Super Bowl History + indicates Hall of Fame; Table; Date SB AFC Pts NFC Pts MVP Stadium City Houston: Texas: Jan 26, 2003: XXXVII (37) Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 48 There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season. A lot has changed since Houston hosted its first Super Bowl -- Super Bowl VIII -- in 1974. More than 71,000 fans gathered at Rice University Stadium to watch the Miami Dolphins play the Minnesota The Oilers lost the 1967 AFL Championship Game to the Oakland Raiders, missing out on a trip to Super Bowl 2. Houston’s football team couldn’t provide the city with a Super Bowl, but the NFL awarded Super Bowl 8 to Rice Stadium in Houston, the first Super Bowl ever played in Houston. The Miami Dolphins pounded the Minnesota Vikings 24-7. Houston has been the host of three Super Bowls, including the 2017 game, Super Bowl LI. The city last hosted the game in 2004, which was the first time Houston hosted the game in 30 years. At Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston on February 1, 2004, The History of the Super Bowl, The American Historian. Super Bowl History, Newsday. Ranking all 51 Super Bowls, ABC News. New Orleans moves into a tie with South Florida as the site where the most Super Bowl games have been played. See the full list with game results. Super Bowls in Houston (3) SB 8: Miami 24 HOUSTON SUPER BOWL AT RICE STADIUM - 01/13/1974 - MINNESOTA VIKINGS VS MIAMI DOLPHINS - Miami Dolphins running back Larry Csonka (39) goes in for touchdown while Vikings Jeff Siemon (50) and Paul Here is a list of the cities which have hosted the Super Bowl. See also the list of Super Bowl winners listed by year. In terms of cities, Miami has hosted the most Super Bowls with 11, a total which will be matched by New Orleans in 2025. In terms of states, Florida have hosted the most Super Bowls, with a total of 17. The first famous Super Bowl commercial was a 1974 ad for Noxzema featuring Super Bowl legend Joe Namath. $103,000 was the cost of a 30-second commercial on CBS. Focus On Sport/Focus on Sport/Getty And a tradition was born. It reached another level two years later. After the Giants won Super Bowl XXI to close out the 1986 season, star linebacker Harry Carson donned a security jacket and In the playoffs, the Raiders beat Houston, San Diego and Cleveland en route to becoming the first wild-card team to win the Super Bowl. At Pasadena, Calif._103,985 The Cowboys evened their Super Bowl record at 2-2 by taking advantage of eight Broncos turnovers. Dallas converted two interceptions into 10 points, and Efren Herrera added a 35-yard field goal Tracy Porter’s 74-yard interception return with 3:12 remaining capped a fourth-quarter comeback and lifted the Saints to their first Super Bowl title. Trailing 10-6, New Orleans opened the Super Bowl XXXIV. League MVP Terrell Davis, a 2,000-yard rusher during the season, carried 25 times for 102 yards for his seventh consecutive 100-yard game in the postseason, breaking an NFL The Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show, scheduled for February 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, promises to be a landmark event in the history of Super Bowl entertainment. Headlining the show is acclaimed rapper Kendrick Lamar, who NRG Stadium in January 2017. The NFL selected the sites for Super Bowl 50 and Super Bowl LI at the owners' spring meetings in Boston on May 21, 2013. [25] On October 16, 2012, the NFL announced that Reliant Stadium in Houston, which was renamed NRG Stadium in 2014, was a finalist to host Super Bowl LI. [26] In 1993, the Houston Oilers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round. What years did the Houston Oilers make the Super Bowl? While in Houston, the Houston Oilers have never appeared in a Super Bowl. Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes will forever be linked in professional football history.The duo from Texas were the first pair of Black quarterbacks to start in a Super Bowl in 2023. Two years Super Bowl History Interesting Notes: 2023: The first Super Bowl ever to feature opposing team brothers, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce, the Eagles' center. 2019: The lowest scoring Super Bowl in history, with 16 total points. 2014: First Super Bowl played outdoors in a cold weather city.
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