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Major Sports Betting Events | The Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the final contest of the professional season and determines the league's annual champion. Now probably the most important single-day sporting event in the United States, the Super Bowl had more modest beginnings. In 1967 the champions of the American Football League (which merged with the NFL in 1970) and the NFL met in what was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The name was later shortened to Super Bowl, named after a child's toy, the Super Ball. In this first game, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10. The Los Angeles Coliseum, site of the game, fell far short of a sellout, although tickets were only $10 each. In comparison, the highest ticket price at the 1994 Super Bowl reached $250, with scalpers illegally charging more than twice that much.

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Super Bowl V

In the first competitive Super Bowl, Colt PK Jim O'Brien booted a 32-yard field goal with five seconds left to give the Colts their only lead of the day. The AFC made it three in a row, as Baltimore, which had switched over from the pre-merger NFL to the post-merger AFC in the league realignment, beat Dallas 16-13. Craig Morton's seven-yard scoring pass to RB Duane Thomas gave the Cowboys a 13-6 halftime lead, but they blew a chance to pad the lead early in the third quarter when Thomas fumbled at the Colt one-yard line. In the fourth quarter, Morton was intercepted by Colt S Rick Volk, who returned to the Dallas three, setting up Tom Nowatzke's game-tying, two-yard run. With just over a minute left in the game, Colt MLB Mike Curtis, who returned it 13 yards to the Dallas 28, intercepted a Morton pass. O'Brien booted the game-winner shortly thereafter, but Dallas ROLB Chuck Howley became the first non-quarterback and the first member of a losing team to win the game's MVP award.