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Are Super Bowl cheers bad for your ears?
The Super Bowl is America's most-watched broadcast and also, it seems, the nation's loudest single event—a distinction that means the cheers, jeers, parties, bars and big screens may be as rough on the eardrums as a defensive end is on a quarterback.