Super Bowl 50

Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way. 

This first Sunday of February 2016 a hundred million people will watch the game on TV. 

 The day on which the Super Bowl is played, now considered by some as an unofficial American national holiday, is called "Super Bowl Sunday"

Over the next ten days, 1 million people are expected to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area for the festivities. 

 And, according to the FBI, 60 federal, state, and local agencies are working together to coordinate surveillance and security at what is the biggest national security event of the year.
 
Previous year's Superbowl security measures have included WMD sensors, database-backed facial recognition, and gamma-ray vehicle scanners.

Given the fears and cautions in the air about this year's contest, it's easy to guess that the scanning and sensing will be even more prevalent this time.

  The original "bowl game" was the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California, which was first played in 1902 as the "Tournament East-West football game" as part of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and moved to the new Rose Bowl Stadium in 1923.

The stadium got its name from the fact that the game played there was part of the Tournament of Roses and that it was shaped like a bowl, much like the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut; the Tournament of Roses football game itself eventually came to be known as the Rose Bowl Game.