Football is one of the great American sports and the Super Bowl is the most-watched annual sporting event in the United States with a television audience approaching 100 million viewers. But do you know in which year the first Super Bowl was played?
What year was the first Super Bowl played?
The first Super Bowl was played in 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15.
The game was between Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL and Green Bay Packers of the NFL, with the Packers winning the game 35-10.
The first Super Bowl wasn’t actually referred to as such at the time. Rather it was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The name Super Bowl, along with the Roman numeral numbering, was first adopted in 1969.