Here is a great video that gives a detailed look at the planning and execution of the Super Bowl flyover. This year a B1 will be lead with F15s, F18s, and Navy F35s followed by the always exciting solo B1 high speed pass. They will rendezvous from different locations to form up and hit a precise time on target (that everyone will be watching). The TOT is locked in 10 minutes prior, but otherwise could change.

The challenges are huge: joining from separate bases, different branches in formation, complex airspace, and different aircraft types in formation all make this incredibly impressive. Our U.S. military and the men and women who serve in it are absolutely world-class.

They might say that, but from the more than dozen major sporting event flyby's I've done, they are changing it right up until "home of the....."

Let me tell you - if you've never experienced a Bone close overhead in afterburner... well, wow.

They did a fly-by at a Texas game some years ago, and didn't arrive from the direction usually used for fly-bys, and most of us simply weren't watching for them in the right direction. As they got almost overhead, they hit the burners.

It gets you in your inner soul.

There seems to be consensus that using AB is a bad idea unless you're single ship since it will mess up the formation. It's hard to get the timing right in SF because of airspace constraints. As Ben said, the TOT changes all the time because it totally depends on how slow, fast, or otherwise unpredictable the singer is.

Absolutely crushed it

That had to be the coolest flyover ever.

The second fast-moving Bone in burner was awesome!

That was awesome as hell.
Gave me bumps,
made me proud.