Super Bowl XLV
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Super Bowl XLV
Super Bowl XLV Logo.png
Pittsburgh Steelers
(AFC) Green Bay Packers
(NFC)
25 31
1 2 3 4 Total
PIT 0 10 7 8 25
GB 14 7 0 10 31
Date February 6, 2011
Stadium Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas
MVP Aaron Rodgers, Quarterback
Favorite Packers by 3[1][2]
Referee Walt Anderson
Attendance
Total: 103,219[3]
Paid: 91,060[3]
Future Hall of Famers
Steelers: Non… Moree
Packers: Kevin Greene‡ (assistant coach)
Ceremonies
National anthem Christina Aguilera
Coin toss Deion Sanders, representing the 2011 Pro Football Hall of Fame class
Halftime show The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash
TV in the United States
Network Fox
Announcers Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Pam Oliver and Chris Myers
Nielsen ratings 46.0 (national)[4]
59.7 (Pittsburgh)
59.7 (Milwaukee)
US viewership: 111 million est. avg., 162.9 million est. total[4]
Market share 69 (national)
87 (Pittsburgh)
85 (Milwaukee)
Cost of 30-second commercial $3 million[5]
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Super Bowl XLV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2010 season. The Packers defeated the Steelers by the score of 31–25. The game was played on February 6, 2011, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the first time the Super Bowl was played in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

Unlike most other Super Bowls, this game featured two title-abundant franchises: coming into the game, the Packers held the most NFL championships with 12 (9 league championships prior to the Super Bowl era and 3 Super Bowl championships), while the Steelers held the most Super Bowl championships with 6. The Packers entered their fifth Super Bowl in team history, and became the first number 6-seeded team in the NFC to compete in the Super Bowl, after posting a 10–6 regular season record. The Steelers finished the regular season with a 12–4 record, and advanced to a league-tying 8th Super Bowl appearance.

Green Bay dominated most of the first half of Super Bowl XLV, jumping to a 21–3 lead before Pittsburgh cut it down to 21–10 just before halftime. Then after the teams exchanged touchdowns, the Steelers pulled within 28–25 midway through the fourth quarter with wide receiver Mike Wallace's 25-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and a two-point conversion. But the Packers answered with Mason Crosby's 23-yard field goal with 2:07 remaining, and then prevented the Steelers from scoring on their final drive of the game. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was named Super Bowl MVP, completing 24 of 39 passes for 304 yards and three touchdowns.

The broadcast of Super Bowl XLV on Fox averaged about 111 million viewers, breaking the record for the most-watched program in American television history.[4] The game's attendance was 103,219, just short of the Super Bowl record 103,985 set in Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The halftime show featured the American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, with additional performances by Usher and Slash. Less