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Super Bowl


The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, the pinnacle of American football. The game is almost like a national holiday in the United States. It is held annually on the last Sunday in January or the first Sunday in February, and is one of the most watched television broadcasts of the year.

History

Origins
An AFL-NFL Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season on January 15, 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL. The game was a result of the merger agreement between the two leagues that took full effect for the 1970 season. The third such game, after the 1968 season, was called the "Super Bowl", and that name is now used to refer to the first two AFL-NFL Championship Games as well. The name was inspired by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt's daughter playing with a small rubber ball with high bouncing powers called a super ball. After the 1970 season, the game reverted from an essentially interleague championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. The winning team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named for the coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won the first two Super Bowl games. The trophy was named prior to Super Bowl V in his honor following his death in 1970. Previous to the 1966 football season, American professional football's championship games were played for various league championships, and games were not played between league champions. The game was called the "All-America Football Conference Championship Game", the "AFL Championship Game" or the "NFL Championship Game", depending on the league playing it. (See: Professional American football championship games and National Football League championships).
Ratings and commercials
The Super Bowl tends to have high Nielsen television ratings which usually

Super Bowl I


Super Bowl 001 Super Bowl I was the first Super Bowl, the championship of American football. The game was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The score was Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10. What is now called Super Bowl I did not originally bear the name "Super Bowl." The AFL-NFL World Championship Game occurred between the champions of the two American football leagues of the time, the National Football League and the American Football League, which are now all part of the modern National Football League. There was much animosity between the two rival leagues, with both leagues putting pressure on the champions of their respective leagues to trounce the opposing team to prove each league's dominance over the sport of football. Super Bowl I was the only Super Bowl in history that was not a sell-out in terms of attendance. Because of this, the game, which was televised by both CBS and NBC, was blacked out in the Los Angeles area. There is no known existing copy of the first Super Bowl, as both networks eventually taped over their copies. Television and sports archivists remain on the lookout. The CBS broadcast had Ray Scott, Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford. Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman commented the game on NBC.

Playoffs

The Packers faced the Dallas Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on January 1, 1967 for the NFL Championship. The score was close throughout the game; by the third quarter, the Cowboys trailed the Packers by one point, 21-20. Towards the end of the fourth quarter, the Cowboys were down 34-27 with the ball. On second down from the Packers' 22-yard line, Green Bay's Tom Brown was called for pass interference on Cowboys receiver Frank Clarke, putting the ball on the 2-yard line with 1:52 remaining in the game. However, the Packer defense kept the Cowboys out of the end zone for three downs and on fourth down, Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith threw an interception

Super Bowl V


Super Bowl 005 Super Bowl V was the fifth Super Bowl, the championship of American football. The game was played on January 17, 1971 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The final score was Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13. The game was broadcast on NBC in the United States with Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote. Super Bowl V was the first Super Bowl played in a merged National Football League, as well as the first played on an artificial turf surface, namely "Poly Turf". The Baltimore Colts were moved into the American Football Conference from the National Football League prior to this season. This is why the Colts represented the NFL in Super Bowl III, but not the NFC for Super Bowl V.

Playoffs

See NFL playoffs, 1970-71

The game

This was the first close Super Bowl, but is not regarded as a classic; in fact, it is sometimes called the "Blooper Bowl". It was filled with poor play, turnovers and officiating miscues. It is the only Super Bowl for which the Most Valuable Player Award was given to a member of the losing team, linebacker Chuck Howley. It was also the first time that the Super Bowl MVP was given to a defensive team player. In addition, famous Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas did not wear his trademark high-top football shoes in the contest, but wore a pair of low-cut adidas shoes instead. Baltimore won the game on a last-second field goal by kicker Jim O'Brien, who made up for a missed attempt earlier in the game.

Scoring Summary

  • DAL - FG Clark 14
  • DAL - FG Clark 30
  • BAL - Mackey 75 pass from Unitas (kick blocked)
  • DAL - Thomas 7 pass from Morton (Clark kick)
  • BAL - Nowatzke 2 run (O'Brien kick)
  • BAL - FG O'Brien 32

    External link

  • http://www.superbowl.com/history/recaps/game/sbv SuperBowl.com: Super Bowl V Recap Category:1971 in sports

    Super Bowl X


    Super Bowl 010 Super Bowl X was played on January 18, 1976 in Miami, Florida. The Pittsburgh Steelers won, beating the Dallas Cowboys 21 to 17. CBS broadcast the game in the United States with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier.

