Super Bowl III Playoffs Before The Game The Game Scoring Summary

Super Bowl III was the third Super Bowl, the championship of American football, but the first to officially bear the name Super Bowl. (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games would retroactively be called "Super Bowls" as well.) The game was played on January 12, 1969 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

1 Playoffs

In the 1968 AFL Championship game, Joe Namath and the New York Jets rallied to defeat the Oakland Raiders, 27-23, at Shea StadiumShea Stadium Location Flushing, Queens, New York Opened April 17, 1964 Capacity 55,601 Owned By City of New York Architect: Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury Dimensions: Left Left-Center Center Right-Center Right 338 ft. Shea Stadium is a baseball stadium in Fl to advance to the Super Bowl.

In the NFLFor other uses of the abbreviation "NFL," see NFL (disambiguation). The National Football League NFL is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. The league was fo, the Cleveland BrownsThe Cleveland Browns are a National Football League team based in Cleveland, Ohio. In some accounts there is confusion over the history of the Cleveland Browns. This is due to the unusual and unprecedented actions taken by the city of Cleveland and the Na defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 31-20 and the Baltimore Colts defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 23-14 in the NFL Conference Championships. The Colts went on to shut out the Browns in the NFL Championship game, 34-0.

2 Before the game

The Colts, the champions of the NFL, were heavily favored to defeat the AFL champion Jets. Although the upstart AFL had successfully forced the long-established NFL into a merger agreement three years earlier, the previous AFL champions had lost the first two Super Bowls and the league was not generally respected as having the same calibre of talent as the NFL.

However, at the Touchdown Club in Miami, Jets quarterback Joe Namath predicted a Jets victory. "I guarantee it," he said.

3 The game

Matt Snell rushed for 121 yards, including the Jets' touchdown, and George Sauer caught eight passes for 133 yards. Don Maynard played injured, but his 112-yard, two touchdown performance against the Oakland Raiders in the AFL championship game made the Colts so wary of him that Namath took advantage of single coverage on other receivers, while the Jets defense shut down a Colts offense that had carried them to a 13-1 record during the regular season. Although the Colts had been touted by the NFL as "the greatest team of all time", Namath and the American Football League's Jets silenced the arrogant older league and struck a blow for underdogs everywhere.

4 Scoring Summary

New York -- Snell, 4 yard run (J. Turner kick) [7--0] (05:57, 2nd) ----+++ HALFTIME +++---- New York -- J. Turner, 32 yard field goal [10--0] (04:52, 3rd) New York -- J. Turner, 30 yard field goal [13--0] (11:02, 3rd) New York -- J. Turner, 9 yard field goal [16--0] (01:34, 4th) Baltimore -- Hill, 1 yard run (Michaels kick) [16--7]f (11:41, 4th)

5 External link

SuperBowl.com: Super Bowl III Recap

NFL Super Bowls
I 1967 | II 1968 | III 1969 | IV 1970 | V 1971 | VI 1972 | VII 1973 | VIII 1974 | IX 1975 | X 1976

XI 1977 | XII 1978 | XIII 1979 | XIV 1980 | XV 1981 | XVI 1982 | XVII 1983 | XVIII 1984 | XIX 1985 | XX 1986

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