The Super Bowl S Number I Problem

• Matt York/AP
• Coach Pete Carroll readies himself for Super Bowl XLIX, aka Super Bowl 49.

Credit should go where it’s due, and it’s due any sportswriter who doesn’t write like this:

We can live with that, but a paper less emphatic about its writers’ classical educations would simply have written that the Seahawks beat the Broncos “in last year’s Super Bowl.” A pretty good rule of thumb is to write in language it’s possible to read aloud.