Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the American football final is played in February each year in the United States between the champions of the American Football Conference andNational Football Conference, the two professional leagues that are United under the National Football League, which organises the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl is one of the most important sports events in the United States and is often unofficially regarded as a national holiday. [1]  [2]  the game was several times the most-watched television program of the year in the United States and is associated with more than one hundred million viewers along with the finals of the UEFA Champions League to the most watched sporting events in the world. The Super Bowl XLV February 6, 2011 that played on and was aired with an average of 111 million viewers the most watched program ever in the United States. It improved the record of the Super Bowl that was played a year earlier, which in turn broke the twenty-seven year old record by the ratings that the television series M * A * S * H took out during the last episode in 1983. [3]



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[hide] *1 origin of the Super Bowl  ==Origin of the Super Bowl[ Edit] == The National Football League was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Conference and got quite quickly its current name. In the early 1960s got the League competition of the American Football League, which was founded in 1959. In the mid-sixties started merger talks between the two associations and on 8 June 1966was reached an agreement to merge the two leagues in 1970. In addition, the two leagues in 1967 the first final between the two champions of the two leagues under the name AFL-NFL World Championship Game, what became known as the first Super Bowl, the final which is played annually since that time between the champions of theNational Football Conference, the old National Football League and now part of the merger and the American Football Conference, for the fusion known as the American Football League. ==Leading up to the Super Bowl[ Edit] == Traditionally start the American Football season in september. The thirty-two teams are working off their games respectively in the NFC and the AFC in their own Division of four teams each. By the end of december are the competitions ended, whereupon in January the playoffs are played which yield two champions, one from the NFC and one from the AFC. These two teams play the Super Bowl. ==The contest<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The game was held in the month of January until 2001, starting from 2004, the race always played in the first week of February. The stadium where the match will be played, is typically three to five years laid down for the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is usually played on neutral ground and therefore there is a scheme to fix the home and team. The teams from the AFC are considered the home team in the Super Bowls with an even number, the teams from the NFC have the home field advantage during the Super Bowls with an odd number. The serial numbers of the Super Bowl is traditionally written with Roman numerals. After the game, the winning team awarded the trophy"Vince Lombardi", named after New York Giants, Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins-coach who died of cancer in 1970. The best player is awarded the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award. ==TV and entertainment<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Madonna in 2012<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Super Bowl is in the United States alternately broadcast on the channels Fox and CBS, NBC. In Europe the contest under more broadcast on the British channel BBC.
 * 2 leading up to the Super Bowl
 * 3 the game
 * 4 TV and entertainment
 * 4.1 national anthem and halftime show
 * 5 Editions
 * 6 WINS and final places per team
 * 7 external links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Before the start of the race is traditionally brought the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner ", sung by a singer or singer accompanied by an orchestra of a university or of the army. Artists who sang the national anthem include Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Whitney Houston, Cher, Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the quiet of a Super Bowl halftime show held a contest. This is already a tradition since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when some mars bands performed and the trumpeter Al Hirt . Especially well known pop artists were Later asked. During the Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004 caused the occurrence of Janet Jackson andJustin Timberlake a huge riot when in the activities of the singer as a breast was visible, which from then on was generally known under the name nipplegate.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  as a result, the Super Bowl broadcast with a slight delay in future. ===Anthem and halftime show<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="68" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Performers of the national anthem and during the halftime show since 1990. ==Editions<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Victories and final places per team<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Barack Obama with a shirt of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team that holds the record with six Super Bowl victories
 * The Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans so far never reached the Super Bowl.