A Fifth Excerpt From the Book: “When It Was Just a Game”

A Fifth Excerpt From the Book: “When It Was Just a Game”
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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!”

Quarterback Bart Starr, who guided the Green Bay Packers to their 35 to 10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl game, is interviewed in the dressing room in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 1967. The victory meant $15,000 for each of the battle-proven Packers. (AP Photo)
Quarterback Bart Starr, who guided the Green Bay Packers to their 35 to 10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl game, is interviewed in the dressing room in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 1967. The victory meant $15,000 for each of the battle-proven Packers. AP Photo
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