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  Super Bowl XV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl XV was the 15th Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
Oakland quarterback Jim Plunkett was named the Super Bowl MVP, completing 13 of 21 passes for 261 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 9 yards.
The Raiders were the first team to use the 3-4 in the Super Bowl in Super Bowl XI against the Minnesota Vikings, although the Miami Dolphins used a version of the 3-4 ("53 defense") in Super Bowl VI, Super Bowl VII and Super Bowl VIII.
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 Super Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl I: In the first matchup of the AFL and NFL champions, the NFL's Green Bay Packers, led by coach Vince Lombardi and quarterback Bart Starr, defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
Super Bowl XVII: After spending the entire game trailing the Miami Dolphins, the Washington Redskins were faced with fourth down and one to go on Miami 42 yard line in the fourth quarter.
Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana leads a 92 yard fourth quarter drive, as the 49ers score the game-winning touchdown with 34 seconds left and defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16.
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 Super Bowl XXXIV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl XXXIV was the 34th Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
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   (3482 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Super Bowl
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.
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 Super Bowl: Tutte le informazioni su Super Bowl su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 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.
Famose campagne pubblicitarie del Super Bowl comprendono lo spot della Budweiser soprannominato "Bud Bowl" e gli spot delle dot-com del biennio 1999-2000.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments
Super Bowl XXIV: Jerry Rice crosses the goal line with his third TD catch, both arms upraised, as the 49ers clobber the Broncos 55-10.
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.
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 Super Bowl History & (animated) Cartoon 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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 Super Bowl XV
To many, Super Bowl XV represented a clash of good and evil, the clean-cut, well-mannered Eagles against the unfettered, rowdy Raiders, whose individual lifestyles covered all shades of the spectrum.
When Super Bowl IV was played at New Orleans' Tulane Stadium in 1970, Parker had been in the stands as an usher.
The touchdown pass in the Super Bowl could have been the most memorable moment of his first NFL season, but the play was nullified by an illegal motion penalty against wide receiver Carmichael.
www.supernfl.com /SuperBowl/sb15.html   (4987 words)

  
 Super Bowl Tickets @ Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida 2007
Super Bowl XLI will be the 41st Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions.
Super Bowl XLI will be the Hosted by Miami, Florida @ Dolphins Stadium on February 4th 2007.
Super Bowl ticket delivery is generally the week of the game and may be as late as the day of the game.
www.stagefronttickets.com /NFL/superbowl_priceguide.htm   (568 words)

  
 Super Bowl Champions of the 1980s
The following are the Super Bowl winners, Super Bowl MVP and League MVP for the NFL in the 1980s.
Super Bowls are played the year after the actual season.
Therefore Super Bowl XV was played in 1981, but was for the 1980 season championship.
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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.
www.supernfl.com /SuperBowl/sb22.html   (3932 words)

  
 Super Bowl Collection--Oakland Raiders Silver Coin Set-Christopher's Games of Quality & Distinction
Each coin has a similar design of the current flip coins that includes dueling helmets, ribbons with team names and Super Bowl Commemoration on the front and the reverse of the coin features the Super Bowl Logo for that year as well as the date that the game was played.
Super Bowl XI: This coin features the NFL Shield as a replacement of the Lombardi Trophy and includes the score of the game on the front of the coin.
Super Bowl XV: This Coin features the NFL Shield as a replacement of the Lombardi Trophy and includes the score of the game on the front of the coin.
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 Advertising Super Bowl XV: A Testament to the Power of Franchising. - Business Wire - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Advertising Super Bowl XV: A Testament to the Power of Franchising.
For the 14th year since the survey was first conducted, franchised businesses purchased more advertising spots than non-franchised enterprises, this time by a commanding margin of 75 franchising related commercial spots to just 44 for enterprises not engaged in some form of franchising.
This year, the absence of dot.com advertisers, and competition from the Winter Olympics, may have made the Super Bowl more attractive to the sophisticated advertising councils." In 2000, more than 20 dot.com companies purchased 36 Super Bowl spots during the game.
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 Super Advancement quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Super Bowl XXV the New York Giants squeaked past Buffalo 20-19.
In Super Bowl XV the Raiders defeated the Eagles.
In January of 1978 the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=70816   (308 words)

  
 Super Bowl XV one to forget (phillyBurbs.com) | Philadelphia Eagles
They soared to heights never before seen by an Eagles team since the Super Bowl was born in 1966.
Now middle-aged, Super Bowl XXXIX will be played Sunday between the Eagles and New England Patriots at ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville.
The lone TD in their Super Bowl history came on an 8-yard throw from Ron Jaworski to tight end Keith Krepfle, a minute into the fourth quarter.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/99-02052005-445042.html   (989 words)

