Super Bowl | Family Guy Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Share The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the premier association of professional American football. It was first played on January 15, 1967, as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion teams would play in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game until the merger was consummated in 1970. After the merger, each league became a "conference", and the game was then played between conference champions. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl I was played in 1967 to determine the championship of the regular season played in 1966. Following Apple Computer's 1984 commercial introducing the Macintosh computer, directed by Ridley Scott, the broadcast of the Super Bowl became the premier showcase for high concept and expensive commercials. A Stewie Griffin parade float appears in a Coca-Cola commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLII, which was between the New York Giants and New England Patriots .

The network that airs the Super Bowl typically takes advantage of the large audience to air an episode of a hit series, or to premiere the pilot of a promising new series in the lead-out slot, which immediately follows the Super Bowl and post-game coverage. When FOX aired Super Bowls XXXIII in 1999 and XXXIX in 2005, they aired the pilots of Family Guy and American Dad! , respectively, pairing them with episodes of The Simpsons . Thus, the early success of Seth MacFarlane can largely be attributed to his shows' post-Super Bowl premiere. Since then, when the game airs on FOX, episodes of Family Guy and American Dad! are pre-empted, and do not air on those Sundays. Because the Super Bowl is one of the most watched programs every year, only reruns of Family Guy air on Super Bowl Sunday when the game airs on CBS, NBC, or, until 2006, ABC.

However, a Super Bowl commercial features a clip of Family Guy which the NFL subtly branded with Patriots and Cleveland Browns (the latter on the character of the same name) jerseys, with them watching the game between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers , and gamecallers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are seen.. Other shows involved include Happy Days , The Simpsons , Seinfeld and The Brady Bunch . Peter Griffin's actions in the pilot, " Death Has a Shadow ", leads him to Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida, site of Super Bowl XXXIII, between the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons. Accompanied by his dog Brian , he uses a blimp to hover over the stadium to return the money he acquired through welfare fraud to the taxpayers. Commentators John Madden and Pat Summerall , who called the game for FOX, appeared in the episode doing their jobs. Summerall even retrieved some of the money on the field. Super Bowl Group | Flickr Super Bowl Group Sign in Group Description Any and all photographs relating to the Super Bowl. These images can be of, but not limited to, the game itself, pre-game festivities, the NFL Experience, the parties, etc.

The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the premier association of professional American football. It was first played on January 15, 1967, as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its then-rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues' champion teams would play in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game until the merger was consummated in 1970. After the merger, each league became a "conference", and the game was then played between conference champions. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl I was played in 1967 to determine the championship of the regular season played in 1966, while Super Bowl XLV will be played on February 6, 2011, to determine the champion of the 2010 regular season. The day on which the Super Bowl is played is now considered a de facto American national holiday,[1][2][3] called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-largest day for U.S.

food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day.[4] In most years, the Super Bowl is the most-watched American television broadcast; Super Bowl XLIV, played in February 2010, became the most-watched American television program in history, drawing an average audience of 106.5 million viewers and taking over the spot held for twenty-seven years by the final episode of M*A*S*H.[5] The Super Bowl final is among the most watched sporting events in the world, primarily due to strong North American audiences. Because of its high viewership, commercial airtime during the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year. Due to the high cost of investing in advertising on the Super Bowl, companies regularly develop their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. As a result, watching and discussing the broadcast's commercials has become a significant aspect of the event.[citation needed] In addition, many popular singers and musicians have performed during the event's pre-game and halftime ceremonies because of the exposure.

Additional Info Accepted content types: Photos, Videos, Images, Art, Screenshots Accepted safety levels: Safe super bowl 2011 super bowl 2011 The Super Bowl 2011 The Super Bowl has been the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the premier association of professional American football, since 1967. It was first played on January 15, 1967 as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and the then rival league, the American Football League (AFL). It was agreed that the two leagues’ champion teams would play in an AFL–NFL World Championship Game, until the merger was consummated. After the merger of the two leagues in 1970, each league became a "conference", and the game was played between conference champions. The Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowls, while the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers have each won five. Seventeen other NFL franchises have won at least one Super Bowl. Only four active NFL franchises have not appeared in the Super Bowl: the Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans.

The Lions are the only NFC team yet to play in one, the other three are in the AFC. The Browns and Lions have both won NFL championships prior to the Super Bowl era, while the Jaguars (who joined the NFL in 1995) and Texans (2002) joined the league after the Super Bowl era began. Lamar Hunt, former owner of the Kansas City Chiefs and founding member of the American Football League, coined the name Super Bowl after watching his children playing with a Super Ball. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. Super Bowl I was played in 1967 to determine the championship of the regular season played in 1966, and Super Bowl XLIV was played on February 7, 2010 to determine the champion of the 2009 regular season. In most years, the Super Bowl is the most-watched American television broadcast.

