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The NFL Super Bowl is considered as the pinnacle of the professional football league.
The NFL Super Bowl, in brief, is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) in the United States that is played by the teams from the American Football Conference, as well as the teams from the National Football Conference.
Reaching the NFL Super Bowl is the greatest dream of the teams comprising the National Football League.
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  Super Bowl Trivia
Super Bowl XII, between the Cowboys and the Denver Broncos, was the first to be played indoors—specifically, at the cavernous Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
Super Bowl XXIX was the highest-scoring Super Bowl, with the San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers combining for 75 points.
The lowest-scoring Super Bowl was Super Bowl VII.
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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.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments
Super Bowl XXXI: The Packers' Reggie White takes the Super Bowl trophy and runs the length off the field toward the Green Bay fans in the end zone and is mobbed by a throng of photographers as he holds the trophy aloft.
Super Bowl V: The Colts take a 7-6 lead over the Cowboys when Johnny Unitas' pass is tipped by receiver Eddie Hinton, off cornerback Mel Renfro and into the hands of TE John Mackey, who goes 75 yards for the TD.
Super Bowl XII: Dallas' Butch Johnson, who had broken his right thumb earlier, dives through the air at the goal line to grab Roger Staubach's pass for a 45-yard TD and a 20-3 third-quarter lead over the Broncos.
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 Super Bowl Super Bowl XII history: Cowboys Vs Broncos Superbowl history @ Superbowl-history.com
After the Broncos qualified for the Super Bowl, 65,000 Orange Crush T-shirts were sold within 48 hours.
Super Bowl XII was played on January 15, 1978 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The NFL began this honor with Super Bowl XII in 1978.
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Last Year in Super Bowl XL, Pittsburgh survived a mid-season injury to Roethlisberger and seemed to come together after a disappointing performance in a loss to the Indianapolis Colts on Monday Night Football.
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.
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 Stubs XI-XX, 1977-1987
The Cowboys evened their Super Bowl record at 2-2 by defeating Denver before a sellout crowd of 75,583, plus 102,010,000 television viewers, the largest audience ever to watch a sporting event.
Ray Wersching's Super Bowl record-tying four field goals and Joe Montana's controlled passing helped lift the San Francisco 49ers to their first NFL championship with a 26-21 victory over Cincinnati.
The previous record for most points in a Super Bowl was 38, shared by San Francisco in XIX and the Los Angeles Raiders in XVIII.
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The main storyline surrounding Super Bowl XII was Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach versus Broncos quarterback Craig Morton.
Super Bowl XII provided an opportunity for Morton to not only beat his former team, but also to redeem himself for his Super Bowl V loss and the loss of his starting job to Staubach.
The game, the first Super Bowl to be played in prime time, was broadcast in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator Tom Brookshier.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Super Bowl XXXVII -- America's game
Super Bowl XXXVII matches Oakland and Tampa Bay on Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium, where you will again witness America's devotion to a league and its game, one that played its inaugural championship on a field littered with elephant dung, one whose season peaks at winter's inception.
Translation: The Super Bowl might be the most primal day of the year for men and a literal bonanza for corporate giants, but never question the power of loyalty.
Super Bowl XXXVII matches XXX and XXX on Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium, where you will again witness America's devotion to a league and its game, one that played its inaugural championship on a field littered with elephant dung, one whose season peaks at winter's inception.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - Who is best in the big games?
In a winning effort against New England in 1986, he completed only 13 of 32 passes; in the 1987 Super Bowl he was 14 for 38 and was picked off three times; in the 1989 Super Bowl, he was 10 for 26 for only 108 yards, and was intercepted twice.
Aikman was named MVP of Super Bowl XXVII, as he led a 52-17 drubbing of the Bills by completing 22 of 30 passes for 273 yards and 4 TDs.
Bradshaw was Super Bowl MVP in 1978 and 1979.
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 Super Bowl History, Winners & Losers Statistics + Animation by Brownielocks
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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 BV Sports Feature Programming- Black Super Bowl Highlights: XI-XX - AOL Black Voices
Super Bowl XIV was a near carbon copy of its predecessor.
Super Bowl XIV would be the final ride for one of football’s greatest dynasties and arguably the NFL’s greatest collection of fl stars of all time.
Joe Montana posted another tremendous Super Bowl and claimed his second MVP trophy in his second trip, but it was the versatility of 49ers running back Roger Craig that made the team move.
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The 30th Anniversary of Super Bowl IV will be celebrated in the pre-game coin toss for Super Bowl XXXIV on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2000 at Atlanta's Georgia Dome, the National Football League announced today.
In Super Bowl IV, played on Jan. 11, 1970 before a then-Super Bowl record crowd of 80,562 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, the AFL squared the Super Bowl at two games apiece with the NFL as the Chiefs downed the Vikings, 23-7.
Dawson, the fourth consecutive quarterback to be chosen the Super Bowl's top player, completed 12 of 17 passes, including a 46-yarder to Otis Taylor in the third quarter for the touchdown that broke the game open.
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 Super Bowl XXXVI
Super Bowl rings, those gaudy chunks of gold-encrusted diamonds, symbolize the pinnacle of a player's career.
Sharpe gave his first ring to brother Sterling, an ESPN analyst, who was forced to retire with a neck injury before the Green Bay Packers collected their most recent ring in Super Bowl XXXI.
