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Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison will always be remember for holding the record of the longest run in the Super Bowl with 100 yards in 2009.

Apart from the great players who have record amounts of touch downs, Mike Ditka, Tom Flores and Tony Dungy can brag as the only people to have the Super Bowl as both players and coaches. However the teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl match are the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars. On the other end of the ladder are the Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings with four Super Bowl losses each. The Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots are definitely the teams to beat as they hold a record six Super Bowl wins to their name with the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers coming in with five Super Bowl wins each. New Orleans and Miami seem to be the favourite places to host the Super Bowl as they have both hosted the game 9 times. Since the first game in 1967, the AFC has managed to win 11 Super Bowls with the NFC blitzing in with 23 Super Bowl championships. Only supposed to be a nickname until an official name was released, the term Super Bowl has stuck with the game ever since. The term Super Bowl was created by Kansas City Chief Owner Lamar Hunt after seeing his daughter play with a toy called the Super Ball.

Originally the NFL and AFL, the two leagues combined into one league in 1970 and instead split into two conferences, with 3 NFL teams converting over to the AFC to equal 13 teams on each side. It was this team that won the first two Super Bowls, raising questions over whether the AFC was good enough to compete in the event. Since 1967 when the merger agreement took place between the NFC and AFC, teams have been competing to receive the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after the great coach of the Green Bay Packers. The game involves the winning team from the American Football Conference championship game facing the winning team from the National Football Conference championship game. The Super Bowl is an annual American football games which determines the champion of the NFL.

Super Bowl winners are not only named the champions of NFL, they also go on to receive millions of dollars in contracts and become the biggest celebrities in America after their victories.