Every year on ‘Super Sunday’, when the NFL (American Football) championship game is fought between the winning teams of the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC), more television sets in America are tuned in to the Super Bowl than any other event. American football was reorganized into the two Conferences, the first three contests for supremacy (1967-1969)were clumsily referred to as the ‘AFL-NFL World Championship Game’. Therefore, the first true ‘Super Bowl’ was not played until the year 1970, a useful fact for your trivia quiz toolkit. Every player on a winning Super Bowl team receives a jewelled ring.
California was home to the highest number of winning teams in the first 45 years since the reorganization. The Oakland Raiders have brought home three trophies and the San Francisco 49ers, five.
On January 25, 1977, the Oakland Raiders won their first Super Bowl game against the Minnesota Vikings with a score of 32-34. This was Super Bowl XI. The Most Valuable Player (MVP) was wide receiver, Fred Biletnikoff. Snow fell in Miami, Florida, for the first and only time the previous week. The Raiders’ next Super Bowl win was on January 25, 1981, against the Philadelphia Eagles. They won 27-10. This was Super Bowl XV and the MVP was Oakland quarterback, Jim Plunkett. In the same month, the television shows, ‘Dynasty’ and ‘Hill Street Blues’ were first aired.
The following year, it was Raiders 1, NFL 0 when the Raider franchise moved to the Los Angeles Coliseum. The Raiders only Super Bowl win as the team from LA was in 1984 when they beat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa, Florida. The Most Valuable Player was Marcus Allen.
In 1982, quarterback Joe Montana led the San Francisco 49ers to their first-ever Super Bowl victory against the Cincinnati Bengals with a score of 26-21. Having led the team to victory just two weeks after undergoing spinal surgery, it is perhaps unsurprising that Montana was voted MVP. The ‘Niners’ next Super Bowl trophy was captured from the Miami Dolphins in 1985 when, one again, Joe Montana was named MVP. Head Coach Bill Walsh led the team to both of their first two victories.
The San Francisco 49ers won Super Bowls XXIII, XXI and XXIX. The only American states to come close to California’s record are Pennsylvania, with a total of six championship wins, and Texas, with five.
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