We’re not as arrogant as those gold medalists!
Super Bowl II, the second Super Bowl ever to be played, was a contest between the NFL champion Green Bay Packers and the AFL champion Oakland Raiders on January 14, 1968, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, FL. Technically game was not yet called the Super Bowl, it was known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, but the game has since been considered a “Super Bowl”. The NFL champion, Packers beat the AFL champion Raiders 33-14.
For Green Bay and their coach Vince Lombardi, it was their third consecutive season as NFL champions, and their second AFL-NFL Championship (the first one being the previous year). Green Bay quarterback Bart Star was the game’s MVP. The game was also Lombardi’s last game as head coach of the Packers. He resigned two weeks later.
The game was broadcast on CBS. Sportscaster Ray Scott handled the play-by-play, with Pat Summerall and Jack Kemp providing the the color commentary.
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The silver medal won by German athlete Luz Long in the long jump at the 1936 Munich Olympics fetched $488,435 at auction on October 16, 2022, a record for an Olympic silver medal sold at public auction. In all, 20 bids were made for the medal, which had attracted a significant amount of worldwide media attention. Many other pieces of…read more
“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” — Jim Bouton (1939 – 2019) It was sad news to learn of the passing of Jim Bouton yesterday, one of the most fascinating and notorious sports figures in U.S. baseball history….read more
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The quarterback-heavy New England Patriots the other day traded their backup (or second-string) quarterback to the quarterback-needy San Francisco 49ers for a pick in the second round of the 2018 NFL draft. Reasons for the trade are beyond the scope of this particular post, however, the trade of a valuable player who came into professional football as a second-round pick…read more
Madison Square Garden is New York’s premier indoor arena and venue. It is the home of the the New York Knicks (NBA), the New York Liberty (WNBA), and the New York Rangers (NHL) sports franchises. It is the main venue for the Men’s Big East Basketball Conference Tournament, the National Invitational Tournament Final and many other sporting and boxing events….read more
German athlete Luz Long is quite possibly the ultimate Silver Medalist. He is the athlete who finished second to American Jesse Owens in the long jump competition at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but more than that, he made sports history with a gesture that stunned many who witnessed it. After their competition, Long, a white man, enthusiastically embraced Owens, a black…read more
