The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 34, 2017, Issue 1–2 | A Half Century of Super Bowls

Special issue: A Half Century of Super Bowls: National and Global Perspectives on America’s Grandest Spectacle

Introduction

Super Bowl Sunday: A National Holiday and a Global Curiosity
Peter Hopsicker & Mark Dyreson
Pages: 1-6 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1348756

Articles

The Super Bowl at 50 or L
Richard Crepeau
Pages: 7-22 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1349114

‘Superbowling’: Using the Super Bowl’s Yearly Commentary to Explore the Evolution of a Sporting Spectacle in the American Consciousness
Peter M. Hopsicker
Pages: 23-45 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1334644

Fifty Years of Super Bowl Commercials, Thirty-Two Years of Spectacular Consumption
Matthew P. McAllister & Elysia Galindo-Ramirez
Pages: 46-64 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1336162

‘Super Bore’: The Canadian Media and the Grey Cup–Super Bowl Comparison
Craig G. Greenham
Pages: 65-80 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1336160

Amerika: The Super Bowl and German Imagination
Lars Dzikus
Pages: 81-100 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1336159

A Century of British Readings of America through American Football: From the Fin de Siècle to the Super Bowl
Iain Adams
Pages: 101-120 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1304917

‘We Will Try Again, Again, Again to Make It Bigger’: Japan, American Football, and the Super Bowl in the Past, Present, and Future
Kohei Kawashima
Pages: 121-138 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1336161

The Super Bowl as a Television Spectacle: Global Designs, Glocal Niches, and Parochial Patterns
Mark Dyreson
Pages: 139-156 | DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1349115