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(More customer reviews)Number III was the one that truly made the Super Bowl the biggest game in American pro sports, thanks to the media coverage following Joe Namath's 'Guarantee' of an underdog Jets victory. It also proved that the youthful American Football League could contend with the veteran NFL on the playing field.
But the other team, the Baltimore Colts, had plenty of opportunities to take the game far away from their opponents. There's Tom Matte's then-record-setting 58-yard run that set up... an interception. There's a couple plays where Colts QB Earl Morrall didn't see a wide-open receiver to throw a scoring toss to, one of those missed opportunities ending in an interception. There were also the two missed Colts field-goal attempts. Baltimore basically lost on offensive miscues and mistakes, and the Jets took advantage of them at every opportunity. Baltimore wouldn't even score for nearly fifty-six minutes of regulation time. And the Jets, surprisingly, used a conservative ball-control offense to wear the Colts defense down.
Even thirty years later, Super Bowl III is, quite possibly, the biggest upset in American pro sports history.
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