[Ads-l] Very Slight Antedating of "Super Bowl"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 21 16:07:13 UTC 2023


The OED's first use for the term "Super Bowl" is dated July 18, 1966, from the New York Daily News.  The same quotation occurred one day earlier, in the Kansas City Star, page 25, column 1 (Newspapers.com).

Fred Shapiro

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