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It is a very common practice to represent dates (primarily years) and series using roman numerals.

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The NFL Marketing department thought that Super Bowl 50 looked better than Super Bowl L. So they used the numeric number instead of the Roman numeral.

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Because they were afraid that many people would not realize that the number 50 is represented by an L and say it was Super Bowl L instead of 50.

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