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  Super Bowl XXV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl XXV was the 25th Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
Super Bowl XXV was played under much patriotic fervor, due to the then-current Gulf War.
This Super Bowl was the inspiration for the Ray Finkle character in the 1994 movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and provided a critical plot point for the 1998 Vincent Gallo film Buffalo '66.
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 Super Bowl XVIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl XVIII was the 18th Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
Raiders' running back Marcus Allen was the Super Bowl MVP, carrying the ball 20 times, for a then-record total of 191 yards and two touchdowns, including a spectacular 74-yard run in the third quarter.
Coming into Super Bowl XVIII, the Redskins were heavily favored to win because of their offense, their number one rated defense against the run, their league best 14-2 regular season record, and their Super Bowl win from last season.
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 Super Bowl MVP: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Super bowl v was the fifth super bowl, the championship of american football....
Super bowl iii was the third super bowl, the championship of american football, but the first to officially bear the name super bowl....
Super bowl vi took place on january 16, 1972, at tulane stadium, new orleans, louisiana, between the dallas cowboys and the miami dolphins....
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 Super Bowl XXXIV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pro Bowl defensive end Jevon Kearse anchored the line and recorded 14.5 sacks and a fumble recovery and was the Defensive Rookie of the Year.
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.
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 Super Bowl: Tutte le informazioni su Super Bowl su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Super Bowl: Tutte le informazioni su Super Bowl su Encyclopedia.it
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.
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 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.
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 Super Bowl recaps - Page 2 of 2
It was the third Super Bowl win of the decade for the 49ers, who outgained the Bengals 454-229 but still needed clutch plays down the stretch from Montana, Super Bowl MVP Jerry Rice, RB Roger Craig and Taylor to pull it out.
Super Bowl MVP Aikman completed 22-of-30 passes for 273 yards and was not intercepted.
The Cowboys won their third Super Bowl championship in four years, defeating the Steelers in Tempe, Ariz. This is a Super Bowl that will be remembered more for two devastating interceptions thrown by Steeler QB Neil O’Donnell than for any spectacular plays by Cowboy players.
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 AOL News - The Top 10 Most Memorable Super Bowl Moments
In Super Bowl XXVI, star running back Thurman Thomas inadvertently misplaced his helmet after the National Anthem and the man who was the NFL's MVP in 1991 missed the Bills first two offensive plays from scrimmage.
In Super Bowl VII, Miami was looking to complete the first and still only perfect season in NFL history.
Super Bowl XVIII had long been decided as the third quarter was counting down to a close.
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 Super Bowl Super Bowl XVIII history: L.A Raiders Vs Redskins Superbowl history @ Superbowl-history.com
The Contenders for Super Bowl XVIII were without question the best in the National Football League (NFL).
After stopping Riggins on a fourth-and-one at the Raiders 26-yard line later in the third quarter, the Raiders widened their lead to 35-9 with a Super Bowl record-setting 74-yard touchdown run by Allen.
The 38 points scored by the Raiders were the highest total by a Super Bowl team.
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 Super Bowl XXIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Theismann, who failed to connect on his first five passes, was 6-of-18 for 78 yards, and Riggins, the super bulldozer a year earlier when his 166 yards rushing set a Super Bowl mark, had gained only 37 yards in 16 tries, an unflattering 2.3 yards per carry.
In a similar situation in the previous year's Super Bowl, Riggins broke away for a 43-yard touchdown romp that put Washington ahead of the Miami Dolphins for good.
It was the second Super Bowl victory for Coach Tom Flores, who guided the Oakland Raiders past Philadelphia in Super Bowl XV before the franchise moved to Los Angeles.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments
Super Bowl XXXIV: The Titans and Rams are tied at 16-16 with 2:05 remaining when Kurt Warner tosses a long, high pass to Isaac Bruce, who outjumps Titans cornerback Denard Walker, slips by safety Anthony Dorsett and bounds 73 yards for the game-winning touchdown.
Super Bowl X: Lynn Swann's signature grab in his MVP performance comes late in the second quarter with the ball on the Dallas 10-yard line.
Super Bowl XXIII: In their first Super Bowl in four years, the 49ers had scored just one touchdown and trail the Bengals 16-13 when they take possession at their own 8 with 3:10 left on the lock.
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 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.
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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 recaps - Page 1 of 2
In the first competitive Super Bowl, Colt PK Jim O’Brien booted a 32-yard field goal with five seconds left to give the Colts their only lead of the day.
It was the first championship in the 42-year history of the Steelers and the third Super Bowl loss for the Vikings.
San Francisco and Cincinnati were both competing in the Super Bowl for the first time, and the Bengals became the first losing team to gain more yards from scrimmage than their opponent.
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 Super Bowl Summaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Denver's John Elway snapped the Super Bowl jinx for the quarterback class of 1983, earning his first NFL championship in four tries with the Broncos.
