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Next year's Super Bowl will not be "Super Bowl L", as has been the custom in the past. It will be "Super Bowl 50". The following year the tradition will resume, with "Super Bowl LI".

Funny, I thought next year's Super Bowl was XLIX.

(Yes, I know what you meant. I think it stinks; I know it's the marketing department that came up with it, but they can use both the "L" and the Arabic "50" in the logos and create the same effect yet maintain tradition.)

This may have something to do, believe it or not, with street slang.

L is a pretty commonly used term for marijuana.

NFL has a large percentage of fans who would find that funny.

mrkelley23 wrote:This may have something to do, believe it or not, with street slang.

L is a pretty commonly used term for marijuana.

NFL has a large percentage of fans who would find that funny.

L is also used to designate a certain sexual preference from a specific gender.

L is also the symbol for 'loser'.

But the NF50 should be grown up, even if its fan base isn't. Did they have a problem with Super Bowl XXX? Were the cheerleaders nude? I'm sure I'd of remembered if they were.

mrkelley23 wrote:This may have something to do, believe it or not, with street slang.

L is a pretty commonly used term for marijuana.

NFL has a large percentage of fans who would find that funny.

A Super Bowl of L?

Personally I think they should just go with Super Bowl 110010.

BackInTex wrote:Personally I think they should just go with Super Bowl 110010.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I'm personally holding out for Super Bowl DIX....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:I'm personally holding out for Super Bowl DIX....

lb13

Don't think we'll be around for that; we can hope to make it to LIX, though

littlebeast13 wrote:I'm personally holding out for Super Bowl DIX....

lb13

Let's not forget 50 years from now when they talk about the Super Bowl IC.

Yuck.

silverscreenselect wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:I'm personally holding out for Super Bowl DIX....

lb13

Let's not forget 50 years from now when they talk about the Super Bowl IC.

Definitely should play that one in Pittsburgh. I know a certain beer company there that would be happy for that opportunity.

silverscreenselect wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:I'm personally holding out for Super Bowl DIX....

lb13

Let's not forget 50 years from now when they talk about the Super Bowl IC.

Yuck.

There's no such Roman numeral as IC. 99 is written as XCIX, just as next year's 49th Super Bowl will be XLIX. When subtraction is used to form a Roman numeral, there's never more than one order of magnitude between the subtrahend and the minuend.
http://literacy.kent.edu/Minigrants/Cin ... nchart.htm

TheConfessor wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:I'm personally holding out for Super Bowl DIX....

Let's not forget 50 years from now when they talk about the Super Bowl IC.

Yuck.

There's no such Roman numeral as IC. 99 is written as XCIX, just as next year's 49th Super Bowl will be XLIX. When subtraction is used to form a Roman numeral, there's never more than one order of magnitude between the subtrahend and the minuend.
http://literacy.kent.edu/Minigrants/Cin ... nchart.htm

Another rule is that only powers of ten (including 10 to the zero power, or 1) should be used as the subtrahend.

TheConfessor wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote: Let's not forget 50 years from now when they talk about the Super Bowl IC.

Yuck.

There's no such Roman numeral as IC. 99 is written as XCIX, just as next year's 49th Super Bowl will be XLIX. When subtraction is used to form a Roman numeral, there's never more than one order of magnitude between the subtrahend and the minuend.
http://literacy.kent.edu/Minigrants/Cin ... nchart.htm

pICky, pICky, pICky.

XCIX sound so ICky.