Okay, so the Super Bowl for 2024 is history. I don’t have any idea who won it simply because I recorded this prior to the Super Bowl. Two good teams involved. It doesn’t matter if the 49ers win I’m okay. If Kansas City wins, I’m okay. I couldn’t care less.
But, it did get me to thinking about the Super Bowl. It’s been around what, sixty years or so? Probably the first pro game that I ever really, really paid attention to was the one that was played in the Cotton Bowl. It was the NFL or NFC Championship game and the Dallas Cowboys almost won it. They got beat 34-27 by Green Bay. Dallas had the ball inside the ten yard line and then they got picked off. Green Bay won it and I thought it was a great football game. Then we turn around the next year and we have to play in Green Bay. It was maybe the coldest game in NFL history. Unbelievably cold! Again Dallas came close. I thought Don Meredith was a great QB, but Bart Starr was too.
So, we moved into what’s called the Super Bowl era. It wasn’t called the Super Bowl until year number three. That first year it was Green Bay, again, and they beat Kansas City or somebody. The game was played in California and Green Bay won it again. Then, the next year and Green Bay won it again. Needless to say, Green Bay was the dominant team of the 1960’s.
After those two games they came up with the name – by the way the first two games were called the NFC-AFC World Championship – something like that. I watched number one and number two on TV and then number three showed up and they called it the Super Bowl and it stuck. The first Super Bowl had the heavily favored Baltimore Colts against a team that most people thought had no chance – the New York Jets – quarterbacked by a guy named Joe Namath. The Jets won, I think like 16 to 7. Then, Pro-Football really took off and I think number four might have featured the Cowboys. Maybe the next year, too.
I can sit around if I have absolutely nothing to do, I’ll try to think of the best Super Bowl I’ve ever seen. I’ll tell you, there’s not very many that jump to the front of the line but I guess, I guess, there was one that the St. Louis Rams played in with Kirk Warner. It was a heck of a ballgame and I don’t even remember who they played but it was a great game. Probably the wildest one I’ve ever seen was the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons were ahead big at half time, I mean very big at half time. It was like 28-0, or 34-6, something like that, and believe it or not, behind quarterback Tom Brady, New England came back and may have taken it into overtime, I don’t remember, but it was like a 40-37 ballgame. It may have been the best that I’ve ever seen. That was a terrific ballgame but those are few and far between. We haven’t had too many laughers, but we haven’t had too many classics either. For the benefit of those who watched Sunday evening, I sincerely hope it was a good one.
Until next time, so long everybody.
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‘Out of the Box’ with Dallas Huston is published each Monday morning at BrownwoodNews.com. Dallas was the radio voice of the Brownwood Lions and Howard Payne Yellow Jackets for more than 55 years. He currently is Pastor of Center City Baptist Church and hosts a Men’s Bible Study in Brownwood on Monday evenings. Your comments are welcome at [email protected].