53. L is the Roman numeral for 50, followed by III for three. So why does the NFL use Roman numerals at all? Due to the fact that each Super Bowl is played at the beginning of a new year, using a ...

This Sunday, Super Bowl 50 (otherwise known as "the First No L") will be played in Northern California. This will be the first NFL title bout since the "1968 AFL-NFL Championship Game" to be contested ...

"Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content," says Edward Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University. Bullet points and Roman numeral outlines are ...

The historic 50th game of the Super Bowl will be called "Super Bowl 50" instead of "Super Bowl L," the NFL announced Wednesday as it released the championship game's official logo. It's the first time ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – It’s all Lamar Hunt’s fault. The late owner of the Kansas City Chiefs might have been a visionary, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the modern NFL and originator ...

One of the Super Bowl's most distinguishable features and one its longest traditions is also the likeliest to leave even the most seasoned football fans perplexed. The confusion stems from the NFL's ...

Decimals to Roman numerals—here we hit all the limitations of Bash shell scripting. My last few articles have given me a chance to relive my undergraduate computer science degree and code a Roman ...

Some people have very neat and easy to read handwriting. Other people have messier handwriting. In today’s story, one man has very neat handwriting that is almost too perfect and easy to read, if that ...

What’s up, patricians? It’s your boy Jasoninus Titus Clearianus, comin’ at ya live from Ephesus with not VI, not IX, but a whopping XII reasons why we should be ignoring those newfangled Arabic ...

TAMPA, Fla. — This is a no-judgment zone: It's OK if you've had to Google the "LV" in Super Bowl LV a couple of times already. Or maybe you did a few years ago when Super Bowl XLVIII was played. Would ...