Super Bowl XLV 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 game was held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington , Texas on February 6 , 2011 . The Packers defeated the Steelers by the score of 31 – 25 , becoming only the second NFC wild card team ever to win the Super Bowl . Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was named Super Bowl MVP , completing 24 of 39 passes for 304 yards and three touchdowns . Unlike other matchups , 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 . With the victory , this was the Packers ' fourth Super Bowl victory out of five total appearances and a record thirteenth overall NFL title . Even with this loss , the Steelers matched the record of eight total appearances in the Super Bowl , set in 1996 by the Dallas Cowboys ; who , that year , gave the Steelers their only other Super Bowl loss . The Steelers ' most recent prior Super Bowl appearance was a win in the 2008 season at Super Bowl XLIII . The Steelers , coached by Mike Tomlin since 2007 , entered the playoffs with a 12 – 4 record , while the Packers , coached by Mike McCarthy since 2006 , had a 10 – 6 record . The Steelers made the Super Bowl with 31 – 24 and 24 – 19 victories over the Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets respectively . The Packers meanwhile defeated the top three seeds entering the post - season , with 21 – 16 , 48 – 21 and 21 – 14 victories over the Philadelphia Eagles , Atlanta Falcons and Chicago Bears respectively . The defending champions from Super Bowl XLIV , the New Orleans Saints , as well as the defending AFC champion Indianapolis Colts , were eliminated from the playoffs in the first round . This was the first time the Super Bowl was played in the Dallas – Fort Worth area , and the third time it was held in the state of Texas , with the city of Houston having hosted Super Bowl VIII and Super Bowl XXXVIII previously . The hosting venue Cowboys Stadium , which was built less than two years earlier , is the largest domed stadium in the world with a capacity of 110 , 000 ( including standing room ) , and is home to the Dallas Cowboys . The Steelers and Packers each have historical rivalries with the Cowboys . Per convention as an odd - numbered Super Bowl , the Packers as the NFC representatives had the home team designation , wearing green jerseys . The game was broadcast live on Fox . Before the game the National Anthem was sung incorrectly by Christina Aguilera who repeated a line twice . The halftime show featured the American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas , with additional performances by Usher and Slash . This game marked only the second time in history that the Packers won a post - season game played in the home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys , after the 1966 NFL Championship Game ( which came before the first Super Bowl ) . The Packers had lost four consecutive playoff games against the Cowboys at Texas Stadium in the interim . Host selection process for Super Bowl XLV . Three NFL cities presented bids for the game : NFL owners voted to select the North Texas site on May 22 , 2007 . Background . Pittsburgh Steelers . The Pittsburgh Steelers finished the 2010 season with a 12 – 4 record . They earned the AFC North division title , and the second seed in the AFC and advanced to their 8th Super Bowl , tying the Dallas Cowboys ' record of most Super Bowl appearances . After missing the first four games of the year on suspension for violating the NFL ' s personal conduct policy ( during which the Steelers went 3 - 1 ) , quarterback Ben Roethlisberger returned for his seventh season as the Steelers starting quarterback , finishing the season with 3 , 200 yards and 17 touchdowns , with just five interceptions , for a 97 passer rating . He also rushed for 176 yards and two touchdowns . The team ' s top receiver was Mike Wallace who caught 60 passes for 1 , 257 yards and 10 touchdowns , giving him a 21 yards per catch average . Other reliable options included 13 - year veteran Hines Ward ( 59 receptions for 755 yards and 5 TDs ) , the Steelers all - time leading receiver , and tight end Heath Miller who caught 42 passes for 512 yards . Halfback Rashard Mendenhall was the team ' s leading rusher , gaining 1 , 273 yards and 13 touchdowns while also catching 23 passes . The line was led by rookie center Maurkice Pouncey , the Steelers only pro bowl selection on offense . However , Pouncey was injured in the AFC championship game and would be inactive for Super Bowl XLV . The Steelers had one of the league ' s top defenses , leading the NFL in sacks ( 48 ) , and fewest points ( 14 . 