In February 2010, Super Bowl XLIV became the most-watched television program ever, drawing an average audience of 106.5 million viewers and taking over the spot held for 27 years by the final episode of M*A*S*H.[1] Exclusive television broadcast rights for the Super Bowl rotate each year among three of the four major American television networks: CBS, Fox, ABC and NBC. Because of its high viewership, commercial airtime for the Super Bowl broadcast is the most expensive of the year. Due to the high cost of investing in advertising on the Super Bowl, companies regularly develop their most expensive advertisements for this broadcast. As a result, watching and discussing the broadcast’s commercials has become a significant aspect of the event. Many popular singers and musicians have performed during the event's pre-game and halftime ceremonies. The day on which the Super Bowl is played is now considered a de facto American national holiday,[2][3][4] called Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day.[5] Publié par Football in the USA Football in the USA You can download a .pdf version of this document by clicking here . © Peter S.

Morris, All rights reserved. If baseball is America's pastime, then football is its passion. Especially after the rise of television, American "gridiron" football has become the country's premier spectator sport, even though other sports such as basketball, baseball/softball, and soccer boast far more recreational participants. Football also is American culture's greatest spectacle, the primary sporting focus of homecoming and holiday celebrations and one of the country's most prominent façades to the world. Through widely-watched events such as the Super Bowl—professional football's annual "world championship" game—and college football's various Bowl games on New Year's Day, football provides a stage for Americans to celebrate local, regional, national, ethnic, collegiate, and other identities, as well as a stage for American corporations and universities to promote themselves and their products. Indeed, no other sport carries as much symbolic baggage as does American football. A violent, rigidly hierarchical, and highly gendered sport—the sporting equivalent of the military—football is often seen by its supporters and detractors alike as the embodiment of everything that is right (or wrong) about American culture and society.

Origins of American Football As in England, where the sport first developed, early football in the United States was relatively disorganized and often quite violent. Different towns and schools played by their own sets of rules, but they all involved two sides of a dozen or more men on foot rather than horseback—hence the sport's name—attempting to direct a ball toward goals at opposite ends of the field. With the rising popularity of interscholastic competition, football gradually became more formalized on both sides of the Atlantic during the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1863, English proponents of the relatively non-violent, no-handling version of the game created the Football Association, whose distinctive "soccer" rules have since become the world's most popular football code. One year earlier, Gerritt Smith Miller established the first formal football club in the United States, Boston Common's Oneida Club. The first-ever intercollegiate match in the United States, between Princeton and Rutgers on 6 November 1869, featured teams of 25 men each playing rules more akin to soccer than to the modern American game.

(Rutgers won 6 to 4.) But footballers in the United States, like those at Britain's Rugby school, came to prefer more "manly" versions of the sport, in which the ball could be played and carried with the hands, thus requiring a more violent style of tackling. For example, the Oneida Club preferred the rugby-like "Boston Game," as did nearby students at Harvard University, whose pair of well-publicized matches in 1874 with rugby-playing McGill University of Montreal did much to popularize rugged handling versions of the sport. It was at Yale University, however, that the distinctive American "gridiron" game would emerge. In 1872, Rugby alum D. S. Schaft introduced his schoolboy version of the game to the Yale campus. But Schaft's American classmates, led by Walter Camp—a tireless promoter of both the game and himself and the so-called "Father of American Football"—soon began tinkering with the rugby code, which the Americans found to be excessively ambiguous and overly reliant on interpretations grounded in British sporting tradition.

Eager to develop an unambiguous code of football for intercollegiate play, a rules committee led by Camp gradually developed a more rigid, complicated, and formalized version of football—a game of technical coordination, specialized roles, and scripted plays which resonated with the emerging corporate, industrial society these Ivy League men would soon lead. The most prominent changes made by Camp's rules committee occurred in 1880 and 1882, when the relatively fluid play and "scrummage" of rugby were replaced by a line of "scrimmage," a formal play-initiating exchange between a designated "center" and "quarterback," and ball possession limited by a fixed number of downs and distance—originally, three plays to gain five yards. This down-and-distance system necessitated the horizontal marking of the field at five-yard intervals, hence the "gridiron" name by which the American game subsequently has been called. Early Cultural Significance American football served the multiple roles of holiday spectacle, promotional vehicle, and symbol of American virtue and vice from an early date. In 1876, for example, the newly created Intercollegiate Football Association played its first championship game in New York City on Thanksgiving Day.

This Thanksgiving matchup in New York became an annual event in 1882, and by the end of the decade it had become one of the year's leading social engagements for the Northeast's college-educated elite—"more of a spectacle than an athletic contest" according to Harper's Weekly in 1893 (December 9). While the Thanksgiving Day–football tradition remains with us today through the professional ranks, New Year's Day ultimately became the primary holiday for collegiate football championships, beginning in 1902, when an intersectional game was first made the centerpiece of Pasadena, California's Tournament of Roses. This "Rose Bowl" football championship became an annual tradition in 1916, and it was followed by imitators in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana during the 1930s. These holiday football games proved to great commercial successes, as well as outstanding vehicles to promote Sunbelt tourist destinations and real-estate opportunities to college-educated populations of the cold Northeast. The success of one's football team also quickly became a marketing opportunity for the schools themselves.

