NFL Plans to Return to Roman Numerals After Super Bowl 50

January 28, 2016   ·   Joe Pantorno   ·   Jump to comments

For those of you who were kept up at night ruing the fact that Super Bowl 50 was not in Roman numeral form, there's good news.
Bruce Newman of the San Jose Mercury News reported this week that after this edition of the NFL's championship game, the league will go back to displaying the Super Bowl numbers in its more traditional Roman numeral form.
NFL Creative Director Shandon Melvin told Newman that the league is "very committed" to going back to the old style, beginning with Super Bowl LI (51) next year.
"They're part of us," Melvin said. "Such a strong icon for the game. We just wanted to do something a little different for once."    
Melvin continued to explain why the league simply didn't go with Super Bowl L, the Roman numeral for the number 50: "L immediately brought up so many negative connotations. It's very asymmetrical. And three-quarters of the letter is negative space. It's like, what do you do with this thing to m...

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