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  Super Bowl XXXII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl XXXII was the 32nd Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
In all of their Super Bowl losses, the Broncos never had the ability to rush well enough or score enough points to be competitive in those championship games.
Shanahan was previously Denver's offensive coordinator during those Super Bowl losses, but was fired in 1991 after a power struggle between him and then-head coach Dan Reeves over the offensive personnel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXII   (2796 words)

  
 Super Bowl VIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl VIII was the 8th Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
The team's primary deep threat was Pro Bowl wide receiver John Gilliam, who caught 42 passes for 907 yards, an average of 21.6 yards per catch, and scored 8 touchdowns.
This would be the first Super Bowl to not be played in one of the three so-called "Big Super Bowl Cities." The previous 7 Super Bowl games had been held in either Los Angeles, Miami, Florida or New Orleans, Louisiana.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_VIII   (1459 words)

  
 Super Bowl - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The most watched Super Bowl was 1998's Super Bowl XXXII between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers which received a 44.5 rating and 67 share, attracting 90 million viewers.
In terms of household percentage, the most watched was Super Bowl XVI in 1982 which was watched in 49.1% of households (73 share) or 40,020,000 households at the time.
However, Super Bowl XIV (which involved the then-Los Angeles Rams) was played in the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena; and Super Bowl XIX (which involved the San Francisco 49ers) was played at the nearby Stanford Stadium on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /super_bowl.htm   (1227 words)

  
 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.)
The New York Jets entered Super Bowl III with an 11-3 regular season record, but barely defeated the Oakland Raiders, 27-23, in the AFL Championship Game, after recovering a fumbled lateral on their own 27-yard line with less than two minutes left.
Super Bowl II was also played at the Orange Bowl.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_III   (2013 words)

  
 Super Bowl - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Super Bowl V 1/17/71 AFC Baltimore Colts def.
AFC Cincinnati Bengals 26-21 Super Bowl XVII 1/30/83 NFC Washington Redskins def.
AFC Denver Broncos 39-20 Super Bowl XXII 1/31/88 NFC Washington Redskins def.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Super_Bowl   (666 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Super Bowl recipe requires many ingredients   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Super Bowl champions are composed of numerous facets.
In Super Bowl XXIII in Miami, the 49ers were backed up to their 8-yard line with 3:10 left.
But in Super Bowl X against Dallas, it was backup fullback Reggie Harrison who blocked a punt in the fourth quarter with the Cowboys leading 10-7.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/super/2004-01-29-bonus-cover_x.htm   (1660 words)

  
 Super Bowl VIII
It was the first record-breaking statistic of Super Bowl week, the first locker room in Super Bowl history without a locker.
As the countdown to Super Sunday progressed, however, Warfield suffered a pulled hamstring during a workout and was a doubtful starter against the Vikings.
Super Bowl VIII, played before 68,142 on a murky, humid afternoon, was televised by the Columbia Broadcasting System to an audience estimated at 60 million.
www.supernfl.com /SuperBowl/sb8.html   (3810 words)

  
 Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, and is the most important American professional football competition.
The Super Bowl tends to have a high Nielsen Rating which ranges around 40.0.
The most watched Super Bowl was Super Bowl XXXII between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers which lured 90 million viewers.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/su/super_bowl.html   (358 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - The Super Bowl barely makes the grade
If your team wins a Super Bowl, no matter what the score, you think the game was glorious and stirring, and you tend to rhapsodize weeks, months and years after it's over about well-executed trap blocks and timing patterns and such.
If your team loses a Super Bowl (or four), no matter what the score or how it came about, you think the game was sheer torture.
There were 100,000-plus fans in the Rose Bowl to see the game, 97,000 of whom signed a petition urging the league to forever ban the Purple Gang from the big show.
espn.go.com /page2/s/neel/030122.html   (2323 words)

  
 Super Bowl ix
The Minnesota Vikings, making their third Super Bowl appearance and second in as many years, had won their sixth division title in seven years and then brushed aside St. Louis and Los Angeles en route to New Orleans.
As a Super Bowl novitiate, Noll was unable to gauge the mood of the Steelers.
Super Bowl week was all but wasted on White, who contracted pleurisy on the flight to New Orleans and spent the next six days in bed.
www.steelergridiron.com /history/historyof9.html   (4874 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Football - Super moments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Steelers' last Super Bowl victory is their most difficult, even though the Rams were just a 9-7 team in the regular season.
Three of his Super Bowl wins were routs, but Montana cements himself as a prime-time QB with his last-ditch 92-yard drive to beat the Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII.
Super Bowl kickers were 1-for-2 on game-winning field goals when Adam Vinatieri set up for a 48-yarder to beat the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/football/story/157989p-138703c.html   (1434 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NFL/PLAYOFFS03 - Did you know?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
On the contrary, the Super Bowl is still waiting for its first punt return for touchdown.
Eight of the last nine Super Bowls that happened two weeks after the Conference Championship Games have been decided by 10 points or more (only exception was Super Bowl XXXII when Denver beat Green Bay 31-24).
Of the 43 Patriots that played in their Super Bowl XXXVI triumph, 26 are still with the team.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs03/news/story?id=1716112&...   (968 words)

  
 Stories - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XXXVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Super Bowl XXXVIII will be the second Super Bowl hosted in the great city of Houston.
Super Bowl VIII was played at Rice Stadium on Jan. 13, 1974 where the Dolphins claimed their second consecutive Super Bowl victory.
Although Jacksonville has never hosted a Super Bowl the fan support that the city demonstrates for their Jaguars is amongst the top in the NFL.
ww1.nfl.com /xxxvi/news/futuresites.html   (303 words)

  
 Six crazy days until the Super Bowl | ajc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The riots: As Super Bowl XXIII week kicks off in Miami, riots begin in the Overtown section of the city, sparked by the shooting death of a fl motorcyclist by a Hispanic police officer.
On the Tuesday before Super Bowl IV in New Orleans, NBC News breaks a story saying Dawson was under federal investigation for his relationship with known gamblers.
The dump: The Minnesota Vikings travel to Super Bowl VIII in Houston only to discover their training facility at Delmar Field — used for high school games — is a joke.
www.ajc.com /falcons/content/sports/0105/30crazy.html   (1177 words)

  
 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.
msnbc.com /modules/sports/quiz/football/super1.asp   (245 words)

  
 Vikings Super Bowls
The AFL squared the the Super Bowl at two game a piece with the NFL, building a 16-0 half-time lead behind Len Dawson's superb quarterbacking and a powerful defense.
Dawson, the fourth consecutive quarterback to be chosen the Super Bowl's top player, called an almost flawless game, completing 12 of 17 passes and hitting Otis Taylor on a 46-yard play for the final Chiefs touchdown.
The Raiders won their first NFL championship before a record Super Bowl crowd plus 81 million television viewers, the largest audience ever to watch a sporting event.
www.vikingupdate.com /history/historyprofiles/superbowls.html   (799 words)

  
 The official site of the St. Louis Rams - Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Super Bowl returns to Houston for the first time in 30 years on February 1, 2004.
The Super Bowl XXXVIII logo was developed by the NFL Creative Services design team and designed by Todd Radom, a graphic designer based in Katonah, New York.
Super Bowl XXXVIII will be played February 1, 2004 at Reliant Stadium — the first NFL championship game to be played in a retractable-roof facility.
news.stlouisrams.com /Article|31815   (177 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Football / Patriots / Super Bowl XXXVIII facts & figures
Super Bowl XXXVIIIfacts and figures At stake: -- Vince Lombardi Trophy for the National Football League championship.
The words "Vince Lombardi" and "Super Bowl XXXVIII" are engraved on the base along with the NFL emblem.
The largest crowd was 103,985 for Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
www.boston.com /sports/football/patriots/articles/2004/01/31/super_bowl_xxxviii_facts__figures   (498 words)

  
 SPORTS: Super Bowl Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bill Parcells is the first coach to lead two different teams to the Super Bowl.
VI - This is the eighth Super Bowl to be held in New Orleans.
VIII - b) Max McGee on a 37-yard pass from Bart Starr vs. Kansas City, 1967 Super Bowl.
www.newsherald.com /SPORTS/SP6.HTM   (539 words)