Baseball was the only other sport at the turn of the century that potentially could rival football for capturing alumni attention, but baseball's summer schedule and the competition for players from the professional ranks allowed football to become the primary ceremonial attachment to one's alma mater. Administrators quickly recognized the potential for college football to generate needed revenue—in 1903, for example, Yale received $106,000 from football, equal to the combined budgets of its medical, divinity, and law schools—as well as attention from prospective students and donors. Thus, upon assuming the presidency of the newly endowed University of Chicago, Yale alumnus William Rainey Harper made his first order of business the hiring of Yale legend Amos Alonzo Stagg as the school's football coach. More than just promoting the schools themselves, successful college football teams became a vehicle for communities only tangentially related to the schools to celebrate their place in American society. The country's Irish and other Catholic populations, for example, saw the historic 1913 victory of Knute Rockne's Notre Dame team over Army, as well as the school's subsequent victories over other traditional Eastern powerhouses, as a symbolic achievement against the traditional WASP elite.

Likewise, when the University of Alabama upset the heavily favored team from the University of Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl, it was not just the first victory by a southern school in an intersectional football game; it was also widely celebrated throughout the South as both a long-awaited victory over the North and a sign that the region was not backwards and could indeed participate in modern, industrial American society. Football's ability to carry this symbolic load was aided by the very nature of the game. From the beginning, football's proponents argued that the rugged athleticism, the near-savage violence, and the technically demanding teamwork required by the sport provided both a necessary masculine tonic to a post-Frontier American society and a valuable training ground for the future captains of modern industry. The violence and commercialism of turn-of-century college football, however, was also the source of great controversy. The use of mass-formation plays, most notoriously the "Flying Wedge" introduced at Harvard by Lorin Deland in 1892, led to numerous on-field fatalities.

In 1905, for example, eleven years after the Flying Wedge was outlawed, the Chicago Tribune reported an end-of-season count of 18 deaths and 159 additional "serious" injuries. One of these deaths was of a Union College halfback in a game against New York University. In response to this death, as well as to concerns regarding unethical recruiting and payment of players, NYU President Henry McCracken organized a conference of college officials. The result was the founding of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (which became the NCAA in 1910). With pressure from President Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard and Navy broke ranks with Walter Camp's Intercollegiate Rules Committee, opening the way for a dramatic reforms during the next five years—such as legalization of the forward pass and other rule changes designed to make the game more open and offensive, based less on brute strength and more on finesse. Even with these rules changes, a number of universities dropped the sport, including Columbia, MIT, California, and Stanford—the latter two switching to rugby and its more gentlemanly traditions.

A Modern Entertainment Industry Concerns about commercialism, professionalism, and brutality in college football persisted into the 1920s; in fact, they continue today. But NCAA-led reforms of player recruiting and eligibility standards, and the continuing evolution of pass-oriented, offensive-minded rules and tactics—such as the modern "T-formation" introduced in the 1940s—helped college football further increase and broaden in popularity, well beyond the original core of the college-educated elite. Equally important during the "Golden Age" of the 1920s, however, was the rise of legendary players, teams, and coaches alongside the heroes such as Charles Lindbergh being created by a new national media. Grantland Rice and others introduced a new breed of sports writing, creating almost-mythical heroes out of stars like Notre Dame's George Gipp and the "Four Horsemen," and on the West Coast, Andy Smith's "Wonder Teams" at the University of California. To house the burgeoning crowds wanting to watch their new heroes, universities built enormous new stadia; during the 1920s, the nationwide count of facilities able to hold more than 70,000 spectators increased from one to seven.

More importantly, fans who were unable to attend the games could follow their heroes' exploits through new technologies like radio and cinema newsreels. This process of commercialization and professionalization of college football continued after World War II with the advent of television, "full-ride" athletic scholarships, and expanded regulatory powers for the NCAA, although some schools—most prominently the traditional Ivy League powers—chose not to participate in all of these developments. As a result, college football by the end of the twentieth century had become a two-tiered system: a modern, nationwide sports-entertainment industry for the roughly one hundred schools participating in the NCAA's Division I-A, and a more traditional spectator sport for the lower-division schools, where the nationwide attention and direct financial benefits are not as great, but the pressure to win among alumni and local fans are just as strong. Coincident with the rise of college football as a modern entertainment industry was the rise of professional football. The earliest professional football player of record was Yale's William "Pudge" Heffelfinger, who in 1892 received $500 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association against heated rival Pittsburgh Athletic Club.

