With Super Bowl Gold (Number 50) poised to soon take center stage, we flash back again to the first one whose name officially was the AFL-NFL Championship Game. My book has many oral history memories. What follows is how just a few of those who were there at the game remember the time:
TOMMY BROOKER: I was back in Tuscaloosa with my wife and a bunch of Alabama friends and that was where I watched the game. It was a Super Bowl party, probably one of the original parties. We watched the game on a 25 inch television, it was in color. The set was in our dining room-den combination, one big room. It wasn’t any fun watching at home, but I didn’t have any choice because I was on injured reserve for the Kansas City Chiefs. That ‘66 season I was kicking in Boston, and somebody forgot to block. And they came into me, into my leg that was raised up.
Watching the first Super Bowl I always thought Kansas City had a chance to win that game, but that McGee was something else. When a guy catches one behind the back and fumbles it around and finally holds on, when a guy catches the football in the neck area, damn!
You can’t expect the ball to tumble in the right direction every time.
I was not believing it as I watched and neither were all the people in my house. There was a lot of shouting, a lot of “damns!”
