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10. Super Bowl XXXIX

This was one of those games where dreams are waiting to be fulfilled. The New England Patriots are plan-ning to establish a dynasty while the Philadelphia Eagles are trying their best to regain the losing streak from the previous three seasons. The sus-pense began when Deion Branch tied the game through a touchdown recep-tion. Brady threw a touchdown pass that was caught by linebacker Mike Vrabel, which made the score 14-7. However, the Eagles caught up with a 10-play that tied the game all over again. Patriots managed to make a field goal that jumped the score to 24-14. McNabb still tried to fight it out but the team was 3 points short.

9. Super Bowl XIII

The Steelers and the Cowboys are caught in the cross lines where they scored 14-14 with the second quarter only having 10 minutes. On the last ten, both teams have intercepted and run back and forth, making sure that the ball does not cross the goal. How-ever, the momentum was broken when MVP Terry Bradshaw gave Rocky Ble-ier a touchdown pass to heat things up. On the fourth quarter, it was a 35-17 game in favor of the Pittsburgh where Dallas can no longer catch up with the lead, even as a touchdown pass was made from Roger Staubauch to Du-

pree, which shortened the score dif-ference down to four.

8. Super Bowl III

This season of Super Bowl was memo-rable in NFL and in sports history be-cause of the actual scenario that was seen in the field, a fight between David and Goliath, in the form of New York Jets and the Baltimore Colts. Despite of the major difference in strength, Joe Namath guaranteed to the team that they would win the game. If it were not for quarterback Johnny Uni-tas, where he made a touchdown for 13 points, which only came in the fourth quarter, the third Super Bowl could have scored 16 to nothing.

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The 10 best games

The first Super Bowl was played in 1967, between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. And the productions seen 45 years ago looked nothing like what we know of the Su-per Bowl today.

The first Super Bowl was conceived as a peace offering

Prior to the first Super Bowl, the AFL and NFL were embroiled in a nasty war that was getting out of hand. So Tex Schramm, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, met and worked out a truce that would include a championship game between the champions of the two leagues.

The first Super Bowl was not officially called the Super Bowl

The first Super Bowl was actu-ally called the “World Championship Game,” and was later retroactively renamed the Super Bowl. However, the name “Super Bowl” was conceived prior to the first Super Bowl by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who named it after his daughter’s “Super Ball.”

Pete Rozelle hated the name ‘Super Bowl’

When Lamar Hunt first con-ceived the name “Su-per Bowl,” he assumed that it was a temporary

nickname, “which obviously can be improved upon.” And Pete Rozelle, the commissioner of the NFL, hated the name. It wasn’t until Super Bowl III, that he relented and the name be-came official. Additionally, the use of roman numeral designations did not begin until Super Bowl V.

The first Super Bowl

No network footage exists of the first Super Bowl

There is no known copy of the original airings of Super Bowl I. Both networks taped over their copies to record other ma-terial, including a soap opera on CBS.

In fact, the first Super Bowl did not even come close to selling out. Attendance at the L.A. Coliseum was just 61,946 that day, in a stadium that held close to 100,000 at the time.

The Super Bowl was not seen in Los Angeles

As a result of not being sold out, the first Super Bowl was blacked out within 75 miles of Los Angeles. Unfortunately for those fans, there were no websites illegally streaming the game.

The first Super Bowl was seen on two networksThe first Super Bowl aired on both CBS and NBC on January 15, 1967. Two

networks were used as they represented the networks of the AFL and NFL, and both leagues wanted the game on their network. The two networks paid a combined $9.5 million for the rights to the first four Super Bowls. Forty-five years later, NBC, CBS, and Fox signed a recent deal that will pay the NFL $3.1 billion per year.

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7. Super Bowl XXXVIII

One team scores, and then another team retaliates. This is how the season of Super Bowl was analyzed by most football fans when they saw how the Patriots fought it out with the Pan-thers. The first 26 minutes of the game was full of suspense as no score was made. However, silence was broken 4 minutes before the end of the quarter when New England scored a touch-down, which was then exchanged by Carolina, making the score 14-10. With 2:51 left on the 4th quarter and the Panthers was leading 29-22, the Patri-ots have devised a play, where Brady tapped Viniatieri into making a goal, with the team being 3 points higher.

6. Super Bowl XXXIV

The Titans and the Rams made the show on the roll due to the heart-pounding battles on the close yards to the goal. Both teams see to it that they exhaust all their defenses to re-verse the attack and retaliate with their force. St. Louise broke the si-lence with a touchdown pass at the end zone, while Tennessee avenged with two consecutive driving attacks. The highlight of the game was when Mike Jones wrapped up Kevin Dyson where he did not reach the end zone, even if he tried to reach the goal with his hands full stretched.

5. Super Bowl XXV

The game is remembered as the “Wide Right Game” because of a drastic fail-ure coming from Buffalo Bill’s player, Scott Norwood when he made the 47-yard kick, thinking that everything will work out great. For many of the spectators, all things seemed too per-fect to make that moment of retaliat-ing from the New York Giants. What is worse, the kick became a curse to the Bills, which began the four season losing streak.

4. Super Bowl XLIII

The Cardinals may be thirsty for the victory, as the team is seeking for its first Super Bowl winning since 1947, it was never enough to pull them through against the power of the Pitts-burgh Steelers. Thanks to a gathering of former forces, such as the former of-fensive coordinator, Ken Whisenhunt, and the return of Kurt Warner to the team, Super Bowl XXXIV’s MVP, the Steelers had an unexpected win.

3. Super Bowl XXXVI

This is one of the games where Tom Brady had led the march for the New England Patriots to win another vic-

tory, where he completed 16 passes in 145 yards, where he made a touch-down. Even though the Rams had giv-en out all they could, using different kinds of arsenals, such as two former NFL MVPs and record-reaching offen-sive plays, the strategy was not enough to bring the Giants down.

2. Super Bowl XXIII

The Super Bowl XXIII is one game that has demonstrated a buzzer beat-er, which is usually seen in the NBA. Thanks to the resilience of the 49ers at the last quarter, they were able to make 14 points, which was just enough to reverse the mood of the game. With a 16-13 score in favor of the Bengals, San Francisco did everything they could to play in their yard line with 3 minutes left on the clock. In the last 34 seconds, Joe Montana threw a great pass to John Taylor and got a touch-down because of it.

1. Super Bowl XLII

This has been heralded as the best game ever because of the loss received by the New England Patriots and the victory of a wild card team, the New York Giants. Kinda reminds you of Rocky, doesn’t it? At first glance, you can analyze that the Patriots can win easy against the Giants because of their almost perfect profile with incredible records and performance under their belt. However, the Giants carried with them a reliable line of de-fense, and Lady Luck at their side.

The first Super Bowl trophy was not called the Lombardi Trophy.Obviously, the Green Bay Packers did not win the “Lombardi Trophy” as they were coached by Vince Lombardi. At the time, the trophy did not have a name, and was simply inscribed with the words “World Professional Football Championship,” along with the location and the final score. The trophy was named in honor of Lombardi in 1970.

The first Super Bowl was cheapTickets for reserved seats at the first Super Bowl were $10-12. That translates to $67-81 in 2011 dollars if we consider in-flation. This year, the face value for Super Bowl tickets is $800-$1,200. And of course, it will cost you much more than that on the secondary market. Yet, the first Super Bowl did not sell out

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