Faith Archibald
The game that many Americans refer to as football is really known as “gridiron football” because of the vertical lines that mark the field.
It was created in colleges in North America, particularly the United States, in the late 19th century. It is closely connected to soccer and rugby, two old English sports.
Walter Camp, referred to as the “Father of American Football,” was the person most responsible for the change from this rugby-like game to the sport of football we know today.
The American Professional Football Association, which would eventually become the National Football League (NFL), was established in Canton, Ohio, in 1920.
It is an association of professional gridiron football teams and is now the biggest football league in the United States with 32 participating teams.
It conducts its annual championship game, known as the Super Bowl, every year.
The American Football Conference and National Football Conference champions of the NFL participate in it, and it is traditionally held in January or February. Annually, a different city serves as the host city.
The American Football League (AFL) was established in 1960 by a group of businessmen who wanted to buy football teams, but were turned down by the National Football League.
The conference championship, which features seven teams from each championship, is determined by the NFL playoffs. The game was created when the NFL and its rival American Football League (AFL) joined in 1966.
On January 15, 1967, the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, the first of the Superbowl games, occurred in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The NFL champion, Green Bay Packers, and the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, competed in the game. Later, Chiefs owner, Lamar Hunt, suggested calling the championship game the “Super Bowl.”
The winner of the Super Bowl receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The award carries Vince Lombardi’s name since he led the Green Bay Packers to victories in the first two Super Bowls in history.
According to Al Davis, who was an American football coach from July 4th, 1929, to October 8, 2011, “The league wanted to see us lose that game, to see us representing the Super Bowl would just have been about the worst thing that they could imagine, that Pete (Rozelle) would have to present us with the Super Bowl trophy”.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, and Dallas Cowboys, were three teams that dominated the NFL in the 1970s, winning eight Super Bowls in ten years.
Starting with the 2001 season, quarterback Tom Brady led the Patriots to nine Super Bowl appearances and six victories, solidifying their status as a dynasty.
There has been a total of 56 Superbowl’s to date according to msn.com. The 57th Super Bowl took place on February 12, 2023. The game started at 4:30 p.m. local time and 6:30 p.m. ET.
In addition to the game, Rihanna, an American music superstar, performed at the Apple Music Halftime Show, which was also televised on FOX.
The Chiefs have won the World Championship twice in the last four years. With only eight seconds remaining in the game, Harrison Butker’s 27-yard field goal let Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.