by Scott Kacsmar and Vincent Verhei
In the grand scheme of things, 50 NFL games are not a large sample size. That's three weeks of the regular season, plus a fourth week's Thursday night game and the first kickoff on Sunday afternoon. But Super Bowls are huge events, and Super Bowl 50 is a pretty big milestone for those of us who were not alive for Super Bowl I and are not expecting to be around for Super Bowl 100.
Since most Super Bowls lack the angle of recent history between two teams, every year people try to compare the matchup to past Super Bowls instead.