NFL – Super Bowl’s [Updated till 46]

Jan 302011

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You could already guess from my name that I am basically from INDIA, where CRICKET is everything and Indian Premiere League[IPL] has boomed the way world looks at Cricket and India. To prove my point how important Cricket is for India, the advertisement media rights for Indian Cricket was sold at record 386 Million dollars for 5 years I believe [not sure about the number of years, previously it was $80+M]. Each player who is auctioned in IPL worth more than an half a million dollar for 8 weeks [i.e.,14 games], before IPL, average player earning was not even 40,000$ for year [not for all players, some of the young guys, who now are auctioned at as high as 1.9M$ for 2 year (i.e..,16 weeks, 28 games in total)] .

Entire 1B people goes GAA GAA & wild when batting master Sachin Tendulkar comes on ground!, he is God for Indians. He has more centuries, runs in both Test & ODI than any other player in History of the sport!. It would take me almost 8-10 years to keep appreciating the game and players for their contribution, so let’s stop about Cricket and concentrate on my New Interest Football [American].

My anxiety in game made me to join 5 leagues in Yahoo fantasy leagues for 2010-2011 season & become champion in all!. This achievement and my love towards the game made me dig into record books and figure out and know more about Super Bowl’s and teams. I would like to share the same in this article and hope to keep updating the table of facts every year until I could. Before that, let me share my experience in watching games, playing fantasy football, this season of 45th Year of Super Bowl.

My Experience – Fantasy Football [2010-2011]

I would have never got into this Football game nor fantasy game, if not the project that I am working on. [Sh!!! can't share the project name or anything as I am under NDA]. This project gave me opportunity to understand the rules of the game better & propelled me to see how the game goes & how interesting it would be.

Seeing my interest & excitement in the game, some of colleagues and friends invited me to Yahoo Fantasy football, with zero knowledge of teams, players, got onto fantasy football and went on winning the Championships!. Every week by week my interest towards games became so much that I started watching every game, if not game at-least live scores from NFL.com. Watched every Sunday & Monday night games.

I also went to “Qualcomm Stadium” to see Chargers vs Titans game. I also bought tickets for Chiefs vs Chargers, but due to fever couldn’t go!. 16 weeks long it was very very exciting & winning championships in fantasy was like miracle. Loads of Stat’s, lot of anxiety made it happen. More than all that the fun in the game!, players, on field challenges, off field verbal fight, on Field Fights [Pretty sad to see that], but was fun. By the way you might be amazed to hear that I won all 4 out of 5 leagues with QB being Chief’s Matt Cassel, Cowboy’s QB John Kitna & Raider’s QB Jason Campbell!, no Tom Brady nor Micheal Vick nor Aaron Rodgers or any highly rated QB’s!. I spoke about QB’s rather than any other position is because through out season I had one good WR, one good RB, and solid Defense team except in one of the leagues, and rest everyone was average guys!. It was fun watching how highly ranked and scoring team loose against my team in few decimal points or point or two!, Yes there were games in which I scored very well and win on opposition convincingly too.

Amazing season of football! we saw lot of ups & downs. Unbelievable Favorites Patriots going down against Jets in playoff’s who won on them previously 45-3. Pittsburg Steelers who amazingly hold Jets offense to win Championship in the second half! and move to Super Bowl. We also saw Vick playing his best game ever [at-least I have seen ] and win against Giants in 4th quarter and we also saw same Vick being sacked after sack against Vikings and loosing to them. Eagles loosing to Packers, the saga goes on. It was much treat of games to watch.

Probably I can say it’s treat to watch as I am quiet new and I don’t have any favorites or teams which I cheer for. But for Eagles fan’s I know it would be tough for them to see their team loose. Chief’s ran on success of Cassel – Bowe pair, Jamel Charles success in running game and went onto become Division champs after so many years [I believe]. Entire kansas city was going gaa gaa saying Cassel – Bowe straight to super bowl and was shattered by Ravens who played so well on that day!. I know it’s hard on Kansas to loose the last two games at HOME in-front of HOME crowd, which season long before Raiders never lost in home, but that’s how the game goes on. Similarly Chargers loosing against Broncos I guess, made chargers hopes to playoff’s shatter. If I turn back and see the games which happened in this season everything was fun and very very entertaining. Amazing season. After seeing this amazing season of football and teams who fought so hard, curiosity made me to dig-in to find out more about Super Bowl’s for past 44 years!, and below is the Facts which I found out from NFL.com, and many more resources I referred. Thanks to all of them. Hope this thirst of game continues for me for coming year & also hoping to see one more much entertaining game on Feb 6th, I sign-off with facts of superbowl’s & hope to keep it up to date every year.

Superbowl Facts [Till Number 46]

The below is the table of NFL Super Bowl Winners. Feel free to sort yourself to see the results in specific order!!

