Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Super Bowl IX Memories




Super Bowl IX - Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Minnesota Vikings 6. Dwight White, Fran Tarkenton, Bill Brown, Marv Kellum, Rocky Bleier, Matt Blair, Bobby Walden, Terry Brown, Fred Cox, Terry Bradshaw, Larry Brown, Harris set record 158 yards on 34 carries. Tulane Stadium, New Orleans. MVP Franco Harris. Favorite Steelers by 3. National anthem Grambling State University Band. Halftime show "Tribute to Duke Ellington" with Mercer Ellington and Grambling State University Band. Attendance 80,997. Network NBC. Announcers Curt Gowdy, Al DeRogatis and Don Meredith. Nielsen ratings 42.4 56 million viewers. Cost of 30-second commercial US$107,000


Still was not born for this Super Bowl, so here are some of the major events that took place in 1975, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 4.086 billion people. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, beginning a Holocaust that would take the lives of millions. In Vietnam, Saigon fell to the Communists. Apollo and Suyez take off in a joint effort in space by the Americans and the Soviets.



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