The first year the AFL-NFL World Championship Game was called the Super Bowl was in 1969, when the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III.
Today's Superbowl was fomerly known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game .
These days there is no difference. Once upon a time there was. The NFL championship was awarded to the winner of the league's championship game prior to 1969. Before the merger of the AFL and NFL in 1970, the leagues agreed to play an annual AFL-NFL World Championship Game (later rechristened the Superbowl).
Only one member of the Baltimore Ravens' world championship teams of 2000 and 2012 played in Super Bowls XXXV and XLVII -- linebacker Ray Lewis.
On January 15, 1967, the attendance for the inaugural NFL-AFL World Championship Game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was 61,946.
The NBA Championship Trophy is for a singular league while the World Cup Trophy is a world championship award.
The alternate name for the first Super Bowl was The First World Championship Game, AFL vs NFL.
In the US, it is the Super Bowl For the World it is the FIFA World Cup
It was simply called the NFL Championship. The term Super Bowl was created for the NFL AFL merger in 1967.
World Championship Game Trophy
The Super Bowl
Today's Superbowl was fomerly known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game .
Super Bowl I was originally known as "The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game."
Super Bowl I or NFL/AFL World Championship
The 1st Super Bowl, which was played on January 15, 1967, was actually called "The AFL-NFL World Championship Game."
"Super Bowl" was pretty much always an unofficial nickname for it, though the tickets for the first three games (1967, 1968, 1969) were printed as "World Championship Game".
The Super bowl
61,946 people attended The First World Championship Game AFL vs NFL (aka Super Bowl I ).