5 ) and rushing yards ( 62 . 8 ) allowed per game , while ranking second in fewest total yards ( 276 . 8 ) . The line was anchored by pro bowl end Brett Keisel . The Steelers also had four excellent linebackers : LaMarr Woodley , James Harrison , James Farrior , and Lawrence Timmons . For the third consecutive year , Woodley and Harrison each recorded at least 10 sacks . Woodley also forced three fumbles and Harrison forced six . Farrior had 109 total tackles and six sacks . Timmons led the team with 135 total tackles , while also recording three sacks and two interceptions . The secondary was led by pro bowl safety Troy Polamalu , who won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award , tying his career - best seven interceptions and returning them for 101 yards and a touchdown . Coach Mike Tomlin , already the youngest coach to ever win a Super Bowl , became the youngest coach ever to make it to the Super Bowl twice at age 38 . Green Bay Packers . The Green Bay Packers finished the season with a 10 – 6 record and became the first # 6 - seeded team in the NFC to compete in the Super Bowl . They are only the second # 6 seeded team to reach the Super Bowl , with the only other # 6 seed to accomplish this feat being the Pittsburgh Steelers , who won Super Bowl XL following the 2005 season . Green Bay also joined the 2005 Steelers as the only teams ever to defeat the top three seeded teams on the road in the playoffs . In order to secure their fifth Super Bowl bid they defeated their longtime rivals , the Chicago Bears , in the NFC Championship Game at Soldier Field . The offense was led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers , who was in his third year as a starter after taking over for the team ' s all - time leading passer Brett Favre . Rodgers finished the season completing 65 . 7 % of his passes for 3 , 912 yards and 28 touchdowns , with only eleven interceptions , giving him his second consecutive season with a triple digit passer rating ( 101 . 2 ) . He was also a good rusher , adding 356 yards and 4 touchdowns on the ground . His top target was pro bowl receiver Greg Jennings , who caught 76 passes for 1 , 265 yards and 12 touchdowns , giving him a 16 . 6 yards per catch average while also ranking him fourth in the NFL in yards and second in touchdown catches . Other reliable targets included receivers James Jones ( 50 receptions , 676 yards , 5 tds ) , Donald Driver ( 51 receptions , 565 yards , 4 tds ) , and Jordy Nelson ( 45 receptions , 582 yards , 496 kick return yards ) . The Packers lost star tight end Jermichael Finley ( 21 receptions 301 yards , 1 td ) to injury in week five who was their leading receiver at the time . The Packers ground game was crippled by injuries , especially the Week 1 loss of Ryan Grant , who had rushed for over 1 , 200 yards in each of the last two years . In his absence , the team relied prominently on Brandon Jackson , who rushed for 703 yards and caught 43 passes for 342 , along with fullback John Kuhn , who added 281 yards on the ground . The team ' s offensive line was anchored by pro bowl tackle Chad Clifton , an 11 - year veteran . The Packers defense ranked second in the league in fewest points allowed per game ( 15 ) . The line was led by Cullen Jenkins , who recorded seven sacks in just eleven games , and 338 - pound defensive tackle B . J . Raji , who had 6 . 5 . The linebackers were led by pro bowler Clay Matthews and A . J . Hawk . Matthews ranked fourth in the NFL with 13 . 5 sacks , while Hawk led the team in combined tackles ( 111 ) and intercepted three passes . Three of the Packers starters in the secondary had made the pro bowl . Tramon Williams led the team with a career high 6 interceptions , while adding 326 punt return yards . Other pro bowl selections included safety Nick Collins ( 4 interceptions and 70 combined tackles ) and hard hitting 13 - year veteran cornerback Charles Woodson , who recorded 92 total tackles and forced five fumbles , while also intercepting two passes . The Packers entered the Super Bowl never having trailed by more than 7 points at any point during the season — a feat that had never been accomplished during a complete season in the Super Bowl era . The last team to complete a season with this distinction was the Detroit Lions in 1962 . In the Super Bowl game