Super Bowl Beginning

Instead of four decades when its 1920 setting up, the NFL successfully fended off some rival leagues. However, in 1960, it encounters its most powerful completion while the American Football League (AFL) is formed. American Football league vied strongly with the NFL for both players and fans, but by the middle of the decade the sprain of competitor led to severe merger talks between the two leagues. Prior to the 1966 period, the NFL and AFL reached a merger agreement that was to take effect for the 1970 season. As part of the merger, the champions of the two leagues agreed to meet in a "world" championship game for professional American football pending the merger was effected.

Lamar Hunt, owner of the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs, first used the term "Super Bowl" to refer to this game in the merger meetings. Hunt would later say the name was likely in his head because his children had been playing with a Super Ball toy .In a July 25, 1966, letter to NFL official Pete Roselle, Hunt wrote, "I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon." Although the leagues' owners determined on the name "AFL-NFL Championship Game," the media immediately picked up on Hunt's "Super Bowl" name, which would become official beginning with the third annual game.Super Bowl Tickets are available at Sport Ticket Exchange easily.