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Super Bowl

[ soo-per bohl ]

Trademark.
  1. the annual NFL championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.


Super Bowl

noun

  1. American football the main championship game of the sport, held annually in January between the champions of the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Super Bowl

  1. The championship game of the National Football League, held each year in January or February.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Super Bowl1

First recorded in 1965–70
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In her golden years, White appeared in a Super Bowl commercial, hosted “Saturday Night Live” and became a social media darling with a new audience of young fans.

Bey announced the album in February in an ad during the 2024 Super Bowl, and last week it earned 11 Grammy Award nominations, becoming the most-nominated album by a female artist.

She also took the global stage with Coldplay and Bruno Mars when they headlined Super Bowl L in Santa Clara in 2016.

The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming titan, which has 283 million subscribers, will also stream the game between the Super Bowl LVII-winning Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Beyoncé is no stranger to performing at the NFL's halftime shows having performed twice at the Super Bowl: once in 2013 as the headliner and again in 2016 joining Coldplay and Bruno Mars.

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What is the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), a professional American football league.

The game features the champions of the NFL’s two conferences, the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). These teams are the winners of their conference’s playoff, which follows a 17-game regular season. The team that wins the Super Bowl is the league champion.

In contrast to other major professional team sports in the U.S. (such as baseball, basketball, and hockey) that determine the league champion with a championship series, the Super Bowl is a single game.

When is the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl is typically held on the second Sunday in February (though for many years it was held in late January or the first Sunday in February). The start of the game (kickoff) is usually around 6:30 p.m. Eastern time.

There is usually a two-week gap between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl (meaning the Super Bowl is played two weeks after the conference championship games, with no game occurring in the weeks between).

The date of Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 is February 11. Super Bowl LIX falls on February 9, 2025.

More information and context on Super Bowl

The NFL championship game was first called the Super Bowl in 1967. It was created as a result of the merger of the NFL and the American Football League (AFL). The bowl in Super Bowl comes from the tradition of calling football championships bowl games (due to being played in large stadiums sometimes called bowls).

Because the name Super Bowl is a trademarked term, the game is sometimes referred to as the Big Game, such as by advertisers who do not have permission to use the official name. Each year’s Super Bowl is usually named with a number written in Roman numerals, a tradition that began in 1971 for the fifth Super Bowl, labeled Super Bowl V.

The team who wins the Super Bowl is awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which is named for famed football coach Vince Lombardi, whose Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls. Players and coaches on the winning team are also each awarded a unique Super Bowl ring, with players also receiving a cash bonus.

The Super Bowl is known as a widely televised event watched by a massive worldwide audience (sometimes 100 million viewers or more). Advertisers pay millions of dollars to air commercials during the broadcast, and these have become part of the appeal of the Super Bowl for many viewers. The game also usually includes a halftime show featuring a popular musical act.

Many people in the U.S. host or attend Super Bowl parties, including some who are not especially passionate football fans (or even football fans at all). All of this has made the Super Bowl a significant event in U.S. pop culture.

Due to this popularity, the term Super Bowl is sometimes used to refer to a championship or competitive event in another activity, as in This is the Super Bowl of robotics competitions. 

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How is Super Bowl used in real life?

The Super Bowl is a major pop culture event that’s popular even among some people who are not football fans.

 

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True or False?

The Super Bowl is held on February 1 every year.

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