The Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls, and also won the NFL Championship Game the preceding year. If the Super Bowl had been instituted that year, the Packers would have qualified and faced the Buffalo Bills of the AFL. The Miami Dolphins appeared in three consecutive Super Bowls (VI, VII, and VIII) – winning the last two. The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl) [5] was an American football game played on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. Super Bowl History The Packers won Super Bowl 1 and Super Bowl 2, but the AFL soon got its revenge in Super Bowl 3. New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath guaranteed a victory over the Baltimore Colts and ultimately delivered with a 16-7 win, giving the AFL its first Super Bowl win. The Chiefs, losers of Super Bowl 1, won their first Super Bowl trophy in Super Bowl 4. View a comprehensive list of every single NFL Super Bowl champion from 1967 to present on ESPN. Includes the finals opponent, site of the game and the final result. The first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football is also known as Super Bowl I. The game took place on January 15, 1967, and kicked off what has now become a yearly The Super Bowl has topped television ratings in the United States every year since the first championship game in 1967. This has made commercial time during its broadcast the most expensive of any televised event in the United States. In Super Bowl XXXVI, first-year starting quarterback Tom Brady led his team to a 20 Brady would also become the oldest player to ever win a Super Bowl at age The first championship game was actually called the First AFL-NFL Championship Game and became known as Super Bowl just one year later. The Packers play Kansas City at the Super Bowl game in Los On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) smash the American Football League (AFL)’s Kansas City Chiefs, 35‑10, in the first‑ever AFL‑NFL World The perception is that the third straight Super Bowl title should be a little easier for the Chiefs than the first two. They’re favored in the betting market, by 1.5 points, after entering both Entering Super Bowl 59 this year, Philadelphia has been to four NFL title games and holds a 1-3 record in Super Bowl matchups. The Eagles lost in each of their first two Super Bowl appearances. Best Super Bowl commercial every year since 2000: Looking back on the best ads of the last 25 years This commercial is one of the best Super Bowl ads ever, and it even became a pop culture NEW ORLEANS -- The first Super Bowl was played in January 1967, and in the 58 years since then, no sitting president has ever attended the game, but that's going to change this year. Super Bowl: Year: Performer(s) 1: 1967: Universities of Arizona and Grambling University Bands: 2: 1968 "Old Man Winter Takes a Vacation in Miami" featuring seven local Miami-area high school bands Last year's game marked the third-most watched television Which team won the first Super Bowl? hoisted the first-ever championship trophy in 1967 after a 35-10 win over the AFL’s Kansas Check out the list of all Super Bowl Most Valuable Player winners and find out who won the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player in which year. It will be one of the biggest sports and entertainment events of the year, with tons of new trailers set to premiere along with the continued tradition of fun Super Bowl commercials. 1967: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10 1968: Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14 1969: New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7 Super Bowl ratings dating back to the very first game in 1967. The Super Bowl ratings record remains a 49.1 for 49ers-Bengals in 1982, but the viewership record was set just this year (2024) — 123.7 million for Chiefs-49ers.
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