11-19-2022, 07:26 PM
Speaking of championship game monikers, I was reading how the Super Bowl got its name. The announcers of the Stanford v. Cal game I'm watching claimed that the NFL/AFL owners wanted to call their championship "The Big Game" but Stanford and Cal demurred. Couldn't find any evidence of that. I did read four separate articles that claimed:
The Big One
Pro Bowl
World Series of Football
AFL/NFL Championship Game (Rozelle's idea -- apparently what they settled on, and they used it for the first three games, until Lamar Hunt came up with the Super Bowl)
Ultimate Bowl
Premier Bowl
This story claims that the media -- specifically the New York Times -- had called it the Super Bowl from the very first game.
How the Super Bowl Got Its Name: The Real Story - The Atlantic
The Big One
Pro Bowl
World Series of Football
AFL/NFL Championship Game (Rozelle's idea -- apparently what they settled on, and they used it for the first three games, until Lamar Hunt came up with the Super Bowl)
Ultimate Bowl
Premier Bowl
This story claims that the media -- specifically the New York Times -- had called it the Super Bowl from the very first game.
How the Super Bowl Got Its Name: The Real Story - The Atlantic
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