The Game that Changed the Future Come the end of January, people will gather their chips and salsa, their finger foods, and their drinks to spend time with friends and family to watch the game of champions. Some people may even purchase tickets to enjoy this one event in person to get the real thrill. This year Americans celebrated the forty-eighth time that this event has been going on. The Denver Broncos versus Seattle Seahawks, where the Seahawks dominated the Broncos, 43-8 leading to a Super Bowl Championship. It all began in 1967 at the first Super Bowl and will focus on main points, such as the players, the AFL and NFL ties, the key plays, and the scores. The first of these “Super” contests pitted Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay …show more content…
Legend has it that Max had spent most of the previous night out on the town and was in no shape to play football (Alder). McGee was strictly a backup and did not receive much playing time, in fact, in 14 games during the season; he caught only four passes for 91 yards (Alder). He felt safe in knowing the only way he would get into the game was if Boyd Dowler got hurt (Alder). As fate would have it, Dowler got injured early in the game and McGee was suddenly thrust into a game he had no business being in (Alder). Just moments after entering the game, he caught a thirty-seven yard touchdown pass from Bart Starr to cap off an eighty yard drive that gave the Packers an early lead (Alder). On the day, McGee caught seven passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns (Alder). McGee was later quoted as saying, “I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning and I could barely stand up for the kickoff” (Alder). Green Bay broke open the game with three second-half touchdowns, the first of which was set up by Wood’s fifty yard return of an interception (Super Bowl). Elijah Pitts ran for two scores (Super Bowl). Starr completed sixteen of twenty-three passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns and was chosen the most valuable player (Super Bowl). The Chiefs’ 10 points came in the second quarter, the only touchdown on a seven yard pass from Len Dawson to Curtis McClinton (Super Bowl). The Green Bay Packers
To begin the game, the Eagles received the ball first and it was a perfect opening drive for Wentz and the offense. On the first drive, Wentz went 4-for-5, finding tight end Zach Ertz for a ridiculous one-handed 14-yard catch on first down and ending it with a 19-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jordan Matthews.
The Carolina Panthers had to come out of the locker room after the first half needing to get something going if they were going to come back and beat the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50. The first half was dominated by the defense. Whose defense would be able to hold out for the rest of the game would determine who would win the Super Bowl.
During the annual Ely Tigers v. Dilard Panthers football game, the game was decided at the end of the 4th quarter during a touchdown scoring catch. The wide receiver, Donnell Wilson, caught the ball in the end zone to score. It was a clean catch in the right place at the right time that resulted in the game-winning touchdown.
Super Bowl 51 included the New England Patriots vs. the Atlanta Falcons. This was the 9th Super Bowl the Patriots had attended. The pressure was on for the Flacons. The first quarter of the game neither team scored. As the second quarter began the Falcons drove several touchdowns, leaving the Patriots behind. Throughout the third quarter, Falcons continued scoring. It wasn’t long before the Patriots caught up quickly and both teams were tied at the very last straw of the game. As the game went into overtime with a cut-throat shocking ending, with yet another Patriots win.
Peddicord would pick off a Hatfield pass, with 8:54 left in the game and he would take it to the house from about seventy-five-yards out. The point after kick was missed again,this time after a Newark Catholic penalty moved the ball back, causing a longer kick, on the windy night.
Grier complete a 60-yard pass to Ricky Rogers and Pettaway took it to the end zone with a three-yard carry, cutting the defense's lead to 28-14.
