My Forty-Fourth Super Bowl

Okay, this will give away how old I am. Except for a couple of years that I was at sea with the Navy, I have watched every Super Bowl on TV. (While at sea, we caught radio broadcasts of the Super Bowls.) I remember the excitement of the first Super Bowl game that matched the NFL champion against the upstart AFL champion for the first time. All of us who considered ourselves 'experts' thought that the NFL's Green Bay Packers would blow away the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs. After all, the Green Bay Packers had been in existence since the early 1920's competing in the National Football League, while the Chiefs and the new AFL were established in 1960.

On January 15, 1967, Helen and I were in front of our black and white 15" TV to watch the "First World Championship Game," as it was called. Although, Kansas City lost 35-10, they played a respectable game. We were also there in front of our now larger 18", but still black and white TV in 1969, to see the Jets beat Baltimore for the first ever win by an AFL team. The rest, as they say, is history.

Needless to say, Helen and I were delighted when, in 1993, Jacksonville (our home since 1970) was awarded an NFL franchise.

We owned season tickets for the first seven years. Now, we continue to be Jags fans, never missing a game on television. We long for the day that they make their first Super Bowl appearance. Being lifelong Red Sox fans, we are very patient, and have complete confidence that next year will be "the year."

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I was in San Diego for the first one. They were almost giving away tickets and still couldn't fill all the seats. I got tickets from Special Services, decided that the game was a fluke and gave the tickets away, not wanting to make the trip.

Posted by: Bob Stockton | 02/07/2010 at 07:59 AM

That's interesting. I bet those ticket stubs are valuable today.

I didn't get to San Diego until July or August of 1967. Helen and I watched the game in our home in Chesapeake, Virginia. (I was stationed on the U.S.S. Putnam (DD-757) in Norfolk at the time.)

Posted by: Allen Forrest | 02/07/2010 at 10:55 AM

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