The Tremendous Bowl – has God ever created a larger spectacle? Not so far as I’m involved.
I fell in love with the NFL’s “The Massive Recreation” as a 9 year-old watching Joe Montana engineer a game-winning drive in Tremendous Bowl 23 to slay the Bengals and by no means appeared again.
Super Bowl XXIII was the primary time I recorded your entire recreation on the VCR – had to make use of 2 tapes lol. Watched it for months after. This was pre YouTube, when it was on ONCE and misplaced to historical past/reminiscence.
On this Tremendous Bowl web page you’ll discover lists of all-time winners and losers, Super Bowl MVPs, recreation recaps, lists of the best video games, and interviews with the lads, like Terry Bradshaw, Sam Wyche, Franco Harris, who made this recreation into the enduring fruits of the NFL season, transcending sports activities and touching all facets of American life, that it has grow to be in 50+ years.
The very best a part of my journalistic profession was protecting Tremendous Bowl LII in Minnesota from Radio Row for every week in 2018. I recapped my complete expertise in this post – “What’s It Like On Radio Row?”
The piece and this web page is written from the attitude of a Tremendous Bowl fan — not some stuffy journalist — as a result of that’s what I’m; a fan of the best measure and fruits of a yr of braveness, self-denial, and self-discipline that the sport represents.
The Tremendous Bowl is sort of a time capsule. Watching an outdated recreation takes you again and offers you a really feel for society and tradition at that very same time, and the way it has modified, identical to the sport itself.
At any level within the final 40 years, point out a recreation and I can let you know precisely the place I used to be, the Tremendous Bowl MVP, and what I used to be doing in my life in the course of the recreation.
So click on by means of the hyperlinks I’ve created beneath and luxuriate in a gradual stroll by means of NFL historical past. Be at liberty to remark and share your favourite Tremendous Bowl recollections and let’s get nostalgic!
