Why was there no 1960 Super Bowl?

Answer 1

There was no Super Bowl in 1960 because the Super Bowl didnt exist then. In 1960, there were two major football leagues in the US, the National Football League and the newly created American Football League. The leagues competed against each other as rival leagues, but they never played against each other. In 1967 an agreement was reached to have the best team in the AFL play the best team in the NFL. That game was the very first Super Bowl, although it was not called the Super Bowl. The game was titled the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The title game was the idea of the merger committee which was drafting the merger agreement between the two leagues in 1966. During the merger discussion. Lamarr Hunt, owner of the AFL Kansas City Chiefs, called the game the Super Bowl. The name was not used during the first championship game, but every other title game after 1967 was referred to as the Super Bowl.