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Super Bowl I was the only Super Bowl that was not a sellout, despite the TV blackout in Los Angeles (at the time, the local blackout was required even at a neutral site and even if the stadium did sell out), shutting out the vast Los Angeles market and network-owned stations KNXT (Channel 2, CBS; now KCBS-TV) and KNBC (Channel 4, NBC).
- January 15, 1967
- Packers by 14 points
- One Team Wasn’T Part of The National Football League.
- The Inaugural Game Was Not Officially Known as The 'Super Bowl.'
- The Location of The Game Wasn’T Decided Until Just Weeks Before kickoff.
- There Were Over 32,000 Empty seats.
- The Game Aired Simultaneously on Two Networks.
- Fifteen Million People Were Barred from Watching The game.
- The Halftime Show Featured Marching Bands, Rocket Men and Pigeons.
- There Were Two Second-Half kickoffs.
- The Chiefs and Packers Used Two Different Types of Footballs.
- The Coaches Sported Their Sunday Best.
In June 1966, the venerable National Football League (NFL) signed an agreement to merge with the upstart, seven-year-old American Football League (AFL) after the completion of the 1969 season. In the interim, the two rival leagues agreed to stage an annual season-ending contest between their respective champions. The first Super Bowl featured the G...
AFL principal founder and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt suggested that the new championship game be known as the “Super Bowl,” an idea inspired by the ultra-bouncy Super Ball toy from Wham-O—producers of the Frisbee and Hula Hoop—that was popular with his kids and millions of others across America in the 1960s. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, ...
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 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 complai...
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 eme...
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...
There were no big-time musical actsor wardrobe malfunctions at the Super Bowl’s first halftime show. No Beatles, no Rolling Stones, not even the Monkees. Instead, the Anaheim High School drill team joined marching bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling College high-stepping across the field. Two rocket men from Bell Aerosystems with jet...
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...
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.
Windbreakers and hooded sweatshirts may be the height of fashion among NFL coaches today, but the two opposing field generals in the first Super Bowl sported a more formal look. Chiefs coach Hank Stram prowled the sidelines in a dark blazer, white collar shirt, tie and slacks while Packers coach Vince Lombardi wore a short-sleeve dress shirt and ti...
Feb 5, 2024 · It was the only Super Bowl game in history that failed to sell out, with tickets around $10 to $15 that were thought to be overpriced, and a matchup that featured teams from smaller,...
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Jan 29, 2012 · The event was also the only game in Super Bowl history that was not a sellout. It was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the attendance was only 61,946 in a stadium that could seat...
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Kansas City Chiefs 10 vs. Green Bay Packers 35 on January 15th, 1967 - Full team and player stats and box score
Jan 30, 2019 · The first Super Bowl game was played on January 15, 1967, when the National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers (13-2) defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs (12-2-1) by a score of 35–10. History of the Championship Game.
May 11, 2018 · Although ticket prices averaged $12, the game was not a sellout—the only non-sellout in the game's history. The game drew 61,000 fans and was televised by CBS and NBC. The next year, the...
