On January 15, 1967 the first professional football championship was played in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was announced as the AFL-NFL World Championship 1967. Game tickets are sold for $ 6.00 to $ 12.00. The game is not for sale. The audience was professional football fans at this moment in the history of the sport, perhaps because they do not fully appreciate the potential of this type of event. While the stated objective was to determine the champion of competition between two professional football leagues, the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL), the Super Bowl has grown to represent more. It has become the ultimate symbol of America's resolve to succeed against all odds. The January day, the faithful of the NFL in 1967, represented by its champion Green Bay Packers, challenged the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs. In a game played by the two best teams on Earth, consisting of the best athletes on the planet, and the scope of professional football fans across the country, Green Bay, headed by the legendary Vince Lombardi, Hank Stram Kansas defeated City Chiefs 35 to 10. When Green Bay returned the following year by beating the Los Angeles Raiders AFL 33 to 14, many believed the AFL never coincide. That all changed in 1969 when New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath, made an outside sleeve to ensure victory during a noisy fan Colts Press Conference Super Bowl. In response to the Colts fan shouts, Namath said: "We will win, I guarantee it." Namath guarantee created a sensation as news agencies broadcast the story in all major news networks of country. On January 12, 1969 Joe Namath and his favorite AFL team went and won the Super Bowl. In 1970 the two leagues merged in the NFL to create two conferences of the two above links. All former NFL teams, except one, became members of the National Football Conference and all AFL teams became members of the American Football Conference. A team was needed to balance the schedule, so it became the Baltimore Colts of the National Conference of the AFC. Consequently, the great Super Bowl game in motion in 1969 can not be repeated between the Jets and the Colts as both teams are now members of the same conference. In 1965, before the merger, the upstart AFL secured a contract of thirty-six million dollars with NBC broadcast rights, which led the league for financial stability. Many cities around the country, mainly in the south and west had no professional football teams to meet the growing demand for this sport. As the AFL grew to meet demand also grew in importance and began competing in the elections in the draft of university programs across the country. The two leagues observed an unspoken rule to not try to sign a player under contract in another league. However, when the New York Giants signed place kicker Pete Gogolak, who was under contract with the accounts of the Buffalo AFL, AFL commissioner, Al Davis, took off his gloves and aggressively pursued AFL quarterbacks field highest paid in the NFL. With attractive salary offers, the AFL attracted to 7 of the most promising quarterbacks in the NFL to the AFL season in 1965. Although the AFL later he delivered the contracts, the NFL recognized the threat posed by the AFL looting of their talents. merger negotiations were conducted without the knowledge of the NFL commissioner, Pete Rozelle and AFL commissioner Al Davis. On June 8, 1966, the owners of the teams from both leagues said they had met the conditions for a merger agreement. The actual merger would take four years to complete. While league officials have sought a sensational name for the annual championship game, the Kansas City Chief owner, Lamar Hunt, suggested calling it the "Super Bowl." Hunt, who owned the Kansas City Chiefs and one of the founders of the Football League, came the name to see her daughter play with a rubber ball toy was a sensation in the mid- sixties. Wham toy marketed as "Super Ball." Hunt's suggestion was intended solely to serve as a temporary name until a more glorious name could be agreed. Having failed to find a more desirable replacement or descriptive, the name stuck. More than 151.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the 44-second Super Bowl in 2010. According to the Neilson ratings, the Super Bowl 2010 was the most watched television show of all time. It broke the record for a long time established by the last episode of the popular television series M * A * S * H, which attracted 121.6 million viewers on 28 February 1983. In many ways the Super Bowl has become a contest of numbers. In 2010, thirty seconds of commercial air time sold for $ 3,000,000, which is a long way from the $ 37,500 charged by NBC for a 30-second spot during the first Super Bowl. Super Bowl betting is estimated to exceed $ 10 million in 2010. The game was broadcast in 34 languages in 232 countries around the world. The Super Bowl of 2010 and added the estimated 400 million dollars to the economy of Miami as a result of the Colts and Saints challenge for the title. Fans spent an estimated 5.6 billion dollars in the Super Bowl-related items during the tournament. The stories of the media, marketing, entertainment and background surrounding the Super Bowl have become every bit as sensational as the game itself. Since 2010 only two cities north of the Mason Dixon line has ever hosted a Super Bowl, Detroit in 1982 and 2006, and Minneapolis in 1992. This trend will change. Dallas will host the Super Bowl in 2011, Indianapolis in 2012, New Orleans in 2013, and New Jersey in 2014. The NFL has also given some consideration to play a future Super Bowl in London, England. There are many great stories in the history of the Super Bowl. One of these stories have taken place during the first championship game. According to the Orlando Sentinel, both CBS and NBC covered the first Super Bowl share the same TV images, but each uses its own sports. The cameras missed the kick-off for the second half of the game because Charles Jones was busy sports interview Bob Hope. When the chief referee ordered a re-kick, a CBS producer of the CBS reporter Pat Summerall directed to explain the accident of Vince Lombardi, the Packer head coach. Pat Summerall, who played as a kicker for the Giants in New York under the legendary coach, refused to go anywhere near it. The story serves as anecdotal evidence of the terrifying roar often associated with Vince Lombardi, for whom the championship trophy is called now. Unfortunately, there are no known network coverage of the first Super Bowl. Apparently the only known tape was recorded in recording a soap opera. American radio personality Mark Champion is well known to basketball fans as the voice of the Detroit Pistons. He is perhaps the least known as the off-screen voice asks the MVP of Super Bowl "You just won the Super Bowl, what do you do now?" Since 1987, Disney has been an important part of Super Bowl tradition with its "What's next?" advertising campaign. The Walt Disney Company tapes of two versions of the commercial, a promotion for Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and one for Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and is transmitted in the relevant geographic markets to both theme parks. The former CEO of Disney, Michael Eisner credits his wife, Jane Eisner with the idea of long-term campaign. In 1986, during the opening celebration for Disney's Star Tours attraction at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, Eisner had dinner with Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager (no relation to Chuck Yeager), which had just broken the history of aviation its nonstop flight around the world as a specially designed Voyager aircraft. Jane Eisner reportedly asked the couple what they planned to do next and he replied: "Well, we're going to Disneyland." Later it was suggested her husband to use as part of an advertising campaign to promote the Disney parks. Since 1987, Disney has turned to regard as her "What's next?" Advertising campaign every year (except 2006) to promote the theme parks during the celebration after the Super Bowl game. The ads have become such an important part of the Super Bowl and the halftime show and the highly anticipated Super Bowl commercials. Each year, millions of fans around the world plan their schedules around biggest event in American Football. The show stopping talent halftime, the knee slapping ads, galas, background stories, and hype are an important part of the show as amazing athletes that play and brilliant strategists who lurk on the sidelines. While basketball and baseball are played in other countries around the world, football is exclusively American. The Super Bowl is the championship game of the United States.
