This 80-Year-Old Man Has Attended All 52 Super Bowl Games With His Friends, by Julia Glum On a balmy Sunday in 1967, Sylvan Schefler bought a $15 ticket, walked into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and witnessed the birth of a lifelong tradition. That AFL-NFL World Championship Game was the first Super Bowl, which five decades later is an American institution watched by more than 100 million people each February.