, and hereby disclaims any, obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Media and Investor Contact for NextPlat Corp: Michael Glickman MWGCO, Inc. 917-397-2272 [email protected] View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE NextPlat Corp.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Despite fatal attack, wildlife advocates outraged over Florida bear hunt revival
Florida is on the cusp of having an annual and regulated bear hunt that environmentalists and wildlife advocates likened to "barbarism" and say is informed by "outdated data." At a December Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) meeting after receiving an update on the commission's bear management plan, board chair Rodney Barreto told staff to develop a bear hunting option for commissioners to consider. Five months later, the option is ready for a public hearing. And it comes not long after the first fatal Florida bear attack ever recorded. The FWC said it was developed with input from four virtual public meetings. Once it was published, a public comment period for the proposal was open for three days – May 14-16. The 31 pages of rules include a 23-day bear season this December and, starting in 2026, annual bear hunting between the first of October and the end of December. Commissioners will consider the rules at their May 21-22 quarterly meeting in Ocala, with a final vote expected in August. Morgan Richardson, the FWC's director of hunting and game management said the rules create 'a conservative, well-regulated hunt' to manage the bear population. But opponents like James C. Scott of Speak Up for Wildlife said they 'are riddled with contradictions and sloppy math." Scott has more than a half-dozen objections to the proposal including the FWC reliance on data that is at least a decade old to decide whether the bear population is healthy enough to sustain a hunt. 'It is outdated data. This proposal was advanced and inspired by the appointees on the commission, not the scientists, not the agency staff,' Scott said. The FWC's Bear Management Coordinator Mike Orlando said the agency is relying on figures from 2015, which he characterizes as 'conservative.' 'We don't detect any decreasing (numbers statewide),' Orlando told the Naples Daily News. The Florida black bear, a distinct subspecies of the American black bear, was listed as a threatened species as recently as 2012; the population had dwindled to about 500 in the mid-1970s and has rebounded to an estimated 4,000 today. Florida ended an annual bear hunt in 1994. A week-long hunt was attempted in 2015 but was closed after two days when hunters had killed 300 of the 320 bears allotted for harvest. The proposal that will be considered in Ocala divides the state into seven "Bear Management Units" and declares any area with more than 200 bears a "Bear Harvest Zone" – there is no cap on how many bears can be taken from one BMU. Hunting permits would be issued through a random drawing and cost $100 for a Florida resident and $300 for anyone else; 187 permits would be issued this year. A permit holder can bring along one guest hunter. If hunting with dogs, a permit holder may bring along nine guests. A permit allows its holder or party to kill one bear. And the number of bears taken (or the number of permits issued) each year would be up to the FWC's executive director. The rules allow hunters to lure bears with food and kill them while they eat, to use packs of dogs to run them to exhaustion, and to skip check-in stations after a bear has been taken. 'This isn't wildlife management. It's not modern wildlife management. It's barbarism codified. There's no need for this and these rules are not in line with the black bear management plan adopted in 2019,' Scott said. Amendment 2 approved by voters last November makes hunting the preferred means of managing wildlife populations. The discussion in Ocala about bear hunting comes after the first death from a Florida bear attack that is known. An 89-year-old man was killed in Collier County earlier in May. While generally shy and tend to avoid people, bears are food-driven and the bear in the Collier incident appears to have been frequently attracted by garbage in the neighborhood. FWC lists securing garbage as the biggest bear deterrent. The Collier bear was found by wildlife officers and euthanized. Human bear encounters have increased in recent years as residential subdivisions are built in what once was undeveloped land. Nuisance bear calls increased from 2,000 in 2016 to more than 6,000 in 2024, according to the FWC. 'As the bear population grows and development occurs, we are probably going to see more bears move into developed areas. So that's one reason we want to try to manage bear population growth,' Richardson explained at the start of the first virtual meeting for the new bear hunting rules. A substantial majority of Floridians, however, are opposed to a bear hunting season. An April Naples Daily News poll, taken before the Collier bear attack, showed 92% opposing the hunt with 8% in favor. A Remington Research survey commissioned by Humane World for Animals found 89% opposed to hunting bears with dogs. Given those numbers, groups like Bear Warriors United, Bear Defenders, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation are urging their members to show up at the FWC quarterly meeting in Ocala to ask commissioners to postponed consideration of a bear hunt until the population numbers are updated. 'This proposal is widely unpopular, riddled with contradictions, and not in alignment with FWC policy - we shouldn't even be discussing this until we have updated accurate population data,' Scott said. Commissioners will discuss the proposal, then a vote to adopt the rules is expected at their August meeting, with the location to be determined. James Call is a member of the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida Capital Bureau. He can be reached at jcall@ and is on X as @CallTallahassee. This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Bear hunt returns? Florida faces uproar over new rules
