The other thread here for Super Bowl XLIX best bets got me thinking that it's well past time to give up the old, pompous (and ponderous) numbering system. Let the 2015 version be the last with roman numerals and the following year start with "Super Bowl 50". While I liked the current method for years, the game no longer needs the self-important designation of the past (and hasn't for forty years) so the time could not be better for change.
The biggest reason to give up Roman numerals is that the average American can barely count in Arabic numerals these days. While they're at it they should change the name of the game to the Supr Bwl. That'll resolve the spelling issues also.
Other sports just use years like 1996 World Series but that doesn't work for football since the season is played in a different year than the postseason so if they removed #s all together what would they say? would this past SB have been the 2014 SB? but Seattle won the 2013 Championship. They have to keep up the #s.
This is a cool topic, I had thought that the SB had always been Roman numerals until I read an article that talked about how SB5 was changed to SBV and all previous SBs were retro changed to Roman numerals: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--t...s--a-match-made-in-kansas-city-164002135.html I don't have any basis for this bit the NFL has been trying to take over the world of sports for years so maybe they saw Roman numerals as a symbol of the Roman conquerors
I wish they would go back to having individual logos for each Super Bowl depending on the city/culture... This generic chrome trophy is gayyy.
I think they should go with stick figure hieroglyphics instead. Seriously though, I dig the roman numerals. I think it adds some mystique to the atmosphere of the biggest game in America every year, especially when watching something like NFL films cover old superbowls with the voice of John Facenda booming in the narratives.
Everyone who posted in this thread. Do you really think Jets fans don't care about the superbowl because the Jets aren't in it? Also - this is in the NFL section.
It'd be really nice if NFL Films would stop slowing the action down minutely in their old game presentations. It's absurd that they feel they need to do that to make the current product seem better, crisper and sharper than the old games were.
It's marketing. It makes the modern game seem flashier and more attractive. It's a shame too because modern players really are a hair faster than the guys thirty years ago. It's just such a ridiculous accentuation of that fact when they slow it down like they do. I really noticed this when I was watching the Giants at work in one of their Super Bowl films. Lawrence Taylor is still faster than 99% of the defenders in play today but nope he was stuck in molasses also with the rest of the guys. And of course the obligatory joke here is that LT is still faster than 99% of the guys and he's like 55 years old now...
Generic? Hardly. Classic is more like it. It doesn't need multicolors and moving parts. Sometimes, less is more. Think about the Stanley Cup, is that generic - would you have that changed, too?
Yeah I'll go ahead and endorse this post since I made a pretty cool one that was totally ignored, I like yours better because it's funny.
the SC is not the SB, that is known more the trophy, the SB is known more for the game itself and the sport. the logos since 2010 have been awful and lazy.
