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     • The NFL Championship game evolved into the Super Bowl after the merger with the AFL in 1966. The first 'Super Bowl' was between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. The name 'Super Bowl' was coined by AFL founder Lamar Hunt, inspired by a children's toy called 'Super Ball'.
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   Feb 6, 2024 · Where did Hunt's "Super Bowl" idea come from? And how did the AFL-NFL Championship Game get renamed to the Super Bowl after it was mocked by AFL owners and rejected by Rozelle?

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   Feb 3, 2019 · On Jan. 15, 1967, the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively called Super Bowl I, took place between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs at Memorial Coliseum in Los...

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   Jan 10, 2024 · The very next day, nearly 100 newspapers from all over the U.S. published an Associated Press report identifying the Rose Bowl as a likely venue for the Super Bowl.

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   Feb 11, 2024 · The league retroactively called the 1967 AFL-NFL World Championship Game between the Packers and Chiefs 'Super Bowl I'. The first time the Super Bowl moniker was used for the 'Big Game' was in ...

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   Feb 5, 2024 · Why is the NFL's title game named the Super Bowl? Here's how Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt (and a child's toy) sparked the most well-known name in sports:

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   Feb 7, 2021 · Why is it called the Super Bowl? When the AFL and NFL merged, that meant they'd have a championship game between the two previously separate leagues. The first was slated for...

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   Why is the Super Bowl called a Super Bowl?

   • Rozelle's suggestion of "AFL-NFL World Championship Game" became the official moniker. Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt suggested the term "Super Bowl" inspired by his son's "Super Ball" toy, but the name wasn't used until later.

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   When was the first Super Bowl between the AFL and NFL?

   • When the AFL and NFL merged, that meant they'd have a championship game between the two previously separate leagues. The first was slated for January 1967. At first, it was known just as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt is regarded as the first who began using the term Super Bowl.

   Why is it called the Super Bowl? Naming origins trace back to Lamar

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   Why did the Kansas City Chiefs call the Super Bowl a Super Bowl?

   • Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt suggested the term "Super Bowl" inspired by his son's "Super Ball" toy, but the name wasn't used until later. On Jan. 15, 1967, the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively called Super Bowl I, took place between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.

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   When did the Super Bowl start?

   • The Super Bowl was known as the AFL-NFL Championship Game for its first two iterations, in 1967 and 1968. The NFL only began referring to it as the Super Bowl officially in 1969 for what is known retroactively as Super Bowl 3. Since switching to the Super Bowl name, the NFL has stuck with it for more than 50 years.

   Why is it called the Super Bowl? Naming origins trace back to Lamar

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   Did the media name the Super Bowl?

   • Because by that point, newspapers had already been calling the championship game “the Super Bowl” for months. In fact, they’d been doing so since before the committee started meeting at all. This discrepancy has been used to suggest that the media, not Hunt, named the game.

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   Did Rozelle call the Super Bowl a 'Super Bowl'?

   • "I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon." Rozelle, according to former NFL publicity director Don Weiss, did not love the nickname. It's been reported that Rozelle would have called the game the Pro Bowl if that wasn't already the name of the league's all-star game.

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10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Super_BowlSuper Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game has been played on the second Sunday in February.