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Florida wildlife commission chair denies trying to build destructive project he tried to build
A manatee greets kayakers paddling near the property Rodney Barreto owns on Lake Worth. (Photo by Reinaldo Diaz of Lake Worth Waterkeeper) There used to be a TV game show called 'To Tell the Truth.' It ran from 1956 to 1968, then was revived in syndication in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Then, because network TV executives seldom have new ideas, ABC brought it back in 2016 for a six-year revival. We'll probably see it again in the next decade. The game worked like this: Three contestants would all claim to be the same person. Two were impostors willing to lie up a storm, while the real one was required to tell the truth. The celebrity panel had to guess which was which. I thought of that old game show the other day while watching the Florida Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources run a confirmation hearing. In the hot seat: the sitting chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Rodney Barreto. Over the past 20 years, Barreto has been appointed to the commission by three different governors — Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist, and Ron DeSantis — which suggests governors are as unoriginal as network execs. This was Barreto's fourth confirmation hearing, and by far the roughest, because mobs of people contacted the senators to urge them to reject him. After Barreto swore to tell the truth, senators asked him about the objections people had raised. Some were angry that he voted to allow a toll road to be built through a Central Florida preserve. Some were upset about the wildlife commission's push for another bear hunt. Others were mad about his advocacy of the purposely misleading Amendment 2. But there was one exchange that I found particularly fascinating. Barreto makes his living as a developer and lobbyist. Sen. Gayle Harrell asked him if he was trying to build condominiums on submerged land on Singer Island in Palm Beach County. Barreto acknowledged that he owns property there but swore he wasn't trying to build anything. 'I don't know who's telling you that I'm building condos there,' he testified. 'There's not one application in front of any governing body.' When Harrell asked him if he'd ever tried to build on his submerged land, he told her, 'Never.' Then he stood there defiantly, as if about to break into the Eurythmics song 'Would I Lie To You?' The committee moved on. I regret to report that nobody brought up the fact that, in 2021, the Palm Beach Post ran a story about Barreto headlined, 'Top Florida wildlife official wants to fill, build on lagoon where turtles, manatees roam.' 'Florida's top appointed protector of wildlife wants to make millions by dredging up and filling in acres of the wildlife-filled Lake Worth Lagoon,' the story begins. 'Rodney Barreto … is pressing legal action to let his company fill, dredge and build hundreds of condos and houses on mostly submerged land off Singer Island.' Maybe he didn't intend to say something so blatantly untrue while he was under oath. Maybe he's just so busy developing land that he forgot about this one controversial project. Others offered a different theory. 'He's just used to getting his way,' said Lesley Blackner, a Stuart attorney and longtime foe of Florida sprawl who testified against Barreto. 'And not being questioned.' Barreto isn't some clueless outsider who's swooped in to destroy Florida's environment. He's from here. 'When I grew up in Miami,' he told the Senate committee, 'I hunted in the Everglades and went fishing in Biscayne Bay. … It was the best time of my life.' Now he's a millionaire who owns property in four states, chaired the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee three times, and routinely hobnobs with well-known politicians, raising beaucoup bucks for them and their causes. 'I'm in the business of making money,' he told the senators. This is not how the wildlife commission started in 1998. Back then, the commissioners included a wildlife biologist, a dentist, a cattle rancher, an insurance executive, a charter boat captain, a retired sheriff, and a defense attorney. The difference, I think, is that the governor who appointed that first board, Lawton Chiles, limited his campaign contributions to $100 maximum. Now the appointees are all big-money boys reaping the benefits of being major contributors to the governor. 