2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey: NFL, Give Denver, Broncos a Bowl

June 8, 2010   ·   Rich Kurtzman   ·   Jump to comments

The Super Bowl, America’s unofficial holiday, is annually the most substantial sporting event.
The game has been played since 1967 when the NFL Commissioner was extremely intelligent, an innovator and a forward thinker.
His name, Pete Rozelle.
Rozelle brought the NFL and AFL together and created the Super Bowl as a title game that would crown the World Champion of football. And, while he was right in thinking it would benefit the world of football, even he couldn’t see all the coming changes to a league that blew up into a billion dollar business.
The Super Bowl always had a halftime show, although it was more silly antics than the spectacle it’s become in the last 15 years. 1993 and Michael Jackson marked the point where the game became a “mega-event” with other famous and infamous performances including U2 in 2002 and “boobgate” with Janet Jackson in 2004.
Now, the big bowl has been moved back to two weeks after the r...

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