itself , the Packers never trailed . Playoffs . Pittsburgh advanced to the Super Bowl with two close wins in the playoffs . After a first - round bye , the Steelers defeated their division rival , the # 5 Baltimore Ravens 31 – 24 , with Ben Roethlisberger ' s 58 - yard completion to Antonio Brown on third down and 19 setting up Rashard Mendenhall ' s game winning 2 - yard touchdown run with 1 : 33 left in the game . Roethlisberger finished with 226 passing yards and two touchdowns , while the defense forced three turnovers and sacked Baltimore QB Joe Flacco five times , three by James Harrison . Then the Steelers defeated the # 6 New York Jets 24 – 19 in the AFC title game . Pittsburgh seemed to be in complete control at first , taking a 24 – 0 lead in the first half . New York quarterback Mark Sanchez rallied his team back , cutting the score to 24 – 10 going into the fourth quarter . The Jets then drove to the Steelers 2 - yard line on a 17 - play drive , but the Pittsburgh defense made a key stand , keeping them out of the end zone on four consecutive plays near the goal - line to force a turnover . New York subsequently forced a safety and scored a touchdown with just over three minutes left , but Roethlisberger ' s 14 - yard completions to Brown and Heath Miller allowed Pittsburgh to hang on to the ball until time expired . Mendenhall finished with 121 rushing yards and a touchdown , along with 2 catches for 32 yards . Green Bay started off their postseason with a 21 – 16 win over the # 3 Philadelphia Eagles after Tramon Williams intercepted a pass from Michael Vick in the end zone with less than a minute left to play . Aaron Rodgers threw for 180 yards and three touchdowns while James Starks , who only rushed for 101 yards during the season , rushed for 123 yards in the game . The Packers then went to Georgia , where the top - seeded 13 – 3 Atlanta Falcons were waiting . Although the Falcons took advantage of an early turnover and a kick return touchdown to build a 14 – 7 lead , Green Bay quickly buried the Falcons with 35 straight points . By the end of the first half , the Packers held a 28 – 14 lead , and went on to win comfortably , 48 – 21 . Rodgers was nearly perfect , completing 31 of 36 passes for 366 yards and three touchdowns , while adding another score on the ground . Jordy Nelson and James Jones both had touchdown catches , while John Kuhn added scores by air and ground and Tramon Williams returned one of his two interceptions 70 yards for a touchdown . Green Bay ' s special teams unit never had to punt the ball , while Mason Crosby contributed two field goals . Green Bay next faced the # 2 Chicago Bears in the NFC championship game , beating them 21 – 14 . This time Rodgers had a rougher day than his previous two games , throwing no touchdown passes and being intercepted twice . But he still threw for 244 yards and scored a 1 - yard touchdown run , while Starks added 74 rushing yards , including a touchdown run in the second quarter . Meanwhile , Green Bay ' s defense knocked Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler out of the game and intercepted three passes , one of which was returned 18 yards for a touchdown by B . J . Raji . The other two were made by rookie Sam Shields , who recorded his second interception near his own end zone with 37 seconds left to put the game away . Possible Presidential appearance . During a press conference on January 19 , 2011 , President Barack Obama ( a longtime Chicago Bears fan ) said he would attend Super Bowl XLV if the Chicago Bears defeated the Green Bay Packers , saying " If the Bears win , I ’ m going no doubt " . Chicago ended up losing the NFC Championship game a few days later on January 23 to Green Bay 21 – 14 . In a post - game locker - room speech by Green Bay Packers corner Charles Woodson he poked fun at the President ' s comment saying " The President don ' t want to come watch us at the Super Bowl , guess what ? We ' re going to see him " ( implying that Green Bay would win the Super Bowl and visit the White House as the winning team does each year ; a statement that would come true ) . Woodson then broke the Packers meeting with a team cheer of " White House ! " . On January 26 President Obama visited Green Bay and was greeted by Mayor Jim Schmitt and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who presented the President with two Green Bay Packers Jerseys . The first had Obama ' s name on the back with the number 1 and the second was an autographed