Super Bowl
The Super Bowl [ su ː pɚ boʊ̯l ] is the final of the U.S. American football professional league National Football League ( NFL). It takes place in February, usually on the first Sunday. The Super Bowl is one of the world 's biggest single sporting events and achieved in the United States regularly the highest television ratings of the year. In addition to the interest in the game various festivities for the great interest to provide this sporting event. One of the highlights is the half time in which every year a spectacular show is offered. The game and the framing of festivities are together called Super Bowl Sunday. This has reached the status of an unofficial national holiday over the years.
Development
In 1920, the American Professional Football Association was formed, from which today's NFL arose. First league champions were the Akron Pros, who won the regular season with eight wins: Playoffs according to current model, there was not then. It was not until 1932 there was the first NFL Championship Game in which the master of the Western Conference, the Chicago Bears, the east champion New York Giants with 23-21 beat. Until 1966 the NFL played out their own championship.
The first Super Bowl, according to current model in 1967 discharged as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, in which for the first time took the winner of the traditional NFL against the winner of the younger and rival American Football League ( AFL). After the 1970 merger of the two leagues completed occur since the winners of the two Conferences American Football Conference and National Football Conference in the Super Bowl against each other. The term Super Bowl in 1967, invented by a play on words of Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, when he saw his daughter playing with a toy called Super Ball. The name made sense, since the playoffs were even then called the College Football Bowl Games. Since 1969, the designation Super Bowl is officially used for the final, and the two previously discharged AFL- NFL World Championship Games in 1967 and 1968 in retrospect in Super Bowl I and II renamed. For the numbering Roman numerals are always used.
The venue is already defined in the rule of three to five years in advance. Mostly takes place the game in the southern states of the USA, as at the beginning of the year prevail pleasant climatic conditions than in the rest of the United States. So far, no team was able to participate in a Super Bowl in their own stadium.
Prices
The winner of the Super Bowl trophy is the Vince Lombardi Trophy. It is named after Vince Lombardi, coach of the Green Bay Packers, the Super Bowl became the first team. It is produced exclusively by Tiffany & Co. for $ 25,000. The two participants will each receive 17.5 % of the ticket quota, 5 %, the organizing team and 34.8 %, the remaining 29 NFL teams. The rest of the quota will be raffled by the NFL, there are no tickets issued to the organizer.
Towards the end of the game the most valuable player ( MVP ) of Super Bowl is with an extra price, the Pete Rozelle Trophy - - named after the former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle - honored.
Also be for the members of the winning team gold and diamond rings existing, so-called Super Bowl rings, made . Imitations of these rings are very popular among collectors and fans.
Statistics
With six wins, the Pittsburgh Steelers are the most successful team of the Super Bowl, followed by the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys with five victories. The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys can with eight Super Bowls have the most participations in the Super Bowl, followed by the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos with seven, as well as the San Francisco 49ers with six participants.
The record for the most wins in the history of the Super Bowl as a person holds the conditioning coach Mike Woicik with a total of six hits (three victories with the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots ). As a player Charles Haley, now five wins ( two with the San Francisco 49ers and three with the Dallas Cowboys between 1989-1996 ).
The only teams that can still have no participation in a Super Bowl are the Cleveland Browns, the Detroit Lions, the Houston Texans and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
On average, 90 million North Americans see the Super Bowl, with peaks of up to 140 million. In 2009, cost 30 seconds of advertising time during the transmission of 3.0 million U.S. dollars. The commercials are partially produced at great expense specially for the Super Bowl and have an unusually high value. They belong as well as the discussions of the game for the usual talk of viewers.
The list of TV broadcasts with the highest viewing figures on North American television lead to six Super Bowls, two more are still within the top 10 by the final episode of M * A * S * H in 1983 and the figure skating duel between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding at the 1994 Winter Olympics are completed.
List of Super Bowl Winners
AFL- NFL Championships:
Result between the leagues: NFL: 2 wins, 2 wins AFL.
NFL Championships: