The Super Bowl
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šļø 4 February 2026
ā±ļø 44 minutes
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Summary
TheĀ Super BowlĀ is the annualĀ league championshipĀ game of theĀ National Football LeagueĀ (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season sinceĀ 1966, replacing theĀ NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game has been played on the second Sunday in February. Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 to 1978, late January from 1979 to 2003[a]Ā and the first Sunday of February from 2004 to 2021. Winning teams are awarded theĀ Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after theĀ eponymous coachĀ who won the first two Super Bowls. Because the NFL restricts the use of its "Super Bowl" trademark, it is frequently referred to as the "big game" or other generic terms by non-sponsoring corporations. The day the game is held is commonly referred to as "Super Bowl Sunday" or "Super Sunday".
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Citation Needed, a podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Heath and uh, with that. |
| 0:41.6 | From the commercial, from the Super Bowl commercial. |
| 0:48.4 | And for this discussion of elite football, I'm joined by a peewee football veteran, a LARPER, a guy who avoids playing catch of anything by always carrying food in both hands |
| 0:53.9 | at all times, and a guy who |
| 0:56.4 | joined the practice squad and dressed for one game in high school in a desperate failed attempt |
| 1:01.2 | to earn his father's love. Noah Cecil Tom and Eli. Yeah, no, my early love for being an asshole |
| 1:07.2 | made me great at running away from much larger kids. |
| 1:12.7 | Hey, I catch food too. |
| 1:15.0 | I catch hot dogs with my face like that meme girl. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh, nice. |
| 1:17.7 | I'll remember that. |
| 1:18.9 | All right, all right, Heath. |
| 1:22.8 | Let he, without a traveling ham, cast the first stone. |
| 1:23.3 | Yes. |
| 1:28.9 | And for the record, it was middle school, and I wouldn't have bothered if I'd known he was going to die so early. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:32.4 | Ten years of love is nothing. |
| 1:36.7 | I almost described it with the death, but I like, you brought it in. I found it. |
| 1:37.3 | I knew what you were setting up, baby. |
| 1:38.7 | I'm right there. |
| 1:41.7 | Noah, what person place thing, concept, phenomenon, or event? |
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