Following the defeat at the hands of the Packers, Chiefs coach Hank Stram famously declared, "We'll be back, exactly one time."
The Super Bowl I–winning Packers received a congratulatory phone call from U.S. Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor after the game.
In a game that would be immortalized as the "Ice Bowl," star quarterback Bart Starr led the Packers down the field and, despite the subzero temperatures and frozen turf, executed a heroic one-yard dive into the end zone for a last-second victory over the Cowboys. That's the game worth remembering from this season, not a boring blowout of the Raiders in Super Bowl II.
The first game to officially be known as the "Super Bowl" is also notable for Jets quarterback Joe Namath's famous guarantee of victory, the first time in sports history that a player openly declared his team's intention to win a game before it started.
After leading his team to victory over the Vikings, Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson turned to the television cameras and begged not to be sent to Vietnam.
The Colts' three-point victory over the Cowboys is most noteworthy for being the first Super Bowl in which players were banned from smoking in the huddle.
Before the pregame coin toss was implemented, opening kickoffs were decided through days of negotiations between opposing team captains in the week leading up to the Super Bowl.
Not officially declassified by the NFL until 1989, the Cowboys won this game over the Dolphins 24-3.
The greatest team in NFL history scored two touchdowns.
A second consecutive Super Bowl championship left Dolphins fans with a source of incredible pride that would need to last for the next four decades.
In a defensive matchup for the ages, neither offense took the field all game so Pittsburgh's Steel Curtain could face off against Minnesota's Purple People Eaters.
Super Bowls are worth 7.6 NBA Championships, 15.2 Stanley Cups, and 23.9 Wimbledons.
The showdown between the Cowboys and Steelers was delayed for three hours while grounds crews at the Miami Orange Bowl plowed all the cocaine off the field.
The Raiders' commanding 32-14 win set off jubilant celebrations in maximum-security prisons across the country.
The Cowboys' second Super Bowl victory is best known for containing the exact moment, 4:17 left in the second quarter, that Dallas became "America's Team."
The souls of the losing team in every Super Bowl are forever trapped inside the Lombardi Trophy.
This highly anticipated matchup didn't disappoint as the two best teams in the league squared off, something that actually doesn't happen much in the Super Bowl, which is probably why so many of these games sucked.
