SUPER BOWL

in U.S. professional football, the championship game of the National Football League, played by the winners of the league's American Football Conference and National Football Conference each January. The game resulted from the 1966 merger of the American Football League (AFL) and the older, established National Football League (NFL). It was originally called the AFLNFL World Championship Game. The present name was suggested by Lamar Hunt, owner of the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs. The first game was played on Jan. 15, 1967, in the Los Angeles Coliseum, the NFL's Green Bay Packers defeating the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 3510. When the AFLNFL merger became final in 1970, the NFL absorbed the AFL teams, split into two conferences, and continued the Super Bowl under its own banner.