Green Bay QB and game MVP Bart Starr, Super Bowl I, 1967.
As NBC and CBS had held the rights to nationally televise
AFL and NFL games, respectively, it was decided that both networks were allowed to broadcast the game.
Kansas City QB Len Dawson.
On December 28, 1975, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger
Staubach (above) threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Drew
Pearson in the waning seconds to beat the Minnesota Vikings
in a playoff game, 17-14.
Afterward, Staubach calls the miraculous touchdown a "Hail
Mary," thus cementing the term for a desperation pass in the
sports lexicon.
"It was a play you hit one in a hundred times if you’re lucky,”
Staubach told reporters after the game in Bloomington,
Minnesota. "I guess it’s a Hail Mary pass. You throw it up and
pray he catches it."
Said Dallas coach Tom Landry: "Our only hope was to throw
and hope for a miracle."
Wide receiver Drew Pearson catches the ball.
On December 18, 1932, the Chicago Bears defeated the
Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, 9-0, in the NFL’s first playoff
game—and first game played indoors. The victory gave the
Bears the championship and lead to a playoff system for
the first time.
Because of frigid weather and waist-deep snow, the game
was moved from Wrigley Field to Chicago Stadium, home
of the city’s NHL team.
1932 NFL Championship Game Program –
One of Few to Exist!
(FOX NEWS) – Former Denver Broncos defensive lineman
Harald Hasselbach has died after a six-month bout with
cancer.
The two-time Super Bowl champion’s family announced
his death Thursday, saying he was "free of pain."
According to the family, Hasselbach had been diagnosed
with metastatic mucinous adenocarcinoma.
George Gipp (February 18, 1895 – December 14, 1920)
The Notre Dame football team, inspired by late gridiron star
George Gipp and the most famous halftime pep talk in sports
history, rallied to upset undefeated Army in front of 85,000
fans at Yankee Stadium on this day in history, Nov. 10, 1928.
Legendary head coach Knute Rockne’s impassioned "Win one
for the Gipper" speech echoed through the decades — far
beyond the football field — and entered American cultural,
political and military lore.
(FOX NEWS)
Knute Kenneth Rockne
(March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931)
