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Super Bowl History How The Super Bowl Was Born

As New Jersey counts down toward Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium, Star-Ledger columnist emeritus Jerry Izenberg takes us back to a time of instability for the NFL — and tells the dramatic story of how the Super Bowl came to be, in five parts.

A crowded light-rail platform of fans in jerseys beside a sign reading Ticket or Pass Required Before Boarding Trains — Game-day crowd on the platform at Hamburg Street station, Baltimore.
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Super Bowl weather: NJ climatologist ripped for 'one of the dumbest weather …
With just over a month until the Super Bowl descends on MetLife Stadium, all anyone can talk about is the possibility of snow on Feb. 2. But Dr. David A. Robinson, New Jersey's state climatologist, made an appearance on CBS Sports Network's "That Other …
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Edition	Years	Named most often	Stories
XLV	2016	Texas	5
XLVIII	2013–2016	New York	18
XLIX	2014	Arizona	6
50	2015–2016	San Francisco	22
LI	2016–2017	Texas	49
LII	2016–2017	Minnesota	15