Charles Woodson jersey with the message " See you at the White House . Go Packers ! " written on the back by Woodson . On August 12 , 2011 , Woodson ' s promise came true and Packers visited the White House and met with President Obama . Their visit was delayed because of the NFL lockout and took place a day before the Packers first preseason game against the Cleveland Browns . President Obama was presented with a Packers jersey with the number 1 and the words Commander - In - Chief on the back . He was also presented with a stock share of the Packers organization , thus making him a part owner of the Packers . When Obama jokingly asked if this meant he could trade Aaron Rodgers to the Bears , Woodson responded that Obama was just " a minority owner . " Obama , who is also a Steelers fan and considers the team to be his second - favorite after the Bears , openly supported the Steelers two years earlier in Super Bowl XLIII after the Rooney family helped with his campaigning work and later appointed Steelers chairman Dan Rooney , an ethnic Irish Catholic , the U . S . Ambassador to Ireland . He did not attend the game ; instead , he hosted a 100 - person Super Bowl party at the White House . Attendees included his family , elected leaders from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , DNC member Andres Lopez of Puerto Rico , Buffalo , New York mayor Byron Brown , Buffalo deputy mayor Steve Casey , Newark , New Jersey mayor Cory Booker , Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony , both actors / singers , and ESPN columnist Michael Wilbon . Although the sitting president did not attend the game , former president and former Texas governor George W . Bush was present , along with his wife Laura and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . Super Bowl pregame news and notes . 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 were 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 wore white at home for two games in 1989 ) , the Packers decision contrasted 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 . The retractable roof at Cowboys Stadium was closed for the game . A severe winter storm blanketed the Dallas - Fort Worth area in hard ice and snow the week before the game , threatening to disrupt game preparations . Snow fell from the roof of Cowboys Stadium ' s East end on February 4 , injuring six people . Over 3 , 000 tickets were sold to watch the game in the stadium ' s East Plaza , which experienced the falling ice tragedy earlier in the week . However , the snow had melted by game time and fans who paid $ 200 per ticket were allowed to watch the game outside Cowboys Stadium , in the open air , as the weather turned from sleet to sun . Since the Steelers and Packers were two of the six teams that did not have cheerleader s during the 2010 NFL season ( the others being the Chicago Bears , Detroit Lions , Cleveland Browns , and New York Giants ) , this marked the first Super Bowl without cheerleaders . The Steelers entered Cowboys Stadium field first , as they were the designated " visitors , " to " Right Here , Right Now " by Fatboy Slim . The Packers entered last , as they were the " home " team , to " Get Ready for This " by 2 Unlimited . Packers lineman , Bryan Bulaga , became the youngest player to start in a Super Bowl , at the age of 21 years and 322 days old . Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey would have been the youngest player ( 21 years , 197 days ) , but he could not play because of a high ankle sprain . Attendance . Cowboys Stadium installed 15 , 000 temporary seats and utilized its standing room to increase its capacity to over 105 , 000 fans . If the stadium had been filled to capacity ( its record for an NFL game is 105 , 121 spectators ) , it would have set a record for Super Bowl attendance , breaking the previous record of 103 , 985 fans for Super Bowl XIV in the Rose Bowl ; however the actual attendance of 103 , 219 fell 766 fans short . League officials had indicated that they would also count spectators watching the game on large television screens from outside the stadium in the tally , which generally is not allowed in official attendance counts . Due to numerous delays , 1 , 250 temporary seats weren ' t ready in time for the game . According to a police officer standing near the affected area , the seats hadn ' t been installed in time for the fire marshal to inspect them . The NFL scrambled almost until kickoff to find replacement seats . Eventually , 850 fans in four sections were relocated , while 400 fans in two sections were given a refund equivalent to three times the face value of their ticket . The latter set of fans were later offered the chance to watch the game on monitors in the North Field Club behind the Steelers bench , but would still get the triple refund . Some of these fans were still upset , since they had spent thousands on airfare and hotels . NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that when the league decided to relocate the 850 fans , it lost any shot of setting the attendance record . The NFL subsequently offered affected fans a ticket to the next Super Bowl in addition to the refund . It also offered fans the option of a ticket to any future Super Bowl , along with round - trip airfare and hotel accommodations . However , this wasn ' t enough to mollify several fans , who on February 9 filed a $ 5 million class - action lawsuit against the NFL , the Cowboys and Jones . In addition to Steelers and Packers fans left without seats , the suit includes Cowboys fans who paid $ 100 , 000 for personal seat license s , only to have to watch the Super Bowl in metal folding chairs without a view of the stadium ' s giant video replay board . The NFL at first offered $ 2 , 400 to fans who did not receive a replacement seat , but later offered tickets to a future Super Bowl with airfare and hotels included . Game summary . After the first three drives of the game ended with punts , Green Bay opened up the scoring with Aaron Rodgers ' 29 - yard touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson , who managed to pull slightly ahead of cornerback William Gay enough to make a leaping catch and fall into the end zone . Then on the first play after the ensuing kickoff , quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was hit by Howard Green as he threw a pass , causing the ball to go well short of his intended target near the left sideline where it was intercepted by Nick Collins and returned 37 yards for a touchdown , giving Green Bay a 14 – 0 lead . This score continued the streak of Super Bowl victories recorded by teams scoring on an interception runback . They are now 11 – 0 in such games . It was also the third consecutive Super Bowl with an interception return for a touchdown , as well as the eighth such score in the last ten Super Bowls . This time Pittsburgh managed to respond , driving 49 yards in 13 plays including Roethlisberger ' s 18 - yard run on 3rd down and 9 . Shaun Suisham finished the drive with a 33 - yard field goal to cut the score to 14 – 3 . Then after forcing a punt , the Steelers drove to midfield , but turned the ball over again when Roethlisberger ' s pass was intercepted by defensive back Jarrett Bush at the 47 . Then Rodgers led the Packers to another score , completing two passes for 20 yards before James Starks ' 12 - yard run moved the ball to the 21 - yard line . On the next play , Green Bay increased their lead to 21 – 3 with Rodgers ' 21 - yard touchdown pass to Greg Jennings . Taking the ball back with 2 : 24 left in the second quarter , Roethlisberger made a 37 - yard completion to Antwaan Randle El on their first play . After that , receiver Hines Ward caught 3 passes for 39 yards on the drive , the last one an 8 - yard touchdown catch with 37 seconds left in the half , making the score 21 – 10 at halftime . This was the fourth time in their four 2011 postseason games that the Packers finished the first half with a lead of at least 11 points . The first half had taken a heavy toll on both teams . The Steelers lost receiver Emmanuel Sanders to injury , while the Packers lost receiver Donald Driver along with defensive backs Charles Woodson and Sam Shields . Shields would be the only player among them who would return . Pittsburgh ' s defense forced Green Bay to punt on the first drive of the second half , and got the ball at midfield after a facemask call on Tom Crabtree while tackling Antonio Brown on the punt return . The offense then scored in five plays ( all runs ) . First Rashard Mendenhall broke free along with right sideline for a 17 - yard run , then Isaac Redman rushed for 3 yards , and Roethlisberger ran for 6 , bringing up third down and 1 . On the next play , Redman tried to run up the middle , but was held up at the line , so he backed away and ran to the outside for a 16 - yard gain to the 8 - yard line . Then Mendenhall scored an 8 - yard touchdown run on the next play , making