- Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967 in LA didn’t sell out. You could walk up and buy a ticket for $12 as almost 30,000 seats went unsold – the only Super Bowl in history without a sellout crowd.
- Named after a toy. The first two Super Bowls were not called Super Bowls. They were the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game”. It wasn’t called the Super Bowl until Super Bowl III. The Super Bowl was named by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who coined the term after watching his children play with a popular bouncy toy called a “super ball”. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle disliked the name “Super Bowl” initially, thinking it lacked dignity. He suggested calling it the “The Big One”.
- Two-Network Broadcast: It is the only Super Bowl simultaneously broadcast by two different networks: CBS (holding NFL rights) and NBC (holding AFL rights). A 30-second TV spot in 1967 cost just over $37,000.
- NBC missed the second half kickoff because it was conducting an interview with Bob Hope, so Green Bay had to do redo the kickoff again. The “Do-Over”. The Green Bay Packers kicked off to the Kansas City Chiefs as scheduled. CBS viewers saw the play, but roughly half the country—the 24 million people watching on NBC—saw only commercials. An NBC producer actually ran into the CBS production area screaming that they had missed the kick. The officials were alerted and blew the whistle to signal a “dead ball” while the kick was still in the air (or immediately after).
- Legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi was about the delay, but the referees forced Green Bay to kick off a second time so that the entire national audience could see it. But the Packers crushed the Chiefs 35-10.
- The Vikings lost Super Bowl IV but were NFL Champions that year. How? The two leagues had not merged until later that year. After that the Super Bowl matched the NFC vs the AFC champions.
- The iconic halftime shows began in 1993 with Michael Jackson’s amazing performance. The impetus might have been the rather lame halftime show “Winter Magic” the previous year in Minnesota. They should have asked Prince, who lived in Minneapolis!
- Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967 in LA didn’t sell out. You could walk up and buy a ticket for $12 as almost 30,000 seats went unsold – the only Super Bowl in history without a sellout crowd.
- Named after a toy. The first two Super Bowls were not called Super Bowls. They were the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game”. It wasn’t called the Super Bowl until Super Bowl III. The Super Bowl was named by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who coined the term after watching his children play with a popular bouncy toy called a “super ball”. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle disliked the name “Super Bowl” initially, thinking it lacked dignity. He suggested calling it the “The Big One”.
- Two-Network Broadcast: It is the only Super Bowl simultaneously broadcast by two different networks: CBS (holding NFL rights) and NBC (holding AFL rights). A 30-second TV spot in 1967 cost just over $37,000.
- NBC missed the second half kickoff because it was conducting an interview with Bob Hope, so Green Bay had to do redo the kickoff again. The “Do-Over”. The Green Bay Packers kicked off to the Kansas City Chiefs as scheduled. CBS viewers saw the play, but roughly half the country—the 24 million people watching on NBC—saw only commercials. An NBC producer actually ran into the CBS production area screaming that they had missed the kick. The officials were alerted and blew the whistle to signal a “dead ball” while the kick was still in the air (or immediately after). Legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi was angry about the delay, but the referees forced Green Bay to kick off a second time so that the entire national audience could see it. But the Packers crushed the Chiefs 35-10.
- The Vikings lost Super Bowl IV but were NFL Champions that year. How? The two leagues had not merged until later that year. After that the Super Bowl matched the NFC vs the AFC champions.
- The iconic halftime shows began in 1993 with Michael Jackson’s amazing performance. The impetus might have been the rather lame halftime show “Winter Magic” the previous year in Minnesota. They should have asked Prince, who lived in Minneapolis!