As yesterday's Conference championship games fade into the memory and focus shifts to the Superbowl in a fortnight's time in Phoenix, fans of American football across the world have begun to admit that they don't know what XLIX means.
The NFL have numbered the editions of the Superbowl using Roman numerals since it's inception in the late 1960s. While that was fine for a while, it's only been since the number ticked over to 40 that things became confused.
"I know X is ten, V is five and I is one", said one New England supporter to our North America correspondent, "and that you add things up in a line. But then they added an L and putting things in a funny order and now I've simply no idea."
"I go to watch football and eat my own body weight in nachos", another fan at yesterday's AFC Championship game told us, "not spend half the game trying to work out a Latin sum". Another said "Well, it's easy. Ten, fifty, one, ten. So it's 71. Or 1050110. Or something. OK, I don't know. Satisfied?"
Everything is expected to calm down next year and for the following eight before it starts getting jaunty again.
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