Super Bowl

January, 1973

Super bowl. There were nearly 30,000 empty Los Angeles Coliseum seats at the first Super Bowl in 1967, and the hero of the game--between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs --was an aging pass receiver named Max McGee, whose previous reputation was for moves he had used to escape from the Packer training camp after curfew. The event has since become a certain sell-out, and there have been many more surprising heroes and unlikely moments. Baltimore quarterback Earl Morrall was very b...