first off, GO BEARS! and next, the super bowl is totally excellent for hi-tech video wizardry. Im pretty much convinced that the industry is pushed towards making advances via sports. So for the 2007 super bowl, here’s what it takes to to make a show of the big game:

21 Hard Cameras
4 Hard Super Slo Motion Cameras
3 Cabled Handheld Cameras
2 Handheld Super Slo Motion Cameras
2 RF Handheld Cameras
1 RF Steadycam Camera
1 CableCam Camera
3 Ultra High Frame Rate Cameras
2 Robotic Goal Post Cameras
2 Robotic Coach’s Cameras
2 Booth Talent Cameras (1 robotic)
1 Unmanned Camera (inside beauty shot)
1 Robotic Camera on WFOR TV Tower (outside beauty shot)
2 Clock Cameras
2 Chapman Sideline Vehicles
6 HD Video Tape Machines
18 EVS Multi Camera Edit/Replay Devices
6 EVS Super Slo Motion Replay Devices
1 “Linear” Edit Suite
3 VizRT Graphics Engines
8 Parabolic RF Microphones

(from CBS.com)

The super slo-mo cams (Vision Research Phantom V-10 - seen above) can shoot at 300fps in 1080iHD - normal cams are at 60fps.

They’ve added 800,000 watts of lighting to what is already installed in the stadium for these cams to work as well as they can.

How to pay for all this? Well, the commercials for the last SB ran around $2.5mil per 30 second spot.

more information: the Nielsen guide to the Super Bowl.