super bowl

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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Original Technorati articles tagged “super bowl”

• in Social Media
  How Quick Acting Brands Took Advantage of Super Bowl Power Outage
  When the power went out at Super Bowl 47, some quick acting brands used the time to engage on social media.
  by gsimon / on Feb 4, 2013
• in Sports
  Social Bowl III: Social Media Becomes Sporting Event Paradigm
  Social media outlives legendary advertising platforms, defeats print media and will rock the 2013 Super Bowl with more activity than ever before. #SuperBowl2013 with a Twitter twist, if you will.
  by advertzones / on Jan 28, 2013
• in Football
  NFL Opening Week Match-Ups: Browns v. Eagles
  NFL Opening week: Philadelphia Eagles vs Cleveland Browns
  by agentjr / on Sep 4, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “super bowl”

 

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Will Pittsburgh Steelers Make Strong Super Bowl Run in 2013?

  
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  Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Pittsburgh Steelers are good. I mean they are really one of the most underrated teams in the league. I guess it’s easy to go unnoticed when you finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs, but they did it without a healthy quarterback and no run game. So what did they do in the ...
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• Miami Submits Super Bowl L Bid; Houston, SF All Into NFL

  
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  Miami, San Francisco, and Houston all have their Super Bowl bids in to the NFL, as per a Twitter tweet sent out by Frank Supovitz, the Senior Vice President of Special Events for the National Football League, and the man commonly known as “Mr. Super Bowl.” It’s official-all 3 final bids for Super Bowl L [...]
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• Ronde Barber Retires from Tampa Bay Buccaneers

  
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  Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback, Ronde Barber has announced his retirement. FOX Sports football analyst spoke to Ronde over the phone earlier today. Jay in turn announced the decision via Twitter. Ronde Barber broke into the NFL in 1997 and became a staple in the Bucs secondary for 16 NFL seasons. He was a 3x NFL ...
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• SUPER BOWL 2013 - Where to Watch it in Costa Rica

  
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• SF and San Francisco 49ers Give Super Bowl 50 Bid To NFL

  
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  The San Francisco 49ers, the City and County of San Francisco, SF Mayor Ed Lee, and the San Francisco Super Bowl 50 Bidding Committee just, today, officially submitted it’s bid to host the 50th Super Bowl at the new 49ers Stadium in Santa Clara to the National Football League today. While the bid’s official ...
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• Facebook Bans Star Spangled Banner

  
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• Eminem ft. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent – Encore [HQ & Lyrics]

  
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• Brian Billick Ranks Steelers 19th Overall In Post Draft Power Rankings

  
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  Former Baltimore Ravens head coach, and current Fox Sports analyst, Brian Billick released his 2013 post draft NFL power rankings on Tuesday and he ranked the Pittsburgh Steelers, 19th overall and third of the four AFC North teams. Here is what Billick wrote about the Steelers: Just like the Ravens, the Steelers have ...
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• eMarketer Data Suggests Tweets CAN Win the Hearts and Minds of Consumers

  
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