  
 GOPUSA - Austin Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Super Bowl competitors earn a "player's share" -- a divvy of bonus cash among the football players.
Late afternoon, Saturday, Jan. 12, 1974, the day before Super Sunday: Suddenly Super Bowl VIII, pitting the Minnesota Vikings against the Miami Dolphins in the first Super Bowl played in Houston, was generating a piano player's share.
The quick background: I was 22, a student at Rice University and living in a 90-buck-a-month apartment located in a then-decayed nook of Houston's now glitzy Montrose area.
www.gopusa.com /commentary/abay/2004/ab_0202p.shtml   (530 words)

  
 Minnesota Vikings Super Bowls VikingsTailgate.com- The Story of Losing, Nordic Choking in the NFL
Even though the Dolphins were defending World Champs, and were playing in their third straight Super Bowl, I honestly felt like we were gonna dominate their butts.
Even though this game was simply a flashback to Super Bowl IV against the Chiefs, the Vikes Offense actually got rolling late in the first half.
Just like Super Bowl IV, the Vikes got the ball at halftime and we knew they would make a game of it.
www.vikingstailgate.com /vikings_superbowls_dolphins.php   (814 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments
Super Bowl I (Packers 35, Chiefs 10): #16, #47, #48, #82, #88
Super Bowl XXIII (49ers 20, Bengals 16): #1, #40, #59, #62, #67, #72
Super Bowl XXXII (Broncos 31, Packers 24): #8, #26, #51
espn.go.com /page2/s/superbowlmoments/list.html   (411 words)

  
 Super Bowl XXXVIII Tickets on Ticket Vault   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The city previously hosted Super Bowl VIII on Jan. 13, 1974.
Super Bowl XXXVII TV audience: Last year's game was the most watched program ever with 138.9 million viewers.
The 10 most-watched programs in TV history are all Super Bowls.
www.ticketvault.com /superbowl.html   (293 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Patriots won't catch Eagles flatfooted with all that flattery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Super Bowl week always has produced lines like those the Patriots have been throwing at the Eagles.
Before Super Bowl XII, Cowboys coach Tom Landry called Denver "a very emotional team that plays each game as if its back is to the wall." The Cowboys dominated 27-10.
And before Super Bowl IV, Kansas City's Jerry Mays said of Minnesota's free-spirit quarterback Joe Kapp: "He's a great leader and a real fireball." The Chiefs knocked Kapp out of the game and won 23-7.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/patriots/2005-02-01-forbes-flattery_x.htm   (1002 words)

  
 SI.com - Sports Illustrated's Super Bowl Archive
Walter Iooss, Jr Super Bowl VIII had all the excitement and suspense of a master butcher quartering a steer.
The slaughterhouse was Houston's Rice Stadium and the butcher was Miami Quarterback Bob Griese, whose deft dismemberment of the Minnesota Vikings may have had a certain esthetic appeal for serious students of the science of football, but left devotees of drama more than a little bored.
Although getting a surprisingly strong rush from what was essentially a three-man line, Tarkenton completed a Super Bowl-record 18 of 28 passes for 166 yards and had only one interception, yet the Vikings mounted but two serious drives.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/features/superbowl/archives/8   (2162 words)

  
 The Sporting News: History of the Super Bowl
Amid all the praise and admiration generated by their continued romp through the NFL, these Patriots leave you with the impression that not only did they expect to win Super Bowl 39 but that they expect to win a lot more before this incredible run is over.
Belichick is the the fourth coach to produce as many as three Super Bowl titles, joining Chuck Noll (four), Bill Walsh (three) and Joe Gibbs (three).
The Patriots' latest Super Bowl victory, a 24-21 test of nerves over the Eagles, was no easier than the previous two.
www.sportingnews.com /archives/superbowl   (2563 words)

  
 Habitat for Humanity UW-Madison Campus Chapter | Fundraisers
Souper Bowl is a fundraiser that involves the entire community.
The bowls are sold for $15 each with soup, bread, salad, and dessert included.
Look for Souper Bowl to be featured in February issue of Madison Magazine and a future issue of the Capital Times.
www.uwhabitat.org /fundraisers/index.php?id=C0_15_3/index.shtml   (164 words)

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