Super Bowl XIV
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| date | 20th January 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadion | Rose Bowl Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | Pasadena | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Terry Bradshaw , quarterback | ||||||||||||||||||
| favourite | Steelers at 12½ | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Cheryl Ladd | ||||||||||||||||||
| coin toss | Kind Rooney | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Fred Silva | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Up with people | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number of visitors | 103,985 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Television broadcast | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen Ratings | 46.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Market share | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial price | $ 222,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| timeline | |||||||||||||||||||
| ‹ Super Bowl XIII | Super Bowl XV › | ||||||||||||||||||
The Super Bowl XIV was the 14th Super Bowl of the National Football League (NFL). On January 20, 1980, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams faced each other at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena , California . The winners were the Pittsburgh Steelers with a final score of 31:19. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw , who completed 14 of 21 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns , was named Super Bowl MVP .
background
Super Bowl XIV holds the record number of viewers for Super Bowls to this day. This could only have been broken at Super Bowl XLV in the Dallas Cowboys' new stadium , as the NFL Super Bowls only play in stadiums in which a team from the league plays and none of the current NFL stadiums has anywhere near 100,000 seats .
The Steelers were heavily favored in the run-up as they had already won three Super Bowls. They themselves did not take the game so lightly, as they had a statistic of twelve defeats in only one win against the Rams.
Course of the game
The game started with a field goal for the Steelers, followed by a touchdown by the Rams, giving them the lead. In the second quarter, the Steelers made a touchdown and the Rams made two more field goals. The first points in the second half were a 47 yard touchdown pass from Bradshaw to Lynn Swann , followed by another from the Rams, which is why it was 19:17 for Los Angeles at the end of the third quarter. However, the Steelers made their first 4th Quarter comeback in Super Bowl history with two touchdowns . So it ended up being 31:19.
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 .