Post by PamIsMe on Jan 16, 2015 1:10:26 GMT -6
On Sunday, January 15, 1967, the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League faced off against the National Football League's Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl. These trivia questions will test your knowledge about this iconic and uniquely American sporting event.
How Did the First Super Bowl Come to Be?
The idea for this professional football championship game -- the Super Bowl name didn't come until 1969 -- emerged from talks about a possible merger between the National Football League and its relatively new rival, the American Football League.
The first few games pitted the winningest team from the NFL against the top team in the AFL in a face-off designed to determine American football's world champion. In 1970, the two leagues merged into a single league -- the NFL -- with two rival conferences: the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. From that point on, the Super Bowl became a contest between the top team from each conference.
Who Won The First Super Bowl?
In that historic first Super Bowl, the legendary Vince Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Singled out for most valuable player honors was Packers quarterback Bart Starr. Other standout players for the Packers were wide receiver Max McGee and safety Willie Wood, who made a key interception. Lombardi, Starr, and Wood are all members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Leading the Chiefs' offense was Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson, and the team's coach was highly respected Hank Stram. Both Dawson and Stram are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The game was played before a crowd of nearly 62,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
How Did the Big Game Get the Name of Super Bowl?
As previously noted, this unprecedented American football championship didn't get the title of Super Bowl until it had already been played a few years. What we now refer to as Super Bowl I was actually billed as the ¨AFL-NFL Championship Game¨ back in 1967. The next two games in this series were advertised as the ¨World Championship Game.¨
Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, is widely credited with dubbing this annual matchup the Super Bowl. However, not everybody agrees. Citing newspaper columnists' use of the superlative ¨super¨ in reference to the early football championships, Henry D. Fetter in a 2011 article in The Atlantic says the name ¨appears more likely to have been the entirely natural, indeed even inevitable, manifestation of the proverbial 'wisdom of crowds.' "
How Much Does a 30-Second Super Bowl Commercial Cost?
For many viewers of the Super Bowl, the game itself is of secondary interest. Plenty of folks tune in just to see the innovative marketing messages from major advertisers. For the privilege of strutting their stuff before a Super Bowl television audience, companies in 2014 paid Fox Sports an average of $4 million for 30 seconds of commercial air time.
How Did the First Super Bowl Come to Be?
The idea for this professional football championship game -- the Super Bowl name didn't come until 1969 -- emerged from talks about a possible merger between the National Football League and its relatively new rival, the American Football League.
The first few games pitted the winningest team from the NFL against the top team in the AFL in a face-off designed to determine American football's world champion. In 1970, the two leagues merged into a single league -- the NFL -- with two rival conferences: the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. From that point on, the Super Bowl became a contest between the top team from each conference.
Who Won The First Super Bowl?
In that historic first Super Bowl, the legendary Vince Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Singled out for most valuable player honors was Packers quarterback Bart Starr. Other standout players for the Packers were wide receiver Max McGee and safety Willie Wood, who made a key interception. Lombardi, Starr, and Wood are all members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Leading the Chiefs' offense was Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson, and the team's coach was highly respected Hank Stram. Both Dawson and Stram are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The game was played before a crowd of nearly 62,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
How Did the Big Game Get the Name of Super Bowl?
As previously noted, this unprecedented American football championship didn't get the title of Super Bowl until it had already been played a few years. What we now refer to as Super Bowl I was actually billed as the ¨AFL-NFL Championship Game¨ back in 1967. The next two games in this series were advertised as the ¨World Championship Game.¨
Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, is widely credited with dubbing this annual matchup the Super Bowl. However, not everybody agrees. Citing newspaper columnists' use of the superlative ¨super¨ in reference to the early football championships, Henry D. Fetter in a 2011 article in The Atlantic says the name ¨appears more likely to have been the entirely natural, indeed even inevitable, manifestation of the proverbial 'wisdom of crowds.' "
How Much Does a 30-Second Super Bowl Commercial Cost?
For many viewers of the Super Bowl, the game itself is of secondary interest. Plenty of folks tune in just to see the innovative marketing messages from major advertisers. For the privilege of strutting their stuff before a Super Bowl television audience, companies in 2014 paid Fox Sports an average of $4 million for 30 seconds of commercial air time.
