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Topic: Super Bowl III


  
  Super Bowl III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional 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).
Super Bowl II was also played at the Orange Bowl.
Namath is the only Super Bowl MVP quarterback to not throw a touchdown in his MVP performance.
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 Super Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The last time the Los Angeles area hosted the game was Super Bowl XXVII in 1993; the area is currently not considered a possible venue after the league's two teams vacated the city in 1995: the Raiders moved back to Oakland, California, and the Rams moved to St.
However, Super Bowl XIV (which involved the then-Los Angeles Rams) was played at nearby Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium; and Super Bowl XIX (which involved the San Francisco 49ers) was played at the nearby Stanford Stadium on the Stanford University campus near Palo Alto.
Super Bowl VII with Miami Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian's failed field goal attempt is perhaps the most dramatic example of a near shutout.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments
Super Bowl XIII: Dallas' 38-year-old backup tight end Jackie Smith, wide open in the middle of the end zone, drops a certain TD pass during the third quarter of the Cowboys' 35-31 loss to the Steelers.
Super Bowl XXXIV: The final play of the dramatic Titans-Rams game (see moment No. 2) is set up by the previous play: Titans QB Steve McNair scrambles around, breaks through the sack attempts of several Rams defenders, and hits Kevin Dyson with a 16-yard completion to the 10-yard line.
Super Bowl XXXIII: The Falcons' Eugene Robinson, who was given the "Bart Starr Award" the morning before the Super Bowl for his "high moral character," is arrested and charged later that night for soliciting an undercover police officer for oral sex.
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 Super Bowl Betting Picks: Super Bowl Facts
The first two games in Super Bowl history saw the Green Bay Packers of the NFL win easily and the AFL was a huge underdog in Super Bowl III.
Beginning with Super Bowl V in 1971, the trophy awarded to the winning team became known as the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after the Green Bay coach.
Face value of tickets for Super Bowl XL were between $600 and $700 compared to $6 and $12 back in 1967 but scalpers get anywhere from $3,000 to as much as $7,000 or more for most seats.
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 Boston.com / Sports / Bruins
This is the ninth Super Bowl held in New Orleans.
New England is 0-2 in the Super Bowl.
The NFC is 8-1 in Super Bowls held in domed stadiums.
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 Super Bowl History - home page
It was not until Super Bowl III when Joe Namath guaranteed the AFL's first victory in the game for the underdog New York Jets and delivered 16-7 over the Baltimore Colts that interest in the game began to rise.
The Super Bowl has traditionally been referred to by Roman numerals rather than the year in which it is played to minimize confusion from the fact that the NFL season stretches from one year to the next.
Since Super Bowl V in 1971, the trophy presented to the winning team has been know as the Vince Lombardi Trophy to commemorate the man who coached the Green Bay Packers to the first two championships.
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 Super Bowl III
Super Bowl III took place on January 12, 1969 at Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida.
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.
Matt Snell rushed for 121 yeards, including the Jets' touchdown, while the Jets defense shut down a Colts offense that had carried them to a 13-1 record during the regular season.
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 Super Bowl History & (animated) Cartoon by Brownielocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
The super bowl was shown on the Fox network and not on one of the main television stations ABC, CBS or NBC also.
And Super Bowl XII in 1978 was the first indoor game and drew the largest crowd at that time to have ever watched a sporting event on television also.
Super Bowl XV in 1981, displayed a huge yellow ribbon (bow) over the main entrance of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans to commemorate the 52 American hostages who had just been released by Iran after 444 days in captivity.
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 Super Bowl Tickets - Super Bowl, Dolphin Stadium
That first Super Bowl game was played at the Los Angeles Coliseum, and featured the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, at the height of their dominant period in the 1960s, and the Kansas City Chiefs, who were owned by one of the AFL’s co-founders, Lamar Hunt.
The Steelers would claim their fourth Super Bowl to open the 1980s, while the Raiders would win twice more in the early part of the decade as well, but then the NFC would stake their claim as the power conference through the rest of the decade and well into the 1990s.
Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 will also be played at Dolphin Stadium giving South Florida a record 10th time the city will play host to the Championship Game.
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 Super Bowl history: The guarantee | www.azstarnet.com ®
Super Bowl XXXVIII will take place amid big-ticket commercials and a halftime show that will run much longer than a normal NFL intermission.
Super Bowls I and II were showcases for the Green Bay Packers to whip up on overmatched AFL teams.
Three days before Super Bowl III, which was held at the Orange Bowl, Namath made a speech to the Miami Touchdown Club.
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 Super Bowl St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
The Super Bowl serves as an end-of-the-season celebration, glorifying revenues accumulated by team owners, advertisers, media outlets, and many other businesses that share in the tremendous profits generated by professional football.
As might be expected, in the first two Super Bowls (Super Bowls I and II),; the NFL Green Bay Packers easily defeated their AFL opponents.
Then in Super Bowl III, the AFL champion New York Jets were matched against the powerful Baltimore Colts.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - Readers' list: Super Bowl moments
New England kicker Adam Vinatieri's 48-yard field goal to win Super Bowl XXXVI might be the freshest memory from a Super Sunday, but we wanted to find out what the most memorable moment was.
Also, Super Bowl XXV's final play gave us two images that no Giants or Bills fan will ever forget: the image of the ball sailing wide and the image of the celebration of Emerson Walls photographed for the cover of Sports Illustrated.
