Superbowl madness takes to the skies as plane spells out support

Now this is how you spell out your support for a team.

Ahead of America's favourite sporting event, the SuperBowl – which kicks off at 11.30pm on Sunday Irish time – Americans are pulling out all the stops to get behind their favourite team.

But we reckon they'll have a hard time beating this pilot fan of the Seattle Seahawks.

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Yes, that's a jet plane painting a giant sign in the sky with their flight path. It's a Boeing test run, where the plane needs to spend some time in the air, so instead of making pointless circles, they showed Seattle they're on board.

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What's with the 12? Well, the Seahawks have a tradition of raising a "12" flag ahead of every game to honour the fans - the 12th man on the field, so to speak.

The term is used by a couple of teams, but particularly the SeaHawks.

Even better, take a look at the plane they used for this little jaunt:

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Good show.