When the AFL and NFL agreed that they might merge into a single league in 1971, they also agreed to start enjoying a championship game after the 1966 season.

Formally known as the AFL-NFL Championship, it was soon turned into informally referred to as the Super Bowl. That nickname came from the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs and one of the crucial founders of the AFL, Lamar Hunt. He told newshounds on July 1966, "I think one of the crucial first things we're going to consider is the web page of the Super Bowl -- that is my term for the championship game." Later, Hunt said that the identify came to him after he saw his daughter taking part in with an excellent ball.

The Super Bowl identify didn't develop into official till the 3rd game. Since the merger, the Super Bowl has been the NFL championship game, performed among the NFC and AFC champions, who emerge from a spherical of playoffs.

It's intended to be the climax of the season, but if truth be told the Super Bowl has all too continuously been anti-climactic. The reasonable margin of victory has been about 14 points, smartly above the typical for a regular-season NFL game, and there have been a lot of blowouts. The convention championship video games have usually been extra fascinating to watch.

Nevertheless, the sport has develop into an enormous national event, almost certainly the nation's prime wearing event. After two weeks of intensive media hype, it attracts millions ot tv viewers, lots of whom wouldn't think of gazing another soccer game, and the choice of Super Bowl events is almost certainly handed simplest by means of the choice of New Years Eve parties.

The Super Bowl is the perennial ratings chief among all televised sports events and, on the listing of the fifty most advantageous TV broadcasts, the sport seems twenty times.

The first Super Bowl, though, among the NFL's Green Bay Packers and the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs, wasn't so eagerly anticipated. The primary query appeared to be how massive Green Bay's margin of victory would be. Tickets cost simplest $12, and the sport nonetheless wasn't a sellout.

The Packers won that game, 35-10, they usually also won Super Bowl II, 33-14 over the Oakland Raiders. But whilst Joe Namath guaranteed victory for the AFL's underdog New York Jets in Super Bowl III after which brought a 16-7 win over the Baltimore Colts, hobby rose, especially with the upcoming merger of the 2 leagues.

Kansas City's win in Super Bowl IV evened the collection among the AFL and NFL. After the merger, the AFC gained 9 of the next eleven. That report was skewed somewhat, though, by means of the fact that former NFL teams accounted for five of the victories. Since Super Bowl XVI, after the 1981 season, the NFC had received fifteen of sixteen games, 13 in a row, sooner than the Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII.

As end result of the the playoff gadget and the Super Bowl, the NFL season now stretches from 12 months into the next, which may also be mildly confusing. The group that wins the 1998 Super Bowl, for example, will likely be topped the 1997 NFL champions.

To decrease the confusion, the Super Bowl is noted by means of Roman numerals reasonably than by means of the yr by which it is played. Many sportswriters have criticized that as a pretentious practice. Personally, I do not be concerned in regards to the pretense, and in the early years it was reasonably simple. I do fear about long term generations who should decipher such monstrosities as Super Bowl DCXLVIII.

Since Super Bowl V, in 1971, the trophy offered to the profitable group has been referred to as the Vince Lombardi Trophy, after the man who coached the Packers to the primary two championships. Lombardi died of most cancers in September of 1970. Tickets for Super Bowl 2011 to be held at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Dallas Texas are now available online.