Upcoming Super Bowl by Benjamin Schoonmaker
Every year, the National Football League holds a championship as a finale to the NFL season. For the last two Super Bowls, the game has been held on the second Sunday of February. The team that wins receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The trophy is named after the coach whose team won the first Super Bowl, which was in 1966. The Super Bowl’s common nickname is ‘The Big Game’, and is frequently used in advertisements and sports talk. Other names referring to the day of the Super Bowl include ‘Super Bowl Sunday’ or ‘Super Sunday’. This year will be the 57th Super Bowl.
To determine the two contenders of the big game, teams are separated into two divisions based on horizontal location in the U.S. Teams on the western side of the country are part of the NFC and teams on the east side are part of the AFC. Playoff brackets are generated for teams in the same division to faceoff. The winners make it to the next round and verse the other winning teams. Slowly, teams are eliminated until there are only two teams left from each division. Then, both divisions hold their own championship game to determine their contender in the Super Bowl.
This year, the last four contenders were the Lions, 49ers, Ravens, and Chiefs. The Detroit Lions’s most notable player this year is Aiden Hutchinson, whose jersey has recently been very popular for fans here in Michigan. For the San Francisco 49ers, Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey, and Fred Warner are debatably the best players for the team this year. The Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has been a favorite for a couple years now, and his name continues to be big in the NFL.
The Kansas City Chiefs have two players circling headlines, one more prominent in the pop culture section than sports. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been dominating the NFL, making it to the Super Bowl multiple times these last few years. However, Travis Kelce has been the center of attention on the Chiefs for a good while now ever since he started dating Taylor Swift, the most famous woman in the US, if not the globe.
About a week ago, the Lions lost to the 49ers, and the Chiefs were victorious against the Ravens. Now that the AFC and NFC championships have come to a close, football fans eagerly await Super Sunday. On the other hand, there are a lot of fans and spectators alike who are not as excited as others due to the matchup.
To determine the two contenders of the big game, teams are separated into two divisions based on horizontal location in the U.S. Teams on the western side of the country are part of the NFC and teams on the east side are part of the AFC. Playoff brackets are generated for teams in the same division to faceoff. The winners make it to the next round and verse the other winning teams. Slowly, teams are eliminated until there are only two teams left from each division. Then, both divisions hold their own championship game to determine their contender in the Super Bowl.
This year, the last four contenders were the Lions, 49ers, Ravens, and Chiefs. The Detroit Lions’s most notable player this year is Aiden Hutchinson, whose jersey has recently been very popular for fans here in Michigan. For the San Francisco 49ers, Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey, and Fred Warner are debatably the best players for the team this year. The Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has been a favorite for a couple years now, and his name continues to be big in the NFL.
The Kansas City Chiefs have two players circling headlines, one more prominent in the pop culture section than sports. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been dominating the NFL, making it to the Super Bowl multiple times these last few years. However, Travis Kelce has been the center of attention on the Chiefs for a good while now ever since he started dating Taylor Swift, the most famous woman in the US, if not the globe.
About a week ago, the Lions lost to the 49ers, and the Chiefs were victorious against the Ravens. Now that the AFC and NFC championships have come to a close, football fans eagerly await Super Sunday. On the other hand, there are a lot of fans and spectators alike who are not as excited as others due to the matchup.