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The better question is why Super Bowl, of all things is using Roman numerals...

They could have stopped this insanity at 50, but decided to carry on.




They did stop using Roman numerals for Super Bowl 50 but only for that game and then reverted back to to Roman numberals for LI 51 and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_50


> The better question is why Super Bowl, of all things is using Roman numerals...

Football players are armored and helmeted physical combatants that entertain audiences in arenas. Remind you of anything?




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