{"id":8934,"date":"2016-01-31T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:01:08","slug":"national-football-league-and-super-bowl-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2016\/01\/31\/national-football-league-and-super-bowl-50\/","title":{"rendered":"National Football League and Super Bowl 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Super Bowl 50 fast approaching, I thought it would be interesting to find out more about the history of the Super Bowl and the history of the National Football League.<\/p>\n

Here are some interesting facts I learned about the Super Bowl and Super Bowl 50:<\/p>\n

\u2022 With a television viewership of over 100 million people and hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on tickets, concessions, and merchandise alone, the Super Bowl is the most watched and greatest sports game on Earth.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Super Bowl 50 will be the 50th edition of the Super Bowl and the 46th modern-era National Football League championship game.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In a departure from the NFL tradition of using Roman numerals, this game is marketed in Arabic numerals as “Super Bowl 50” instead of Super Bowl L (the Roman numeral for 50).<\/p>\n

\u2022 The game is scheduled to be played on February 7, 2016, at 6:30 pm Eastern time at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. This will be the first Super Bowl held in the San Francisco Bay Area since Super Bowl XIX in January 1985.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It has been dubbed as the Golden Super Bowl because it will be located in the Golden State (California); held in the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers, a team named after the miners of the California Gold Rush and because a 50th anniversary is traditionally the “golden anniversary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 CBS will telecast the game in the United States.<\/p>\n

In an effort to learn more about the National Football League, check out some of the resources that are available at the Weinberg Memorial Library here at the University of Scranton:<\/p>\n

Books
\n\u2022 America’s game : the epic story of how pro football captured a nation
\nMacCambridge, Michael, 1963-
\nNew York: Random House, c2004.
\nCall # GV954.M32 2004<\/p>\n

\u2022 Close calls : the confessions of a NFL referee
\nSchachter, Norm.
\nNew York: Morrow, 1981.
\nCall # GV939.S29 A33<\/p>\n

\u2022 League of denial : the NFL, concussions, and the battle for truth
\nFainaru-Wada, Mark.
\nNew York: Crown Archetype, 2013.
\nCall # RC1220.F6 F35 2013<\/p>\n

E-books (Accessible from our catalog)<\/p>\n

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\u2022 NFL football : a history of America’s new national pastime
\nCrepeau, Richard C., 1941- author.
\nUrbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Outside the lines African Americans and the integration of the National Football League
\nRoss, Charles Kenyatta, 1964-
\nNew York: New York University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tailgating, sacks, and salary caps how the NFL became the most successful sports league in history
\nYost, Mark.
\nChicago, IL: Kaplan Pub., 2006.<\/p>\n

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