The most recent Super Bowl ring, belonging to the Ravens, is a distant cousin to the very first Super Bowl ring, which was simple and elegant and designed by Vince Lombardi.
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 Inventory: The XII Greatest Super Bowl Highlight Films | The A.V. Club
At their best, the NFL Films Super Bowl reels are worthy of mention in the same breath as Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia and Bruce Brown's Endless Summer, as well as the top cinéma vérité documentaries of the '60s and '70s.
By the mid-'80s, the NFL Films Super Bowl highlight packages lost a lot of their edge, perhaps because the producers' "up close and personal" techniques had been co-opted by television, or perhaps because the Sabols sold the company to the art-fearing NFL.
In this Super Bowl, both coaches are wired up, but the only people who can hear what they have to say are the assistants on the other end of their headsets, and unlike the edit-by-feel days of yore, this film is so foursquare that it even includes an ESPN score box.
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 SI.com - Writers - Dr. Z: Steelers-Seahawks among worst Super Bowls ever - Tuesday February 7, 2006 5:03PM
It wasn't one of the best Super Bowls in history, but MVP Hines Ward made his mark despite nerves and injury.
Super Bowl XII was very special to me. It marked the unveiling of Denver's famous Orange Crush defense, and I had just signed a contract to do a book with Lyle Alzado, a paperback original that was to be completed in eight days, or no payment.
Among the worst five, maybe, but after covering, live, all but the first Super Bowl, I can honestly say this was the one I disliked the most.
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 Super Bowl 12
Super Bowl XII on this Sunday was hardly a vintage NFL game but it also was not the worst of the Super Bowl games.
It again was a victory for Tom Landry's somewhat intellectual approach to a basic game, and it was the first time an NFC team had won over the AFC in six years, or since Dallas also did that trick here in January 1972.
This time they could not do so and he left the game with only four hits in 15 attempts, was hurried at least six times and trapped twice (Weese also was trapped twice) and suffered a Super Bowl record of four interceptions.
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 Stadiums of the NFL-Superdome-Super Bowl XII, XV, XX, XXIV, XXXI, XXXVI
Stadiums of the NFL-Superdome-Super Bowl XII, XV, XX, XXIV, XXXI, XXXVI
The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Denver Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV.
The 55 points are the most scored by any team in a Super Bowl and is the largest margin of victory in the history of the Super Bowl.
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 Privett's Recaps:  Super Bowl XIII
Terry Bradshaw passed for Super Bowl records of 318 yards and four touchdowns in winning MVP honors, leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 35-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XIII.
It was the first rematch in Super Bowl history, and took place in the same stadium as their previous encounter, Super Bowl X, in Miami's Orange Bowl.
This would be Dallas' fifth Super Bowl appearance of the 1970s, setting a record, but their last until the 1992 season.
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 ESPN.com - The List: Worst Super Bowl performances
The night before the Super Bowl, the Falcons' starting safey -- known for his community work and deep religious faith -- was arrested on a charge of soliciting an undercover police officer for oral sex.
Elway dropped to 0-3 in Super Bowl action in a humiliating 55-10 defeat to the 49ers.
Woodley was, without a doubt, the worst QB ever to start a Super Bowl (48 career TDs, 63 career INT) and he played like it in Miami's 27-17 loss to Washington.
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 All-time Super Bowl team: Quarterbacks - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It goes like this: Down by three to Cincinnati with 3:20 remaining in Super Bowl XXIII, Montana turned to tackle Harris Barton in the huddle, pointed toward the stands and said, "Hey, isn't that John Candy?" Montana then drove the 49ers 92 yards, hitting John Taylor with a 10-yard touchdown pass with 34 seconds remaining.
A three-time Super Bowl winner and two-time MVP, Brady engineered two clutch game-winning drives in which he completed a combined nine of 13 passes for 100 yards and a passer rating of 91.8.
He was named the NFL MVP in 1968, leading the Colts to Super Bowl III when Johnny Unitas went down in the preseason.
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 The Super Bowl Isn't Place for a Kicker
In the first 15 Super Bowls, kickers were just 32 for 54 (59 percent), including a wretched 3-for-7 afternoon by the Jets' Jim Turner and Baltimore's Lou Michaels in Super Bowl III.
SUPER TRIVIA: Two receivers hold the record with 11 catches in a Super Bowl.
In Super Bowl XXI against the New York Giants, they led 10-7 after one quarter and 10-9 early in the third quarter; in Super Bowl XXII against the Redskins, they led 10-0 after one quarter.
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 Superbowl2001: Getting the ring can be easier than keeping it   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Steelers running back Rocky Bleier sold his four Super Bowl rings for $40,000 in 1996 in a bankruptcy-and-divorce procedure and was allowed to "lease" them for $1,368 a month over three years to get them back; Cowboys linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson had his Super Bowl XII ring seized to pay back taxes.
Part is that a decade after Vince Lombardi designed the first Super Bowl ring for his champion Packers, an unpretentious little thing with one simple diamond, Raiders owner Al Davis designed a gargantuan, jewel-encrusted ring for his players -- and the teams' anything-you-can-do game took off from there.
The stars of past Super Bowl teams are less likely to wear their rings.
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