"The Charbor Chronicles": Super Bowl X Memories

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Super Bowl X Memories

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Super Bowl X - Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Dallas Cowboys 17. January 18, 1976, in Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida, Miami Terry Bradshaw's 64-yard touchdown pass to Lynn Swann, Roger Staubach, Glen Edwards, Drew Pearson, Percy Howard, Toni Fritsch, Randy Grossman, Roy Gerela, Reggie Harrison, Lynn Swann set a Super Bowl record by gaining 161 yards on four receptions. Stadium Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, MVP Lynn Swann, Favorite Steelers by 7, National anthem Tom Sullivan, Halftime show Up with People presents "200 Years and Just a Baby: Tribute to America's Bicentennial" Attendance 80,187, Network CBS, Announcers Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier, Nielsen ratings 42.3 57.7 million viewers, Cost of 30-second commercial US$110,000

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1976.html

I was born for this Super Bowl, although still a baby and so obviously too young to remember any of it. So here are some of the major events that took place in 1976, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 4.158 billion people. Pol Pot became Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Cambodia, and the Holocaust there was well underway as a result. Israeli military commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport, where Palestinians had hijacked an Air France flight. Civil War in Lebanon ended, although it had threatened to escalate into a much bigger war involving other nations.