Share your memories of the first Super Bowl game you remember seeing
John Scalzi, cool SF author, does a few memes on his AOL journal. I've decided to start to participate, here and on my LJ.
Anyway, here goes.
The first Super Bowl I remember watching start to finish is, ironically, the last Super Bowl the NFC Champion Bears were involved in, Super Bowl XX.
I had started watching football a few years before, and remember seeing bits of a couple of the previous Super Bowls, but Super Bowl XX, Bears versus Patriots, was the first time I really made it into a "watching event".
Of course I was rewarded with mostly non competitive Super Bowls for years as a result, Super Bowl XX itself being an egregious example (Bears 46 Patriots 10)...although there were a couple of NY Giants wins early in that stretch, too.
However, it all reinforced my love of the game.
Posted by Jvstin at February 2, 2007 9:30 PMSuper Bowl XIII The Steelers vs The Cowboys rematch. Terry Bradshaw vs Rodger Staubach. Franco Harris vs Tony Dorsett. January 1979 watched on the "Big" TV with the new "Remote control!" at Babci's House in Tottenville, Staten Island.
Trivia: Super Bowl XIII can arguably be called the greatest collection of NFL talent ever to gather for a game. In additions to Coaches Noll and Landry, 14 players would go on to enshrinement in the Hall of Fame: 9 from Pittsburgh (Bradshaw, Harris, Swann, Stallworth, Webster, Greene, Lambert, Ham, and Blount), and 5 from Dallas (Staubach, Dorsett, White, Wright, and Jackie Smith). Source: Wikipedia.
Gods I am old.
Posted by: Greg"Sneakel"Weimer at February 3, 2007 1:06 AM