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Super Bowl championships Game Date (Season) Winning team Score Losing team Venue City Attendance Referee Ref. I [sb 1] January 15, 1967 (1966 AFL/1966 NFL) Green Bay Packers n (1, 1–0) 35–10: Kansas City Chiefs a (1, 0–1) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles, California [sb 2] 61,946: Norm Schachter [7] [8] II [sb 1] January 14 ...
The 1966 NFL season was the 47th regular season of the National Football League, and the first season in which the Super Bowl was played, though it was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The league expanded to 15 teams with the addition of the Atlanta Falcons , making a bye necessary one week for each team.
Eight franchises have won consecutive Super Bowls: Green Bay Packers (1966-67 ... are the only teams to have never appeared in a Super Bowl. ... Date: Feb. 9, 2025. Super Bowl LVIII ...
The New Year's college bowl game at the Cotton Bowl for the 1966 season included the SMU Mustangs of Dallas. It was played the day before, New Year's Eve, which required a quick turnaround to transform the natural grass field. [7] The stadium was filled to its 75,504 capacity for both games, but both local teams came up short.
Super Bowl 51: New England Patriots 34, Atlanta Falcons 28 (OT) Super Bowl 52: Philadelphia Eagles 41, New England Patriots 33 Super Bowl 53: New England Patriots 13, Los Angeles Rams 3
Following an agreement to merge the NFL with AFL, the Super Bowl was first held at the conclusion of the 1966 season to determine a champion between the best teams from the two leagues. The NFL then established a four-team postseason tournament in 1967, and the AFL did the same in 1969. [49]
In 2007, the 1966 Packers were ranked as the sixth greatest Super Bowl champions on the NFL Network's documentary series America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions, with team commentary from Bill Curry, Willie Davis, and Bart Starr, and narrated by Donald Sutherland. More than a decade later, this team ranked #13 on the 100 greatest teams of all ...
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on game day. When the NFL began its 41st season in 1960, it had a new and unwanted rival: the American Football League.The NFL had successfully fended off several other rival leagues in the past, and so the older league initially ignored the new upstart and its eight teams, figuring it would be made up of nothing but NFL rejects, and that fans were unlikely to ...