The Super Bowl trophy is named for Vince Lombardi, but it should be named for Joe Namath.
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 Super Bowl III: The True Story
On January 12, 1969, in Miami's Orange Bowl, the New York Jets met the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, the championship game of professional football for the 1968 season.
The Jets, winners of the American Football League playoffs, sought to avenge the drubbings AFL teams had taken in the two previous meetings between the upstart "Mickey-Mouse" league and the "Establishment" National Football League.
While the two Super Bowl III teams appear statistically similar (without factoring in the Jets' easier schedule and the generally-accepted overall inferiority of the AFL itself), the Colt defensive unit was clearly superior where it counted -- keeping opponents' points off the scoreboard.
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 Super Bowl XXII
There was Joe Namath's prickly prediction-come-true in Super Bowl III, Terry Bradshaw's four touchdown passes in Super Bowl XIII, Jim Plunkett's storybook comeback in Super Bowl XV and Phil Simms' near-perfect marksmanship in Super Bowl XXI.
After the game, after he had completed 18 of 29 attempts and had set a Super Bowl record for passing yards (340) and had tied another for touchdown passes (four), Williams was on top of the sports world, smiling broadly.
His 204 rushing yards broke the Super Bowl record of 191 set by Marcus Allen in 1984 and were 78 yards more than he had gained during the regular season.
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The title Super Bowl was recognized by the NFL for the first time.
When the Super Bowl was first started a few seasons earlier it would pit the NFL Champion against the Champion of the AFL (American Football League).
In the first two Super Bowls the NFL Champion Green Bay Packers had disposed of the AFL Champion Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders in convincing fashion.
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 MSNBC - Test your Super Bowl knowledge
Super Bowl II: Who was the Raiders coach in their first Super Bowl appearance, against Green Bay?
Super Bowl III: Joe Namath not only predicted the New York Jets would beat the Colts in Super Bowl III, he nearly got in a fight with a Baltimore player who was popping off about his team’s superiority.
Super Bowl IV: The site of the Kansas City-Minnesota game has hosted the most Super Bowls.
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 June 18, 2004 UNT Inhouse publication: UNT administrator Walt Parker receives ring from Super Bowl III
On Jan. 9, 1969, three days before the New York Jets were to play the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in Miami, Jets quarterback Joe Namath was heckled at a dinner because his team was a three-touchdown underdog to win.
He was also on the sidelines as a substitute referee for Super Bowl VII in 1973.
Parker says his Super Bowl ring is extra special to him not just because it reminds him of the time he spent with the NFL and the many people he met.
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 Stadiums of the NFL-Orange Bowl-Super Bowl II, III, V, X, & XIII
Speaking to the press in the week before Super Bowl III, New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath guarantees a victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts.
The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in the second Super Bowl matchup of these 1970's powerhouses in Super Bowl XIII.
The Orange Bowl has been the home to many memorable football games including five Super Bowl’s and eleven colligate football games that decided the national champion.
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 Super Bowl tickets - Super Bowl Football tickets, Super Bowl NFL tickets and Super Bowl schedule
The Super Bowl is sometimes the culmination of a great NFL season but other times, especially when the two final teams are mismatched, the game is a blow out and more of a media extravaganza then a sports spectacle.
The Super Bowl is the ratings leader year after year among all televised sports events and, on the list of the fifty top-rated TV broadcasts, the game appears twenty times.
Since Super Bowl XVI, after the 1981 season, the NFC had won fifteen of sixteen games, thirteen in a row, before the Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII.
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 Super Bowl XLI Miami Hotels
As the Super Bowl is poised to return to sunny South Florida for the ninth time in 2007, the game and the festivities surrounding it will reflect its storied past in this locale, but also show America how the area has grown since its last Super Bowl in 1999.
There was Super Bowl III in which Joe Namath and the AFL New York Jets shocked the Baltimore Colts and Super Bowl XXIII, in which San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana connected with John Taylor for the winning, come-from-behind, last-minute touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals.
South Florida, which consists of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, has undergone a transformation since Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999.
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 Become.com - Shop results for gridworks super bowl iii
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 2006 Super Bowl Tickets - 2006 Superbowl Tickets - 2006 Super Bowl Schedule
The Super Bowl is the perennial ratings leader among all televise sports events and, on the list of the fifty top-rated TV broadcasts, the Super Bowl game appears twenty times.
Bears own home field, but Super Bowl far off (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) The Chicago Bears will be playing at home throughout the NFC playoffs, but that does not make them shoo-ins for the Super Bowl.
McNair and Ravens ready for Bowl run (TSN) As they stumbled to a 6-10 finish a year ago, the Baltimore Ravens were forced to answer serious questions about the state of a team that fully expected to be in the Super Bowl.
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 Super Bowl V
The sting of defeat in Super Bowl III was still with the Baltimore Colts when they arrived in Miami in January, 1971, to begin preparations for Super Bowl V. To linebacker Mike Curtis, the old wounds from the ignominious upset by the New York Jets in 1969 remained raw and painful.
The Colts qualified for the Super Bowl with late rallies and narrow victories during the season.
With a sellout guaranteed for the 80,577-seat Orange Bowl Stadium, Miami attorney Ellis Rubin filed suit in circuit court to force the NFL to lift the local television flout.
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