Your first Super Bowl

I don't recall the question being posed that way.

 

Heap big fire start when pale face ask question of Redskin quarterback: How long you been a Redskin quarterback?

 

My first Super Bowl that I remember focusing on was Super Bowl VI. I had an uncle who lived in south Florida and he'd told me of going to a Dolphins game. I thought that was just the absolute living shit, so I became a Dolphins fan. There were two kids -- they were first cousins, actually -- in my little neighborhood who loved the Colts. The Dolphins had split with the Colts in the regular season, but then drubbed them in the AFC championship game. Those kids, who'd suffered a serious crisis of faith after that game, adopted the Cowboys for the Super Bowl. I was so, so excited, but the comedown was fast and hard for my nine-year-old self. When the Cowboys went up 17-3 in the second half, here those kids came a-knockin' on my front door. My mother, who was 27 at the time, met those two and informed them in no uncertain terms that they could pretty much kiss her ass if they thought they were going to come around there tormenting me. I laugh about it to this day.

 

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130201/COL1003/130201007/Butch-John-put-question-Doug-Williams-25-years-ago

http://www.facebook.com/groups/44543343179/

http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/williams.asp

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/superbowlmoments100.html

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/lists/Top_10_Media_Day_moments#tab=photo-title=The+infamous+%2526quot%253Bblack+quarterback%2526quot%253B+question%252C+1988&photo=9139748


I could go on...

 

Thanks for the links.

 

An outstanding thread.

"Super Sunday". January 1982 for Super Bowl XVI. This was only the third NFL game that I watched from start to finish.

The first two NFL games I watched from start to finish:

Chargers-Dolphins, 41-38 at Orange Bowl. Winslow carried off.

Cowboys-49ers at The Stick. "The Catch".

For some reason, my first Super Bowl didn't quite measure up to the first two games I watched... or, oh, 97% of the NFL games I've watched.

 

Super Bowl XV was the first one to which I paid close attention, but I remember well my dad and my uncles cheering on Roger Staubach in the late '70s.

Starting with 1987, I worked every Super Bowl Sunday until 1999, except 1993. I remember where I was for all the others, except, oddly, for the Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl. I have no memory of that game at all.

 

The Chargers-Dolphins game was the first one I ever watched on a big screen, which at that time was still a new technological marvel, and Super Bowl XVI was the only one on my birthday. I remember both games fondly.

 

The 1981 (jan. 82) Chargers-Dolphins game is still one of my all-time favorites. So was Cowboys-49ers the next week.

 

Super Bowl XVI remains, I believe, the Super Bowl with the largest audience share ever (unless it's Super Bowl XX), which is in part attributable to the great playoff games that preceded it.

 

According to this, Super Bowl X had the biggest share. However, it doesn't count the last two Super Bowls. It also says Super Bowl XVI did, however, have the best "rating," whatever that means. I still can't keep all that straight.

http://press.nbcsports.com/docs/super-bowl-ratings-history.html

 

That was my first time watching the NFL season and paying attention.

I was thinking about this yesterday .. Off the top of my head. I think the 1981 playoff series was one of the best.
In addition to the Epic in Miami - which I vividly recall watching, and galvanized me as an NFL fan - and The Catch, there was also the Bills first playoff win since the 1960s. It was against the Jets in what tuned out to be their last game at Shea.
And then there was the Freezer Bowl in Cincinnati.
It was a great series of playoff games.