6 Super Bowl XLVIII Facts You Won't Believe

East Rutherford, N.J., meet 400,000 strangers.

That's the number of visitors expected to make their way to the greater New York City area during the week of Super Bowl 2014. Roughly 20% of those guests, 82,500 to be exact, will be attending the game. As for what the other 320,000 visitors will be doing — who knows?

Below, we've compiled some of the craziest facts about the 48th Super Bowl and what it'll mean for the players, the ticket holders and the region.

1. New Jersey hotels are hiking prices way up.

Visitors are heading to the tri-state area in droves, whether to lodging surrounding the stadium in New Jersey or to more creative Manhattan accommodations. New Jersey hotels are egregiously gauging their nightly rates. The New York Post reports that a Days Inn in North Bergen has jacked its $125 per night standard rate to $1,300. Read more...