Even the Pizza Capital Connecticut Doesn’t Go Big on Super Bowl Pizza

According to ActionNetwork.com, Super Bowl Sunday is basically a national holiday for pizza. It’s the second-biggest pizza day of the entire year, trailing only New Year’s Eve. Which makes total sense—football, friends, yelling at the TV, and greasy food all go hand in hand.

Now here’s where things get awkward for us.

Someone dug into internet search data to figure out which states are ordering the most pizza on Super Bowl Sunday, and the results are… not great if you live in the so-called Pizza Capital of the United States. That’s right. Connecticut—the state that will fight strangers online about pizza like it’s a full-time job—doesn’t even crack the list.

The states going hardest on Super Bowl pizza are:

1. Delaware
2. Michigan
3. Pennsylvania
4. Florida
5. Ohio
6. Arizona
7. Nevada
8. Maryland
9. Illinois
10. South Carolina

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Delaware tops the list, mostly because Philadelphia was lumped into that data set for some reason. Philly alone has been the top pizza city on Super Bowl Sunday for eight straight years, so credit where it’s due.

Meanwhile, Connecticut? Nowhere to be found.

Let that sink in for a second. All we do here is brag. New Haven this. Apizza that. Coal-fired ovens. Tomato pies. Generational grudges over slice thickness. And then Super Bowl Sunday rolls around—the most caloric, excuse-free eating day of the year—and we’re like, “Nah, we’re good.”

What are we doing instead? Wings only? Charcuterie boards? A single artisanal flatbread cut into 47 microscopic pieces? I don’t know, but it feels like a missed opportunity.

What makes this even funnier is that some of the states that don’t order much pizza—North Dakota, Vermont, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana—kind of make sense. They’re remote. Deliveries take forever. Also, most of them don’t even have NFL teams. Fine. Fair excuses.

Connecticut has no excuse. We have the pizza. We have the people. We have the opinions. And yet, when it’s time to actually show up and eat irresponsibly, we suddenly lose interest?

So yeah, the Pizza Capital of the U.S. apparently doesn’t bother ordering pizza on Super Bowl Sunday. Incredible. Truly elite levels of confidence. We’ll tell you our pizza is the best in the country… and then not eat it on the one day everyone else is ordering it by the truckload.