On this day 49 years ago, the Green Bay Packers met the Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles, California in a “new” contest that would later be known as the Super Bowl. The photo above is from the souvenir program of that game (©NFL). Here are some fun facts from Harvey Frommer’s 2015 book, When It […]
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Super Bowl 50 – there’s been less hype than I predicted
Wow — Super Bowl 50 is only four weeks away, and I’m frankly a little underwhelmed by the tepid promotion it’s been getting so far. I’m not being sarcastic; I really thought there’d be a more feverish marketing campaign underway by now. I especially anticipated a bigger push on CBS, who have reminded us during […]
Bracing for Super Bowl 50
I know that the regular 2015 NFL season hasn’t begun, but I’m going to predict that we’re just a few weeks — maybe just a few days — away from the launch of an overwhelming nation-wide marketing campaign about Super Bowl 50, scheduled for February 7, 2016 in San Francisco. The campaign will encourage us […]