An 'L' of a problem.

• Position: Football - Brief article

You think Roman numerals give you trouble? Well, Super Bowl "L"--the 50th Super Bowl, which is four years away--is giving the NFL conniptions. Is there any way to make the L, which will appear on hundreds of thousands of souvenir T-shirts, hats, and mugs in 2016--not to mention a few dozen championship rings--connote anything but "loser"? Since the fifth Super Bowl in 1971, the NFL has used Roman numerals to mark championship games. (Refresher: C = 100; L = 50; X = 10, V = 5; I = 1.) Though that convention has given America's most-watched annual TV event an air of importance, it's also made for some really unwieldy logos: There was the clunky...