16 amazing trivia about the 1st edition of Super Bowl
On February 8, Sunday, millions of people worldwide will be attending the 50th edition of one of the biggest sporting events on the planet: the Super Bowl. Last year we posted here at Mega some awesome trivia about this NFL event, the American Football League.
The article cited shows some data that may give a sense of the grandeur that the Super Bowl represents for Americans. In the world, the sport has been gaining more and more fans, which makes the event even bigger every year. The game that defines the champion team of the football season had its first edition in 1967 and the numbers and facts that involved that game show a very different reality from the current one.
So, to honor the 50th edition of the event, we present 16 incredible trivia about the first edition of the Super Bowl, contested by the winning Green Bay Packers teams, and Kansas City Chiefs. The list is based on a publication by All That Is Interesting. Check out the facts below and how much this sport has grown over 50 seasons:
1. The first Super Bowl actually had another name. The official nomenclature of the event was "First AFL-NFL World Championship Game" - AFL and NFL were the two main United States football leagues, and the creation of the match between the winners of both marked the unification of the National League sport. The term "Super Bowl" was used informally by some people.
2. In the game, 33, 000 seats went unsold. This represented approximately one third of the stadium capacity.
3. People who lived within 120 km of Los Angeles, where the game was played, could not follow the final on TV because television broadcasting was prohibited in this vicinity. The measure was adopted by the NFL to stimulate ticket sales for games.
4. That year, two television stations were able to broadcast the match live at the same time. This would only happen again in 2007. The first edition of the Super Bowl was shown by CBS and NBC.
5. The event was priced at $ 40, 000 for every 30 seconds of commercial break. For 2016, prices start at US $ 5 million (R $ 20 million) for the same time as advertising.
6. The total television audience was 51.18 million viewers in the 1967 match. In 2015, an estimated 114.5 million Americans watched the event on TV.
7. One of the biggest difference points for the current situation is with regard to ticket prices. In 1967, people paid only between $ 6 and $ 12 to watch the game at the stadium. Last year, the average price ranged from US $ 800 to US $ 1.9 thousand per entry, and in the resale market the value ranged from US $ 4.5 thousand to US $ 20 thousand.
8. In the match valid for the first Super Bowl, both teams used different balls when in attack. As they came from different leagues and played the final match for the first time, both teams were allowed to use the objects they were used to. The balls used had different sizes and shapes.
9. Max McGee was a reserve wide receiver of the Green Bay Packers. Certain that he would not even participate in the game, he disregarded curfew and drank in a bar until the wee hours of the night before the game. McGee was called in to replace one of the injured starting players and took the field to mark the first touchdown in Super Bowl history. To get a sense of the player's situation, he had to borrow a teammate's helmet because he had forgotten his in the locker room.
10. Traditionally, the Super Bowl gets at least one artist to perform a musical show at halftime. And so it was in 1967, when jazz trumpeter Al Hirt performed at the stadium. Along with him, 300 pigeons and 10, 000 balloons were released in the presentation.
11. The restart of the second half match had to be repeated on the field. The reason is that the NBC television network did not return from the commercial in time to broadcast the first exit kick.
12. As a standard cost-cutting measure at the time, both CBS and NBC eventually erased the tapes that contained the entire recorded game. For a long time it was thought that the game had been lost in history.
13. This situation only changed in 2005, when a record of the game was found in the attic of a Pennsylvania citizen.
14. He asked the NFL for $ 1 million for the recording. The league did not accept to pay the high value.
15. The tape owner's lawyer argued that this was fair, based on the amount charged for his commercial time in the recent Super Bowls. At the time, the same amount requested was generated by a mere seven seconds of airborne advertising.
16. The Pennsylvania man tape was used to recreate a full version of the game this year 2016. As it was not complete, some other sources had to be used to get a full game recording.
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The video with a compact of images and the full narrative of the game valid for the 1st Super Bowl of History is available on YouTube, and you can watch below:
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