'It's all quid pro quo now,' Blackner said. The problem with filling the board with campaign contributors in the real estate and development business, though, is that they're likely to have projects that conflict with the mission of the commission. Take the project Sen. Harrell asked Barreto about. He bought his property in 2016 for $425,000. Two years later, under the name of a company run by Barreto and his wife called Government Lot 1 LLC, he filed an application to build 330 condos, 15 single family homes, 30 boat slips, and a 50-slip marina with a restaurant and community center. To build this would require dumping fill in 12 acres of submerged land and dredging 4 acres of the submerged property. This is a style of destructive development we seldom see in Florida anymore. The place where it would be built, by the way, is adjacent to John D. MacArthur Beach State Park, which Reinaldo Diaz, of Lake Worth Waterkeeper, calls 'one of the best state parks in the state.' As for the property Barreto wanted to develop, it has 'the highest density of juvenile sea turtles in at least the east coast of Florida,' Diaz told me. 'Nearby is the only significant horseshoe crab nesting site I've found in the Lake Worth Lagoon' That spot is so full of wildlife, he said, because Barreto's property consists of 'nothing but seagrass and a strip of mangroves.' Until about 50 years ago, Florida developers believed the best way to build a new waterfront subdivision was to do what Barreto was proposing: Create new land out of water. They would dump fill on the submerged property, turning water into dry land, meanwhile burying mangroves and seagrass aucods galore. In St. Petersburg, for instance, so many developers had built dredge-and-fill subdivisions on Boca Ciega Bay by 1957 that Gov. LeRoy Collins quipped, 'Pretty soon, we're going to have to drill to find water here.' When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, the new Environmental Protection Agency used it to stop a harmful dredge-and-fill project in Florida. Harbor Isles was to be built on the edge of Tampa Bay by using 1.3 million cubic yards of fill dirt to create 281 acres of dry land. It would destroy what biologists called 'a rich estuarine area.' The EPA won that case. Then it won seven more in the Florida Keys, laying the groundwork for ending such destructive development, not just in Florida but nationwide. Because Barreto's development project was a throwback to the bad old days, it did not get a warm reception from the state. One of the agencies to which he applied for a permit, the South Florida Water Management District, sent back a 17-page letter that basically said, 'Dude, you have GOT to be kidding.' Noting the serious impact on 'an unknown amount of open water, submerged bottom, mangrove and seagrass habitats,' the staff wrote that they had 'considerable concerns' and would likely say no. Barreto withdrew the application — but he was far from done with the project. For the next step, he basically tried to resurrect the dead. Despite the Clean Water Act, some would-be developers had already secured permits for using the old-fashioned building method. Government officials had to negotiate a way to stop them. The settlements they worked out made sure that kind of rampant destruction faded. In 2020, Barreto filed a legal motion to reopen one of those old cases. He asked the court to revive this long-settled matter so his Singer Island project could be declared exempt from modern environmental regulations and he could proceed to build. He joined with two other owners of submerged property to legally object to the Riviera Beach commissioners rezoning their land for preservation. That would prevent their development plans, they argued. These efforts backfired when the Palm Beach Post reported that the lead defender of Florida's wildlife was also the guy trying to destroy a bunch of it. A public uproar ensued. People demanded he either drop his development plans or resign. 'It's not just any part of the lagoon, it is absolutely the best part, in terms of its environment,' Lisa Interlandi of the Everglades Law Center said during an FWC board meeting at the time. To quiet everyone down, Barreto dismissed his legal challenges and told the Miami Herald he would immediately sell the property. However, it appears that his promise to sell the land was another — oh, what's that word that's the opposite of 'true?' It's right on the tip of my tongue. Rather than sell the land, Barreto's corporation hung onto it. He still owns it. He testified to the Senate committee that his only plan was to use it as 'mitigation' to make up for someone else's mangrove-destroying development plans. But a more recent Barreto lawsuit tells a different story. Last year, Barreto's corporation sued Riviera Beach over the property. Barreto contended that by rezoning the land so it could not be developed, the commissioners had in effect taken it from him and he demanded to be paid. That lawsuit is still pending. I contacted Interlandi about all this. She told me: 'The last thing Florida's submerged lands need is people trying to get rich off them. I think this is a great opportunity to pivot and focus on land conservation, not land development.' I tried to contact Barreto to ask him about that. I should warn you that this is where the story gets weird. I have interviewed Barreto several times in the past. For some reason, he didn't return my calls this week. Probably too busy raising money for DeSantis' new foundation, 'Hope Florida Doesn't Find Out.' Instead, to my surprise, I heard from someone who claimed to be Barreto's partner in owning the submerged land. And it wasn't his wife. His name is Glenn Larson. He's president of a Miami company called Dock & Marine Construction that's been around since 1959. Larson told me he'd known Barreto ever since the future mover-and-shaker was a police officer. He said he also built the Barretos' backyard docks. This is the one and only time they've been partners in anything, Larson told me. He just happened to bump into Barreto while he was considering buying the submerged land and Barreto agreed to join forces with him, Larson said. Barreto didn't mention him to the Senate committee and Larson's name doesn't appear anywhere in the property records. I asked him if he had any paperwork to show he's a partner. 