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Super Bowl, in general context, refers to the season championship game of the National Football League.  Prior to January of 1967, the professional football championship game was simply called the NFL Championship.


During that period of the 1960s there was a popular toy distributed by the Wham-O corporation called the Super Ball.


Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, was observing his grandson playing with his Super Ball when Lamar jokingly referred to the NFL Championship Game as the "Super Bowl" with the belief that a more appropriate label would be conjured up to market the event. The media picked-up on the name and the rest is history.


Original Technorati articles discussing the "Super Bowl" include USA Today Ad Meter Rates Super Bowl XLV Commercials and Finds a Ratings Tie, NFL Drops the Ball - Leaving 400 Fans Hanging and The 2010 NFL Game of the Year. Also see 25th Anniversary Celebration of the 1986 New York Giants

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  • 50th Super Bowl Host: San Francisco Favored To Win 2016 Game


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    The NFL will choose its 50th Super Bowl host this weekend after a league vote on Tuesday. San Francisco is reportedly the favorite for the 2016 game but football’s biggest game may also be held in Miami. According to Yahoo News , the city that does not get chosen will compete with Houston for the 51st Super Bowl ...
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  • New York Giants Will Invest A Ton In Wide Receivers


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    Melina Vastola — USA Today Sports Many fans of the New York Giants are certainly focused on the ongoing negotiations between the team and WR Victor Cruz . It appears as if Cruz is looking for $10 million per year while the Giants have only offered roughly $7 million per season. However, that isn’t the ...
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  • Champs Until Dethroned: Are the Baltimore Ravens the Best in the AFC? (Yahoo! Contributor Network)


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    The race to represent your conference in Super Bowl XLVIII will hit the field in less than four months.
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  • Packers Jarrett Bush has Managed to Stick Around


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    Packers CB Jarrett Bush has stuck with the team since 2006. The pitchforks were out and the torches were lit after the 2009 season. Packers fans wanted cornerback Jarrett Bush off the team. I admit that I was one of those Packers fans holding a torch high in one hand and a pitchfork in the other. I was sick of ...
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  • Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday (The Associated Press)


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    BOSTON (AP) -- Where the Super Bowl will celebrate a half-century of existence will be decided this week by NFL owners.
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  • Joe Flacco Signs Pledge To Eliminate Use Of The Word ‘Retarded’


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    During one of the many media sessions for Super Bowl 47, Ravens star quarterback  Joe Flacco caught some flak after saying that the idea of playing a Super Bowl in cold weather New York was “retarded.” Flacco would later apologize for those remarks, and then he went on to win himself and the Ravens a Super ...
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  • Joe Flacco Signs Pledge To Eliminate Use Of The Word ‘Retarded’


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    During one of the many media sessions for Super Bowl 47, Ravens star quarterback Joe Flacco caught some flak after saying that the idea of playing a Super Bowl in cold weather New York was “retarded.” Flacco would later apologize for those remarks, and then he went on to win himself and the Ravens a Super ...
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  • San Francisco Is (Not Surprisingly) The Frontrunner To Host Super Bowl 50


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    With the San Francisco 49ers’ new Levi’s Stadium, by all accounts, set to become the world’s greatest sports venue – sorry, Clearwater Hooters – it’s a given that it will be the home to the NFL’s grandest celebration of the league’s unparalleled success, Super Bowl L. Nevertheless, the 49ers and city ...
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  • Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday


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    San Francisco and South Florida are competing to host the game.
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  • SF Super Bowl Bid Not Bay Area’s First: Oakland In 2000


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    San Francisco is not the first SF Bay Area NFL city to bid for the right to host a Super Bowl Game. Oakland was in 2000 and as that bid effort was headed by the author of this blog post, what follows is a kind of short memoir. On On November 3, 2000, in Atlanta, [...]
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  • Super Bowl L, LI hosts to be picked Tuesday


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    Where the Super Bowl will celebrate a half-century of existence will be decided this week by NFL owners.
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  • Ex-Raven Anquan Boldin Keeps Bringing Up Super Bowl To 49ers During OTAs


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    SAN FRANCISCO – As the 49ers began their 2013 offseason training activities (OTA’s) on Monday, recently acquired WR Anquan Boldin has managed to quickly alienate many of his new teammates by constantly and obnoxiously reminding anyone who would listen that they “got their asses kicked” in the Super Bowl ...
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  • First Home Super Bowl a Decent Possibility for San Francisco 49ers in 2016


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    Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A young team with an ostensibly long championship window ahead like the San Francisco 49ers probably wouldn’t mind too much about having to wait until 2016 to host the Super Bowl in their new Santa Clara venue. According to reports, this is fairly close to a done deal even in ...
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    Cyber experts fear escalation of attacks Cybersecurity professionals know a myriad of ways hackers can try to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure or infiltrate corporations to steal or spy, but it is the fear of the unknown that some say keeps them up at night. U.S. security officials and private sector experts ...
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  • Amy Trask Of Oakland Raiders Resigns – End Of An Era


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    The words “Amy Trask Of Oakland Raiders Resigns” are ones I just can’t see as real. For 25 years Amy Trask has been the Oakland Raiders, and the Oakland Raiders have been Amy Trask. Yes, I can say I know Ms. Trask as kind of part of Oakland’s community furniture: people you see so much [...]
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  • George Sauer: Super Bowl III Legend, New York Jets Wide Receiver Passes Away at 69


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    George Sauer passed away Tuesday at the age of 69 after a long battle with Alzheimers disease. Best known for his brilliant performance in Super Bowl III as the upstart New York Jets upset the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts, George Sauer left professional football shortly after that performance on the biggest stage. ...
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  • Montee Ball Out To Make A Name For Himself — Again


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    ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Whether known as Mon-TAY or Mon-TEE, running back Montee Ball made quite a name for himself during his record-setting career at Wisconsin. Apparently he’s got some work to do to become a household name in the NFL, though. The Denver Broncos’ second-round draft pick was a virtual unknown ...
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  • Dolphins News You Might Have Missed


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    Apr 27, 2013; Miami, FL, USA; Miami Dolphins first round pick Dion Jordan speaks to reporters at the training facility at Nova Southeastern University. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports Did you know that the Miami Dolphins are still planning on bidding for either Super Bowl “L” or “LI”? ...
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  • The Miami Dolphins Would Like To Play Football On An Aircraft Carrier


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    Thanks to Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria basically tricking Miami-Dade County into giving him a ton of cash for a stadium that literally everyone not involved in the funding process knew was a horrible idea, the Miami Dolphins were unable to secure a considerably smaller amount of public funds to renovate Sun Life ...
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  • San Francisco Still Thinks Everyone Is Impressed With iPads


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    San Francisco is making its final push to host Super Bowl L in 2016. The coup de grâce in this effort by the host committee was apparently mailing auto-playing iPads to all the owners in the NFL. The Bay Area’s final bid to host the 50th Super Bowl in 2016 at the 49ers’ new Santa Clara stadium landed on the ...
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