While things have grown in scale over the years, the fundamentals are still the same: the best team from the NFC and AFC battle it out for gridiron supremacy. Once the leagues merged, the Super Bowl became the NFL’s championship game. Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt suggested calling the game “ the Super Bowl,” and the title stuck. While the deal was hammered out in 1966, the merger wouldn’t actually take place until 1970 in the interim, each season would conclude with the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. After nearly a decade of rivalry, the NFL and the American Football League (AFL) decided to merge. The Super Bowl, as we know it, however, didn’t arrive until the late 1960s. That one-off game proved to be so popular that the league instituted a postseason the following year. That led to several ties and, in 1932, a single playoff game was used to determine the league title.
In the earliest days of the NFL, the championship was awarded to the club with the best winning percentage at the end of the season. While the Super Bowl has grown into an iconic piece of popular culture, the game itself is actually a relatively recent creation. What a man he was and what a life he had! - Troy Aikman January 24, 2020 While preparing for Super Bowl LIV keep thinking of Kansas City Chiefs Founder Lamar Hunt and how much seeing his beloved team in this year’s Super Bowl would have meant to him.
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