Super Bowl I

The First Super Bowl

The first Super Bowl game was played on a sunny seventy-degree day on January 15, 1967 at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The first Super Bowl was between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs with the former claiming victory with a score of thirty-five to ten. There were 61,946 fans in attendance at the coliseum and 1,000 times that number in television viewers. The original, formal title for the first Super Bowl was the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, since it pitted the top teams from each of the separate leagues together. Since the AFL and NFL eventually merged three years later, Super Bowl became the official title for the annual championship game.

MVP Of Super Bowl I

Bart Starr, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers carried the title of MVP of Super Bowl I. The majority of players named MVP are quarterbacks, although running backs, wide receivers and other positions have claimed the title as well. The MVP of Super Bowl I played for the winning team, although there have been instances of this award going to a player on the losing team as well. Bart Starr worked hard for the title of MVP of Super Bowl I as well as Super Bowl II. He played for the Green Bay Packers since 1956 and assumed a key role once Vince Lombardi came on as head coach. At the end of his playing career, he himself became head coach of the Green Bay Packers for eight years. However, Starr is probably most known for being the MVP of Super Bowl I.

Super Bowl I

The members of the Super Bowl I winning team each received fifteen thousand dollars, and the members of the Super Bowl I losing team each received seven thousand five hundred dollars. Max McGee, who carried the game, was put into play unexpectedly after Boyd Dowler got hurt. Infamous for his pre-game partying, the wide receiver arrived back to his room after a night out only hours before Super Bowl I kick off. He caught an incredible seven passes for 138 years and two touchdowns. Super Bowl I began an era of football history that will continue for the foreseeable future.

Modern football history can be marked by the commencement of the Super Bowl championship games. Super Bowl I merged two independent leagues and started an obsession within the American culture that transcends gender, race, and socioeconomic background.