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I changed my post to take out the argumentative blah, blah, blah! No, I watched the Pack and the Chiefs and No. 2 was
the Green Bay/Oakland, they won both games. They didn't play the Cowboys in the SB. Later ones were Patriots, and Broncos then Steelers. Played 5, won 4.
I believe the 1st SB was in 1967 between the Packers and Cowboys. The one you watched was SB2
The Packers and Cowboys were both in the NFL back when there was a distinct NFL and AFL. Those two teams played in the 1966 and 1967 NFL championship games. Super Bowl I was played between the Packers and Chiefs (AFL champions) after the 1966 season in January 1967.
The name "Super Bowl" came about because it wasn't a league championship game when it first started being played (it was a game between two league champions), and calling the game between the two league champions the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game" was a mouthful. AFL founder and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt came up with the name; one of his children was playing with a then-new super ball (one of those rubber balls that can bounce really high when hit upon a hard surface like concrete) and Hunt unintentionally associated the name for the high-bouncing ball, the meaning of the word "super", and the common name for college postseason football games (bowls) together. No one (including Hunt) really liked the name (supposedly NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle really hated it) but no one could come up with a better, equally simple name and the press caught wind of Hunt's name and was calling the AFL-NFL world championship game the Super Bowl as early as Super Bowl I. (The name Super Bowl wasn't semi-official until Super Bowl III - the Super Bowl III game program said "Super Bowl" - and wasn't fully official until Super Bowl V (5) after the AFL and NFL merged.)
The real question for people who remember watching Super Bowl I was whether you watched it on CBS (the NFL's TV broadcast partner at the time) or NBC (the AFL's TV broadcast partner at the time). Both networks televised it with their own announcing crews, though I think both networks used CBS' camera shots during the game.
EDIT: The Ice Bowl was the 1967 NFL championship game. The Packers, who won that game, played in (and won) Super Bowl II against the Raiders.
One other note - the first four Super Bowls were between the AFL and NFL before they merged. The participants in those games were the AFL and NFL champions that year.
Following up on that point, you could probably win money from most sports fans if you ask them how many NFL championships the Minnesota Vikings have won. The answer is one - they won the NFL title in 1969 but lost Super Bowl IV to the Chiefs.
The earliest Super Bowl I remember watching and knowing what was going on was the first Cowboys-Bills Super Bowl. I was rooting for the Cowboys, because their uniforms looked similar to the Detroit Lions (I was 9 years old).
The earliest Super Bowl I remember watching and knowing what was going on was the first Cowboys-Bills Super Bowl. I was rooting for the Cowboys, because their uniforms looked similar to the Detroit Lions.
Super Bowl XXVII (27), after the 1992 season in January 1993.
(In the AFL championship games, the Jets defeated the Raiders in 1968 and the Chiefs defeated the Raiders in 1969.)
The Colts and Browns (and Steelers) were all NFL teams in the 1960s, but moved to the AFC when the AFL and NFL merged prior to the 1970 season. The conference shift was considered necessary because the NFL had 16 teams at the time of the merger while the AFL had only 10 teams. By shifting 3 teams from the NFL group to the AFL group (i.e. the AFC), the number of teams in the new AFC and NFC would be balanced at 13 teams each.
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