TEAM NAME	SUPER BOWL NO.	YEAR	AGAINST	SCORE	LOCATION	COMMENTS
Green Bay Packers	I	1967	Chiefs	35-10	Los Angeles, CA
Green Bay Packers	II	1968	Raiders	33-14	Miami, FL
New York Jets	III	1969	Colts	16-7	Miami, FL
Kansas City Chiefs	IV	1970	Vikings	23-7	New Orleans, LA
Indianapolis Colts	V	1971	Cowboys	16-13	Miami, FL	At that time they were known as Baltimore Colts, relocated to Indianapolis in 1984
Dallas Cowboys	VI	1972	Dolphins	24-3	New Orleans, LA
Miami Dolphins	VII	1973	Redskins	14-7	Los Angeles, CA
Miami Dolphins	VIII	1974	Vikings	24-7	Houston, TX
Pittsburg Steelers	IX	1975	Vikings	16-6	New Orleans, LA
Pittsburg Steelers	X	1976	Cowboys	21-17	Miami, FL
Oakland Raiders	XI	1977	Vikings	32-14	Pasadena, CA
Dallas Cowboys	XII	1978	Broncos	27-10	New Orleans, LA
Pittsburg Steelers	XIII	1979	Cowboys	35-31	Miami, FL
Pittsburg Steelers	XIV	1980	Rams	31-19	Pasadena, CA
Oakland Raiders	XV	1981	Eagles	27-10	New Orleans, LA
San Francisco 49ers	XVI	1982	Bengals	26-21	Pontiac, MI
Washington Redskins	XVII	1983	Dolphins	27-17	Pasadena, CA
Oakland Raiders	XVIII	1984	Redskins	38-9	Tampa, FL	1982 season raiders relocated to Los Angeles hence they were called LA Raiders & June 23, 1995 they moved back to Oakland.
San Francisco 49ers	XIX	1985	Dolphins	38-16	Stanford, CA
Chicago Bears	XX	1986	Patriots	46-10	New Orleans, LA
New York Giants	XXI	1987	Broncos	39-20	Pasadena, CA
Washington Redskins	XXII	1988	Broncos	42-10	San Diego, CA
San Francisco 49ers	XXII	1989	Bengals	20-16	Miami, FL
San Francisco 49ers	XXIV	1990	Broncos	55-10	New Orleans, LA
New York Giants	XXV	1991	Bills	20-19	Tampa, FL
Washington Redskins	XXVI	1992	Bills	37-24	Minneapolis, MN
Dallas Cowboys	XXVII	1993	Bills	52-17	Pasadena, CA
Dallas Cowboys	XXVIII	1994	Bills	30-13	Atlanta, GA
San Francisco 49ers	XXIX	1995	Chargers	49-26	Miami, FL
Dallas Cowboys	XXX	1996	Steelers	27-17	Tempe, AZ
Green Bay Packers	XXXI	1997	Patriots	35-21	New Orleans, LA
Denver Broncos	XXXII	1998	Packers	31-24	San Diego, CA
Denver Broncos	XXXIII	1999	Falcons	34-19	Miami, FL
St. Louis Rams	XXXIV	2000	Titans	23-16	Atlanta, GA
Baltimore Ravens	XXXV	2001	Giants	34-7	Tampa, FL
New England Patriots	XXXVI	2002	Rams	20-17	New Orleans, LA
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	XXVII	2003	Raiders	48-21	San Diego, CA
New England Patriots	XXXVIII	2004	Panthers	32-29	Houston, TX
New England Patriots	XXXIX	2005	Eagles	24-21	Jacksonville, FL
Pittsburg Steelers	XL	2006	Seahawks	21-10	Detroit, MI
Indianapolis Colts	XLI	2007	Bears	29-17	Miami, FL
New York Giants	XLII	2008	Patriots	17-14	Glendale, AZ
Pittsburg Steelers	XLIII	2009	Cardinals	27-23	Tampa, FL
New Orleans Saints	XLIV	2010	Colts	31-17	Miami, FL
Green Bay Packers	XLV	2011	Steelers	31-25	Dallas, Tx
New York Giants	XLVI	2012	Patriots	21-17	Indianapolis, IN

Some more facts about Super Bowl:

Teams that have never played in Super Bowl
- Cleveland Browns
- Houston Texans
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Detriot Lions
Teams that have never won a Super Bowl [Apart from above 4]
- Buffalo Bills
- Cincinnati Bengals
- Tennessee Titans
- San Diego Chargers
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Minnesota Vikings
- Atlanta Falcons
- Carolina Panthers
- Arizona Cardinals
- Seattle Seahawks
Miami has hosted Super Bowl the most times [10 times].
The longest winning streak has only been two in row.
Vikings, Bills, Broncos have lost the most Super Bowls [4 times each]. Bills lost 4 times in a row.
The longest run in Super Bowl was 100 yards after an interception by Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison during Super Bowl XLII.
Mike Ditka, Tom Flores and Tony Dungy have all won a Super Bowl both as a player and as coach.
In 1981, Oakland Raiders linebacker Rod Martin set a record with three interceptions.
In 2000, St. Louis QB Kurt Warner set a record with 414 yards passing.
In 1989, San Francisco WR Jerry Rice gained 215 yards on 11 catches
Cowboys has been to Super Bowl 8 times, Steelers 7 times, Patriots 6 & Broncos 6 times too.
Most convincing victories were in Super Bowl XXVII, where Cowboys bt. Bills 52-17 & other one was 49ers bt. Broncos 55-10 in Super Bowl XXIV.
In 2007 Season, Patriots had won their first 18 games and lost to Giants [Super Bowl XLII].
Under quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots have also compiled the longest winning streak consisting of regular season and playoff games in NFL history, a 21-game streak from October 2003–October 2004.