The history of the Super Bowl is rooted in the ancient Roman system for counting which was aimed at easing fan confusion. We'll help break it down for you here.

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the clunky Roman numerals—like I, II, III—that we still occasionally adopt ...

Although the numeral system of Ancient Rome began to fall out of use in favor of Arabic numerals around the 14th century, there are still a few instances in which Roman numerals are commonly used ...

We’re still writing the game date using the good old Hindu–Arabic numeral system (the symbols representing 0-9 and the concept of place value), but we’ve flipped to Roman numerals for the ...

While Roman numerals (unsurprisingly) date back to ancient Rome, they are used in many facets of society beyond the Super Bowl, including on clocks, watches and to identify kings, queens and popes.

Roman numerals, a system developed around 500 BC, use letters to represent numbers. The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will take the field for Super Bowl LIX on Sunday.

It appears Rozelle agreed and, from 1970 onwards, the Super Bowl officially used Roman numerals. Before Hunt and Rozelle’s bold decision, the first four championships were simply called Super ...

Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent values. You may have seen Roman numerals on clocks and on TV or film credits.

What about Roman numerals? Find out in the quiz This week calls for some throwback thinking. If you can recall how Roman numerals work, you'll get at least one question correct.

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.