A Extremely Bowl & its adjuvant celebration be "Super Bowl Sunday", which on top the years has most be a de facto national holiday in the United States. A game is one of a virtually all-watched Western television broadcasts of the year, attracting numerous corporations to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars (USD) on commercial message.

History
Origins
A Extremely Bowl wwhen created as a share of the merger agreement between the National Football League (NFL) and its contender, a American Football League (AFL). When its origination around 1920, a NFL fended off many rival leagues prior to the AFL began play within 1960. A incredible competitory war for players & fans led to good merger talks between them leagues inside 1966.

One of a conditions of a agreement was that the winners of every league's championship game would meet within a contest to determine the then-supposed globe champion of football. In a period of a discussions to iron out the details, AFL founder & Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt had jokingly referred to a projected interleague championship when the "Super Bowl." Hunt thought of the title when seeing his girl swimming by owning the toy known as the Super Ball. A ball is at present in display at a Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. A title was practicable because postseason college football games had hanker been referred to as "bowl games" (A term originates by owning a Rose Bowl game, which was in turn known as for the bowl-shaped bowl where these are played). Hunt exclusively intended his recommended title to exist as the makeshift until the better of these can be incurred. Non with thought of a single, a owners known as a contest a NFL-AFL Globe Championship Game. Unsurprisingly, fans & media tended to apply a shorter, unofficial title. Starting sustaining a third contest around 1969, the title "Super Bowl" became official.

When a NFL's Green Bay Packers won the number 1 both Extr Bowls inside convincing triumph, a bit of team owners despised for the new of the merger, since numbers of doubted that AFL teams may compete by using their NFL counterparts. Even so, inside one of a biggest upsets inside Western sports history, a AFL's New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Of these month late, a Chiefs won Super Bowl IV.

After each a NFL & a AFL merged into of these cooperative league prior to a 1970 season, three NFL teams joined a Tenner AFL teams to form a American Football Conference (AFC), and a more Long dozen teams became a National Football Conference (NFC). Since so, a Extr Bowl has featured a champions of the AFC & NFC. When of 2005, former AFL teams keep close at h& won 10 Very Bowls, pre-1970 NFL teams use at times won 23 games, and 2 games use been won by teams created fallowing 1970.

A winning team receives a Vince Lombardi Trophy, named for the coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won a 1st 2 Extremely Bowl games. A trophy was known as a Vince Lombardi Trophy before Super Bowl V within his honor following his demise in 1970.

Ratings and commercials
A Extr Bowl tends to own high Nielsen television ratings which usually came inside around the Forty rating & Lx part (i personally.e. on the average, 40 percent of 100% U.S. family, & 60 percent of everthing homes tuned into television when you took a game). This means that on the average, 80 to 90 million Americans are tuned into the Very Bowl at any given moment. As well these are guessed that 130-140 million tune into occasionally section of the game. A virtually all watched Extr Bowl was 1998's Super Bowl XXXII between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers which received a 44.Fivesome rating & 67 part, attracting 90 million viewers. Around terms of personal percentage, a virtually all watched was Super Bowl XVI in 1982 which was watched in 49.1% of family (73 part) or even 40,020,000 family at a period.

As a consequence Apple Computer's 1984 commercial introducing the Apple Macintosh computer, directed by Ridley Scott, a broadcast of the Extr Bowl became the premier showcase for high concept or simply extravagantly expensive commercial message. Celebrated commercial campaigns include a Budweiser "Bud Bowl" campaign, and a 1999 and 2000 dot-com ads. Numbers use at times increased both month, using reports citing the record $2.Five million (Americthe) for a 30 2nd spot when you took Super Bowl XL in 2006.

Inside recent years, a NFL has denied a Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority a chance to do Extr Bowl ads for the city as a tourer destination. A ban includes a game, besides when a pre-game & post-game shows. Numbers of groups come denied a risk to start Extremely Bowl ads around various evidence, however Las Vegas is a exclusively city to become denied in such a fashion; a NFL has stated that it doesn't desire the Very Bowl to exist as associated using the perception of Las Vegas as a gaming mecca. In case a television indicate Las Vegas stays on the air when NBC gets their next Extr Bowl Broadcast (which is Super Bowl XLIII in 2009), they might not exist as allowed to promote a series in a period of the entire prevent of programming. [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2005-08-04-las-vegas-ads_x.htm]

Venue

A location of a Extremely Bowl is chosen per NFL swell ahead, unremarkably Three-Five years prior to the game. Cities compete to hikers the game inside a choice bidding run similar to ones utilized per Olympic Games and the Football World Cup. To this date, a chosen venues own either been around a southern regions of the United States in which the winter atmospheric condition is required to become modest, or even in domed stadiums in which atmospheric condition is non an issue.

