[JackPMiller]

If that Super Bowl happens, do we blame State Farm?

Just a joke. Then again, the Packers got no shot at beating the 9ers, unless the NFL fixes the game.

I have these games,

49ers 44 - Packers 14
Chiefs 23 - Titans 20

[rams74]

Ok, I'll play.

Chiefs 34 - Titans 20
Packers 27 - 49ers 26

[aeneas1]

super bowl 1





The location of the game wasn’t decided until just weeks before kickoff.

While host cities are now selected upwards of three years in advance, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was not named as the site of the first Super Bowl until six weeks before kickoff. “The big game was a thrown-together affair, hastily organized. It was, in some ways, an afterthought to the merger agreement,” writes author Harvey Frommer in “When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl.”

There were over 32,000 empty seats.

It may be hard to believe today, but the first Super Bowl was not a sellout—far from it. Official attendance in the cavernous, 94,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum failed to top 62,000. (A month earlier, more than 72,000 fans had passed through the stadium’s turnstiles to watch the Packers play the hometown Los Angeles Rams.) Many fans complained about the high ticket prices, which topped out at $12, while others were simply not interested. According to Frommer, a thief who robbed the Chiefs’ safe before the game took the money stashed inside but left behind the 2,000 game tickets next to it. The vast swathes of open seats might have had an upside, however. Just after the opening kickoff, a huge wrought-iron hand from the coliseum’s giant scoreboard clock plunged 50 feet after its remote-control system malfunctioned. Had the seats below been occupied, the mishap could have been deadly.

The game aired simultaneously on two networks.

Both CBS, which held the rights to broadcast NFL games, and NBC, which aired AFL games, paid $1 million for the rights to televise the first Super Bowl. While CBS produced the feed of the game, each network employed its own broadcast crews. The two networks fought for ratings points as furiously as the two teams on the field, and NBC ultimately emerged with a slightly larger audience. It remains the only joint broadcast in Super Bowl history.

Fifteen million people were barred from watching the game.

Although the Super Bowl aired on two networks, NFL rules at the time required that its games be blacked out in the local vicinity. That meant that 15 million viewers within a 75-mile radius of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum could not watch the game without fashioning makeshift aerial antennae out of coat hangers and broomsticks in order to catch the signal from another television market.

There were two second-half kickoffs.

When the game resumed after the halftime show, the Packers kicked the ball off to the Chiefs—a play that half the country missed because NBC was still in a commercial break because a previous sideline interview with entertainer Bob Hope had run long. To the displeasure of Lombardi, referees whistled the play dead and told Green Bay to kick the ball off a second time.

The Chiefs and Packers used two different types of footballs.

The two rival leagues used two competing football brands, and both were employed in the first Super Bowl. When on offense, the Packers played with the official NFL ball, “The Duke” by Wilson. When possession switched to the Chiefs, they used Spalding’s J5-V, which was easier to pass because it was slightly skinnier and longer.

https://www.history.com/news/10-things- ... super-bowl

[SWAdude]

Fascinating.

Thanks so much A1!

[moklerman]

A rematch of SBI on the 100 year anniversary of the league? That's a pretty compelling storyline.

[rams74]

A rematch of SBI on the 100 year anniversary of the league? That's a pretty compelling storyline.

Then just move the game to the Coliseum, and you'd be in business.

[aeneas1]

the super bowl ticket shown in the above photo has a face value of $10, which works out to about $80 in 2020 money, anyone know where i can pick up a super bowl ticket for $80?

[snackdaddy]

Packers vs Chiefs? I'm fine with that. Any Superbowl that doesn't have the whiners as one half of the equation is a good thing.