Green Bay Packers vs Kansas City Chiefs

Date
Sun 15th January 1967 (UTC)
Sun 15th January 1967 (Local)

Timestamp
1967-01-15T21:15:00

Time

21:15:00 UTC (13:15:00 Local)

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League
NFL

Season
1966

Round
200

Status
Match Finished

Location
Los Angeles, CA
United States
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
(61,946 Attendance)

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The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl) was an American football game played on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10, winning their tenth championship in team history, becoming the first NFL team to win double-digit championships.

Coming into the game, billed by some as the "supergame", considerable animosity existed between the AFL and NFL, thus the teams representing the two rival leagues (the Chiefs and Packers, respectively) felt additional pressure to win. The Chiefs posted an 11–2–1 record during the regular season, and defeated the Buffalo Bills 31–7 in the AFL Championship Game. The Packers finished the regular season at 12–2 and defeated the Dallas Cowboys 34–27 in the NFL Championship Game. Many sportswriters and fans believed any team in the older NFL was vastly superior to any club in the upstart AFL, and so expected the Packers would blow out the Chiefs.

The first half of Super Bowl I was competitive, as the Chiefs outgained the Packers in total yards, 181–164, and kept pace with the Packers by posting a 14–10 score at halftime. Early in the third quarter, Packers safety Willie Wood intercepted a pass and returned it 50 yards to the 5-yard line. The turnover sparked the Packers to score 21 unanswered points in the second half. Packers quarterback Bart Starr, who completed 16 of 23 passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns, with one interception, was named MVP.

As NBC and CBS had held the rights to nationally televise AFL and NFL games, respectively, it was decided both networks were allowed to televise the game. The game remains the only Super Bowl to have been simulcast in the United States by two of the then-"Big Three" broadcast companies. Several recent Super Bowls have been simultaneously broadcast on network television as well as cable and streaming platforms.