    Scoring summary

  • DAL- D. Pearson 29 pass from Staubach (Fritsch kick)
  • PIT- Grossman 7 pass from Bradshaw (Gerela kick)
  • DAL- FG Fritsch 36
  • PIT- Safety, Harrison blocked punt through end zone
  • PIT- FG Gerela 36
  • PIT- FG Gerela 18
  • PIT- Swann 64 pass from Bradshaw (kick failed)
  • DAL- P. Howard 34 pass from Staubach

  • NFL playoffs, 1975-76
    Category:1976 in sports

    Super Bowl I


    While informative, I think this (and probably the other Super Bowl articles as well, assuming they have the same format) should be more encyclopaedic. There's no real introduction whatsoever to the article. Also, the text in headers should not really be in headers (would look ridiculous with numbering on). Jeronimo : You're right. I have a book here which gives precis of every game from I-XVII. I was planning to add info to them to make them more like Super Bowl IX. Not massively informative, but at least a little like an article. Work the headings into the text, and we'll be onto something. You're right about the headers too. I toned them down from

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    :but didn't want to upset whoever did the originally by totally making them over. It should be done, though. -- User:GWO Well, if somebody doesn't want to be upset, he shouldn't contribute to Wikipedia :-) But seriously, the IX article already looks better. Maybe a header like this would be nice: :Super Bowl IX, between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings, was held on January 12, 1975 in Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. Pittsburgh beat Minnesota 16 to 6 in front of 80,997 spectators. Alternatively, we could put the data all in a table, such as:
    Super Bowl IX
    Data
    StadiumTulane Stadium
    CityNew Orleans
    DateJanuary 12, 1975
    Attendance80,997
    Match
    Pittsburgh Steelers160277
    Minnesota Vikings60006
    The introduction can then be a little shorter. What do you think? Jeronimo :

    Super Bowl


    "''The Super Bowl was first played in January 1967''", but lots of the earlier "year in sport" pages link to here http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Super_Bowl. I presume it was a different competition before then? If so, is there anyone with the knowledge and interest to fix this? -- sannse 18:53 16 Jun 2003 (UTC) :I think this has now been fixed. Paul August ☎ 18:09, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)

    Why Bowl

    OK. I give in. I can't find anywhere on wiki the reason ''WHY'' it is called a ''BOWL'' (or why quix bowls and such also use the word bowl). Can anyone put a par in the article explaining the why of it? Moriori 03:08, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC) College football post season games have been called "Bowls" for a very long time. I believe it started with the Rose Bowl Game in the early part of the century being named after the stadium it is played in. Subsequent post season games like the Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl cemented the term Bowl. From what I've read, some official of the NFL saw his son playing with a Super Ball and it clicked in his head. Super Ball ---> Super Bowl.

    Why Two Weeks vs. One Week Break

    Why is it, that some years there is a two week break between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl, and some years it's just the week after the NFC/AFC Championship. KwikStah
  • NFL executives changed it to two weeks to give teams more time to prepare and to give more time to promote the event. All scheduling is determined by the executive office. Kingturtle 01:35, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC) So will it always be two weeks from now on? It seems to change arbitrarily. KwikStah
  • Historically (meaning in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s), there was always a 2-week break before the Super Bowl. In the late 90s, the league replaced the 2-week break with the 1-week break and the "bye week"—giving each team 1 off-week during the season; thus, the Super Bowl was always played near the end of January.

    Super Bowl III


    Super Bowl 003 Super Bowl III was the third Super Bowl, the championship of American football, but the first to officially bear the name Super Bowl. (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games would retroactively be called "Super Bowls" as well.) The game was played on January 12, 1969 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The final result was New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7. The game was broadcast on NBC in the United States with Curt Gowdy, Al DeRogatis and Kyle Rote.

    Playoffs

    In the 1968 AFL Championship game, Joe Namath and the New York Jets rallied to defeat the Oakland Raiders, 27-23, at Shea Stadium to advance to the Super Bowl. In the NFL, the Cleveland Browns defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 31-20 and the Baltimore Colts defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 23-14 in the NFL Conference Championships. The Colts went on to shut out the Browns in the NFL Championship game, 34-0.

    Before the game

    The Colts, the champions of the NFL, were heavily favored (In some books, by over 20 points) to defeat the AFL champion Jets. Although the upstart AFL had successfully forced the long-established NFL into a merger agreement three years earlier, the previous AFL champions had lost the first two Super Bowls and the league was not generally respected as having the same calibre of talent as the NFL. However, at the Touchdown Club in Miami, Jets quarterback Joe Namath predicted a Jets victory. "I guarantee it," he said.

    The game

    Matt Snell rushed for 121 yards, including the Jets' touchdown, and George Sauer caught eight passes for 133 yards. Don Maynard played injured, but his 112-yard, two touchdown performance against the Oakland Raiders in the AFL championship game made the Colts so wary of him that Namath took advantage of single coverage on other receivers, while the Jets defense shut down a Colts offense that had carried them to a 13-1 record during the regular season. Although the Colts had been touted by the NFL as ''"the


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