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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 ...
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 III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
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 ...
Note: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation.Had the 1973 playoffs been seeded, the AFC divisional matchups would have been #3 Oakland at #2 Cincinnati and #4 wild card Pittsburgh at #1 Miami; the NFC matchups would not have changed, although #3 Dallas would have had to travel to #2 Los Angeles, and #1 Minnesota would have had home ...
The expectations were understandable: The Raiders had gone 12–2 during their regular season, had appeared in four of the previous seven AFC/AFL Championship games, advancing to Super Bowl II, and boasting the 1974 NFL MVP, Kenny Stabler, while the Dolphins, 11–3 that year, had appeared in the previous three Super Bowls (VI, VII, and VIII ...
Beyoncé thrilled audiences with a special halftime show for Netflix’s inaugural NFL Christmas Gameday.. The pop megastar made a show-stopping appearance during the halftime period of the second ...
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.