Super Bowl LIX kicks off on Sunday. What number is that, though? Here's how to use Roman numerals and why the NFL uses them ...

The use of Roman numerals did not become an NFL tradition until Super Bowl V in 1971. The first two Super Bowls were known as ...

Why does the NFL use Roman numerals to identify the Super Bowl? What you need to know about Super Bowl XLI and its history: ...

It’s the thing that comes up every darn year: the number of the Super Bowl is written in Roman numerals, which is quite the ...

Roman numerals get nine by putting I, which equals 1, before X, which equals 10, to essentially indicated 10-1=9. For comparison, when I appears after X, as in XI, that indicates 10 + 1 ...

To prevent any mix-ups, the Super Bowl is identified in Roman numerals, rather than the year in Arabic numerals (yep, the number system we all use comes from the ancient Arab world ). This system ...

When it gets to any number after 19, you use as many Xs to represent every 10. When writing bigger numbers in Roman numerals, you can use these symbols: The idea to use Roman numerals for the ...

Roman numerals use groups of letters to convey a number rather than the typical figures we're accustomed to using. Here's how to count to 10 in Roman numerals ...