Super Bowl XIII
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| date | January 21, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadion | Orange Bowl Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | Miami | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Terry Bradshaw , quarterback | ||||||||||||||||||
| favourite | Steelers at 3½ | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | The Colgate Thirteen | ||||||||||||||||||
| coin toss | George Halas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Pat Haggerty (referee) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Bob Jani Productions | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number of visitors | 79,484 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Television broadcast | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Curt Gowdy , Merlin Olsen and John Brodie | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 47.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Market share | 74 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial price | $ 185,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| ‹ Super Bowl XII | Super Bowl XIV › | ||||||||||||||||||
The Super Bowl XIII was the 13th Super Bowl of the National Football League (NFL). On January 21, 1979, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys faced each other at Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami , Florida . The Pittsburgh Steelers won with a final score of 35:31. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw , who completed 17 of 30 passes for 318 yards and four touchdowns , was voted Super Bowl MVP despite two dropped fumbles and an interception .
background
At Super Bowl XIII, the top-class players in history appeared, 14 of the participants in this Super Bowl were later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame , nine on the side of the Steelers (Bradshaw, Harris, Swann, Stallworth, Webster, Greene, Lambert , Ham and Blount) and five with the Cowboys (Staubach, Dorsett, White, Wright and Smith). The Super Bowl was the first so far in which a team that has scored more than 30 points lost. In addition, the Cowboys were the first team to lose twice to the same team in the Super Bowl (they also lost to the Steelers in Super Bowl X ).
Course of the game
In the first quarter, both teams each scored a touchdown, which resulted in a tie. In the second quarter, the Steelers made two and the Cowboys made another touchdown, which is why it was 21:14 for the Steelers. A field goal by the Cowboys followed in the second half , followed by four touchdowns - two from each team. So at the end of the game it was 35:31 and the Steelers won their third Super Bowl.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Super Bowl odds (English). Accessed October 2, 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 .