The Super Bowl is the final game of the American football season, which usually is scheduled for the first week of February. It is played between the American Football Conference champion and the National Football Conference Champion to decide the overall winner of the season. The day on which the Super Bowl is played is considered an undeclared American national holiday. Super Bowl XLV played in February 2011 became the most watched American television program in history, drawing an average audience of 111 million viewers. Super Bowl XLVI will be played between New England Patriots and New York Giants on February 5. American facing online casinos offer special promotions and bonuses during the week leading up to the Super Bowl and online slot games based on American football show a spike in the traffic.

Rival Gaming is a software provider the online casinos of which accept players from the United States. It offers an American football themed video slot titled Pigskin Payout. At one time the football was made from a pig’s bladder giving rise to the slang term pigskin. The reels are set inside a football stadium. The symbols on the reels will be familiar to American football fans and include stadium, strategy board, cheer leader, referee, quarterback, football, 50 yard line and fries and beer. In keeping with the theme, the winning combinations are accompanied by audio visual animations like the cheer leader dancing, the referee blowing the whistle and the player ducking to avoid getting tackled. The cheer leader is the wild symbol and it doubles payouts. If five wild symbols appear on an active payline the top fixed jackpot of 7,500 coins is paid out. The stadium is the scatter symbol and activates up to 25 free spins with tripled payouts. An additional benefit is that the 1st and 5th reels are wilds. Pigskin Payout can be played at Ruby Royal online casino.

Realtime Gaming online casinos are the most popular with American players. They offer two online slots games based on American football. One is Field of Green and the other is Fruit Bowl XXV. In Field of Green the setting and the symbols are similar to those in Pigskin Payout. The football trophy is the wild symbol and it doubles payouts when it substitutes in winning combinations. The football symbol triggers the Field of Green bonus game. In this game the player tries to score goals. Each successful goal awards either free spins or bonus credits. In all, the player can win up to 25 free spins with tripled payouts and 100 times the triggering wager. In Fruit Bowl XXV the symbols are fruits playing the role of different persons associated with an American football game. Grape, banana, pineapple and strawberry are football players. Plum is the cheer leader and cherries are the spectators. The other symbols are the usual ones associated with this theme. In the bonus game called Fruit Bowl feature, the player has to bypass opponents on the way to a touchdown using moves like go left, go right and duck. His success in this maneuver determines the number of free spins and the multiplier awarded. Both the Realtime Gaming American football themed slot games offer randomly triggered progressive jackpots and can be played at Planet 7 Casino, Aladdin’s Gold Casino and Bovada Casino.