If you’re reading about the Super Bowl, chances are you already know what’s going to happen in just a few days’ time. You know that on Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will square off for the right to raise the Lombardi Trophy, and will be doing so for the second time in four years. You know everything there is to know about their respective roads through the playoffs, and maybe even the twists and turns they experienced throughout the regular season.
On the other hand, maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re just a casual fan whose only engagement with football every year is going to a Super Bowl party and contributing a few words here and there during the commercials. Maybe the only thing you know about chiefs and forty-niners is that they are tribal leaders and old-timey prospectors.
In that case, we’ve got you covered. This is the seventh annual casual fan’s guide to the Super Bowl, where we’ll teach you everything you could possibly need to know to turn yourself from a novice into an expert before the game begins.
Who’s playing in Super Bowl LVIII? And why is it called Super Bowl LVIII?
Representing the AFC, we have the Kansas City Chiefs. Representing the NFC, meanwhile, are the San Francisco 49ers. For this particular game, the Chiefs will be in their red uniforms and the 49ers will wear white. Kansas City has red helmets that contain a white arrowhead surrounding an interlocking “KC” logo, while San Francisco has gold helmets that contain a red circle surrounding an interlocking “SF” logo. They each have red-white-gold/yellow color schemes, but it’ll be easy to tell them apart on Sunday.
It’s called Super Bowl LVIII because it’s the 58th Super Bowl, and 58 in Roman numerals is LVIII. The NFL has been using Roman numerals for every Super Bowl (except Super Bowl 50) since Super Bowl V (five). According to the NFL’s media guide, “The Roman numerals were…
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Author : Jared Dubin
Publish date : 2024-02-06 02:01:13
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