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Topic: Super Bowl XI


  
  Super Bowl XI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl XI was the 11th Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
The Raiders advanced to the Super Bowl by defeating the New England Patriots 24-21, and the previous season's Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-7.
As of 2006 and Super Bowl XL there have been five wide receivers named MVP in the Super Bowl and Biletnikoff is the only one to not have gained 100 yards in his MVP performance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_XI   (1969 words)

  
 Super Bowl XXXIV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NFL owners voted to award Super Bowl XXXIV to Atlanta during their October 31, 1996 meetings at New Orleans.
The overall theme of the Super Bowl entertainment was to mark the turning of the new millennium.
The Titans were the first team since the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVI to go scoreless in the 1st half, and the 10th time overall that a team had done so.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXIV   (3052 words)

  
 Super Bowl: Tutte le informazioni su Super Bowl su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Il terzo di questi incontri, quello alla fine della stagione 1968, venne chiamato "Super Bowl", e tale nome viene oggi usato per indicare anche i due incontri precedenti.
Il Super Bowl è il principale avvenimento sportivo degli Stati Uniti e viene teletrasmesso fin dalla prima edizione.
Il Super Bowl più visto della storia fu il Super Bowl XXXII del 1998, tra i Denver Broncos e i Green Bay Packers, con 90 milioni di spettatori.
www.encyclopedia.it /s/su/super_bowl.html   (393 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Super Bowl
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.
Super Bowl XXXIX was the first such game to be tied after three quarters of play.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Super_Bowl   (1192 words)

  
 WXYZ: Super Bowl XL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Super Bowl XII was an intriguing reunion between Broncos quarterback Craig Morton and his former team.
Super Bowl XII was the first Super Bowl played indoors and the first of six to be played in the Superdome.
The only reason Super Bowl IX isn’t in the bottom five is because it was the first of four Super Bowl titles for the Steelers of the 1970s.
www.detnow.com /wxyz/super_bowl_xl/article/0,2671,WXYZ_21456_4414420,00.html   (2417 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments
Super Bowl XIII: Cowboys defensive tackle Randy White, who is wearing a cast because of a broken thumb, fumbles an unintentional squib kick from the Steelers when tackled by Tony Dungy.
Super Bowl I: The Chiefs trail 14-10 when, on the their first possession of the second half, the Packers blitz QB Len Dawson and he's picked off by Willie Wood, who returns it 50 yards to the 5-yard line.
Super Bowl XIII: John Stallworth takes a short pass from Terry Bradshaw, breaks a tackle, and goes for a 75-yard TD to tie the score 14-14 in the second quarter against the Cowboys.
espn.go.com /page2/s/superbowlmoments100.html   (927 words)

  
 Definition of Super Bowl XXXIX
Super Bowl XXXIX was the 2005 championship game of the National Football League, the major professional league of American football in the United States.
As usual, the television coverage of this year's Super Bowl was the showcase for the most expensive commercials in television -- both to produce, and to buy airtime (at the rate of $2.4 million for 30 seconds).
Branch's Super Bowl record 11 catches tied Cincinnati Bengals' Dan Ross in Super Bowl XVI and San Francisco 49ers' Jerry Rice in Super Bowl XXIII.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Super_Bowl_XXXIX   (1374 words)

  
 Super Bowl XI
Super Bowl XI John Madden is carried off the field as the Raiders celebrate their first Super Bowl win.
The game was not only witnessed by the first Super Bowl crowd to surpass 100,000, but approximately 78 million who watched on NBC television on 224 American channels as well as outlets in Canada, France, England, Mexico, Latin America and Japan.
Approaching his first Super Bowl, Stabler confessed that "I'd like to think that this is nothing more than a sandlot game and all we had to do is go out there and have some fun.
www.supernfl.com /SuperBowl/sb11.html   (4044 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)

  
 WXYZ: Super Bowl XL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Super Bowl VIII was the last game ever played when the goalposts were positioned on the goal line.
A lasting Super Bowl image is the shot of Willie Brown streaking down the sideline on his way to a 75-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Super Bowl XVIII was supposed to be an exercise in dominance for the Redskins.
www.detnow.com /wxyz/super_bowl_xl/article/0,2671,WXYZ_21456_4420391,00.html   (3361 words)