Until the 1920s, such semi-pro club competitions remained concentrated in small and medium-sized industrial cities of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and they provided an alternative source of identity and entertainment for the non-WASP working classes. For some, professional football also provided a chance at limited fame and fortune; most notably, Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indian School, followed his double-gold-medal performance at the 1912 Olympics by leading the Canton Bulldogs to three straight Ohio League titles for $250 per game. Modern professional football emerged after 1920, when clubs from four midwestern states met in Canton to standardize rules and form the American Professional Football Association—changed in 1922 to the National Football League. In a real sense, however, modern pro football did not arise until 1925, when George Halas's Chicago Bears signed University of Illinois star Harold "Red" Grange.

The "Galloping Ghost of the Gridiron," as christened by Grantland Rice, was the most famous of the 1920s college-football heroes, bursting on the national scene with a four-touchdown performance against Michigan—four runs of 45 yards or more, which were replayed to theater audiences nationwide. Working in tandem with promoter Charles Pyle, Grange defied the Victorian "gentleman" ideal that frowned upon college athletes capitalizing financially on their athletic talents. Grange endorsed everything from chocolate to clothing, and in the process, he galvanized public interest in the fledgling NFL—73,000 came to seem him play at New York's Polo Grounds on a barnstorming tour shortly after signing with the Bears. The NFL struggled during the Depression years of the 1930s, resulting in the folding of most of the league's smaller-city teams—all but the Green Bay (Wisc.) Packers. But after the second world war, professional football found a perfect partner in television.

In addition to being relatively well suited to the new broadcast medium—action concentrated in both time and space—football benefited from having a close-knit group of owners who willingly gave centralized control to strong league commissioners: Bert Bell (1946–59) and Alvin "Pete" Rozelle (1960–1989). In contrast to the experience of baseball, Bell and Rozelle pioneered sports television by negotiating centralized contracts with national television networks eager for exclusive, viewer-delivering programming. The NFL's television-driven success of the 1950s quickly drew competition—most notably the American Football League, formed in 1959 by a pair of Texas millionaires (Lamar Hunt and K. S. "Bud" Adams), which used money from a $42-million television deal with NBC to lure college talent such as Alabama quarterback Joe Namath. The end result was a merger agreement in 1966, which retained Rozelle as the league chairman and introduced an annual AFL-NFL championship game in 1967, which eventually became known as the Super Bowl.

Football Today Building on turn-of-the-century passions for the game among college alumni, no American sport better capitalized on the opportunities provided by new electronic media than football, in both its professional and collegiate forms. The annual Super Bowl has become late-twentieth-century America's single-greatest televised sporting event—indeed, its single-greatest television event, period, with workplace water-cooler talk the following Monday as likely to concern the new advertisements debuted in 30-second, one-million-dollar advertising slots as on the game itself. Like the Thanksgiving Day college games in New York during the 1890s, football today is as much a spectacle as a sporting event. Football is not just a televised marketing and entertainment vehicle, however. While it trails other sports as a recreational activity for youths and adults, football is the cornerstone of extracurricular life at high schools nationwide.

In some areas, local "football fever" is so prominent that entire communities' identities seem to be wrapped up in the local football teams—places like Stark County, Ohio, where the legendary Massillon High School Tigers draw more than 100,000 spectators per year, or Midland-Odessa, Texas, where the annual Permian-Lee rivalry draws more than 20,000 partisans. Football's popularity helps make the sport a symbolic battle field in American "culture wars." For its proponents, football provides the ideal proving ground for young men to test and develop their manhood, instilling values such as teamwork and self-reliance. At the same time, traditional ideas of femininity are promoted in corollary institutions such as cheerleading and pep squads—ideas that are playfully challenged, but also reinforced, by role-reversing "Powder Puff" games. Often these traditional gender roles and "family values" are promoted in an explicitly religious setting, with clergymen of Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, and other faiths being prominent participants in pre- and post-game rituals. Of course, this makes football a target for those less enamored with the social status quo.

Football is thus denounced as a promoter of violence, sexism, and greed, with no finer symbol of its problems than football-star-turned-suspected-murderer O. J. Simpson. In short, football at the beginning of the 21st century, as in the early 20th century, remains one of the country's most loved and hated sports. Postscript: Whatever Became of Soccer in America? As soccer rose to global prominence during the first half of the twentieth century, especially throughout Europe and South America, it persisted in North America only in scattered pockets—primarily working-class immigrant communities of the northeast such as Fall River, Massachusetts. Early attempts to establish soccer as a commercial spectator sport were largely unsuccessful. During the 1920s, some early soccer clubs in the United States did produce some noteworthy players—most famously the native-Scot Archie Stark of Bethlehem Steel and the Massachusetts-born Billy Gonsalves, whose New York Yankees memorably beat the touring Scottish champions, Glasgow Celtic, in 1931.

But aging stadia and economic depression took their toll during the 1930s, and by 1941, the number of registered clubs in the United States had fallen from over two hundred to just eight. Rather than making soccer a widely followed spectator sport, these early leagues cemented soccer's reputation in the USA as a "foreign" game played by immigrants and prone to outbreaks of working-class violence. In 1968, two floundering year-old leagues merged to form the North American Soccer League. The NASL blossomed with the landmark signing in 1975 by the New York Cosmos of the world's greatest player, Brazil's Pelé. He soon was followed by other aging foreign stars, and by the time Pelé retired in 1977, the NASL had expanded to 24 teams. This proved to be overexpansion, however, and the 1984 season, with only nine teams competing, was the NASL's last.

