Do you like American football or you don't even know its rules? Maybe after this week's webquest you'll become a fan.
The Super Bowl is the anual championship
game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American
football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late
summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to
identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held.
The game was created as
part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the
American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion
teams would play in an AFL–NFL World
Championship Game until the merger was to officially begin in 1970.
After the merger, each league was redesignated as a “conference", and the
game was then played between the conference champions.
The day on which the Super
Bowl is played, now considered by some a de facto American national
holiday is called “Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-largest day for
U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has
frequently been the most watched American television broadcast of the year.
Because of its high viewership, comercial airtime
during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year. Due to the
high cost of investing in advertising on the Super Bowl, companies regularly
develop their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. In addition,
many popular singers and musicians have performed during the event's pre-game
and halftime ceremonies because of the exposure.
Further info on www.superbowl.com
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