Super Bowl III

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Super Bowl III
Super Bowl III logo
1 2 3 4th total
Baltimore Colts 0 0 0 7th 7th
New York Jets 0 7th 6th 3 16
date January 12, 1969
Stadion Orange Bowl Stadium
city Miami
MVP Joe Namath , quarterback
favourite Colts at 18
National anthem Anita Bryant
coin toss referee
Referee Tommy Bell
Halftime show Florida A&M University Band
Number of visitors 75,389
Television broadcast
Network NBC
Commentators Curt Gowdy , Al DeRogatis and Kyle Rote
Nielsen Ratings 36.0
Market share 71
Commercial price 55,000 US dollars
timeline
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The Super Bowl III , then the AFL-NFL Championship Game , was the third edition of the final of the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). On January 12, 1969, the Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets faced each other at Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami , Florida . The New York Jets won with a final score of 16: 7. New York quarterback Joe Namath was named Super Bowl MVP .

background

Since the NFL had a greater reputation than the AFL and the skills of the teams and the players within the National Football League was greater than that in the American Football League, the Colts were strongly favored. However, Jets quarterback Joe Namath predicted victory in the Super Bowl and also said four AFL quarterbacks, including himself and his reserve babe Parilli, would be better than Colts quarterback Earl Morrall .

Super Bowl III is the oldest all-video Super Bowl.

Course of the game

The first half was without points except for a touchdown by the Jets. In the third and last quarter, the Jets' kicker , Jim Turner , scored three field goals , which resulted in an intermediate result of 16: 0. With only three minutes remaining, the Colts scored a touchdown, so it was 16: 7.

Individual evidence

  1. Super Bowl odds (English). Accessed October 1, 2015.

literature

  • Ray Didinger among others: The Super Bowl. Celebrating a Quarter-Century of America's Greatest Game. Foreword by Pete Rozelle. Introduction by John Wiebusch. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1990, ISBN 0-671-72798-2 .
  • Tom Dienhart, Joe Hoppel, Dave Sloan (Eds.): The Sporting News Complete Super Bowl 1995. Sporting News, St. Louis MO 1995, ISBN 0-89204-523-X .