The seed planted by the NASL finally bore fruit on 19 November 1989, when Paul Caligiuri's late-minute goal against Trinidad and Tobago sent the United States to the 1990 World Cup in Italy. By placing the national team on the world's premier soccer stage for the first time in forty years, a feat that would be repeated in 1994, 1998, and 2002. Caligiuri's goal helped establish the national teams, both men's and women's, as soccer's primary vehicle for publicity in the United States, enabling the sport to partially shed its foreign image. This role would be cemented during the 1990s as an ever-more-global United States successfully hosted both the 1994 men's and 1999 women's World Cup finals, with expectations surpassed both on and off the field via shattered attendance records, the men's team successfully moving past the first round, and the women's team winning a memorable championship over China. Caligiuri's landmark goal in 1989 represents another, more important dimension to the development of soccer in the United States.

Unlike his predecessors early in the century, Caligiuri learned his soccer in a suburban, middle-class community of Southern California. He thus represents soccer's rise after 1970 as a popular participation sport among American middle-class youth. Fueled by the fitness craze, the momentary popularity of the NASL, and the rapid rise of girls' and women's sports, soccer became a favorite alternative to traditional American sports. Parents liked soccer because it was less violent and cheaper to equip than the traditional sports; kids liked it because it was more active and more welcoming to those shut out of other sports by their size or sex. By 1995, nearly eight million children under age twelve were playing organized soccer, second only to basketball. The long-term impact of soccer's popularity as a youth sport and the recent successes of the men's and women's national teams remains to be seen. In 1996, yet another attempt at a national professional league, Major League Soccer, debuted with ten teams and enough television and advertising support to carry it safely into the 21st century.

Likewise, soccer continues to grow as a participation sport, especially among adults; the number of registered adult players increased threefold between 1986 and 1996. But soccer still has yet to be established as a major spectator sport in American culture, one that can count on front-page coverage in the English-speaking press. For the next generation at least, soccer remains a mystery to most Americans, a somewhat strange activity for kids and "foreigners in funny shorts." Additional Reading H. G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990). Pete Davies, Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to Soccer and World Cup '94 (New York: Random House, 1994) Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (New York: Harper Collins, 2004) Bill Murray, The World's Game: A History of Soccer (Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998) Benjamin G.

Rader, American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators, 3d edition (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996). David Riesman and Reuel Denney, "Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion," American Quarterly 3 (1951), pp. 309-25. © November 2004 Peter S. Morris, all rights reserved. UA-21077143-1 The South Florida Super Bowl Bid Committee LIV The Second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later known as Super Bowl II, was played on January 14, 1968 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Oakland Raiders by the score of 33–14. Coming into this game, like during the first Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans believed that any team in the NFL was vastly superior to any club in the AFL.

The Packers, the defending Super Bowl I champions, posted a 9-4-1 record during the 1967 NFL season before defeating the Dallas Cowboys, 21-17, in the 1967 NFL Championship Game (also popularly known as the Ice Bowl). The Raiders finished the 1967 AFL season at 13-1, and defeated the Houston Oilers, 40-7, in the 1967 AFL Championship Game. As expected, Green Bay dominated Oakland throughout most of Super Bowl II. The Raiders could only score two touchdown passes from quarterback Daryle Lamonica. Meanwhile, Packers kicker Don Chandler made four field goals, including three in the first half, while defensive back Herb Adderly has a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown. Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr was named the Super Bowl MVP for the second time for his 13 of 24 passes for 202 yards and one touchdown. Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name "Super Bowl" (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games came to be known, retroactively, as "Super Bowls").

The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7. This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL. Entering Super Bowl III, just like the previous two Super Bowls, many sports writers and fans believed that AFL teams did not have the same caliber of talent as NFL clubs, and thus fully expected the Colts to defeat the Jets. Baltimore posted a 13-1 record during the 1968 NFL season before defeating the Cleveland Browns, 34-0, in the 1968 NFL Championship Game. The Jets finished the 1968 AFL season at 11-3, and defeated the Oakland Raiders, 27-23, in the 1968 AFL Championship Game. Undaunted, Jets quarterback Joe Namath made an appearance three days before the Super Bowl at the Miami Touchdown Club and brashly guaranteed a victory.

His team backed up his words by controlling most of the game, and built a 16-0 lead through the fourth quarter off of a touchdown run by Matt Snell and three field goals by Jim Turner. Colts quarterback Earl Morrall threw three interceptions before being replaced by Johnny Unitas, who then led Baltimore to its only touchdown during the last few minutes of the game. Namath, who completed 17 out of 28 passes for 206 yards, was named the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player, despite not throwing a touchdown pass in the game or any passes at all in the fourth quarter. Super Bowl V was played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Colts and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1970 season. The Colts defeated the Cowboys by the score of 16–13. The game was played on January 17, 1971, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, the first Super Bowl game played on artificial turf. This was the first Super Bowl played after the completion of the AFL-NFL Merger.

