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The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl I was played on January 15, 1967, following the regular season played in 1966, while Super Bowl XLVI will be played on February 5, 2012, in Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis, IN), to determine the champion of the 2011 regular season.
The game was
created as part of a merger
agreement between the NFL and
its then-
The day on
which the Super Bowl is played is now considered a de
facto American national holiday,
called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-
In addition,
the Super Bowl has frequently been the
most watched American television broadcast
of the year. Super Bowl XLV played in 2011 became the most watched
American television program in history, drawing an average
audience of 111 million viewers and taking over the spot held by
the previous year's Super Bowl, which itself had taken over the #1
spot held for twenty-
Because of its high viewer ship, commercial airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year.