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The Superstars was a televised sporting event featuring ten top athletes from ten different sports competing in events that were not their own. The idea was developed by Dick Button who shopped the idea to all three U.S. television networks. The show was sold to ABC which aired it as a two-hour ABC Sports special in the winter of 1973.
During the 1970s, boxing was characterized by dominating champions and history-making rivalries. The decade had many superstars, who also had fierce rivals. Alexis Argüello, for example, who won the world Featherweight and Jr. Lightweight titles in the '70s, had to overcome Alfredo Escalera twice before the decade was over.
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CBS scored a 47.2/67 national household rating/share, the highest-rated Super Bowl to date. This game was the first Super Bowl to be played in prime time, was broadcast in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator Tom Brookshier. The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Central Standard Time.
The National Football League playoffs for the 1970 season began on December 26, 1970. The postseason tournament concluded with the Baltimore Colts defeating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V, 16–13, on January 17, 1971, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.
1977 in sports – Pelé plays the last game of his professional career in a friendly between the New York Cosmos and Santos FC; [3] Red Rum wins third Grand National. [4] 1976 in sports – Nadia Comăneci earns the first perfect score in the history of Olympic gymnastics. [5] Super Bowl X saw the Pittsburgh Steelers repeat as world champions.
Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark faced each other for the first time on a WNBA court Saturday, but it was veteran Kelsey Mitchell who seized the spotlight in the Indiana Fever's 71–70 win.. The ...
Blanda retired from pro football in August 1976 as the sport's oldest player at the age of 48, a mark that still stands. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One of only three players to play in four different decades (the other two being John Carney and Jeff Feagles ), he holds the record for most extra points made (943) and attempted (959).