Ended half of a Very Bowls use at times been played around one of the as a result tercet cities: New Orleans, Louisiana (9 days), Miami, Florida (8 days) & Los Angeles (7 sum, Quint days at Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium and twice at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum). Miami has been selected to carrier ii new games: Super Bowl XLI in 2007 and Super Bowl XLIV in 2010. Fallowing Hurrican Katrina damaged the Louisiana Superdome and a city, the game will never link to to Up to date Orleans. & a survive instance a Los Angeles region hosted a game was Super Bowl XXVII in 1993; a front yard is presently non considered the imaginable venue fallowing the league's ii teams vacated a city around 1995: a Raiders moved back to Oakland, California and the Rams moved to St. Louis, Missouri.

Coincidentally, there are no NFL team has ever played a Very Bowl in its have residence turf. Yet, Super Bowl XIV (which involved a so-Los Angeles Rams) was played at nearby Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium; and Super Bowl XIX (which involved the San Francisco 49ers) was played at the nearby Stanford Stadium on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto.

A intended "home team" alternates between a NFC team around odd-numbered years (a Philadelphia Eagles in 2005), and a AFC team inside possibly-numbered years (a New England Patriots in 2004). A page team is given a guide of either wearing their colorful jerseys or their white ones; this began using Super Bowl XIII. Before that, a at home team universally bore a dark jerseys. A Dallas Cowboys wore their rarely-used blue uniform crack inside Super Bowl V, and misplaced to the so-Baltimore Colts, which has led to the widely-held belief that the Cowboys don't play swell in their blue shirts. When virtually all page teams around a Extremely Bowl take to have on their colored jerseys, simply the Cowboys in XIII and XXVII and the Washington Redskins in XVII have worn white when a page team.

A television network showing a game changes from either month to season. In the United States these are shared between terzetto of the little joe major television networks - ABC, CBS, and FOX. Super Bowl XXXVIII was shown on CBS, Super Bowl XXXIX was shown on Red dog, & Super Bowl XL is shown in ABC, which will be a final NFL game broadcast on thereon network for the forseeable new.

By using a recently television contracts beginning inside 2006, NBC, which last telecast Super Bowl XXXII in 1998, will choose ABC's place inside the network rotation starting by owning Very Bowl XLIII in 2009.

Trivia

A Extr Bowl utilizes roman numerals to differentiate each game like than a season it wwhen held since confusion usually arises as a NFL season spreads over ii calendar years. For instance, a New England Patriots, winners of Super Bowl XXXIX are the champions of the 2004 NFL season, even though a championship game was played inside February of 2005. Inside 1994, a 49ers became a foremost team to get into a atavistic jersey when you took the Extremely Bowl. Since it was a league's 75th year, each team bore a atavistic jersey in the period of the year & San Francisco decided to prove my point to put on their jerseys all the way through the playoffs & into Super Bowl XXIX. A jerseys it bore paid tribute to the 1957 team. In the months initiate to Super Bowl XXX (30) it was found that a select few proxy servers were blocking the site for the event. A understanding for this was that "XXX" is normally associated using pornography, and proxy servers thought people trying to visit that places were trying to access porn. Super Bowl XXXVI was originally scheduled to be played in January 27, 2002. However a game was retreat seven days to February 3, 2002 because of the September 11, 2001 attacks. This was a number one Very Bowl to exist as played around February. Virtually all of the cases ii years subsequently were scheduled around February. As well, because of the attacks, the Extremely Bowl is today a National Special Security Event (NSSE). Super Bowl XXXIX was the number 1 such game to exist as attached when ternion quarters of play. No Western Football Conference (AFC) team has ever win A Very Bowl that was broadcast on ABC (The NFC is presently 6-0). A closest an AFC team come to winning a Very Bowl thereon network was whenever a Buffalo Bills lost to the New York Giants 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV. The previous Extremely Bowl to begin at 3:30 pm Eastern Standard Period was Super Bowl XI which was played in Pasadena. This is as well a go Very Bowl which was played outside to non prevent inside dusk. Since a early Eighties Extr Bowls develop been starting at in the area of 6 pm Eastern Standard Instance. A kickoff has been since affected back to 6:30 pm Eastern starting by using Super Bowl XXXVII.

