The National Football League didn’t begin larding Roman numerals on to the Super Bowl until its fifth year, hoping to imbue its championship game with a certain chiseled-in-stone gravitas. The block ...

For the first time since the fourth Super Bowl, no Roman numerals will be affixed to the 50th Super Bowl. The NFL has released the logo for Super Bowl 50, which will take place in the San Francisco ...

After 49 increasingly complex years of writing our Super Bowls, the NFL has made things slightly easier this year. This year’s Super Bowl is called “Super Bowl 50” rather than “Super Bowl L” after 49 ...

Super Bowl week is back, which means Roman numerals are once again at the forefront of the public consciousness. As one of the only institutions that still uses Roman numerals, the NFL's choice brings ...

The NFL unveiled the logo for its highly anticipated 50th Super Bowl (coming in 2016), but for the first time in four decades it will be missing something. The league will abandon the use of Roman ...

You've surely seen it everywhere you've looked as the Super Bowl approached: "LV." Those two letters accompany this year's Super Bowl everywhere, because it's Super Bowl LV. No, it's not in Las Vegas, ...