As per the merger agreement, all 26 AFL and NFL teams were divided into 2 conferences with 13 teams in each of them. Along with the Colts, the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to join the 10 AFL teams to form the AFC. The remaining 13 NFL teams formed the NFC. This explains why the Colts represented the NFL in Super Bowl III, but not the NFC for Super Bowl V. Baltimore advanced to Super Bowl V after posting an 11-2-1 regular season record. Meanwhile, the Cowboys were making their first Super Bowl appearance after posting a 10-4 regular season record. The game is sometimes called the "Blunder Bowl" or the "Stupor Bowl" because it was filled with poor play, penalties, turnovers, and officiating miscues. The two teams committed a Super Bowl record 11 combined turnovers in the game, and the Colts' 7 turnovers are currently the most ever committed by a winning team in a Super Bowl. Dallas also set a Super Bowl record with 10 penalties, costing them 133 yards. It was finally settled with five seconds left when Colts rookie kicker Jim O'Brien kicked a 32-yard field goal.

In order to win the game, Baltimore had to overcome a 13–6 deficit at the half, losing their starting quarterback in the second quarter. It is the only Super Bowl in which the Most Valuable Player Award was given to a member of the losing team: Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley, who intercepted two passes (sacks and tackles were not yet recorded). Howley, the first non-quarterback to win the MVP award, refused to accept it because it was meaningless to him after his team lost. In a similar vein, Colts defensive end Bubba Smith would later refuse to wear his Super Bowl V ring because of the "sloppy" play. Super Bowl X was played between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1975 season. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 21–17 to win their second consecutive Super Bowl. The game was played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on January 18, 1976, one of the first major national events of the United States Bicentennial year.

Both the pre-game and halftime show celebrated the Bicentennial, while players on both teams wore special patches on their jerseys with the Bicentennial logo. Super Bowl X featured a contrast of styles between the Steelers and the Cowboys, which were, at the time, the two most popular teams in the league. Pittsburgh, who dominated teams with their "Steel Curtain" defense and running game, finished the regular season with a league best 12–2 record and defeated the Baltimore Colts and the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs. The Cowboys, with their offense and "flex" defense, became the first NFC wild-card team to advance to the Super Bowl after posting a 10-4 regular season record and postseason victories over the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams. Trailing 10-7 in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl X, the Steelers rallied to score 14 unanswered points, including a 64-yard touchdown reception by Pittsburgh wide receiver Lynn Swann. The Cowboys cut the score, 21-17, late in the game with wide receiver Percy Howard's 34-yard touchdown reception, but Pittsburgh safety Glen Edwards halted Dallas' rally with an end zone interception as time expired.

Swann, who caught four passes for a Super Bowl record 161 yards and one touchdown, became the first wide receiver to be named the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player. Super Bowl XIII was played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1978 season. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 35–31. The game was played on January 21, 1979, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, the fifth and last time that the Super Bowl was played in that building. This was the first ever Super Bowl rematch (the Steelers had previously beaten the Cowboys, 21–17, in Super Bowl X), and both teams were attempting to be the first club to ever win a third Super Bowl. Dallas was also the defending Super Bowl XII champion, and finished the 1978 regular season with a 12-4 record, and posted playoff victories over the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams.

Pittsburgh entered the game after posting a 14-2 regular season record and playoff wins over the Denver Broncos and the Houston Oilers. Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who was named Super Bowl MVP, completed 17 out of 30 passes for Super Bowl records of 318 passing yards and 4 touchdown passes. His 75-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter also tied Johnny Unitas in Super Bowl V for the longest pass in a Super Bowl. The Cowboys were able to stay close, only trailing 21-17 at the end of the third quarter, but Pittsburgh scored two touchdowns in a span of 19 seconds in the fourth period. Dallas also could not overcome turnovers, drops, and a controversial penalty during the second half. The Cowboys were eventually able to score two touchdowns in the final minutes of the game, but still ended up being the first defending champion to lose in the Super Bowl, and to date the only losing Super Bowl team to score 30 points or more.

Super Bowl XXIII was played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Cincinnati Bengals and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1988 season. The 49ers defeated the Bengals by the score of 20–16, winning their third ever Super Bowl. The game was played on January 22, 1989 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida, the first Super Bowl hosted in the Miami area in 10 years, and the first in Miami not held at the Orange Bowl. This was the second meeting between these two teams in the Super Bowl; their first meeting was seven years earlier. The game was also the third rematch between Super Bowl teams after Super Bowl XIII and Super Bowl XVII. This was the Bengals' second Super Bowl appearance after finishing the regular season with a 12-4 record. The 49ers were making their third Super Bowl appearance after posting a 10-6 regular season record. The game is best remembered for the 49ers' fourth-quarter game-winning drive.