Brett Favre was more than just the starting quarterback in the Green Bay community and organization. He was face of the franchise, and a living legend in the national football league. Before Favre’s arrival to Green Bay, The Packers had only five winning seasons between the years of 1968 and 1991. In Brett’s sixteen NFL seasons with Green Bay, they recorded just one losing season. With the Packers Brett won three consecutive MVP awards coming in 1994, 1995, and 1996. He was nominated
Julio Jones received for 300 yards and a touchdown in a win over the Carolina Panthers. His performance against the Panthers made Julio Jones the sixth player in NFL history ever to have at least 300 receiving yards in a game. In addition, Matt Ryan threw for 503 passing yards, making them the first quarterback and wide receiver duo to gain 500 or more passing yards and 300 or more receiving yards in a single NFL game. Julio Jones was selected to his third consecutive and fourth career Pro Bowl and was named First-team All-Pro for the second consecutive year. During Super Bowl LI against the New England Patriots, Julio Jones had four receptions for 87 receiving yards on only four targets as The Falcons lost in overtime
In his seven super bowl appearances, Tom had a 95.3 QB rating, he also punted the ball twice in his career which totaled 68 yards. Brady’s first career touchdown pass was a 21 yard stick to Terry Glenn on October 14,2001 against the San Diego Chargers. Brady is the winning NFL quarterback of all time with a 208 career wins including the playoff
It went for ten yards.Rodgers completed the first pass he threw in the NFL, it went for zero yards and was his only pass of the game in mop up duty of a 51-3 win over the New Orleans Saints in 2005.Through the 2010 season, Greg Jenning has caught more touchdown passes thrown by Aaron Rodgers than anyone else in the league with 25. Donald Driver was in second place with 15. The first rushing attempt of his NFL career came in 2005 and went for eight yards in a loss to the Baltimore Ravens.The first rushing touchdown he would ever get came in week one of the 2008 season when his one yard quarterback sneak across the goal line would extend the Packers lead in their eventual 24-19 win over the Minnesota Vikings.The first three rushing touchdowns of Aaron Rodgers career all went for one yard. His first 300 yard game came in week two of the 2008 season. The Packers would win in Detroit 48-25 and Rodgers would go 24 of 38 for 328 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions.Aaron Rodgers would end up with a quarterback rating of over 121.0 in each of his first three playoff games.His first touchdown pass would go to Greg Jennings in 2007, his first TD pass as a starter would come in 2008 in week one and would be a one yarder to Corey Hall. In 2009, Jennings also caught Aaron Rodgers’ first playoff touchdown
Halfway through the 2008 season, Manning assumed Devin Hester’s duties as Chicago’s kick returner. In December 2008, Manning returned an 83-yard kickoff for a touchdown. This marked the Chicago’s first regular season opening kickoff returned for a completed touchdown since 1972. One week before Manning scored this touchdown, he intercepted Jaguar quarterback David Garrard’s opening pass, and returned it to Jacksonville’s 5-yard line.
It was the Panthers and the Broncos, the Panthers only lost one game going to the super bowl. In the game the Broncos defence was making the Panther’s quarterback Cam Newton struggle. The Broncos made them have fumbles and throw interceptions. They came out with a win 24-10 with the Broncos being super bowl champions. That was the year Peyton Manning retired and Von Miller was the MVP.
The broncos have won 3 super bowls, and the bears have won 1 super bowl. The years the broncos won the super bowl is 1998, 1999, 2016, the bears won the 1986 super bowl. The bears won there only super bowl against the patriots, and the broncos went against panthers for super bowl 50, Super Bowl 33 against the falcons, and super bowl 32 against the packers. In 1960 the broncos became the part of the NFL. In 1920 the bears became a part of the NFL. The broncos have been to eight super bowls and the bears have been to 2 super bowls
I am a football fan. My favorite team is the Green Bay Packers. In my house a couple of weeks ago tension ran high. Why? Well, because my husband is a Cowboys fan and the Packers took them out of the running for the super bowl. Now, this past Sunday my husband was super happy to watch the Falcons beat the Packers, as for me I was devastated. This year the packers started off pretty week. They had a lot of people on the injury list. To see them come back and get as far as they did, I was a proud fan. Some may want to know if I am going to watch the super bowl, since my team is out. Of course I am! It would be un-American not to watch, but at the same time I really just want to see the Falcons lose since they beat the Packers. Let’s talk super
Jameis Winston completed nineteen passes after 29 attempts throwing for 246 yards, no interceptions, and five touchdowns. The five touchdowns he threw in the game, ties a rookie record. Winston threw touchdown passes to five different receivers.