According to the NFL, Roman numerals were used to avoid any confusion that could happen since the championship win is recognized the year the season started and not the year in which it ended.

Super Bowl LIX is the 59th iteration of the NFL championship game. The NFL uses Roman numerals for the Super Bowl to avoid confusion since the champion is recognized for the year the season ...

When the Rose Bowl hosted Super Bowl XXVII in 1993, the logo again featured roses again along with the name and roman numerals. That started a new tradition of themed logos incorporating features ...

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Instead, it’s marketed as Super Bowl LVIII. So why does the National Football League insist on using Roman numerals for this most modern of sporting events? Simple: The NFL is hoping to avoid ...

And even today, two thousand years later, a lot of our words come from Latin, like ‘enormous ... and inches – that’s all Roman, We’ve got Roman numerals, which you can still see in ...

But the league doesn't use just any numbers. It uses Roman numerals, a rarely used counting system introduced thousands of ...

The Super Bowl is one of the select few mainstream events still using Roman numerals, a system that has largely been forgotten outside of certain spaces. Although the numeral system of Ancient ...