  
 EI > DVD > NFL Films Super Bowl Collection: Super Bowls XI-XX (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Disc One: Super Bowl XI and XII Raider Mystique is a 1995 NFL Films presentation that offers clips of the dominating Raiders defense of the early and mid 70s.
Disc Three: Super Bowl XV and XVI Jim Plunkett is a 1997 NFL Films presentation that chronicles the career of the New England Patriots’ first round draft choice who eventually took a backup roll in Oakland, only to lead the team to the Super Bowl.
Disc Five: Super Bowl XIX and XX The 49er Family is a 1995 NFL Films presentation that sheds light on the talented 49er assistant coaches who went on to become head coaches in their own right.
www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/show_dvd.php?review_dvd=198   (1769 words)

  
 All-Super Bowl Team
The All-time Super Bowl team is a result of consultation with those who saw all or most of the 34 Roman-numeral games, a consensus of key NFL observers and one man’s opinion.
But regardless of whom you may have picked, this team — with the players in their Super Bowl prime — is a team of individuals who stepped up big time in the biggest game of the season.
In Super Bowl XX, in just the first quarter, Dent sacked Patriots QB Tony Eason and caused a fumble that was recovered by the Bears; tackled RB Craig James for a five-yard loss; and caused another fumble recovered by the Bears.
archive.profootballweekly.com /content/archives/features_2000/sb_allteam_011501.asp   (2536 words)

  
 SI.com - Sports Illustrated's Super Bowl Archive
And the Vikings were all but wiped out in the Super Bowl, as Oakland ran and passed pretty much as it pleased in setting a record for total offense.
The football game was essentially over by then, as so many Super Bowls have been concluded prematurely by the Vikings, who somehow seem to save their worst for Pete Rozelle's answer to urban strife set to music and pigeons.
The Vikings simply began extending a weird Super Bowl record that now finds them scoring zero points in the first halves of their four games against 51 for all the fortunate AFC teams that have met them.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/features/superbowl/archives/11   (2101 words)

  
 Super Bowl :Raiders Players
The Packers after winning their third successive NFL finals earned the Super Bowl title for the second straight year, knocking the AFL winner, Raiders by 33-14.
They proved their mettle in Super Bowl XI against Minnesota Vikings by 32-14 in front of 103,438 admirers and 81 million television viewers.
In the History of Super Bowl he is the eighth defensive player to win the honor.
www.raiders-players-information.com /SuperBowl.htm   (472 words)

  
 ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION - SportsNation Polling - 1637
Super Bowl II: Packers head coach Vince Lombardi is carried off the field in celebration of his team's 33-14 win over Oakland.
Super Bowl XIII: Cowboys tight end Jackie Smith drops a wide open touchdown pass late in the third quarter of a 35-31 loss to Pittsburgh.
Super Bowl XXXII: With the game tied 17-17, Broncos quarterback John Elway runs for a first down on a third and 12 and is hit mid-air causing a ''helicopter'' effect.
proxy.espn.go.com /chat/sportsnation/polling?event_id=1637   (602 words)

  
 Oakland Raiders
The 1976 Oakland Raiders had thundered into the Super Bowl with a 13-1 regular-season record and a 2-0 mark in the playoffs.
The NFC Champion Minnesota Vikings, entering the Super Bowl in search of a first World Championship in four tries, had finished their league campaign with an 11-2-1 record, then had won a pair of playoff games to make it to the finals.
The Raiders were one their way to a Super Bowl record 226 yards rushing.
www.raiders.com /history/gm1.jsp   (1753 words)

  
 profootballdvd.com
Live the excitement of Super Bowls XI - XX and the seasons leading up to each big game in a 5-disc collector's set loaded with 10 hours of action-packed footage including defining highlights, enhanced content, a commemorative booklet and a Super Bowl XX ticket replica.
Super Bowl XII - 1978 - Dallas vs. Denver
Super Bowl XVII - 1983 - Washington vs. Miami -John Riggins - The Maverick
www.warnervideo.com /profootballdvd/video.ind.superbowlxixx.html   (292 words)

