The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each version of the game, which can confuse viewers trying to read the old numerical system. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀 ...

The Super Bowl has used Roman numerals ever since, with one notable exception: For the 2015 season, the NFL elected to refer to the 50th edition of the game as "Super Bowl 50" instead of "Super ...

The NFL officially adopted this numbering system with Super Bowl V and retroactively applied Roman numerals to the earlier games, I through IV. The only exception was Super Bowl 50, played in 2016.

According to the NFL, Roman numerals "were adopted to clarify any confusion that may occur because the NFL championship game—the Super Bowl—is played in the year following a chronologically ...

Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game, has used Roman numerals since Super Bowl V in 1971, a tradition introduced by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle. This practice helps avoid confusion between ...

Back in 2014, the NFL announced Super Bowl 50 would be displayed with Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals. It was a one-year exception because the league simply didn't like seeing the L ...

This year's version of the NFL's biggest game is Super Bowl LIX — or Super Bowl 59, if you're not well versed in Roman numerals.. Unlike the other major American sports leagues, the NFL uses ...

Welcome to Super Bowl LIX.. That's Super Bowl 59 for those untrained in Roman numerals, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs facing the Philadelphia Eagles at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in New Orleans. Led by ...

Every Super Bowl save one has been accompanied by Roman numerals in the history of the NFL's championship. During the 2015-16 season, the league announced Super Bowl 50 would not be branded with ...

Super Bowl V (5) was the first to use Roman numerals in 1971 between the Baltimore Colts and Dallas Cowboys. Subsequently, the NFL retroactively renamed the first four Super Bowls I, II, III and ...

For example, the NFL did briefly abandon Roman numerals for Super Bowl 50 in 2016, because the league reportedly went through 73 versions of a logo with the letter “L” and decided it didn’t ...

But Roman numerals were the norm after that, at least until 2016, when the NFL chose to go with “Super Bowl 50” rather than “Super Bowl L.” Speaking on the reasoning for this particular ...