The NFL was once cut up into two organisations – the Nationwide Soccer League (NFL) and the American Soccer League (AFL).
After a merger settlement in 1966, the winner of each leagues would go face to face in an end-of-season match initially often known as the AFL-NFL Championship sport.
Lamar Hunt, the founding father of the AFL and former proprietor of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, is the person credited with ultimately naming this match the ‘Tremendous Bowl’.
It has been reported the inspiration for the identify got here from seeing his youngsters play with a ‘Tremendous Ball’ toy.
In a piece Hunt wrote, external for the New York Occasions in 1986, he mentioned it was in a committee assembly the place he first put ahead the ‘Tremendous Bowl’ title.
“In a phrase, it was unintended… I don’t recall any predetermined thought relative to this relatively unhistoric second,” he mentioned.
“It in all probability registered in my head as a result of my daughter and son had a youngsters’s toy referred to as a Tremendous Ball and I in all probability interchanged the phonetics of ‘bowl’ and ‘ball’.”
However the identify caught on. The 1969 match was the primary AFL-NFL sport that was formally referred to as the Tremendous Bowl.