Super Bowl I

In the 1960s, professional football had 2 leagues but no unified champion. That changed after the 1966 season when the first AFL-NFL championship game was played. The Kansas City Chiefs were a perennial AFL powerhouse in the 1960s and they faced the NFL Champion Green Bay Packers in what would become known as Super Bowl I.

Played in the Los Angeles Coliseum, the game kicked off at 1:00pm and was broadcast on CBS. While one-third of the Los Angeles Coliseum's 95,000 seats were empty, more than 65 million people watch the television broadcast. The television audience was the largest to watch a sporting event in the U.S. at that time.

Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson completed 11 of 15 pass attempts in the first half but the Chiefs trailed the Packers 14-10 at half-time. Kansas City would not score in the second half, and the final score was Green Bay 35, Kansas City 10.

Source

• MacCambridge, Michael. America's Game. New York: Random House, 2004.