Almost six decades ago, the Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers faced off in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later known as Super Bowl I. At that time, some people referred to it as a "supergame" between the two rival leagues.

The Seattle Seahawks’ latest Super Bowl run has sparked one of the strangest patterns in modern sports, linking the franchise’s success to the election of Popes in Vatican City. What sounds like a coincidence has now repeated itself too often to ignore.