The National Football League didn’t begin larding Roman numerals on to the Super Bowl until its fifth year, hoping to imbue its championship game with a certain chiseled-in-stone gravitas. The block letters were “one of the things that defined the Super Bowl for us,” a league official acknowledged recently.

So why ditch a signifier of the game’s identity on the occasion of its biggest blowout ever: Super Bowl 50?

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