Super Bowl

Why do they list the Super Bowl in Roman numerals? This year is XLIV - or forty-four.

I've thought about this. It really doesn't seem to make sense because most of the country probably wouldn't be able to decipher that XLIV is forty-four. (X is 10 and coming before L, which is 50 means 40 - then, of course, IV is four.)

So, I've determined that it must be because it's Roman. Maybe they are trying to liken themselves to the Roman gladiators - or something similarly rediculous.

I don't know if I'm right, but that is what I'm going to belive.