Game history

Notable Super Bowl Games
Super Bowl III: Speaking to a press in the week prior to the gage, New York Jets quarterback "Broadway" Joe Namath famously guarantees a victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts. A Jets defense backs him higher when it upset a Colts, 16-7.

Super Bowl VII: Coach Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins complete a lone undefeated year inside NFL history, defeating the Washington Redskins 14-7.

Super Bowl XIII: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in the second Extr Bowl match-up one 1970's powerhouses. A quality of a teams, a high scoring & a back-&-forth nature and severity of the game has led a few observers to call for this game "the best ever."

Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana leads a 92 front yard quaternary quarter cause, when a 49ers score a game-winning touchdown by owning 34 seconds left & kill a Cincinnati Bengals 20-16.

Super Bowl XXV: The 2nd Extr Bowl to become decided in the go-2nd field goal when Buffalo's Scott Norwood missed his 47-yard attempt. Numerous assume this one of a better Extr Bowls when it didn't use at times any turnovers & was the extremely contested game. This game as well come at once once a United states required to focus in something otherwise Persian Gulf War that was running in at a instance. A New York Giants 20-19 victory is however a nighest margin of any Very Bowl game.

Super Bowl XXXII: After Little joe painful losses, a Denver Broncos finally win a title, upsetting a heavy favorite, defending champion Green Bay Packers 31-24.

Super Bowl XXXIV: In the closest finish however, Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kevin Dyson is stopped at the I front yard line when he stretches for the prevent zone sustaining there are no period left on the clock, & the St. Louis Rams hold on to win 23-16.

Super Bowl XXXVI: Placekicker Adam Vinatieri kicks a 48-front yard field goal when period expires to lift a New England Patriots to the 20-17 upset all over a Rams, & a number one of Trio Extr Bowl convert a Quartet month span. Vinatieri besides kicked a game-winning field goal at the prevent of Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Super Bowl appearances
Ogdoad - Dallas Cowboys (won 5, misplaced Tierce)
Six - Denver Broncos (won 2, wasted Quartet)
Cinque - San Francisco 49ers (won 5)
Quintuplet - Pittsburgh Steelers (won 4, wasted Unity)
Phoebe - Oakland Raiders (won 3, misused Ii; a single win when Los Angeles Raiders)
Pentad - Washington Redskins (won 3, misused Two)
Fin - New England Patriots (won 3, misused Deuce)
Five - Miami Dolphins (won 2, wasted Leash)
Quatern - Green Bay Packers (won 3, misplaced Ace)
Tetrad - Buffalo Bills (lost Quartet)
Four - Minnesota Vikings (lost Foursome)
Tierce - New York Giants (won 2, misplaced I)
Ternary - St. Louis Rams (won 1, lost 2; one loss as Los Angeles Rams)
Deuce - Kansas City Chiefs (won One, misplaced 1)
Two - Baltimore Colts (won Unity, misused 1; franchise nowadays Indianapolis Colts)
Two - Cincinnati Bengals (lost Ii)
Two - Philadelphia Eagles (lost Ii)
One - Baltimore Ravens (won 1)
I - Chicago Bears (won 1)
Single - New York Jets (won 1)
I - Tampa Bay Buccaneers (won 1)
One - Atlanta Falcons (lost I)
One - Carolina Panthers (lost I)
One - San Diego Chargers (lost Ace)
One - Tennessee Titans (lost One)

Super Bowl winners
Five - Dallas Cowboys
Fivesome - San Francisco 49ers
Four - Pittsburgh Steelers
Three - Green Bay Packers
Three - Oakland Raiders
Three - Washington Redskins
Ternary - New England Patriots
Two - Miami Dolphins
Deuce - New York Giants
Two - Denver Broncos
Unity - New York Jets
One - Kansas City Chiefs
One - Baltimore Colts
One - Chicago Bears
Single - St. Louis Rams
One - Baltimore Ravens
I - Tampa Bay Buccaneers