5 days ago · Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt is regarded as the first who began using the term Super Bowl. It's got two pretty simples halves to its origin. ... The Kansas City Star newspaper quoted Hunt's term of ...

In 1966, the Chiefs won their first AFL Championship (after having previously won it as the Dallas Texans) and reached the first-ever Super Bowl, which the Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers.

2 days ago · Lamar Hunt Sr. actually coined the term "Super Bowl." Ahead of the 1966 season, an AFL-NFL championship game had been announced and billed as the "AFL-NFL Championship Game."

Jan 29, 2025 · It took a while, but the name 'Super Bowl' took flight the year the Jets won the third edition of the big game

6 days ago · Lamar Hunt had a problem. The big game, the biggest of its kind ever held, was being planned. And it needed a name worthy of the occasion. ... Hunt mentioned "the Super Bowl—that's my term for the championship game between the two leagues." The media, recognizing a good thing when they saw one, took the ball and ran with it. ...

Feb 1, 2025 · It's safe to say that not even Lamar Hunt, the man who is credited with coining the "Super Bowl" name, could have thought that his idea -- let alone the game itself -- would become the cultural...

1 day ago · Lamar Hunt regularly attended the Super Bowl, though he never saw his Chiefs play in it again. They wouldn’t make it back until Andy Reid arrived in town, and Mahomes and Kelce helped Kansas City beat the 49ers in February 2020 — five full decades after they triumphed over the “Purple People Eaters” and the rest of the Vikings at Tulane ...

According to Michael MacCambridge's book, "America's Game," the Super Bowl's name stems from Lamar Hunt, the founder of the AFL. Ahead of the 1966 NFL season, Hunt — who also owned the...

Jan 28, 2024 · He's also responsible for the term "Super Bowl." Given that the AFL largely morphed into the AFC after the merger, Hunt's name adorns the trophy honoring the conference champion.

Dec 22, 2022 · In fact, it was Hunt's father – Chiefs Founder Lamar Hunt – who famously coined the term "Super Bowl," even if he didn't necessarily mean to do so. "In a word, it was accidental," wrote Hunt in a piece titled "Naming the Game" that ran in the New York Times in 1986.