The first Super Bowl I can remember watching was Super Bowl XVII. Washington beat Miami 27-17 in a game famously dominated by John Riggins.
I remember knowing that Cincinnati and San Francisco were playing in Super Bowl XVI but I do not remember watching it.
I’ve never watched a whole Super Bowl. But I did watch Black Sunday, in the theater no less! And I look for the commercials. I remember Bud Bowls, and tune in for the Puppy Bowl each year now.
The one where Joe Montana’s 49ers crushed Dan Marino’s Dolphins, tarnishing the fact that Marino had enjoyed the better season as an individual quarterback.
My first Super Bowl was XV, Raiders vs. Eagles.
Yeah, thanks for the reminder. Four appearances, but they never once put up much of a fight. I mean, the Bills lost four, too, but they were in a row and they darn near won the first one (shaking my head, Norwood).
On the other hand, the Vikings were NFL champions in 1969 (the final pre-merger season), so we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.
This was my first one to remember too.
It was actually more Earl Morrall than Johnny U.
I remember watching exactly one Super Bowl by choice. It was as dull as I expected, because it’s pro football. I have watched a few halftime shows on my own volition, but not the game. I doubt this year will be different.
Yeah, but kinda hollow, given the Super Bowl loss.
And the one that showed that the upstart AFL had caught up: Namath and the Jets beating the Colts could have been written off as a one-off fluke (and was by many people; that’s why the Chiefs were 13-point underdogs going into Super Bowl 4) but two convincing AFL wins in a row? Not so much.
Yeah, by the time they brought Unitas off the bench, it was too late for him to save the game.
He still might have had a chance, had the Colts not incomprehensibly failed to kick a field goal on fourth down trailing 16-7 with 2:30 left in the game and all three time outs.
My parents are huge Steeler fans, so I must have at least been aware of the Steelers’ first two SB wins, but the first one I remember was the third, XIII, when they beat the Cowboys 35-31. I was ten. That sparked a serious interest and I watched the Steelers whenever they were on for a few years, until the team’s decline coincided with my getting old enough to not want to spend Sundays hanging out with my parents.
Since then, I’ve watched most of them with varying degrees of interest. This year I’ll miss it entirely, though.
I vaguely remember Super Bowl III. I definitely remember the game the Jets played against the College All-Stars at Soldier Field the following summer (I even remember the score; Jets 26, All-Stars 24).
Yeah, sorry about that. They were a strong team, always in it, and often ruining my Decembers and Januarys.
Take a look at this Norwood jersey, maybe you’ve seen it: This Is the Best Buffalo Bills Jersey I’ve Ever Seen [PICTURE]
They really should have won that one. ESPN did an excellent 30 for 30 episode on those four Bills teams. I love the city of Buffalo’s outpouring of love and support for those teams, and especially for Norwood. Highly recommended for any fan of the sport and its history.
That you do. That was a Joe Kapp led team. Nice guy, I’ve met him, he used to own a bar called Kapps in downtown Mountain View, CA. A bit of trivia, Joe Kapp is the only QB ever to start in a Rose Bowl, a Grey Cup, and a Super Bowl. No other QB has ever done that. Kapp won the Grey Cup but lost the other two. To date, that Rose Bowl (1959) was the last time Cal appeared in the Rose Bowl.
Like a few others on this thread, the first Super Bowl I watched was Super Bowl VI in 1972 between Dallas and Miami. However, I didn’t like either team and didn’t care who won. I was six and had just started following football that season.
Probably Super Bowl XXIX in 1995. San Francisco 49, San Diego 26. I was 12 years old, and not a football fan yet. I didn’t become one until the year my hometown Colts made it to the AFC Championship Game. I watched part of this Super Bowl because there was a big party for the youth and kids at my church that year, at the church.
Super Bowl VII, while VI is the first one I am aware of having happened the previous year (that was the first year I collected Topps football cards, and Joe Namath was at the bottom of the first pack I opened and therefore the first whose card I saw. Strictly beginner’s luck). Washington was a slight (one to two points) fave despite Miami’s perfect 16-0 heading in.
I have an easy time keeping track of the number of the coming Super Bowl game, as it always has matched my age exactly, even through strike/lockout seasons. It also has always put me right in the ballpark of the price of a first-class postage stamp.
Watch the NFL film of that game. If you didn’t know better, you’d swear Unitas came off the bench to win the game.
Super bowl 3 was the first I saw. I don’t remember seeing, or being aware of 1 or 2. But my family was visiting relatives that done and I saw parts of the game with my cousin.
Bears and Patriots…
10 years old.
I have some recollection of a commercial featuring Dan Marino and Joe Montana after one of the Super Bowls before this, but I don’t remember watching the game.
What’s funny is I remember significant Charger games played before this… (The Freeze bowl that Bullitt mentioned, and the epic Miami/Charger game) But I don’t remember any Super Bowls before this. I probably lost interest when the Chargers season was done.
I had a flurry of interest of NFL in the 90s thanks to Channel Four highlights in the UK and Madden '93 on the Sega Mega Drive, but I’m pretty sure I never actually watched a Super Bowl (or even any live game) during that time. Then I pretty much lost interest for years and years, until my flatmate in 2006-08 got the full Sky TV package as he was working for them, and we both got really into it.
Anyway, the first Super Bowl I watched was Giants v Patriots, the Helmet Catch one. Not a bad first SB!
Just watched that Bears-Patriots Super Bowl yesterday. Not a great game, but just amazing to watch that defense. Didn’t appreciate it as much when I was 11.