What was your earliest Super Bowl memory?

Super Bowl 5 1971 Baltimore Colts defeat Dallas Cowboys 16-13. I asked my dad what the rules were if the game ended 13-13, but the Colts kicked the FG for the win.

My family did not have a TV from 67-70. We were poor. We did pick up a TV from the neighbors trash in 1968 that worked from late Aug til Thanksgiving.

Anyway I did see part of the Bills 1965 AFC Championship game. I held the “rabbit ears” to keep the signal clear.

Mine was Superbowl 11 where John Madden was the coach, Kenny the Snake Stabler was QB, and Fred Biletnikoff and his pattened laying out and catching the ball as he fall out of bounds and still keeping his toes inbounds. I use to practice that in my back yard, always was one of my favorite receivers.

I opted to play Grand Theft Auto instead.

They played outdoors in the mud, snow, and crappy conditions like real men.

As a Golden Gopher fan this is why I love their semi-new stadium (TCF Bank Stadium) and as a minny res this is why I wish the new stadium would be open air.

I put this up so you guys could share and say whatever while waiting for the open thread.

……….. gotta go back outside to the deep fryer and check on my wings.

We were together for a family funeral I think. This was the first time it was a big deal for everyone that I knew. Everybody talked about how dominant the Steelers were going to be and I remember them just toying with the Rams the whole game…at least that is how I remember it.

I watched every one since then except Super Bowl XX with the Bears and Pats (I was boycotting the NFL that year in favor of the USFL – when it broke up, I became a Bills fan because of Jim Kelly coming to the team).

The wide right call in the opening montage?

After Championship seasons in 64 and 65, missing out going to the first Super Bowl was a big disappointment. I was 8.

Tim Krumries broken leg. I was like 8, and that injury was horrific

one SB against the Cowboys, i started to root for the Bills there.

I was in 6th grade and I made my first Super Bowl bet that game. $1 on the Eagles……and I lost :(

fun topic

Bills vs Redskins. I was in the second grade and had just moved to Nunda NY (hour south of Rochester). I actually betted against the Bills, it may have been my fault they lost guys…..Sorry.

My bold prediction tonight on my facebook was the Bills will win the Super Bowl in four years.

Super Bowl XXV, January 27, 1991. That was the first day, that I learned, what it means to be a Bills’ fan. I didn’t recognize it at the time, nor did I clearly understand it yet, but that was the day, that I became hooked on football. Admittedly, my interest in the game, found me rooting for the Dallas Cowboys (I thought Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith were AMAZING compared to what little I had seen of football so far) but that only mean that just a couple short years later, that I got to experience two very bitter sweet games and seal my Super Bowl future forever and as a young fan (i had just turned 11), made me into the true FANATIC that I am now. I don’t think had it been for those four years, that I would have traded in WWF, for the NFL. hahaha. REALLY REALLY glad that I did though.

Great post idea Sarge. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. recd as well.

The earliest memory I have, therefore, is the Dolphins/49ers commercial:
Montana!
Hey Marino!
Great game, man.
Aw, thanks.
That draw play in the 2nd quarter? Great choice.
(Narrator: You make a choice because it feels right.)
Can I buy you one?
It’s the least you can do!
(Diet Pepsi. 100% Nutrasweet.)
Here you go. Don’t drop it.
(100% taste.)
See ya Dan.
Joe. Next year, I’m buying.
(Diet Pepsi. The one-calorie choice of a new generation.)

As a kid I loved the Steelers. My brother was a Bills fan, so I was always happy and he was always not. Which SB was it that Lynn Swan leaped up for the grab in the back of the endzone? Probably against Dallas. They seemed to play every year. Still hate Dallas, but not as much as the Patriots.

My family had just moved to California from WNY, and I remember watching the Raiders win it. I was pretty small back then (4 years old) but I still remember it. However, I really fell in love with football when the Bills played the Giants in Super Bowl XXV (25). My roots to WNY were rejuvenated through that team, and I have remained a die hard fan to this day.

It wasn’t the first Super Bowl I watched, but one of the first that sticks with me is the Bears v Patriots. An absolutely dominating performance.

I’m trying to remember if the first SB I watched was XVIII (Washington v Raiders) or XIX (Niners v Dolphins).

Not sure what Super Bowl that was (8 or 9 maybe), but it was the coronation of the hated Phish that year. I was rooting so hard for the “Over the Hill Gang” that day.