Two L's, meet two r's. Even the word super is a Latin hand-me-down, meaning above or beyond. The use of Roman numerals to count Super Bowls was always vestigial and idiosyncratic, but that was ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Each year, a chart circulates online purportedly showing Google search trends for "super bowl" and "how to read roman numerals" in lock-step with each other, peaks lining up every Super Bowl season.

If you look closely after the credits have rolled, you’ll see that the copyright credit is often written in Roman numerals, rather than the regular Arabic numerals we’re all used to.

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 ...

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 ...

Why does the NFL use Roman numerals for the Super Bowl? This year’s NFL championship is officially known as “Super Bowl LVIII.” The letters LVIII are Roman numerals that mean “58,” so ...