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The present honored the past during Natick's annual Thanksgiving football rivalry game against Framingham. Natick celebrated the 50th anniversary of its 1974 Division 1 Super Bowl champion team at ...
The season ended with Super Bowl IX when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings. 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.
Super Bowl IX was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1974 season. The game was played on January 12, 1975, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans ...
The other two teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl (Cleveland and Detroit) both held NFL league championships prior to Super Bowl I in the 1966 NFL season. [n 7] Teams are listed below according to the length of their current Super Bowl droughts (as of the end of the 2023 season, after Super Bowl LVIII):
The 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 42nd in the National Football League (NFL). They improved to a 10–3–1 regular-season record, won the AFC Central division title, sending them to the playoffs for the third consecutive season, and won a Super Bowl championship, the first league title in Steelers' history.
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions is an American annual documentary series created by NFL Films (broadcast on NFL Network and CBS). Its 58 installments profile the 58 winning teams of the National Football League (NFL)'s annual Super Bowl championship game; each episode chronicles an individual team.
The NFL awarded Super Bowl VIII to Houston on March 21, 1972, at the owners' meetings held in Honolulu. For the first time, multiple Super Bowl sites were selected at a single meeting, as hosts for both VII and VIII were named. Houston became the first Super Bowl host city provided with more than one year to prepare for the game, and lead time ...
Career highlights and awards Super Bowl champion ; 3× First-team All-Pro (1974, 1976, 1977) 3× Pro Bowl (1974, 1976, 1977) NFL receiving yards leader (1977) NFL 1970s All-Decade Team; Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor; Career NFL statistics