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  • Where did this sport begin?

  • What's the estimated number of participants of this sport in the USA?

  • How old is this sport?

  • The American Professional Football Association, the direct forerunner of the National Football League, was founded in Canton on September 17, 1920.
  • A name for the one-day extravaganza had been coined effortlessly one day when Lamar Hunt, architect of the AFL, came across his daughter's "Super Ball." "Why not," he wondered, "call our championship game the Super Bowl?"
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