Super Bowl Tickets : Super Bowl Xlv Will Be The 45th Annual Super Bowl In American Football

Super Bowl XLV will be the 45th annual edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 41st annual championship game of the modern-era National Football League (NFL).

The game, to be played on February 6, 2011, will pit the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers against the NFC champion Green Bay Packers to decide the NFL champion for the 2010 season. The game will be held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the first time that the Super Bowl will be held in the Dallas Fort Worth area; and the third time it will be held in Texas (Houston was the host city to Super Bowls VIII and XXXVIII).

Kickoff time is approximately 5:25pm CST (UTC-06). This will be the eighth appearance in the Super Bowl for the Steelers (who hold the record with six Super Bowl wins) and the fifth for the Packers (who hold the record with 12 overall NFL titles, including three Super Bowl wins and nine league titles prior to the Super Bowl-era).

As of January 28,The Packers are two to three point favorites, making this the first Super Bowl in which the Steelers were underdogs since Super Bowl XXX. In all four previous Super Bowls that Green Bay played in, they were favored to win.

The Steelers and Packers did not play each other this season. The last time the two teams met was December 20, 2009, when the Steelers defeated the Packers at Heinz Field. That game was marked by four lead changes in the fourth quarter and a game-winning touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger to Mike Wallace as time expired.

The Packers and Steelers have many ties between each other. Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers served in the same capacity in Pittsburgh from 1992-1994. Two former Steelers players who played under Capers in Pittsburgh are currently Packers assistants.

Packers outside linebackers coach Kevin Greene played in Pittsburgh from 1993-1995, earning his only Super Bowl appearance as a player in the Steelers loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXX. Darren Perry, the defensive backs coach, played in Pittsburgh from 1992-1998 and also played in Super Bowl XXX, earning a Super Bowl ring as the Steelers defensive backs coach in Super Bowl XL.

Among active players, Steelers punter Jeremy Kapinos, signed midseason to replace an injured Daniel Sepulveda, played for the Packers from 2008-2009, while Packers fullback John Kuhn played for the Steelers from 2005-2006. Kuhn earned a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL by virtue of being part of the team's practice squad, and also attended Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, located 171 miles east of Pittsburgh down the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Packers head coach Mike McCarthy is a Pittsburgh native, and coached at the University of Pittsburgh from 1989-1992.

Both teams also hold longevity records: the Steelers, founded in 1933, are the oldest franchise in the AFC (most of the teams in the conference were acquired via the AFL/NFL merger and by expansion), while the Packers have spent more years in the same city than any other team in NFL history (having played in Green Bay since its founding in 1919, prior to the league's founding).

Both teams are known to have sizable fanbases that often travel to away games, largely due to the home games themselves having decades-long waiting lists. In August 2008, ESPN.com ranked the two teams tied as having the best fans in the NFL. ESPN's own John Clayton, a Pittsburgh native, broke the tie in favor of the Steelers.

As the Packers are the designated "home" team in the annual rotation between AFC and NFC teams, the team elected to wear their green jerseys. Although both teams are known to wear their colored jerseys at home and have rarely worn white at home ,the Packers decision starkly contrasts with the Steelers decision as the "home" team in Super Bowl XL to wear white jerseys.

Both the 2005 Steelers and 2010 Packers were #6 seeded teams when they reached the Super Bowl, forcing them to play all of their postseason games on the road and wearing their respective white jerseys in those games.

With this appearance, the Steelers become only the second team to play in Super Bowls televised on all four major broadcast networks in the United States, the Broncos were the first to do it in Super Bowl XXXIII. If the Steelers win Super Bowl XLV then they will become the only team to win Super Bowls broadcast on all four major American broadcast networks.