The NFL eliminated the Roman Numeral “L” that stands for fifty for the Super Bowl to be played during February, 2016 in Levi Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers.
Their public reason was “L" stood for “Loser" for teenagers, and they did not want that connotation on the Super Bowl.
But the real reason is the fiftieth is a Super Bowl played in San Francisco, the home of much gay activism, and in The City, “L” stands for lesbian, as in the popular HBO series, “The “L” Word,” (which is located primarily in Los Angeles).
Homophobes in the Christian Fundamentalist movement pitched a bitch about the NFL using that letter standing alone for a Super Bowl in San Francisco’s Levi Stadium, (which is actually located in Santa Clara).
So the NFL, who does not show NFL Team cheerleaders on TV more than 7-10 seconds per broadcast game (and then mostly behind advertising logos) to satisfy the same fundamentalists, caved and capitulated.
The logo for Super Bowl 49, for this 2014 season, to be played during February of 2015, is shown below. The Roman numeral system will be re-instituted once the Super Bowl moves on from San Francisco for the 2016 season, and the Roman Numerals “LI” will reappear in February 2017.