'I'm the half-owner, but when they recorded the deed, they left my name off of it,' he told me. In other words, no. The attorney who filed the deed was going to correct that oversight, he said. But that's when Larson — not Barreto! — filed the application to build all those houses and condos on the property, he said. 'I kind of messed him up,' Larson told me. When the water district sent back that letter with all the conditions, he told me, 'Rodney called me and said, 'What the hell are you doing, man?' So, I withdrew it.' Larson insisted that Barreto had no knowledge of the development plans, and that's why his answers to Sen. Harrell were not perjury. Hang on a second, I said. The signature on the permit application looks like Barreto's, not yours. You're just listed as a contractor. He acknowledged that Barreto did sign the permit application. 'I probably went and left the paperwork at his house to get his signature,' Larson said. 'But he didn't know what I was doing.' I find it hard to believe Barreto, a hard-headed businessman if ever there was one, would sign any document without reading it. Anyway, despite all the people who urged them to kick Barreto to the curb, the Senate committee voted 8-1 to confirm him for another term as a wildlife commissioner. Even Sen. Harrell voted for him. Barreto has yet to appear before his second and final Senate hearing, this time with the Ethics and Elections Committee. The hearing hasn't been scheduled yet, so he's got some time to consider what answers he'll give. I promise we can handle the truth. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
Miami Herald
04-04-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Miami-Dade's investment in FIFA 2026 will be worth it
As co-chair of the FIFA World Cup 26 Miami Host Committee and someone who had the privilege of chairing three Miami Super Bowl Host Committees, I have seen firsthand the transformative impact major sporting events can have on our community. Miami is poised once again to shine on the world stage as one of just 11 U.S. cities selected to host the FIFA World Cup. 2026 A Miami Herald editorial on March 27, 'Not a good look: Miami-Dade warns of budget cuts while asking for more World Cup dollars,' fails to acknowledge that we, as a community, made a commitment on the world stage that we must now fulfill and underestimates the significant economic and cultural benefits of this event. Miami-Dade's investment in the FIFA World Cup is not just sensible; it's crucial. Economic impact Historically, events like the 2020 Super Bowl generated an economic impact of $572 million, and the Formula1 Miami Grand Prix, with a $350 million impact, demonstrated how these investments pay off. The World Cup, is expected to generate over $1.3 billion in economic impact and support thousands of jobs, will dwarf these figures. Let's be clear: the additional $10.5 million in funding is an investment in Miami's future — not in FIFA. These funds are essential for public safety, infrastructure and ensuring Miami delivers on its commitment to host a world-class event. Furthermore, the editorial implies a lack of transparency in the funding process. I want to assure the public that all financial planning and expenditures related to the World Cup are being handled with the utmost transparency and accountability. Police and fire The FIFA World Cup 2026 Miami Host Committee is working in close collaboration with county officials to ensure that all decisions are made in the best interest of our residents and with a clear understanding of the financial landscape. This investment will cover essential services like police, fire rescue, and transit, which are crucial for managing an influx of visitors and ensuring that Miami-Dade not only meets but exceeds expectations. Every host city is securing public investment to meet operational demands. Why should Miami be the exception? We should be setting the gold standard, not falling behind. International Miami Miami has a legacy of successfully hosting international events and making them beneficial for all. This isn't just about a series of games; it's about seizing a generational opportunity to elevate Miami as a premier global destination. The long-term gains in tourism, business growth, and international prestige will far outweigh the costs. Let's come together to ensure Miami delivers a safe, memorable, and lucrative World Cup experience. The eyes of the world will be watching and we must be ready to show the best of what our city has to offer. Failing to invest in these necessities would be the 'real bad look' — a failure of leadership that puts Miami's reputation and public safety at risk. Rodney Barreto is the co-chair of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Miami Host Committee.
