Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide

Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide — page 5
My dad said Well we need to come up with a name something like the Super Bowl Lamar Hunt Jr said Then he said Actually that’s not a very good name We can come up with something better Turns out he didn’t have to Super Bowl sounded catchy but it needed something more So Hunt also suggested adding Roman numerals for each game so fans could tell them apart When the Baltimore Colts and Dallas Cowboys played in January 1971 it was Super Bowl V to mark the fifth Super Bowl As the numbers grew so did interest in the Super Bowl Even people who didn’t regularly watch the NFL would tune in More than 114 million people watched when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots held on to beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX that’s 49 in February 2015 That made it the most-watched show of all time It’s a pretty safe bet that the Super Bowl will be the most-watched show of any given year