Down 16-13, San Francisco got the ball on their own eight yard line with 3:10 on the clock and marched 92 yards down the field in under three minutes. They then scored the winning touchdown on a Joe Montana pass to John Taylor with just 34 seconds left in the game. The game was tight throughout. The teams combined for 5 field goals, and battled to a 3-3 score by the end of the second quarter, the first halftime tie in Super Bowl history. Cincinnati's only touchdown, a 93-yard kickoff return by Stanford Jennings in the third quarter, was quickly answered by a four-play, 85-yard drive that ended with San Francisco wide receiver Jerry Rice's 14-yard touchdown reception. Rice, who was named the Super Bowl MVP, caught 11 passes for a Super Bowl record 215 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing once for 5 yards. Super Bowl XXIX was played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion San Diego Chargers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1994 season.

The 49ers defeated the Chargers by the score of 49–26, becoming the first team to win five Super Bowls. The game was played on January 29, 1995 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida (now part of the suburb of Miami Gardens). This game is regarded as 49ers quarterback Steve Young's final leap out of the shadow of his predecessor, Joe Montana, who had won four Super Bowls with the 49ers, two with Young as the backup quarterback. With Young at the helm, and a defense consisting of several veteran free agents that joined the team during the previous off-season, San Francisco finished the regular season with a league-best 13-3 record, and led the league in total points scored (505). The Chargers, on the other hand, were regarded as a "Cinderella" team, and advanced to their first Super Bowl after posting an 11-5 regular season record and overcoming halftime deficits in both their playoff wins. Young threw a record 6 touchdown passes en route to the Super Bowl MVP award. (His four TDs in a half tied Doug Williams from the Washington Redskins).

He also completed 24 out of 36 passes for 325 yards, and was the top rusher of the game with 49 rushing yards (the first time both top passer and rusher were the same person). Two of Young's touchdown passes occurred on the 49ers' first two drives of the game. The Chargers were able to cut the deficit late in the first quarter, 14-7, on 13-play, 78-yard drive, but could not slow down San Francisco afterwards. Still, this became the first time that both teams scored in all four quarters of a Super Bowl. The combined aggregate score of 75 and the ten total touchdowns both remain Super Bowl records. Despite the predicted blowout (18½ points is the largest margin a team has been favored by in a Super Bowl), and the fact that San Diego did not have as much national appeal nor a relatively large core fan base, the telecast of the game on ABC still had a Nielsen rating of 41.3.

Super Bowl XXXIII was played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1998 season. The Broncos defeated the Falcons by the score of 34–19, winning their second consecutive Super Bowl. The game was played on January 31, 1999, at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida. The defending Super Bowl champion Broncos entered the game with an AFC-best 14-2 regular season record. The Falcons, under former Denver head coach Dan Reeves, were making their first Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 14-2 regular season record. Aided by quarterback John Elway's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Rod Smith, Denver scored 17 unanswered points to build a 17-3 lead in the second quarter from which Atlanta could not recover. At 38 years old, Elway became the oldest player ever to be named Super Bowl MVP.

As the final game of his career, he completed 18 of 29 passes for 336 yards, with one touchdown and one interception, and also scored a 3-yard rushing touchdown. Elway retired on May 2 before the following season. Super Bowl XLI was played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Indianapolis Colts and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2006 season. The Colts defeated the Bears by the score of 29–17. The game was played on February 4, 2007, at Dolphins' stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This game featured two teams ending long Super Bowl appearance droughts. The Colts, who finished with a 12–4 regular season record, were making their first Super Bowl appearance since winning Super Bowl V in the 1970 season during the team's tenure in Baltimore; they had moved to Indianapolis in 1984. Meanwhile, the Bears, who posted an NFC-best 13–3 regular season record, were making their first appearance since winning Super Bowl XX in the 1985 season.

In addition, the Bears' Lovie Smith and the Colts' Tony Dungy both became the first African-American head coaches to coach in the Super Bowl. In the first Super Bowl played in rainy conditions, the Colts overcame a 14–6 first-quarter deficit to outscore the Bears 23–3 in the last three quarters. Chicago posted the earliest lead in Super Bowl history when returner Devin Hester ran back the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. But the Colts forced 5 turnovers, including cornerback Kelvin Hayden's 56-yard interception return for a touchdown, and Indianapolis kicker Adam Vinatieri made three field goals. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was named the game's Most Valuable Player, completing 25 of 38 passes for 247 yards and a touchdown, with one interception for a passer rating of 81.8. This was Manning's first Super Bowl title after being one of the league's most dominant quarterbacks throughout his nine-year career. Super Bowl XLIV was played between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New Orleans Saints and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Indianapolis Colts to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2009 season.