When asked if he would retire now that he has won a Super Bowl, Elway's only response was, "I'll talk to you," as he rushed off the field to join his teammates.
Super Bowl MVP Terrell Davis, Owner Pat Bowlen and quarterback John Elway pose with the Vince Lombardi Trophy in the locker room.
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 Superbowl2001: Super Bowl Q & A
The NFL uses a random drawing method to sell Super Bowl tickets to the general public, but the deadline for the drawing was June 1.
A: Yes, Super Bowl XVIII (L.A. Raiders 38, Washington 9) and Super Bowl XXV (N.Y. Giants 20, Buffalo 19) were at Tampa Stadium.
A: Super Bowl XXXIV generated an economic impact on the state of Georgia of $292-million, according to a study by Georgia State University of Atlanta.
www.sptimes.com /News/012101/SuperBowl2001/Super_Bowl_Q__A.shtml   (324 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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 Future Super Bowl Locations - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Super Bowl XLI will be the record-tying (New Orleans) ninth Super Bowl played in the Miami area.
Super Bowl XLII will be played in a new stadium that is currently under construction in Glendale, Ariz. The site of the 2008 Super Bowl was decided at the owners' meetings in Chicago on Oct. 29-30, 2003.
Super Bowl XLIII will be the fourth Super Bowl in Tampa, and the first one since 2001, when the Baltimore Ravens defeated the New York Giants, 34-7, in Super Bowl XXXV.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - Super memories of two-way talents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Allen rushed for a Super Bowl-record 191 yards and was named MVP -- pretty impressive for someone who wasn't "fast enough." I was a freshman at USC in 1981, the year Allen won the Heisman; so it was that much sweeter to watch someone I had played with make such a monumental mark in history.
But, seriously, the one Super Bowl moment that stands out is the John Elway dive during Super Bowl XXXII against the Packers, which resulted in him being air-lifted like a helicopter propeller.
I remember watching Tom Brady after Super Bowl XXXVI, with his helmet off, turn to Drew Bledsoe and you could read his lips as he said, "we did it." It was an extremely moving moment.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - The greatest Super Bowl subs ever
Morrall, who started in the Colts' Super Bowl III loss to the Jets, took over from Super Bowl V starter Johnny Unitas, who was taken out with bruised ribs near the end of the first half.
In the Super Bowl he got a rare start as the Bucs' fifth defensive back (nickelback), and proved he could do the job, running two interceptions back for touchdowns -- a first in Super Bowl history.
In the Super Bowl, Willaims completed 18 of 29 attempts for 340 yards and four TDs and was named MVP.
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 The Super Bowl turns XL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Super Bowl is turning the big X-L. It has become the country's biggest unofficial holiday and probably accounts for more parties then New Year's Eve and more spreads than Thanksgiving.
Shotgun Late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl VII, the the Miami Dolphins are set to take a 17-0 lead and nail down a perfect 17-0 season when kicker Garo Yepremian has his 42-yard field-goal try blocked.
Cruisin' On the eve of Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami, Atlanta Falcons free safety Eugene Robinson is arrested and charged with soliciting an undercover police officer for sexual favors.
www.statesman.com /sports/content/sports/stories/other/02/5Super40s.html   (2305 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Statitudes - Statitudes: Super Bowl History -- By the Numbers - Thursday January 25, 2001 04:45 PM
The Bengals and 49ers were knotted 3-3 in Super Bowl XXIII.
Only the AFC East has gone longer without a Super Bowl title, last won by Miami in Super Bowl VIII in the '73 season.
Super Bowl I in Los Angeles (61,946) and Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis (63,130) are the only games to attract fewer than 70,000 fans.
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 ESPN.com - NFL - Recap
DETROIT -- The Pittsburgh Steelers were the overwhelming sentimental Super Bowl XL favorites, both here and in Las Vegas, but for better than three quarters, the Seattle Seahawks had Pittsburgh engaged in a serious football game.
Technically, this was Pittsburgh's fifth Super Bowl victory -- tying the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys for the league's highest total -- but it feels like a different era.
Seattle defensive back Kelly Herndon's 76-yard interception return was also the longest play of its kind in the 40-year history of Super Bowls, and it brought the Seahawks back into the game midway through the third quarter.
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 Super Bowl quiz -- free game
Fran Tarkenton of the Minnesota Vikings was sacked for the first Super Bowl safety in Super Bowl IX.
In Super Bowl XXII, the Washington Redskin defeated the Denver Broncos 42-10.
The Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots 35-21 in Super Bowl XXXI.
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 Super Bowl Xviii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Super Bowl Tickets for Super Bowl XVIII at Ford Field in Detroit from EveryTicket.com Super Bowl Tickets.
The first Super Bowl in Tampa was held in 1984, when the Los Angeles Raiders beat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII.
Super Bowl XXVIII Ticket and Ring Emmitt Smith earned MVP honors after rushing for 132 yards and two TDs.
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