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(FOX NEWS) – Former NFL defensive back Matt Stevens has
died.
According to an obituary, Stevens died on March 20. A cause
of death was not immediately provided.
Stevens played for five NFL teams, including the Patriots and
Texans.
Janet Jackson at the halftime show of the Super Bowl in 2004.
The infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show with Justin Timberlake.
Janet Damita Jo Jackson will be 59 years young in May.
The first Super Bowl game, then called the AFL-NFL
World Championship Game, was played at the Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967.
Broadcast on two television networks and played
before less than a sellout crowd, the game saw
the NFL’s Green Bay Packers defeat the AFL’s
Kansas City Chiefs, 35–10.
The name “Super Bowl” first appeared in 1969, as
did the use of Roman numerals.
Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts became the first African
American NFL head coach to win a Super Bowl.
The victory marked the first time a Black head coach had
reached the National Football League’s championship game,
one that featured not just one, but two Black head coaches.
Super Bowl XLI pitted Dungy and his Colts against Lovie Smith,
head coach of the Chicago Bears.
The Bears shocked the Colts with a 92-yard kick return for a
touchdown in the first 14 seconds of the game. Despite this
demoralizing start, the Colts and quarterback Peyton Manning
came back to defeat the Bears, 29-17.
It was the Colts’ first Super Bowl victory since 1971, when they
played in Baltimore.
Dungy (center) along with colleagues Dan Patrick and Rodney Harrison at an NFL game in Denver in September 2013.
Anthony Kevin Dungy (69).
Since retiring, Dungy has served as a TV sports analyst. He
is an evangelical Christian, and at one point in his coaching
career considered leaving football for the prison ministry.
Throughout his career, he has remained involved with
community service organizations.
On February 3, 2002, the New England Patriots shocked football
fans everywhere by defeating the heavily favored St. Louis Rams,
20-17, to take home their first Super Bowl victory.
Pats’ kicker Adam Vinatieri (below) made a 48-yard field goal to
win the game just as the clock expired.
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New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady.