The Saints defeated the Colts by a score of 31–17, earning their first Super Bowl win. The game was played at Dolphins' stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on February 7, 2010 for the fifth time (and in South Florida for the tenth time), the latest calendar date for a Super Bowl yet. This was the Saints' first Super Bowl appearance and the fourth for the Colts franchise. The Saints entered the game with a 13–3 record for the 2009 regular season, compared to the Colts' 14–2 record. In the playoff games, both teams placed first in their respective conferences, marking the first time since Super Bowl XXVIII (16 years previously) that both number one seeds have reached the Super Bowl. The Colts entered the Super Bowl off victories over the Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets, while the Saints advanced after defeating the previous year's runners up the Arizona Cardinals in their first game and the Minnesota Vikings in the second.

Down 10–6 at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV, in what many consider the turning point of the game, New Orleans successfully recovered a surprise onside kick on the second half kickoff, and subsequently took the lead on Pierre Thomas' 16-yard touchdown reception. The Colts responded with Joseph Addai's 4-yard touchdown run, but the Saints then scored 18 unanswered points, including Tracy Porter's 74-yard interception return for a touchdown, to clinch the victory. New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, who completed 32 of 39 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns, was named the Super Bowl MVP. His 32 completions tied a Super Bowl record set by Tom Brady in Super Bowl XXXVIII. The live broadcast of the game on CBS was watched by an average US audience of 106.5 million viewers, making it the third most-watched Super Bowl. The National Anthem was sung by Carrie Underwood and the halftime show featured the British rock band The Who. Our magnificent weather, beaches, world-class golf courses, restaurants, rich culture and ethnic diversity is what attracted over 100,000 visitors for Super Bowl XLIV and the Pro Bowl.

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The commercials are often highly anticipated, generating much buzz even before the game is played usually because of their innovation or sense of humor. These high-profile ads are usually only broadcast on the originating American network. This is because the cost of buying commercial time on the American network does not include ad time on foreign broadcasters, which sell their own advertising. Moreover, since there is lower interest in American football outside the U.S., other carriers have smaller audiences for the game, meaning that the ads seen locally may not share the high reputation of the domestic commercials. Posted by Selection process of super bowl The location of the Super Bowl is chosen by the NFL well in advance, usually three to five years before the game. Cities place bids to host a Super Bowl. Candidate cities are evaluated in terms of stadium renovation and ability to host a Super Bowl. Then the NFL owners meet to make a selection on the site. The sites for the next four Super Bowls have been determined, up to Super Bowl XLVII in 2013. On October 16, 2007, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suggested that a Super Bowl might be played in London, probably at Wembley Stadium. The game has never been played in a region which lacks an NFL franchise.

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After the merger of the two leagues in the 1970s, each league became a "conference", and the game was played between conference champions. Lamar Hunt, former owner of the Kansas City Chiefs and founding member of the American Football League, coined the name SuperBowl after watching his children playing with a Super Ball. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. Super Bowl I Posted by Super Bowl Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Help desk - ask other contributors for help regarding this Wiki. Recent Changes - see what everyone is editing! Community Portal - see what the latest discussion is, and get involved with to community. Getting Started - Learn how to get starting with editing the wiki! Tutorial - A step-by-step process of anything you need. Watercooler - discuss activities on this Wiki. User page - Suggestions for improving your user page. Sandbox - A place to play with formatting articles. National Football League The NFL logo. The National Football League (commonly abbreviated as NFL) is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world.

It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists of thirty-two teams from the United States. The league is divided evenly into two conferences—the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC), and each conference has four divisions that have four teams each, for a total of 16 teams in each conference. The NFL is an unincorporated 501(c)(6) association, a federal nonprofit designation, comprising its 32 teams. The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team plays sixteen games and has one bye week. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September and runs weekly to late December or early January. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference (at least one from each division) play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the Super Bowl. This game is held at a pre-selected site which is usually a city that hosts an NFL team.

The NFL is the most attended domestic sports league in the world by average attendance per game, with 66,960 fans per game in 2010–11. American Football League The AFL logo. The American Football League (commonly abbreviated as AFL) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League (NFL) merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence. Though downplayed by the NFL as inferior, the AFL signed half of the NFL's first-round draft choices in 1960, including All-American Billy Cannon, perennial All-Star Johnny Robinson, and Hall of Famer Ron Mix. Overall, AFL teams signed 75% of the league's draft choices that first year. It continued to attract top talent from colleges and the NFL by the mid-1960s, well before the Common Draft which began in 1967. A merger between the two leagues was sought by the senior league and announced in 1966, but was not finalized until 1970.

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history. When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference (AFC), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL (the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts) joining them. The remaining 13 original NFL teams became the inaugural members of the National Football Conference (NFC). The AFL logo was incorporated into the newly minted AFC logo, although the color of the "A" was changed from blue and white to red. The NFL retained its old name and logo and claims the rights to all AFL products including the eagle logo. Featured Video

Question: The Super Bowl, the championship game of the premier association of professional American football, was first held in what year?
Answer: 1967