As 53 years simply click off the calendar, the Super Bowl remains the biggest sports day in the world. Regardless of if you enjoy watching the game of American football or not, most likely folks end up at somebody’s Super Bowl party or at a sports bar - or any bar for that matter.
The game itself was part the merger agreement between two rival professional football leagues who each wanted to stop overpaying for the talent and had agreed to form one huge league beginning in 1970. But for the conclusion of the 1966 season, both the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) would pit their respective league champions against each other in a final (and extra) contest.