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| Even The Romans Don’t Use Roman Numerals Anymore June 17 2002 By Bryan Hersh of 49ers Paradise I’m sorry, but I just don’t get it. The NFL is heading into Super Bowl thirty seven this year, and they still use Roman Numerals to count each game. Gosh, would it not be so much easier to right 37 instead of XXXVII? Really, it’s getting ridiculous. The system is archaic, and even the WWF I mean, WWE has given up on counting there Wrestlemania’s in this manner. The Roman’s don’t even count in this manner anymore. If it wasn’t for the Super Bowl the system would not even be understood by the current generation of youth. Simply put, there’s no logic to keeping the current system.
I’m all for tradition. I think that in all sports, tradition plays a big role, but XXXVII is just ludicrous when it could be 37. It makes less sense than using the imperial system of measurement. I mean feet were a good set of measuring tools back before modern science, but now… come on. It’s time for America to take the double plunge. Go metric like the rest of the world, and while there at it, drop the Roman numerals in the Super Bowl’s title.
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