Deadly blimps and sniper fire, fictional teams in unfamiliar threads and second careers on the silver screen. As the NFL’s biggest spectacle returns to Los Angeles, a look at the ties between show business and The Big Game.

Illustration by The Sporting Press; Getty Images (Any Given Sunday); Everett Collection (Two-Minute Warning); LMPC/Getty Images (Black Sunday blimp); Warner Bros./Everett Collection (Goonies, The Blind Side); Warner Bros./Getty Images (Hooper, Police Academy 2); Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection (Heaven Can Wait); Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (Black Sunday); Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports (SoFi sign); Bettmann/Getty Images (Namath); Ben Oldender/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images (jet pack)