Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is Sunday and it's a match-up nobody expected in December. I'll take the Steelers because of their defense but nothing in the NFL will surprise me anymore.
It's hard to belive it's been 40 years since the New York Jets shocked the Baltimore Colts(and the world) by winning the 1969 Super Bowl. Joe Namath told us it was going to happen and I thought it was possible that they could pull it off. What I didn't expect was the way the Jets won it. They methodically ground the NFL's finest into powder.
The 16-7 score is misleading-the upstart Jets dominated the game. It was the defining moment of Joe's career. His gimpy knees never allowed him to accomplish what he might have had he been healthy.
The losing coach in the game managed to overcome the loss and win a title of his own. Don Shula would soon jump to the Miami Dolphins and after stumbling against Dallas in 1972, coach the only perfect NFL season in 1973.
The Jets win changed perception of the AFL teams forever. They proved they could beat the old NFL's best, and do it when it counted most. The hully-gully image of the new league was changed by the Jets dominance in the trenches. Matt Snell rushed for more than 100 yards, and the Colts were held scoreless until late in the contest.
The next year Kansas City destroyed the Minnesotta Vikings 23-7 just to prove 69 was no fluke.