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The first Super Bowl took place on January 15, 1967. The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. It was the first time Super Bowl tickets were sold and the first time the champion from the NFL would meet the champion from the AFL. The game was originally just an exhibition, but quickly became much more as the two leagues prepared to merge in three years. The Packers won the next Super Bowl as well, but the AFL won two in row just in time for the first season in which the AFL teams would be swallowed up into the NFL.
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The big game took the name envisioned by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt. He knew that the exhibition needed a great name, more than just the AFL-NFL Championship Game. Baseball had the World Series and college football (which was still more popular than the professional game at the time) had a few bowl games that always sparked incredible interest. Hunt had seen his children playing with a toy called the Super Ball. The name that occurred to him took something as lofty as the adjective “super” and as familiar and respected as a bowl game and put them together. Hunt christened the contest the Super Bowl and from then on the nation has been drawn to the event to the extent that Super Bowl Sunday is its own unofficial holiday.
The wins for the AFL were perhaps the best thing going for the merger. The first two easy wins by the Packers had only reinforced the thought that the NFL was far superior to the AFL. These two leagues were going to merge and the worst thing would have been for the long-standing NFL fans to perceive the infusion of AFL teams as something to water down the schedule.
The leagues became synonymous with two conferences, the AFC and the NFC. Both conferences have had their runs in the Super Bowl and now new fans no longer can imagine such a day when a team from the AFL would be considered inferior.
The Super Bowl has become so much more than a simple championship football game. The game is now an event, a traveling event that takes the game to a different city and stadium every year. Super Bowl tickets can land a fan in Miami one year and San Diego the next.
The event has influence over the world of television as well. The Super Bowl is easily the most watched event every year and advertisers are willing to pay millions of dollars to have their commercials broadcast into those tens of millions of homes. Still, the best way to watch the game is to see it live, from a seat in the stadium. Super Bowl tickets for this next game will be at LandShark Stadium (formerly Dolphins Stadium) in Miami. Super Bowl XLIV will be a great time in the great weather, no matter what happens on the football field.
