The most memorable Super Bowl for me was Super Bowl I. I could have gone to see it—tickets were only abut $15 and it wasn’t sold out. In those days, games that didn’t sell out were blacked out on local TV stations, so Super Bowl I was blacked out in the Los Angeles area—what one Disc jockey on Boss Radio 93 KHJ called the Super Blackout. Publications such as the Beat, the monthly newsletter of rival station KRLA published articles on how to build a Super Bowl antenna out of a coat hanger so as to get the broadcast from San Diego. As it was, I listened to the game on the car radio.
I was rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs because Kansas City is closer to LA than Green Bay and because the star USC Trojan tailback Mike Garrett was playing for the Chiefs. However, Garret and his crew couldn’t overcome the Packers and lost 35-10.
I was lucky enough to go to XXXVI.
Tom Brady’s first win.
Exciting finish.