Beginning of the Super Bowl

           The Super Bowl has been around for many years, the first one taking place on January 16, 1967. It was a way of seeing which league had the better team and who really was the champion. The best team from the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL) faced off in a game that would soon become one of Americas most popular and watched event ever. This championship was not originally named the Super Bowl, it first started as the NFL-AFL World Championship Game until Lamar Hunt, architect of the AFL, saw his daughter playing with a toy called "Super Ball" and from there he thought why not call this championship game the Super Bowl.

Works Cited

Fetter, Henry D. "How the Super Bowl Got Its Name: The Real Story." The Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly Group, 27 Jan. 2011. Web. 9 May 2012. <http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/01/how-the-super-bowl-got-its-name-the-real-story/70287/>.

The First Super Bowl. 1967. Photograph. Los Angeles.

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