Best Super Bowl Food Meatballs Or Pizza Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

A single food question, not a category-by-category ballot

Most ballots in this market ask supporters to work through a long list of categories. The Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice and Best of the 207 are broad best-of surveys, and the Mainebiz Readers' Choice covers the business community the same way. The Best Super Bowl Food Meatballs Or Pizza Poll does the opposite. It asks exactly one question, meatballs or pizza, and it asks it in a window measured in days around the Super Bowl rather than months.

The organizer is 92.9 The Ticket, a Maine sports radio station whose site carries NFL coverage alongside its shows. The poll runs inside the station's own domain, at 929theticket.com, with no third-party contest platform involved, which is unusual among the Maine ballots in this family. The station frames the matchup as the end of a longer food bracket, writing of the two finalists, "It's all come down to this."

Geographically the poll belongs to the station's statewide Maine audience. No city or county is attached to the ballot itself, so support is a matter of reaching food fans wherever the station's signal reaches, not a single town's readership.

The dated facts: five Februaries and what the page leaves off

Five editions of the poll are on the books, 2022 through 2026. The earliest of these carries the clearest printed date, because the station published the 2022 edition on February 10, 2022. Every confirmed edition falls in February, which is what ties the poll to the Super Bowl itself, and the pattern points to a next edition in 2027.

Beyond the month, the station's page is thin on printed detail. The exact open and closing days for the current round are not fixed in print; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Earlier bracket rounds are likewise undated, because the station does not publish their matchup dates alongside the final, so a supporter arriving mid-season sees only the head-to-head that remains.

Rules are equally spare. The page prints no per-supporter limit, no eligibility wording and no statement about how often a person may return to the ballot. For a poll this small that spareness is typical of radio-station fun polls, but it does mean anyone planning serious outreach has no published rulebook to work from and is relying on the live page for whatever the current edition allows.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

Voting here takes almost no effort. A supporter opens the poll page on 929theticket.com, finds the head-to-head between meatballs and pizza, picks a side and submits. There is no category list to work through, no nomination form and no separate contest platform to sign into, because the ballot sits inside the station's own article content.

The framing on the page matters for how people vote. The station describes both foods as underdogs that made it through earlier rounds, competing "for the honor of being the most crucial food at any Super Bowl party." That framing turns the vote into an identity question for the station's audience, and identity questions tend to pull people back to check the running total in a way a neutral category ballot does not.

What the page does not spell out is any rule about returning. No wording on the ballot addresses whether a supporter may vote again, on what schedule, or from which devices. A supporter who wants to vote repeatedly should read the live page for whatever the current edition permits, since the station has kept that detail off the printed page across the confirmed editions.

Where this ballot sits among Maine's public votes

Maine's public-vote landscape splits into two shapes, and this poll is the rarer one. The common shape is the broad readers-choice survey: Best of the 207, Best of Maine from Down East, the Kennebec Journal Readers' Choice, the Mainebiz Readers' Choice, the Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice and the Maine Parade of Homes People's Choice all ask supporters to choose among many businesses or places across long windows.

This poll is the other shape: a single question, a short window and a national event as the hook. It is also the only one of the group hosted by a sports radio station and the only one whose subject is food as party fare rather than food as a business category. The Maine Restaurant Week Diners' Choice is its nearest food neighbor, but that ballot celebrates restaurants during a dining event, while this one celebrates a dish on a game day.

For a supporter, the practical difference comes down to concentration. A vote here carries the whole weight of the question, there is no second category to split attention, and the audience deciding it is the station's sports listenership rather than a general readership.

Turning out support for a two-option final

Because the ballot is a straight choice between meatballs and pizza, support in this poll is a turnout exercise, not a persuasion exercise across many voters' categories. The people who care already have a side, so the work is reaching them during the short February window and giving them a reason to act on it. Our votes guide walks through outreach approaches that fit a single-choice public ballot of this kind. The station prints no rule about outside help on the poll page, so anyone organizing a push has no published organizer position to defer to and should let whatever the current edition permits on the live page settle the question.