Super Bowl IX
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| date | January 12, 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadion | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | New Orleans | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Franco Harris , running back | ||||||||||||||||||
| favourite | Steelers at 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Band from Grambling State University | ||||||||||||||||||
| coin toss | referee | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Bernie Ulman | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Mercer Ellington | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number of visitors | 80.997 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Television broadcast | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Curt Gowdy , Al DeRogatis and Don Meredith | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 42.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Market share | 73 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial price | $ 107,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| ‹ Super Bowl VIII | Super Bowl X › | ||||||||||||||||||
The Super Bowl IX was the ninth Super Bowl of the National Football League (NFL). On January 12, 1975, the Minnesota Vikings and the Pittsburgh Steelers faced each other at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans , Louisiana . The Pittsburgh Steelers won with a final score of 16: 6. Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris , who ran 158 yards more than the entire offense of the Vikings, was voted Super Bowl MVP .
background
At Super Bowl IX, the two best defenses met each other, the Vikings were called Purple People Eaters and the Steelers Steel Curtain . Both teams also had legendary quarterback , Terry Bradshaw for Pittsburgh and Fran Tarkenton for the Vikings. The game was previously predicted to be very tough and poor in points due to the good defenses.
Course of the game
After a pointless first quarter, the Steelers Defense managed to achieve a safety when the Vikings fumbled a snap : Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton pounced on the free ball in his own end zone , but was tackled directly by Steelers defensive end Dwight White .
In the second half, Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris finally made the game's first touchdown with a 9-yard run . The Vikings then blocked a punt and were able to regain the ball for a touchdown in the end zone, reducing the score to 9: 6, as the point after touchdown (PAT) failed. After that, the Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw directed a 6-minute series of attacks to the Vikings' 4-yard line. With a touchdown pass to tight end Larry Brown , he finally sealed the Steelers' first Super Bowl victory.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Super Bowl odds (English). Accessed October 3, 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 .