Super Bowl: The Formation Of American Football League

What is The Super Bowl? “The Super Bowl is the championship football game played annually between the AFC and NFC division champions of the NFL." In 1970, the National Football League and the American Football League officially announced the merger, but they think the two single league champions should have a match which can decide who is the world football champion, so they established

America needs the NFL for it is the biggest thing in American. People from various beliefs and backgrounds can come together for the same common goal in their team. It gives Americans something to believe in, something to rely on. Its reputation is held high, regardless of politics or religion the NFL is something Americans can agree on. Football means so much to Americans that they have projected so much belief and desire onto football it has been there for whatever Americans have needed it to be when times have been tough.

The NFL was founded on September 17, 1920 and was known as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). It was renamed in 1922 as the National Football League or NFL. In 1920 there were eleven football franchises to form the first professional football league compared to the 32 teams that form the league now. The original teams are: Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers, Dayton Triangles, Akron Professionals, Rochester (N.Y.) Jeffersons, Rock Island Independents, Muncie Flyers, Decatur Staleys, Chicago Cardinals, and Hammond Pros. Jim Thorpe was elected as the league's first president. In 1970 NFL's rival league AFL merged their schedules and formed two conferences in which the AFL became AFC and NFL became NFC.

The NFL has become the most popular sport in the United States. It is watched my millions every weekend. The NFL is only growing in popularity. With new fans joining the fun every day. The NFL has faced its share of problems too. With concussions scaring away many future players, the NFL is hoping to lower the possibility of concussions in the future. Each NFL team plays a total of 16 games over a span of 17 weeks. There are two conferences in the NFL, the AFC and the NFC. There are four divisions in each conference, each with 4 teams. The playoff teams are decided by the division rankings. The winner of each division makes the playoffs, with the two best 2nd place teams making it in as a wild card.

Although the National Football League (NFL) seems to provide a source of entertainment for Americans, it is slowly but surely brainwashing our population. Starting in September, a great majority of the American population gathers around TV screens and crowds into stadiums across the country to watch men ram into each other in hopes of getting a leather ball to the end of a field. This occurs every Sunday, as well as the occasional Saturday and Monday night. Fans spend hundreds of dollars on game tickets, and NFL Ticket TV subscriptions to ensure that they never miss a game. If we were to take a step back and look at it, these weekly occurrences seem to become ritualistic. What was supposed to be a source of entertainment has become a routine

American football originated with its earlier form of play that derived from a variation of

While Walter Camp, the father of American football we all know and love today was established. Before the 19th century “football” referred to many number of games played on foot. Each one of these games had different rules; same were played solely using your hands and were a running game. Yet others forbid the use of the hands and were kicking games. Many football historians place the games beginning in rugby which began in 1823, due to its many similarities. One of the legends is that football was invented when Englishmen playing rugby grew tired of not being able to use their hands, so they picked up the ball and ran. Then in an endeavor to enforce the rules another player tackled the man who picked up the ball. Although we didn’t aren’t sure if this is true we do know that a variation of English rugby was taking off in Canada which later became Canadian football. This is important because it had a huge influence on developing American football (Saperecom).

There have been 50 superbowls so far in the NFL and a lot of special moments, but here are some of them. The first super bowl, super bowl 1, Packers and Chiefs. The score was Packers 35 and Chiefs 10. The teams were led by coach Vince Lombardi and the quarterback Bart Starr. The Chief’s coach was Hank Stram and their quarterback was Len Dawson. The super bowl trophy is named “The Lombardi Trophy” because of Vince Lombardi winning the first super bowl.

According to the Harris poll of 2015 35% of Americans say the NFL is their favourite sport, this has been the case since 1985. Baseball referred to as ‘America’s game’ came in being in second despite the NFL being two and half times more popular, showing that ‘America’s game’ is an incorrect reference as it does not reflect American society. Therefore it is no surprise that the NFL has significant cultural status within American society and history.

Super Bowl XXXVI was a matchup between the New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams. It was suppose to be a day where the Rams’ prolific offence add their second Lombardi Trophy. “New England was a 14 point underdog. The third highest spread in super bowl history.” (McGinn 278)

There were many events that happened in the year 1966. One of them was Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. Even the first Batman movie was released in 1966 who was started by Adam West. In the sports world, there was one event that would change the sport of football forever. On the evening of June 8, 1966, the two major professional American football leagues at that time were the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL) would merge into one league. The league was to be called the National Football League with the same name and logo. The AFL-NFL merger has so much significant that it became one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States.

Lamar Hunt coined the term Super Bowl and came up with the idea to use roman numerals for the Super Bowl, these weren’t even his biggest accomplishments as a visionary leader. In the late 1950’s the National Football League rejected Lamar Hunt’s attempts to get a franchise in Dallas. After getting rejected by the NFL, Lamar Hunt acted on his vision and started the American Football League. Lamar would later be a keep member in the AFL and the NFL merger (Tucker, 2006).

It all started in 1920 with the fourteen-league American Professional Football Association. The league broke into two competing rivals, the National Football League

Since the introduction of organized team sports into American culture, numerous sports have stepped into the limelight for certain periods of time but none have stuck around as long as football has. Just as with everything else in life, football has had it’s fair share of drawbacks since its invention in the mid-19th century. Despite the drawbacks and criticism football has faced, its role and influence on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s far outweigh the negative aspects of its past.

To connect to the economic power that generates through the Super Bowl one must understand the historical pattern of revenue, ticket cost, and attendance the game exhibits in the week leading up to the actual showdown. The ticket prices of the Super Bowl are the main catalyst into understanding what every consumer is willing to spend and how much revenue the game brings to that city. In 1967, the first Super Bowl tickets were no higher than 12 dollars and the average price of a home was less than 25,000 dollars (Smith, 2012). In 2016, the average ticket price was 1,325 dollars making a big ascendance from 1967 (Depietro, 2017). Therefore, this also shows how the game has become more popular since it has come into existence and ticket prices