  
 Super Bowl Recaps - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Jim Plunkett passed for three touchdowns, including an 80-yard strike to Kenny King, as the Raiders became the first wild-card team to win the Super Bowl.
Plunkett's touchdown bomb to King – the longest play in Super Bowl history – gave Oakland a decisive 14-0 lead with nine seconds left in the first period.
The Raiders, who had previously won Super Bowl XI over Minnesota, had to win three playoff games to get to the championship game.
www.superbowl.com /history/recaps/game/sbxv   (417 words)

  
 SI.com - Sports Illustrated's Super Bowl Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a record-setting deluge the 49ers swamped Denver 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV
SUPER BOWL XI The Raiders Were All Suped Up 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.
In the Super Bowl the ingenious boss of the Kansas City Chiefs aimed a devastating machine in Minnesota, and Engineer Len Dawson used it to outhit, outmaneuver and eventually destroy the Vikings
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/features/superbowl/archives   (962 words)

  
 Super Bowl XV: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Super Bowl XV: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
The super bowl is the championship game of the national football league, the pinnacle of american football....
The super bowl mvp, or super bowl most valuable player, is an award given at the conclusion of the super bowl, the nfls national championship, to the player...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/super_bowl_xv1.htm   (351 words)

  
 Oakland Raiders
Fans, media and everyone else in New Orleans the week of Super Bowl XV were greeted wherever they looked by the motto of the Oakland Raiders organization - "COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE".
This motto and the accompanying Raider logo were emblazoned on giant billboards along highways and streets, on bus stop benches and on the sides of more than 100 city buses.
But, again as had happened just four years earlier when the Raiders had totally dominated the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI, this World Championship Game would be a one-sided triumph for the Oakland Raiders.
www.raiders.com /history/gm4.jsp   (1366 words)

  
 Super Bowl XV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Super Bowl XV Super Bowl XV Oakland 27, Philadelphia 10
Davis was in the process of suing the league for the right to move his Raiders to Los Angeles.
Plunkett, who had thrown only 15 passes in the two previous seasons, passed for 261 yards and three touchdowns, including an 80-yard TD pass to Kenny King at the end of the first quarter that gave the Raiders all the points they would need.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/1997/superbowl/sbsummaries/sb15.html   (145 words)

  
 Super Bowl PR - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XXXVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Host city economic impact: Super Bowl XXXIII generated a total economic impact of $396 million, according to a study done by the Sport Management Research Institute.
Super Bowl XXXV TV audience: Last year's game was the 5th most watched program in television history.
Super Bowl XXXV was watched by an average of 131,200,000 viewers which ranks 4th among all Super Bowls.
ww1.nfl.com /xxxvi/features/neworleans/general_info.html   (797 words)

  
 Super Bowl Recaps - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With seven seconds left in the first half, Raiders linebacker Jack Squirek intercepted Joe Theismann's pass at the Redskins' 5-yard line and ran it in for a touchdown to give Los Angeles a 21-3 halftime lead.
In the third period, running back Marcus Allen, who rushed for a Super Bowl-record 191 yards on 20 carries, increased the Raiders' lead to 35-9 on touchdown runs of five and 74 yards, the latter erasing the Super Bowl record of 58 yards set by Baltimore's Tom Matte in Game III.
The 38 points scored by the Raiders were the highest total by a Super Bowl team.
www.superbowl.com /history/recaps/game/sbxviii   (348 words)

  
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Heard how the Eagles have been to the Super Bowl only that once, nearly a quarter-century ago, Super Bowl XV in New Orleans.
He was the MVP of that Super Bowl.
The 80-yard touchdown was the longest pass play in Super Bowl history at the time.
www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2545659   (579 words)

  
 Amazon.com: NFL Films Super Bowl Collection - Super Bowls XI-XX: DVD: NFL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Live the excitement of the second 10 Super Bowls and the seasons leading up to each big game in a 5-disc collector?s set loaded with defining highlights, enhanced content and exclusive memorabilia.
The thing I found most impressive are not the 30 minute clips of past Super Bowls (Though I must say, my favorites are XIII and XIV - Facenda is the man. I Love his recount of Dallas' furious, yet futile finish, as well as that last RAMS Drive.), but of the seasonal footage.
This is an excellent set for all NFL fans and, especially, the fans who favor the victorious teams in their respective Super Bowls.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001WTWYM?v=glance   (2241 words)

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