LOS ANGELES - The Green Bay Packers aren’t competing in the Super Bowl this year, but "cheeseheads" still have something to celebrate.Americans are expected to eat more than 20 million pounds of cheese during the Super Bowl on Sunday, according to Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.The tremendous cheese feast is enough to fill every NFL field with an enormous cheese board, before even including crackers, charcuterie or other snacks, according to the farmers group.
It’s also 1.7 million wheels’ worth of cheese.RELATED: Tom Brady: What to know about the NFL’s most accomplished quarterbackCheesemakers prepared for a surge of sales ahead of the big game.