"The Charbor Chronicles": Super Bowl XIV Memories

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Super Bowl XIV Memories

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Super Bowl XIV - Pittsburgh Steelers 31, Los Angeles Rams 19. Played on January 20, 1980, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Vince Ferragamo RAM 15 25 212 0 1, Wendell Tyler RAM 17 60, Billy Waddy RAM 3 75, Cullen Bryant RAM 6 30 1, Terry Bradshaw PIT 14 21 309 2 3, John Stallworth PIT 3 121 1, Franco Harris PIT 20 46 2, Lynn Swann PIT 5 79 1, SAC John Banaszak, Robin Cole, Steve Furness, J.T. Thomas, INT Jack Lambert. MVP Terry Bradshaw, Favorite Steelers by 11.5, National anthem Cheryl Ladd, Halftime show Up with People presents "A Salute to the Big Band Era," Attendance 103,985, Network CBS, Announcers Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier, Nielsen ratings 46.3 est 76.2 million viewers, Cost of 30-second commercial US$222,000

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1980.html

I was born for this Super Bowl, although still a young child and so too young to remember any of it. Plus, I was not yet a fan of football for this one. But this was the last of the Super Bowl wins for those legendary Steelers of the 1970's, and as a fan of the NFL, I regretted not having seen them as a championship team. The Steelers secured their place in history by winning this fourth and final Super Bowl championship in a six year span, overcoming a very tough and determined Los Angeles Rams team with a comeback in the final quarter.

So here are some of the major events that took place in 1980, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 4.453 billion people. The United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran, while six Americans escaped the possibility of being taken hostage in Tehran, Iran. In a sign of escalating tensions, eight American servicemen are killed in what would have been a rescue attempt of the hostages in Iran. Iraq invaded Iran, in a war that would last the better part of a decade. Former Nicaraguan leader Anastasio Somoza Debayle, as well as two aides, assassinated in Paraguayan capital of Asunción. Three American nuns and a lay worker in El Salvador.Late in the year, John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, just hours after signing a record for the man who would murder him.

And here is what the field would have looked like had the losers of the Conference Championship Games, the Houston Oilers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, won and met here instead: