Superbowl Sunday
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, and is the most important American professional football competition.
An AFL-NFL World Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season, in January 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL. The game was a result of the merger agreement between the two leagues that took full effect for the 1970 season. The fourth such game, after the 1969 season, was called the "Super Bowl", and that name is now used to refer to the first three AFL-NFL World Championship Games as well. After the 1970 season, the game reverted from a world championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
Previous to the 1966 football season, American professional football's championship games were played for various league championships, and games were not played between league champions. The game was called the "All-America Football Conference Championship Game", the "American Football League Championship Game" or the "NFL Championship Game", depending on the league playing it. (See: Professional American football championship games)
Following Apple Computer's 1984 commercial announcing the Apple Macintosh computer, directed by Ridley Scott, the broadcast of the Super Bowl became the premier showcase for high-concept or simply extravagantly expensive commercials. Famous commercial campaigns include the Budweiser "Bud Bowl" campaign, and the 1999 and 2000 dot-com ads.
The Super Bowl tends to have a high Nielsen Rating which ranges around 40.0. An estimated 80 to 90 million Americans watch a Super Bowl each year. The most watched Super Bowl was Super Bowl XXXII between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers which lured 90 million viewers.
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