The prize money awarded to the first Super Bowl champions is equivalent to more than $128,000 today.
When the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals take the field on Sunday for Super Bowl 56, they players will be competing for more than just the fabled Vince Lombardi Trophy.So far, the Rams and Bengals players have earned $150,000 in playoff bonuses from their wins leading up to the big game, according to the
. This year, players on the winning team will go home with an additional $150,000 bonus, while the losers will soothe the sting of their defeat with $75,000 checks.two years ago . The amount of money that Super Bowl winners get has increased steadily since the very first time the event was held in 1967, when winners received $15,000 each and the losers walked away with $7,500.
This year's numbers may seem huge in comparison — but when adjusted for inflation, the 1967 winners' prize is equivalent to more than $128,000 in today's dollars, according to theThat's a relatively recent development: It took decades for the Super Bowl prize money to catch up to the rate of inflation. The purses
from 1967 until 1978, when the bonus for winners increased to $18,000, while the losers received $9,000.
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