Miami Herald
06-02-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
When is South Florida getting a Super Bowl? See what happened here in past years
And when you say Miami, you're talking Super Bowl. OK, we can't say that about the Miami Dolphins, even though it is the team song. But the words still ring true when it comes to the Miami area hosting the big game. Miami has hosted 11 Super Bowls. The last one, Super Bowl 54 in 2020, generated over $500 million for the local economy. On February 9, 2025, New Orleans will tie Miami as the city to host the most Super Bowls. The Super Bowl returned to South Florida in 2020 after a 10-year absence. But when is the next Super Bowl lined up at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens? MORE: Want to see World Cup and a football finale? How Miami is luring tourists through sports South Florida hasn't been awarded a Super Bowl through 2028. After the Super Bowl in New Orleans, California hosts two of the next four — at Levi's Stadium in the Bay Area and SoFi Stadium in Southern California. The drought in South Florida hosting Super Bowls is partly due to the NFL changing how it awards them and a flurry of new stadiums, said Rodney Barreto, the Coral Gables-based chairman of the Super Bowl Host Committee in Miami in 2007, 2010 and 2020. 'The NFL typically rewards any city that opens a new stadium,' Barreto said in an interview with the Miami Herald. He said while it's up to the league, he expects South Florida to be considered for the 2029 Super Bowl. But before we look too far ahead, here is a look back through the Miami Herald archives on the Super Bowl games played in South Florida through the years, starting with the Orange Bowl in 1968 up through the most recent one in 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens: Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers 33 vs Oakland Raiders 14 Stadium: Miami Orange Bowl Date: Jan. 14, 1968 Attendance: 75,546 MVP: Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr Green Bay Coach: Vince Lombardi Oakland Coach: John Rauch National anthem/Halftime show: Grambling State University Band Cost of 30-second commercial: $54,000 Nielsen rating: 36.8 Ticket price: $12 Did You Know? Though the Orange Bowl was sold out for the game, unconditional blackout rules in both leagues prevented the live CBS telecast from being shown in the Miami area. Super Bowl III: New York Jets 16 vs Baltimore Colts 7 Stadium: Miami Orange Bowl Date: Jan. 12, 1969 Attendance: 75,389 MVP: New York quarterback Joe Namath New York Coach: Weeb Ewbank Baltimore Coach: Don Shula National anthem: Anita Bryant Halftime show: Florida A&M Band Cost of 30-second commercial: $55,000 Nielsen rating: 36.0 Ticket price: $12 Did You Know? Joe Namath's historic guarantee came at the Miami Touchdown Club's annual celebration, where he was honored as the league's MVP. Broadway Joe was driven from the Jets hotel in Fort Lauderdale to the event in Miami Springs, and it is believed Namath was sipping a drink that contained a touch of Johnnie Walker Red. Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts 16 vs Dallas Cowboys 13 Stadium: Miami Orange Bowl Date: Jan. 17, 1971 Attendance: 79,204 MVP: Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley Baltimore Coach: Don McCafferty Dallas Coach: Tom Landry National anthem: Tommy Loy (trumpeter) Halftime show: Florida A&M Band Cost of 30-second commercial: $55,000 Nielsen rating: 39.9 Super Bowl ticket price: $15 Did You Know? The game was played on artificial turf for the first time. The following year, Tulane Stadium would join the Orange Bowl as the only stadiums to host Super Bowls on both natural grass and artificial turf. Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers 21 vs Dallas Cowboys 17 Stadium: Miami Orange Bowl Date: Jan. 18, 1976 Attendance: 80,187 MVP: Pittsburgh wide receiver Lynn Swann Pittsburgh Coach: Chuck Noll Dallas Coach: Tom Landry National anthem: Tom Sullivan Halftime show: Up with People's Bicentennial Tribute Cost of 30-second commercial: $110,000 Nielsen rating: 42.3 Super Bowl ticket price: $20 Did You Know? Swann was questionable to play after a concussion in the AFC Championship game. But it was Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw who left the game with a concussion a second after firing the game-clinching touchdown bomb to Swann. Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers 35 vs Dallas Cowboys 31 Stadium: Miami Orange Bowl Date: Jan. 21, 1979 Attendance: 79,484 MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Quarterback Pittsburgh Coach: Chuck Noll Dallas Coach: Tom Landry National anthem: The Colgate Thirteen Halftime show: Carnival Salute to Caribbean Cost of 30-second commercial: $185,000 Nielsen rating: 47.1 Super Bowl ticket price: $30 Did You Know? Jackie Smith, infamous for dropping the touchdown pass (above), had a Hall of Fame career with the Cardinals before Dallas coaxed him out of retirement for this season. Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers 20 vs Cincinnati Bengals 16 Stadium: Joe Robbie Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) Date: Jan. 22, 1989 Attendance: 75,129 MVP: San Francisco wide receiver Jerry Rice San Francisco Coach: Bill Walsh Cincinnati Coach: Sam Wyche National anthem: Billy Joel Halftime show: BeBop Bamboozled Cost of 30-second commercial: $675,000 Nielsen rating: 43.5 Super Bowl ticket price: $100 Did You Know? At halftime, the score was 3-3, the first time in Super Bowl history the game was tied at intermission. Super Bowl XXIX: San Francisco 49ers 49 vs San Diego Chargers 26 Stadium: Joe Robbie Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) Date: Jan, 29, 1995 Attendance: 74,107 MVP: San Francisco quarterback Steve Young 49ers Coach: George Seifert Chargers Coach: Bobby Ross National anthem: Kathie Lee Gifford Halftime show: Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Arturo Sandoval, Miami Sound Machine Cost of 30-second commercial: $1.15 million Nielsen rating: 41.3 Super Bowl ticket price: $200 Did You Know? Steve Young not only passed for a record six touchdowns, he was the game's leading rusher (49 yards). Super Bowl XXXIII: Denver Broncos 34 vs Atlanta Falcons 14 Stadium: Pro Player Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) Date: Jan. 31, 1999 Attendance: 74,803 MVP: Denver quarterback John Elway Denver Coach: Mike Shanahan Atlanta Coach: Dan Reeves National anthem: Cher Halftime show: Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Cost of 30-second commercial: $1.6 million Nielsen rating: 40.2 Super Bowl ticket price: $325 Did You Know? John Elway, in his last game, passed for 336 yards and ran for a touchdown to earn most valuable player honors as the Broncos became the first AFC team to win consecutive Super Bowls since the Steelers won XIII and XIV. Super Bowl XLI: Indianapolis Colts 29 vs Chicago Bears 17 Stadium: Dolphin Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) Date: Feb. 4, 2007 Attendance: 74,512 MVP: Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning Indianapolis Coach: Tony Dungy Chicago Coach: Lovie Smith National anthem: Billy Joel Halftime show: Prince, Florida A&M University Marching 100 Cost of 30-second commercial: $2.6 million Nielsen rating: 42.6 Super Bowl ticket price: $325 Did You Know? Dungy and Smith represented the first time two African-American head coaches faced each other in a Super Bowl. Smith had been on Dungy's staff in Tampa Bay from 1996-2000. Super Bowl XLIV: New Orleans Saints 31 Indianapolis Colts 17 Stadium: Sun Life Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) Date: Feb. 7, 2010 Attendance: 74,059 MVP: New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees Indianapolis Coach: Jim Caldwell New Orleans Coach: Sean Payton National anthem: Carrie Underwood Halftime show: Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey from The Who Cost of 30-second commercial: $2.5-$2.8 million Nielsen rating: 45.0 Super Bowl ticket price: $325 Did You Know? The Saints onside kick to begin the second half was a gutsy call, but shouldn't have worked — it went right to a veteran wide receiver Hank Baskett. But Baskett bobbled it back t the Saints. The Colts released him the next day. Super Bowl LIV: Kansas City Chiefs 31, San Francisco 49ers 20 Date: Feb. 2, 2020 Attendance: 62,417 MVP: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes Kansas City coach: Andy Reid San Francisco coach: Kyle Shanahan National anthem: Demi Lovato Halftime show: Jennifer Lopez and Shakira Cost of 30-second commercial: $5.6 million Nielsen rating: 41.6 Super Bowl ticket price: $3,300 Did You Know? This Super Bowl carried the same name, LIV, as the famous nightspot at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach? And yes, there were celebrity parties there.
