The use of Roman numerals for each Super Bowl dates back to the fifth Super Bowl, with the league adopting the use of the system to avoid confusion over the year the game is associated with.

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 ...

Roman numerals, unsurprisingly, date back to ancient Rome, and while they’re no longer commonplace, they do still occur outside of the Super Bowl use case: they sometimes appear on clock faces, or ...

The first two Super Bowls were known as the AFL-NFL world Championship Game. The name “Super Bowl” was officially adopted for the third annual game and the league retroactively added Roman numerals to ...

The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each version of the game, which can confuse viewers trying to read the old numerical system.

The only Super Bowl that didn't use Roman numerals was Super Bowl 50, which the league celebrated as such a special number while avoiding the name Super Bowl L.

Unlike the other major American sports leagues, the NFL uses Roman numerals to denote its title decider — the Super Bowl.