SUPER BOWL I QUOTE OF THE DAY 




Max McGee stayed out all night, shook off a hang-over, and burned the Chiefs for 2 TDs.

"It's impossible for me to believe those bald old men on the Packers could have handled us with such ridiculous ease."

-- Jerry Mays, Chiefs defensive lineman, on the Chiefs getting beaten easily (35-10) by the Packers in Super Bowl I, held on Janjuary 15, 1967 at the L.A. Coliseum. 

EDITORS NOTE:  In a new annual feature, we will be featuring the top quotes from past Super Bowls, along with some pictures, and summaries of the game and perhaps personal recolletions about how each game fit into various points of our lives.  

Instead of trying to do every Super Bowl each year, we will do 5 or so Super Bowls a year.  This year we feature the early Super Bows and a look back at the NFL-AFL rivalry.  Oh yeah, the Packers won the first two!

FROM TIME/LIFE . . . Despite its utterly prosaic name, the First AFL-NFL  World Championship Game, played in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 1967, remains a thrilling benchmark for fans not only because it was, in fact, the very first Super Bowl, but because of the jaw-dropping number of future Hall of Famers — and gridiron legends who never made it to Canton — who played, coached or were simply associated in one way or another with the event. The American Football League’s Kansas City Chiefs, for example, featured Len Dawson, Emmitt Thomas, Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanan and long-time coach (of the Chiefs as well as the team’s previous incarnation, the Dallas Texans), Hank Stram.   Lenny Dawson lighting up at Halftime. How bout a Fresca?! The NFL champion Green Bay Packers, meanwhile, boasted the likes of Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Herb Adderley, Forrest Gregg, Willie Davis, Henry Jordan, Jim Taylor and Willie Wood. (Another Packer great, running back Paul Hornung, suited up for the game but did not play, having been injured earlier in the season.) Finally, Green Bay was coached by none other than Vince Lombardi, subsequently immortalized in the big game’s ultimate symbol: the sterling-silver Vince Lombardi Trophy.    The Packers won the first Super Bowl back in January 1967 — the only Super Bowl that did not sell out (see empty seats above) — handily beating the Chiefs 35-10. Bart Starr was named the game’s Most Valuable Player.    Pacekrs DB Herb Adderly and Chiefs TE Fred Arbanas after the game.  They were teammates at Michigan State.    A man and his trophy.

\