  
 Season 11 - Super Bowl XI Championship Game
Super Bowl XI The Bucs and Coach Isha had been reminded that Coach Rashad was the one that eliminated him from the playoffs last season.
The Vikings were in deep trouble as the fourth quarter began down by two touchdowns and the Bucs blitz began catching up to Culpepper.
The Vikings went for a 4th and 30 from their own one-yard line and didn't convert giving Terrell Davis an easy one-yard touchdown that essentially secured the Super Bowl victory for Coach Isha.
www.videosportsleague.com /season11/s11rounds.html   (545 words)

  
 Super Bowl's evolution
The "it" in this case is that yearly phenomenon known as the Super Bowl, a game, which judging by most of the scores, never does justice to all of the pre-game hype it receives.
One of Rozelle's last decisions before he retired in 1989 was to stage a Super Bowl card show, which began in 1990 in New Orleans and attracted a crowd of 40,000 on a garage roof the day before the game.
Remmel realizes that the cost of going to a Super Bowl keeps many fans away, but he also knows that as long as the game is a sellout, nothing will change.
www.jsonline.com /Packer/arc/13097/bowl121.html   (1229 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 crows of 80,562 set a Super Bowl record, as did the gross receipts of $3,817,872.69.
www.vikingupdate.com /history/historyprofiles/superbowls.html   (799 words)

  
 Blogs @ Cincinnati.Com: Super Bowl XL
A nine-time Pro Bowl player, Carson’s relationship with the Hall had soured, and was the only one of the six new members not present in Detroit.
Staubach, the MVP of Super Bowl VI (1972) is a Purcell High School graduate.
The Super Bowl record for touchdowns in one game is three, shared by 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice (XXIX vs. San Diego) and Broncos running back Terrell Davis (XXXII vs. Green Bay).
frontier.cincinnati.com /blogs/superbowl   (2607 words)

  
 VikingsTailgate.com- Vikings Super Bowls
In Super Bowl IV against Kansas City, Running Back Dave Osborne bulled in from a short distance for this first TD in Vikings Super Bowl history.
In Super Bowl VIII vs. Miami, Hall of Fame Quarterback Fran Tarkenton snuck into the end zone and took some dings along the way to spoil a Dolphins shut-out early in the 4th Quarter.
In Super Bowl XI against the Raiders, Fran Tarkenton found NFL Rookie of Year Sammie White open for this TD Pass.
www.vikingstailgate.com /vikings_superbowls.php   (490 words)

  
 Minnesota Vikings Super Bowls VikingsTailgate.com- The Story of Losing, Nordic Choking in the NFL
I think this was the first of the Big Time modern-day Super Bowls as a record crowd plus 81 million television viewers (the largest ever up to that time), watched the Raiders win 32-14.
Super Bowl records will show that Vikings only made 4 first downs and 86 yards in the first half to the Raiders 16 first downs and 288 yards.
Bob Lee replaced Tarkenton and spared the Vikings the humiliation of losing by a Super Bowl record 25 points.
www.vikingstailgate.com /vikings_superbowls_raiders.php   (1013 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Pro Football Hall welcomes six members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Super Bowl XL blog: Retrace the Steelers' steps toward their fifth SB title
Joining them in the Class of 2006 announced among numerous Super Bowl XL activities were coach John Madden, linebacker Harry Carson and tackle Rayfield Wright.
Madden was in an ABC production meeting preparing for the Super Bowl telecast when he saw the announcement on the NFL Network.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2006-02-06-hall-of-fame_x.htm?csp=34   (1390 words)

  
 John Madden
Leading up to Super Bowl XXXVII, John will take a look back at Super Bowl XI when his Oakland Raiders faced the Minnesota Vikings.
John's team beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl, 14-6, and now I was getting my Raiders ready to play there.
With a 12:30 kickoff, I originally told the players we would leave the hotel at 10 o'clock, but at the pregame meal that morning I announced that the buses would leave at 9:45, then I moved it up to 9:30 instead.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/madden/story?page=superbowlmemories_jitters   (826 words)

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