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(NEXSTAR) — For years, there has been a subset of football fans that claims the NFL is scripted. They even claim to collect “proof” outcomes are rigged, like bad referee calls or player gaffes, that lead to certain results.
More recently, fans have pointed to the marketing the NFL uses for the Super Bowl.
For years, individual logos have been created for each Super Bowl, well before it’s clear which teams will appear in the final game of the season. Super Bowl LIX hasn’t even kicked off yet and some branding (but not the colors) for Super Bowl LX has already been released.
The colors have also, conveniently, matched the two teams that ultimately played in the Big Game.
For Super Bowl LVI, the logo was orange and yellow, which just so happen to be the main colors for the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams, respectively, who played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles that season.
The next Super Bowl, LVII, featured the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. The logo that year had two main colors: red and green.
The logo for last year’s championship, Super Bowl LVIII, was purple and red. Before the matchup was set, the two teams projected to go all the way were the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers — which sport purple and red, respectively.
Coincidence? Most likely.
If you don’t recall, only one of those teams — the 49ers — made it to the Super Bowl to face off against the red-clad Chiefs.
There is, however, red again in the logo this year, as well as a lime-green, which you can see in the logo below. Once again, teams that wear red and green are competing in the Super Bowl — though one could argue the green in the Super Bowl LIX logo is largely more akin to the lime green uniforms worn by the Seattle Seahawks than the Eagles.
It is worth noting that avoiding any team colors in the Super Bowl logo is difficult. Five teams use red as a primary color while six others have it as a secondary color. Twelve teams use a shade of blue for their primary color while a handful use it as a secondary color.
Nonetheless, the color conspiracy lives on, and will likely come into play again next season for Super Bowl LX, unless the branding can avoid using red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, teal, black, burgundy, silver, gold, or — well, you get the point.
