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The Super Bowl is the championship game of professional American football. It is the championship game of the National Football League, and is the most important American football competition.
An AFL-NFL Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season on January 15, 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL. The game was a result of the merger agreement between the two leagues that took full effect for the 1970 season. The third such game, after the 1968 season, was called the "Super Bowl", and that name is now used to refer to the first two AFL-NFL Championship Games as well. After the 1970 season, the game reverted from an essentially interleague championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
Previous to the 1966 football season, American professional football's championship games were played for various league championships, and games were not played between league champions. The game was called the " All-America Football Conference Championship Game", the " American Football League Championship Game" or the "NFL Championship Game", depending on the league playing it. (See: Professional American football championship games and National Football League championships)
Following Apple Computer's 1984 commercial announcing the Apple MacintoshMacintosh now known simply as Mac in all official capacities, is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. of Cupertino, California, USA. Named after the McIntosh, a type of apple favoured by Jef Raskin, the Macintosh was launche computer, directed by Ridley ScottSir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) in South Shields is a British film director and producer. Scott studied photography at the Royal College of Art and helped establish the film department there in the mid-1960s. After graduation he secured a traine, the broadcast of the Super Bowl became the premier showcase for high conceptHigh concept in movies, is a term used to refer to the style and mode of production developed by Hollywood studios in the late 1970s. Steven Spielberg's Jaws ( 1975) and George Lucas' Star Wars ( 1977) are commonly referred to as the first high concept mo or simply extravagantly expensive commercials. Famous commercial campaigns include the BudweiserBudweiser is the name for two separate popular brands of beer, one brewed in the Czech Republic and one based in the United States. The original use of the term Budweiser was used to refer to beer from the city of Ceske Budejovice in Bohemia (the modern C "Bud Bowl" campaign, and the 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep and 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri dot-comDot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. com companies were the collection of start-up companies selling products or services using or somehow related to the Internet. They proliferated in the late 1990s dot-com boom a speculative frenzy of investment in ads.
The Super Bowl tends to have a high Nielsen Rating which ranges around 40.0. An estimated 80 to 90 million Americans watch a Super Bowl each year. The most watched Super Bowl was 1998's Super Bowl XXXII between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers which lured 90 million viewers.
Incidentally, home field advantage in Super Bowls are at the discretion of the NFL, and are sometimes not necessarily determined by strength of record going into the Super Bowl. Also, with the exception of Super Bowls XI, XIV, XVII, XIX, XXI, and XXVII (which were played on neutral sites, cities which did not have an NFL team at the time of the games), no one NFL team has ever played the Super Bowl on its own home turf, although Super Bowl XIX (which involved the San Francisco 49ers) was played in Stanford, California, in the vicinity of the 49ers, and Super Bowl XIV (which involved the Los Angeles Rams) was played at the nearby Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The Houston Texans were the host team for Super Bowl XXXVIII, played in Houston, but they did not even make the playoffs in the 2003-2004 season.
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