"The Charbor Chronicles": Super Bowl XII Memories

Friday, January 1, 2016

Super Bowl XII Memories

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Super Bowl XII - Dallas Cowboys 27, Denver Broncos 10. January 15, 1978 at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Norris Weese 4 10, Rob Lytle 10 35 1, Craig Morton 4 15 39 0 4, Roger Staubach 17 25 183 1 0, Tony Dorsett 15 66 1, Billy Joe DuPree 4 66, SAC Lyle Alzado, Rubin Carter 2, Tom Jackson, D.D. Lewis, Harvey Martin, Randy White, INT Benny Barnes, Mark Washington. Stadium Louisiana Superdome, MVP Randy White, Harvey Martin, Favorite Cowboys by 6, National anthem Phyllis Kelly, Halftime show "From Paris to the Paris of America" with the Tyler Junior College Apache Belles, Pete Fountain, and Al Hirt, Attendance 76,400, announcers Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier, Neilson 47.2 est. 78.94 million viewers, Cost of 30-second commercial US$162,000. Rick Upchurch, Golden Richards, First domed Super Bowl.

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1978.html

I was born for this Super Bowl, although still a very young child and so obviously too young to remember any of it. So here are some of the major events that took place in 1978, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 4.302 billion people. In Rhodesia, white minority government leader Ian Smith and black leaders agreed to black majority rule, beginning the end of the civil war there (Rhodesia would come to be known as Zimbabwe in the future). In the United States, the Senate approved the Panama Canal Neutrality Treaty, and agreed to President Carter's treaty to hand the Panama Canal over to Panama by the year 2000. Also, President Carter achieved arguably his greatest, and surely his most famous, foreign affairs triumph with the "Framework for Peace" in the Middle East when Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin signed an accord after 13 tense days in a conference at Camp David, which has come to be known as the Camp David Accords. Pope Paul VI died at 80, and was succeeded by new Pope John Paul I. However, he unexpectedly dies at the age of 65 after just over one month in office, and is himself succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland, who becomes John Paul II. Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill him and five bodyguards. His body is found nearly two months after he is captured. Cult leader Jim Jones convinces his followers to commit mass suicide by drinking Kool Aid laced with cyanide in Jonestown, Guyana.