The History of the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is an American national tradition, and depending on who you ask, a national holiday! Fans all over the country gather on Super Bowl Sunday to watch the most important football game of the whole year. If you're a fan who eagerly awaits this event each year, why not take a little time and learn more about it? The history of the Super Bowl is an ideal piece of knowledge for football enthusiasts to have. So, exactly how did this monumental game get started? Read on to find out!
The very first Super Bowl was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game and was held on January 15, 1967. In this game, the Green Bay Packers played, and won, against the Kansas City Chiefs. The contest was at first a competition between the American Football League, or AFL, and the National Football League, or NFL. When these two leagues merged into one league, the NFL, in 1970, the Super Bowl as we know it was born. It's said that the name Super Bowl was thought up by Lamar Hunt, the founder of the AFL and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. Legend has it that he thought of the name after watching his daughter play with a toy called a Super Ball. The name was adopted until a better one could be established -- but we all know how that went!
The NFL Green Bay Packers also won the second Super Bowl and many people thought that the AFL would never be able to compete. However, Super Bowl III changed all that with the underdog New York Jets quarterbacked by Joe Namath defeating the highly favored Baltimore Colts. Finally with a World Championship in football the AFL gained the respect it had long fought for. The AFL then became the AFC or American Football Conference and the previous NFL became the NFC, National Football Conference, so that together now they made up the National Football League.
The Super Bowl television broadcast attracts millions of viewers each and every year, which is why so many advertisers spend incredible amounts of money for a few minutes of air time. As a matter of fact, some people think of the commercial debuts as part of the entertainment, especially if they're not too keen on football. Another part of the Super Bowl that is not necessarily related to football but entertaining nonetheless is the halftime show. World renowned singers and entertainers have been a part of the halftime show for many years, and include Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson and Paul McCartney, to name just a few!
The history of the Super Bowl is a story filled with years of triumph and defeat, entertainment and boredom since some of the games proved to be close and others were runaways. It's also a story that is ongoing. As new Super Bowls are played every year, the story behind this game gets longer and more incredible. While you're waiting to watch the game this year, you can entertain your friends and family with the trivia you learned here about the very first Super Bowl and how it came to be. That is, if you're not too busy enjoying all those cool commercials!
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