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[Bender2]

NFL Live Thread 2016 Conference Championships

Sunday, January 24

Patriots Vs Broncos
3:05 EST

Cardinals Vs Panthers
6:40 PM EST

[bjorn14]

It’s 50 because this the 50th Super Bowl aka the NFL-AFL Championship in its first 2 editions. The game was first played in 1967. The AFL was not founded until 1961.

[Vermont Lt]

Pats and Cardinals will move on.

[MHGinTN]

LI = Lower Illinois

[glennaro]

If it was called Super Bowl L, it would confuse fans when next year’s isn’t Super Bowl M.

[erod]

Broncos are very lucky the Steelers Had that fumble yesterday. Peyton Manning, for as great as he was, just isn’t Peyton Manning anymore.

[glennaro]

We’ll have a few laughs a decade from now with Super Bowl 59 ... heh-heh!

[TruthWillWin]

I don’t think anyone can beat the Panthers

They look good but Seattle outplayed them for 1/2 of the game. Take away a stupid pick 6 in the 1st half and we have overtime.

[Dilbert San Diego]

LOL.

Well, if I’m alive to see, will be eager to see if the 100th Super Bowl is Super Bowl C or will they abandon Roman numerals for that game too.........

[Bender2]

Re: 1. Why is this Super Bowl 50 instead of Super Bowl L using Roman numerals??
2. Why has the NFL all season marketed this as the “Golden” Super Bowl, implying that this is the 50th anniversary of the NFL, when the NFL was actually founded in 1920? Why does the NFL not talk much about football history before the Super Bowl era? Can you imagine if baseball didn’t talk about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner and Walter Johnson and Cy Young, because they played before the 1960s???

Well, Dilbert, #1 if the NFL doesn't want... a big "L" any where the Super Bowl as it may be taken as meaning "LOSER!"

#2 while the Super Bowl does turns 50 this year, that does not mean the NFL does not honor it history before 1967.

And if you think otherwise about this thread... just ask big'ol_freeper--

As he is always posting ad nauseam this... when ever his Packers are in the conversation!

[discostu]

Graphic arts department complained that “L” was too hard to work with in making a logo. The numerals will be back for LI as that’s more graphically balance.

The NFL has been ignoring the pre-Superbowl era for a long time. It’s not a league that’s built around its own history. And in many ways that’s good. Look at the recent silliness in HOF voting for baseball, that dedicated cadres that says “well Ruth didn’t go in unanimous so nobody does”, baseball’s need to maintain “traditions” holds it back, and hurts its audience.

[Dilbert San Diego]

LOL the 59th Super Bowl will be Super Bowl LIX.

I’m confused that the NFL decided not to call this Super Bowl L using Roman numerals, due to how it looks and all that.

Then why were the 10th, 20th, and 30th Super Bowls all called Super Bowl X, Super Bowl XX, and Super Bowl XXX, considering the pornographic connotations of the letter X? Heck some porno ads push XXX or multiple Xs at us, to imply how explicit they are. Just saying...................

[dfwgator]

The NFL has been ignoring the pre-Superbowl era for a long time. It’s not a league that’s built around its own history.

Well I'm still going to call them, the "Four-Time NFL Champion Detroit Lions."

[teeman8r]

get ready for the SUPER EGO BOWL...

Patriots vs. the Panthers

neither team being mentioned as it will be referred to as Brady vs. Newton

only two jerseys will be sold

and not since twilight, will two men divide a country...

in my heart i would love to see peyton dethrown both egos... but the broncos defense does not show me they will.

[Bender2]

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[needmorePaine]

Well, if I’m alive to see, will be eager to see if the 100th Super Bowl is Super Bowl C or will they abandon Roman numerals for that game too.........

What about Super Bowl D or Super Bowl M? Where will they be played? Will alien cyborgs halfbacks still get concussions? Will anyone know what a catch is?

[needmorePaine]

Well I'm still going to call them, the "Four-Time NFL Champion Detroit Lions."

Does that mean I can talk about the Three-Time NFL Champion Philadelphia Eagles?

[dfwgator]

Sure, why not?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good questions about Super Bowls hundreds of years from now, LOL.

Reminds me, I’ve heard some people say that in spite of how popular the NFL is today, that the NFL may decline in popularity. And those people point out how boxing and horse racing used to be much more popular decades ago, than they are now. And how baseball used to truly be the national pastime, but now is just one of many popular sports, is not the preeminent professional sport it once was.

Yep, see if Cyborgs play in the NFL eventually................

[Bender2]

Re: Well I'm still going to call them, the "Four-Time NFL Champion Detroit Lions."

Well, Pard, I'm only going to claim 2 & a half of those... as I broken my friggin' leg in 1957 and in 1935 I was only 9 effin' years old!

How can you not just love the hell... out of this guy?

Barkeep, keep 'em... coming!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Exactly my point. The Lions have never won a Super Bowl, but have a history of championships in the pre Super Bowl era, which the NFL and ESPN sports dudes ignore.