In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) in the United States. The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday (sometimes "Super Sunday"), which over the years has almost become a de facto U.S. national holiday.

The game began in January 1967 as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game in which the NFL championship team played against the champion of the younger, rival American Football League (AFL) for the "World Championship of Professional Football". After both leagues merged in 1970, the Super Bowl became the NFL's championship game. Since then, the game has been played annually on a Sunday following the playoffs, originally early to mid-January, then late January, and in 2002, the first Sunday in February.

The Super Bowl is one of the most-watched U.S. television broadcasts of the year, attracting many companies to spend millions of dollars on commercials. This has caused the starting time of the game to be pushed back later and later, to ensure the Sunday night prime time audience on the East Coast. The last true day game (which ended before local sunset) of the series was Super Bowl XI in January 1977.

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Watchin this NFLs Greatest Games, Rams vs Titans Super Bowl 34. RIP Air McNair
MitchAQI (Mitch Moller) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:29:34 -0000
Watchin this NFLs Greatest Games, Rams vs Titans Super Bowl 34. RIP Air McNair
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Watchin NFL's Greatest Games: Super Bowl XXXIV St Louis Rams vs. Tennessee Titans
_TyCo (Tyshawn) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:28:39 -0000
Watchin NFL's Greatest Games: Super Bowl XXXIV St Louis Rams vs. Tennessee Titans
RT @Brain_Wash: Jessica Simpson wants to design wedding rings? That's like asking Tony Romo to design Super Bowl rings. OUCH!
MisplacedTex (What's it to ya?) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:28:23 -0000
RT @Brain_Wash: Jessica Simpson wants to design wedding rings? That's like asking Tony Romo to design Super Bowl rings. OUCH!
@ZoeyJanay girl yeah! I wnt them to win the super bowl so bush can have a ring
AllEyesOnCiCi (Alexis Marrielle) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:27:35 -0000
@ZoeyJanay girl yeah! I wnt them to win the super bowl so bush can have a ring
I pledge allegiance to the Saints, and to the great city of New Orleans, and to the Super Bowl which we will win, one city...
Melissa1026 (Melissa Meyers) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:27:04 -0000
I pledge allegiance to the Saints, and to the great city of New Orleans, and to the Super Bowl which we will win, one city...

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