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It was also the last Super Bowl, and penultimate game overall (the 1974 Pro Bowl in Kansas City played the next week was the last) to feature goal posts at the front of the end zone (they were moved to the endline, in the back of the end zone, the next season). This was the Dolphins' third consecutive Super Bowl appearance.
There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.
The season ended with Super Bowl IX when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 16-6. Players held a strike from July 1 until August 10, [1] prior to the regular season beginning; [2] only one preseason game (that year's College All-Star Game) was canceled, and the preseason contests were held with all-rookie rosters.
The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference against the winner of the National Football Conference, with the victor receiving the Vince ...
The first time high school football Super Bowls were held in Massachusetts, Natick won a title. The Redhawks celebrated that history on Thanksgiving. Natick football honors 1974 Super Bowl ...
Tom Brady would receive a record sixth Super Bowl championship, the most of any player in NFL history, surpassing his tie with Charles Haley for five wins. Brady would also become the oldest player to ever win a Super Bowl at age 41, while Bill Belichick would be the oldest coach to ever win a Super Bowl at age 66. [126]
In the finals of the 1974 FIBA World Championship basketball competition, played in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Soviet Union won its second title. Rather than a knock-out tournament, the final was a round-robin of 8 teams (Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Soviet Union, Spain, the U.S., and Yugoslavia) playing against each other.
He was named Super Bowl MVP for his efforts, making him the first African-American quarterback to both win a Super Bowl and be named its MVP. [27] He broke the Super Bowl single-game record of 331 passing yards set in 1985 by Joe Montana , [ 25 ] who broke Williams' record the following year with 357. [ 28 ]