At this year’s 57^th annual Super Bowl, where the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Phoenix, Arizona, Francesco and Enzo Marra, Neapolitan immigrants and residents of the Washington, DC area churned out thousands of pizzas for the occasion. The Super Bowl’s  audience of 113 million people, connected between TV and streaming, was the third most-watched TV show ever and the most-watched ever on the web. 

A piece of Washington and Naples was part of the Super Bowl, the final match of the playoffs of the US football championship which attracts about a hundred million viewers every year - making it the most watched event on television when it comes to the American and non-American sports world Alone. The peculiarity of the Super Bowl is that it is an event that is not limited to the sporting competition between the two teams. 

The Super Bowl is an all-round party, a real show that reaches its peak with the Halftime Show: the moment in which - halfway through the game - one or more music stars - this year it's Rihanna's turn - perform for about 20 minutes, in which the pitch is transformed into a pyrotechnic stage ready for the performance. The show also involves the many spectators in the stands, who gorge themselves on food and drink, just as if they were at a party, two inseparable elements from the American sporting tradition.

And the boundless catering that took part in this year's edition also spoke Italian. Indeed, Neapolitan. 

“It is certainly no coincidence that we have come to launch the real Neapolitan pizza at the Super Bowl, the most important sporting event in the world”: the speaker is Francesco Marra, a pizza entrepreneur of Neapolitan origin who, together with his brother Enzo, made luck in the States thanks to the specialty of Campania cuisine. Present in Phoenix, they found themselves churning out the beauty of five thousand pizzas made from custom Marra Forni ovens decorated with Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagle Logos in their beautiful tile mosaics. Today, Marra Forni is the fastest growing brick oven manufacturer in the US.

“The Marra Forni story begins 27 years ago” - says Francesco -, “when our family emigrated from Santa Lucia to the capital Washington DC. All for love: our mother, Pina Dubbio, married an Italian-American and chose the land of opportunities, where you can achieve anything you think of, regardless of who you are and where you come from. With many sacrifices we have managed to transform America into our home".

Today, the Marras represent the main producers of Neapolitan ovens in the world and - in addition to Marra Forni - they own three other companies: Pizza University & Culinary Arts (school of pizza makers and culinary arts), Oro Catering (exclusive managers of the cafeteria and catering of the Italian embassy in Washington DC, the pinnacle of Italian politics and diplomacy abroad), and Oro Pizza.