So to help avoid the confusion, here's a quick guide to Roman numerals and the Super Bowl. This season's NFL championship game — Super Bowl LVIII — is Super Bowl 58.

The Super Bowl has used Roman numerals ever since, with one notable exception: For the 2015 season, the NFL elected to refer to the 50th edition of the game as "Super Bowl 50" instead of "Super ...

Welcome to Super Bowl LIX.. That's Super Bowl 59 for those untrained in Roman numerals, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs facing the Philadelphia Eagles at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in New Orleans. Led by ...

Back in 2014, the NFL announced Super Bowl 50 would be displayed with Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals. It was a one-year exception because the league simply didn't like seeing the L ...

According to the NFL, Roman numerals "were adopted to clarify any confusion that may occur because the NFL championship game—the Super Bowl—is played in the year following a chronologically ...

The NFL officially adopted this numbering system with Super Bowl V and retroactively applied Roman numerals to the earlier games, I through IV. The only exception was Super Bowl 50, played in 2016.

The NFL uses Roman numerals for the Super Bowl to avoid confusion since the champion is recognized for the year the season started, not ended. Roman numerals, a system developed around 500 BC, ...

Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game, has used Roman numerals since Super Bowl V in 1971, a tradition introduced by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle. This practice helps avoid confusion between ...

Super Bowl V (5) was the first to use Roman numerals in 1971 between the Baltimore Colts and Dallas Cowboys. Subsequently, the NFL retroactively renamed the first four Super Bowls I, II, III and ...

Every Super Bowl save one has been accompanied by Roman numerals in the history of the NFL's championship. During the 2015-16 season, the league announced Super Bowl 50 would not be branded with ...

For example, the NFL did briefly abandon Roman numerals for Super Bowl 50 in 2016, because the league reportedly went through 73 versions of a logo with the letter “L” and decided it didn’t ...

It's the thing that comes up every darn year: the number of the Super Bowl is written in Roman numerals, which is quite the tradition. But if you're here, you might be wondering: how do you read ...