the score 21 – 17 . After forcing a punt , Pittsburgh mounted a drive to the Packers 29 - yard line , but Green Bay ' s defense made a stand . First Roethlisberger ' s pass was batted down behind the line by linebacker Clay Matthews , then Roethlisberger tried a screen pass to tight end Heath Miller , but Desmond Bishop tackled him for a 3 - yard loss . Then on third down Frank Zombo sacked Roethlisberger on the 34 , and Suisham ' s ensuing 52 - yard field goal attempt sailed wide left . On the first play of the fourth quarter , the Steelers lost their third turnover of the game when Mendenhall fumbled the ball while being tackled behind the line by Matthews and Ryan Pickett . Bishop recovered the ball and returned it 7 yards to the Packers 45 . Five plays later on third down and 10 , Rodgers completed a 38 - yard pass to Nelson at the Steelers 2 - yard line . Pittsburgh linebacker LaMarr Woodley sacked Rodgers for a 6 - yard loss on the next play , but Rodgers threw an 8 - yard touchdown pass to Jennings after that , increasing the Packers lead to 28 – 17 . Roethlisberger led the Steelers right back with 6 of 7 completions . After a 9 - yard pass to tight end Matt Spaeth , he threw three completions to receiver Mike Wallace for 27 yards to the Green Bay 40 - yard line . Then after a 15 - yard completion to Ward , he finished the drive with a 25 - yard touchdown pass to Wallace . On the two - point conversion play , Roethlisberger faked a handoff to Mendenhall and ran up to the line before pitching the ball to Randle El , who scored on an outside sweep , cutting the Steelers deficit to 3 points at 28 – 25 . Green Bay took the ball back with just over 7 minutes left , and found themselves facing third down and 10 after two plays , but Rodgers kept the drive going with a 31 - yard completion to Jennings over the middle . Starks then ran 14 yards to the Steelers 30 . Two plays later , James Jones caught a 21 - yard pass at the 8 . The Steelers defense kept Green Bay out of the end zone , causing them to settle for Mason Crosby ' s 23 - yard field goal that gave Green Bay a 31 – 25 lead with 2 : 07 left in regulation . Pittsburgh got the ball back on their own 13 - yard line following a penalty on the kickoff . On their first play , Roethlisberger completed a 15 - yard pass to Miller . But after a 5 - yard reception by Ward , his next three passes were incomplete , turning the ball over and allowing the Packers to run out the rest of the clock . Nelson was the top receiver of the game with 9 receptions for 140 yards ( both career highs ) and a touchdown , while also gaining 19 more yards on a kick return , all despite 3 dropped passes . Jennings added 64 yards and 2 touchdowns . Roethlisberger completed 25 of 40 passes for 263 yards and two touchdowns , with 2 interceptions , and ran for 31 yards . His top target was Wallace , who caught 9 passes for 89 yards and a score . Mendenhall was the top rusher of the game with 64 yards and a touchdown . Broadcasting . Television . USA . Fox Sports televised the game in the United States , with Joe Buck as the play - by - play announcer and Troy Aikman , himself a three - time Super Bowl winner as a Dallas Cowboys quarterback , as the color analyst . Mike Pereira joined Buck and Aikman in the broadcast booth to comment on instant replay reviews , while Pam Oliver and Chris Myers served as sideline reporter s . The pre - game show featured the " Fox NFL Sunday " crew of host Curt Menefee and a group of analysts with extensive Super Bowl experiences of their own : Terry Bradshaw ( 4 time Super Bowl winning QB with the Pittsburgh Steelers ) , Howie Long ( one - time Super Bowl winning defensive end with the then - Los Angeles Raiders ) , Michael Strahan ( one - time Super Bowl winning defensive end with the NY Giants ) and Jimmy Johnson ( two - time Super Bowl winning head coach with the Cowboys ) . They were joined by a variety of other commentators . Five days prior to the game , Immigration and Customs Enforcement , along with the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York , seized and shut down several websites that had provided access to pirated Internet television feeds of NFL games . With an average US audience of 111 million viewers , this was the most - watched Super Bowl as well as the most - watched progam of any kind in American television history , beating the previous record of 106 . 5 million viewers for Super Bowl XLIV . An estimated 162 . 