The Rose Bowl is the oldest college bowl game, starting in 1902, and there are three bowl games that started play in 1935 and are tied for second oldest (Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Sun Bowl). Next comes the Cotton Bowl whose first game was in 1937.
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Of the current bowl games the SUN BOWL is second oldest and started in 19321 as the . The name was changed to . The oldest bowl game is the Rose Bowl which played its first game in 1902, then did not play another game for 13 years. The Rose Bowl has been played every New Year Day since 1916.
Super Bowl III (1969) was the third of four interim AFL-NFL games, which were officially titled as "AFL-NFL World Championship" games. The third game was the first to be marketed as the "Super Bowl." The term had been widely used prior to the game, and the label was made official after a contest in 1969 failed to come up with any better names. The first two games, in 1967 and 1968, were retroactively called Super Bowl I and II. The NFL has trademarked the term, but the legal limits of their copyright are still unclear.
The world's oldest game that is played with a stick and a ball is known as polo.
On January 26, 1992, the Washington Redskins defeated the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI, 37-24. The game was played in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the third Super Bowl championship for Washington.
The 'Ice Bowl' is the name given to the 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. The game was played on December 31, 1967 with the game time temperature recorded at -13 F. The Packers won the game 21-17 on a Bart Starr quarterback sneak on third down for a TD with with 13 seconds left in the game and Green Bay OUT of timeouts. Click on the 'Ice Bowl' link on this page to read about this game, one of the greatest games in the history of the NFL.