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Super Bowls are the most watched television broadcasts in history, but much of the audience simply uses the game as background noise during parties. Super Bowl XLVIII was the highest rated broadcast in history, with an average viewership of 112 million.<ref>O'Connell, Michael (February 3, 2014). [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-super-bowl-xlviii-676651 "TV ratings: Super Bowl XLVIII is most watched in history with 112.2 million viewers"]. The Hollywood Reporter website.</ref> Viewership has been declining in recent years, as has attendance: the total attendance for Super Bowl LIV--held in the warm weather climate of South Florida--was the second-lowest on record (behind only the first Super Bowl, which at that time was called the "NFL-AFL Championship Game").<ref>It was, however, a sellout; Hard Rock Stadium was recently renovated and reconfigured to '''''lower''''' seating capacity.</ref>

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Four franchises -- the [[Detroit Lions]], [[Cleveland Browns]], [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] and [[Houston Texans]] -- have never appeared in a Super Bowl game; the Lions and Browns are the only NFL teams pre-dating the NFL-AFL merger to not have appeared.

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==History==

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As part of the merger agreement between the NFL and the now-defunct [[American Football League]] (AFL), the champions from each league would face each other.

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The term "Super Bowl" did not come into being until the third such game: the first two games were simply called "NFL-AFL Championship Game" (the games would later be retconned as Super Bowls I and II). With the exception of Super Bowl 50 the game is always named with Roman numerals (for Super Bowl 50 it would have been "Super Bowl L"; however, L stands for "loss" which did not appear to be good marketing).

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The game is always played at a pre-determined site (often at a stadium which hosts an NFL team), two weeks after each conference's championship games (which usually places it at the first week in February). Normally the site is either a warm-weather site, or has an enclosed stadium where weather is not an issue, and almost always is played in a metropolitan area which is also a tourist destination ([[New Orleans]] is among the popular sites). No team had ever played a Super Bowl game in its own home stadium until Super Bowl LV, when the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] would play the game which was already scheduled for Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

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The [[New England Patriots]] have the most appearances in the Super Bowl (11), are tied for the most wins (six, with the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]) and (little known) also have the most losses (five). The [[Buffalo Bills]] and the [[Minnesota Vikings]] are tied for the most losses by a team that has not won a Super Bowl (four, the Bills also hold the record for most consecutive Super Bowl appearances at four). The [[Baltimore Ravens]] are the only team to have won more than one Super Bowl without a loss (two wins). Among individual accomplishments, [[Tom Brady]] holds the most individual Super Bowl wins (six) and appearances (ten); [[Peyton Manning]] is the only quarterback to lead two different teams -- the [[Indianapolis Colts]] and the [[Denver Broncos]] -- to a Super Bowl win.

==See also==

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