Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Super Bowl XVI Memories



Super Bowl XVI - San Francisco 49ers 26, Cincinnati Bengals 21. Played on January 25, 1981 in the Pontiac Silverdome, Detroit, Michigan.  MVP Joe Montana, Favorite 49ers by 1, National anthem Diana Ross, Halftime show Up with People presents "Salute to the 1960s and Motown," Attendance 81,270, Network CBS, Announcers Pat Summerall and John Madden, Nielsen ratings 49.1, 85.24 million viewers, Market share 73, Cost of 30-second commercial US$324,000, Joe Montana 14/22 157 1 0, Ricky Patton 17 55, Earl Cooper 9 34, Freddie Solomon 4 52, Dwight Clark 4 45, Earl Copper 2 15 1, INT Dwight Hicks 1, Eric Wright 1 vs Ken Anderson 25/34 300 2 2, Pete Johnson 14 36, Dan Ross 11 104 2, Cris Collinsworth 5 107, Isaac Curtis 3 42

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1982.html

This is the one, the first Super Bowl that I watched, and the 1981 season was the first one in which I actually followed the NFL. And that was a hell of a season to do so. My favorite team was the Giants, and they managed to break a huge playoff slump of 18 years by squeaking into the playoffs on the final play of the final regular season game against the Dallas Cowboys. But they made it count, knocking off the defending NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles in the Wildcard Game, although they would eventually be bounced out themselves by the eventual Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers (this was the beginning of my life-long loathing of the 49ers). The playoffs were filled with games that I vividly remember. In fact, I remember each of these games on some level, even more than I remember some playoff games from much more recent seasons, ironically. Some games were probably normally forgettable, such the Dallas's 38-0 drubbing of the Buccaneers. I remember that one well, even though I was pulling for Tampa Bay. The Bengals and Bills played an exciting divisional round game that still reminds me of the town that my family lived in then, Lodi, New Jersey. There was a great, double overtime game between the San Diego Chargers and the Miami Dolphins, which is still considered one of the greatest games ever. Then, there was  the famous NFC Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers, which was decided by "The Catch." And a halfway decent Super Bowl between two franchises that had never been there before.

Ah, yes. I remember this one. Again, I wanted anyone to beat the 49ers, since they had knocked out my Giants. But the Dallas Cowboys were not quite up to the task (although they came very close), and the Cincinnati Bengals also fell short in the end. Still, this was the first season when I really was following the NFL, which was very new to me at the time, and it was exciting! It just feels so different when you are a kid, although it would be a decade that would follow with my being quite excited by the NFL. It surely helped that the Giants were starting to be good, although they did admittedly stink for the two seasons following the success of 1981. But they would get better, eventually finally breaking through in the 1986 season, and then managing - just barely - to get back to the Super Bowl in the 1990-91 season, and just scraping by against the favored Buffalo Bills, which would be the last time in a long time that I would really, really get into a season.

Here are some of the major events that took place in 1982, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 4.610 billion people. Britain and Argentina fought in the war over the Falkland Islands, near the South American continent. Israel invaded Lebanon in a mission against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Lebanese Christian Phalangists kill hundreds in a Palestinian refugee camp. Soviet Premier Brezhnev died, and is succeeded by Yuri V. Andropov.



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