What was the first Super Bowl you remember watching?
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Yep. My parents had just bought a color TV, and we had guests over. I was 6...didn't really understand what it all meant. I mostly remember the TV, it was the first thing really I had ever watched in color on TV at the time.
The thing that stands out was the NBC "In Living Color" splash screen right before the game started.
All the guests were friends of my dad, mostly all former military electricians etc working with him at Collins Radio. They weren't happy that a hippy like Namath and the Jets were beating old school Johnny Unitas.
Ironically, it was one of the most boring Super Bowls ever. Many of them in the early years were like that.
Ain't missed a game since.
I was eleven, so I knew of the championship games prior to that -- enough that I remember being somewhat emotionally attached to the notion that the AFL could not compete with the NFL. But I don't recall actually watching those games.
I've seen all of them going back to SB I. Also remember the 1967 NFC championship game between Green Bay and Dallas, the notorious Ice Bowl. Sounds like this week is going to be even colder.
Plumb nasty is right.The '76 Steeler vs. the Cowboys was memorable for me because I had just went to work for HJ Heinz and all the upper management types were big Steelers fans so the party was at the plant manager's house. Heinz also had a distribution center in Grand Prairie, Texas where the bean counting part of the office came from. Of course being a Packer fan I knew both were a bunch of losers so I sat quietly by while they threatened each other. They were hard core. We had to drink Iron City beer which the manager had trucked in from Pittsburg with a load of catsup. Nasty sh!t......
Super Bowl 25 in Tampa. NKOTB at halftime and Bills Vs Giants in a classic matchup.
I casually watched the first couple as a kid, but the first one that I really paid attention to was Colts vs Jets with Namath. As a Bears fan, I was emotionally attached to the NFL and was shocked and appalled when the AFL won.
I remember that one and I can go back to being just a young kid watching the Giants win when Frank Gifford and YA Tittle and Pat Summerall being on the field. My Dad was a huge Giants fan.
There are a lot of old people on here. I guess I'm one of them. Steelers-Rams is the first one I recall. I'm a Bears fan, but my older sister liked the Rams so I rooted for them.
I was a huge Johnny Unitas fan and was crushed when the Jets won. Unitas was out with injury much of the year and journeyman Earl Morral (classic crew cut, grizzled veteran MF)stepped in and led them to the SB.
It was a bit of a controversy when Unitas started.
As posted earlier, it was a boring game that NY dominated.
The same Earl Morral that was quarterback for nine of the Dolphins perfect season wins.
He was an old school tough ass gamer. I always get a grin thinking of his flattop.
