El Super Bowl (traducido como Supertazón) es la final del campeonato de la National Football League (NFL), principal campeonato profesional de fútbol americano en los Estados Unidos, que enfrenta a los campeones de la Conferencia Nacional (NFC) y la Conferencia Americana (AFC). El partido se disputa el primer domingo del mes de febrero y debe su nombre a Lamar Hunt, antiguo propietario de Kansas City Chiefs, quien lo llamó así tras ver a su hijo jugar con una pelota rebotadora. El primer encuentro del Super Bowl se jugó el 15 de enero de 1967 (el primer ganador fue Green Bay) como parte de un acuerdo entre la National Football League y el otro campeonato existente por aquel entonces, la American Football League (AFL), para que los vencedores de cada competición jugaran un partido que decidiera al campeón de Estados Unidos. Cuando la AFL se integró en la NFL, cada liga se convirtió en una conferencia y el juego pasó a ser entre sus campeones. El equipo que más veces ha ganado ha sido Pittsburgh Steelers (seis ocasiones), y solo hay cuatro de las 32 franquicias de la NFL que nunca han jugado la final. El actual campeón son los Denver Broncos que ganaron la edición N° 50 el 7 de febrero del 2016. Al margen del ámbito deportivo, el Super Bowl es una de las retransmisiones por televisión más vistas en los Estados Unidos cada año. Muchos músicos han actuado durante las ceremonias pre-partido y en el descanso, la franja publicitaria es la más cara de todo el año, y el día del partido (conocido como "Super Sunday" -Super Domingo-) está considerado de facto como una fiesta nacional. Los estadounidenses consumen más comida y bebida durante el encuentro que en cualquier otra fecha, exceptuando el Día de Acción de Gracias.

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The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the world. The game culminates a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. Normally, Roman numerals are used to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl I was played on January 15, 1967, following the 1966 regular season. The single exception to this rule is Super Bowl 50, which was played on February 7, 2016, following the 2015 regular season. The next game, Super Bowl LI, scheduled for February 5, 2017, will follow the 2016 regular season. The game was created as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion teams would play in the AFL–NFL World Championship Game until the merger was to officially begin in 1970. After the merger, each league was redesignated as a "conference", and the game has since been played between the conference champions to determine the NFL's league champion. Currently, the National Football Conference (NFC) leads the league with 26 wins to 24 wins for the American Football Conference (AFC). The Pittsburgh Steelers have the most Super Bowl victories with six. The day on which the Super Bowl is played, now considered by some an unofficial American national holiday, is called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been the most-watched American television broadcast of the year; the four most-watched broadcasts in U.S. television history are Super Bowls. In 2015, Super Bowl XLIX became the most-watched American television program in history with an average audience of 114.4 million viewers, the fifth time in six years the game had set a record, starting with the 2010 Super Bowl, which itself had taken over the number-one spot held for 27 years by the final episode of M*A*S*H. The Super Bowl is also among the most-watched sporting events in the world, almost all audiences being North American, and is second to soccer's UEFA Champions League final as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide. The NFL restricts the use of its "Super Bowl" trademark; it is frequently called the Big Game or other generic terms by non-sponsoring corporations. Because of the high viewership, commercial airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year, leading to companies regularly developing their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. As a result, watching and discussing the broadcast's commercials has become a significant aspect of the event. In addition, popular singers and musicians including Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Beyoncé, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Whitney Houston have performed during the event's pre-game and halftime ceremonies.

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