9 million total viewers watched all or part of the game . The game drew a national household Nielsen rating of 46 . 0 and a 69 share . It drew a 59 . 7 local rating in both Milwaukee and Pittsburgh , the second - highest local rating for a Super Bowl after the 63 . 0 that Super Bowl XX drew in Chicago . In the host market of Dallas - Ft . Worth , the game drew a 53 . 7 rating . The Steelers also became the second team to appear on Super Bowls on all four major networks , after the Denver Broncos . The Steelers appeared previously on four NBC - aired Super Bowls ( IX , XIII , XXX , XLIII ) , two CBS - aired Super Bowls ( X , XIV ) , and one ABC - aired Super Bowl ( XL ) . Advertising . By September 15 , 2010 , Fox had sold 90 % of all available slots ; all slots were completely sold out by October . The price of an advertisement began at US $ 3 , 000 , 000 . Pepsi - Cola returned after a one - year retreat with three ads for their Pepsi Max drink , which has been named as the official soft drink of the NFL . Pepsi ' s Frito - Lay brand also advertised Doritos . Both brands had their advertisements created by web users as part of the annual USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter contest , which offers a prize of US $ 5 million . In addition , regular purchasers Anheuser - Busch InBev , GoDaddy . com , Coca - Cola , CareerBuilder . com , and E * TRADE purchased advertisements ; InBev advertised Stella Artois imported beer for the first time in the Super Bowl in addition to its usual Budweiser and Bud Light advertisements . Hyundai , Mercedes - Benz , Volkswagen and Audi also advertised , as did General Motors , who returned for the first time since their bankruptcy with advertisements for the Chevrolet Cruze , Camaro , Silverado and Volt . Chrysler purchased a 2 - minute - long advertisement for its Chrysler 200 featuring Eminem . Advertisements for 15 films were shown during the Pre - Game , Game , and Post - Game . International . The game was shown live on the following channels : Radio . Westwood One broadcast Super Bowl XLV across the United States and Canada , with play - by - play announcer Kevin Harlan ( calling his first Super Bowl for the network ) and color analyst Boomer Esiason . Univision Radio carried a Spanish language feed for its stations throughout the US . The flagship station s for each team also carried the game with their respective local announcers : In the United Kingdom , BBC Radio 5 Live carried radio coverage . Sirius XM Satellite Radio carried 14 feeds in ten languages to Sirius subscribers , as well as to XM subscribers with the " Best of Sirius " package . In addition to the Westwood One and local team broadcasts , Sirius carried the following international feeds : FieldPass , the subscription Internet radio service provided by the league at NFL . com , also carried most of these feeds . Due to contractual restrictions , only Sirius XM and FieldPass were permitted to carry the local team broadcasts along with WTAQ , WIXX , WTMJ , WDVE and WBGG , with the teams ' other network radio affiliates instead airing the Westwood One feed . Local commemoration . From June 15 , 2010 , through February 6 , 2011 , the 30 - mile section of Interstate 30 between Dallas and Fort Worth along which Cowboys Stadium is situated had been temporarily designated as the " Tom Landry Super Bowl Highway " in commemoration of Super Bowl XLV . The former Dallas - Fort Worth Turnpike is normally known as the " Tom Landry Highway " in honor of former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry . Entertainment . Keith Urban and Maroon 5 performed during the pregame . 22 year - old Candice Villesca of Lewisville , Texas performed the national anthem and " America the Beautiful " in American Sign Language . Lea Michele performed " America the Beautiful " supported by the Air Force Tops in Blue . Pop singer and Pittsburgh native Christina Aguilera sang the national anthem , but performed the wrong lyrics for the fourth line of the song , later issuing an apology . During the halftime show , The Black Eyed Peas performed a medley of their greatest hits : " I Gotta Feeling , " " Boom Boom Pow , " " Pump It , " " The Time ( Dirty Bit ) , " " Let ' s Get It Started , " and " Where Is the Love ? " Slash made a guest appearance , performing " Sweet Child o ' Mine " with Fergie , while Usher appeared to perform his song " OMG " with Will . i . am . An episode of " Glee " titled " The Sue Sylvester Shuffle " was the lead - out program . External links .