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The Giants vs. the Patriots - a legendary 2008 final
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When the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles face each other in Super Bowl LVII on Monday night, it's not just the US viewers who will be watching closely again.
Plays, halftime breaks, commercials - people are looking for legendary scenes that will be talked about for years to come.
Here you can get in the mood for the game.
There are quite a few compilations of the most legendary moments in Super Bowl history.
We were inspired, among other things, by the illustrated book »NFL.
heroes.
dramas
Spectacle.« , and created a small selection.
GAMES
Super Bowl I: the duel of the two leagues
On January 15, 1967, at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, the game that was then known as the AFL-NFL World Championship, and which is now known in the history books as Super Bowl I, took place.
The AFL was founded as a rival league to the NFL and was quickly successful.
So successful that the NFL pushed for a union and this was then also decided.
The first playoff game between the two league champions, the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, had been eagerly awaited.
The Packers had Vince Lombardi on the sidelines, after whom the Super Bowl trophy would later be named.
And it was the Packers who won the surprisingly not sold-out game.
Here you can see the scenes in the video.
Super Bowl LI: The 28-3 comeback
Another Tom Brady Super Bowl, this time in 2016. But for a long time things didn't look too good for the star, who was aiming for his fifth trophy.
There were no points in the first quarter, then Atlanta got going.
Brady even had an interception on Atlanta's third touchdown by Robert Alford, the Falcons led 21:0 in the meantime, later even 28:3.
Game over?
Not at all.
The Patriots started a comeback and managed to save themselves in the first overtime of Super Bowl history, where they even won the title.
Brady was lucky to win the coin toss and thus the right to attack in the extra time and didn't miss the chance.
"It's all absolutely amazing," Brady said after the game.
An apt analysis.
Here you can see the scenes in the video.
Decisive game before Super Bowl II: The Ice Bowl
Yes, of course.
Strictly speaking, this wasn't a Super Bowl, since the term didn't even exist at the time.
And secondly, the winners of the Ice Bowl, the Green Bay Packers, then had the "AFL-NFL-World Championship Game", which was later actually counted as Super Bowl II.
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The NFL Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys on New Year's Eve 1967 in Appleton, however, goes down in history
as probably the most icy
NFL-internal final .
According to observers, the temperatures were around -25 degrees Celsius, the marching band could not perform because the instruments froze.
Some players reported afterwards that they had cold fingers and toes for days, the studs had not even sunk into the ground on the frozen pitch.
Here you can see the scenes in the video.
TURNS
Super Bowl XLII: The Helm Catch
Catching the football egg is tricky, especially when you're being pressured.
But New York Giants receiver David Tyree knew how to use a special tool when he tried to control an Eli Manning pass in 2008.
At 10-14, Manning came under pressure and threw it to Tyree, who, in a tackle with a Patriots player, pressed the ball to his helmet with one hand and survived the attacks.
The pass was called a "complete" and gave the Giants 32 yards.
Later the Giants should win 17:14.
The catch with the helmet subsequently received the ESPY award as the best move of all major US professional leagues.
By the way, Tyree should never catch another pass in the NFL, first he had to pause due to an injury, then he ended his career in 2010.
You can see the scene in video here.
Super Bowl LI: The Edelman catch thanks to a shoe
The crazy catch-up story of this Super Bowl 2016 was already described above.
But even a year later, it wasn't just the hands of New England receiver Julian Edelmann that ensured that the pass arrived.
Brady's throw was first touched by Robert Alford, the ball changed its trajectory, whereupon Edelmann and two Falcons players changed direction and all three tried to catch the ball while jumping.
In addition, Alford fell backwards towards the landing point.
And then it got spectacular: The ball danced along Alford's leg and foot until Edelman grabbed it and got the egg under control in the second follow-up.
"The ball never hits the ground," announced the referee - and the Patriots cheered about the "miracle shoe catch".
What the one does with the helmet
You can see the scene in video here.
Super Bowl XXXIV: One Yard Short
So close and yet so far: There were only a few seconds left on the clock when Tennessee Titans receiver Kevin Dyson was thrown the ball in 1999.
He was just yards from the end zone and fans were hoping for a touchdown and thus extending the Super Bowl.
But the linebacker of the St. Louis Rams, Mike Jones, had been careful, grabbed Dyson's legs and brought him down in time, a yard from the end zone the Titans' dreams were shattered.
The Super Bowl went down as one of the best in history.
You can see the scene in video here.
HALFTIME SHOWS
Super Bowl XXXVI: U2
It was the first Super Bowl after the Islamist terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. The halftime show was to be performed by the Irish band U2 with front singer Bono.
It was already announced in advance that there should be a tribute to the approximately 3000 dead.
When U2 played their song "Where the Streets Have No Name," a banner was raised in the background bearing the names of many of the victims of the attack - passengers on the planes that had flown into the World Trade Center, New York police officers and members of the Firefighters who died during the rescue operation.
At the end of the song, Bono opened his jacket and revealed the US flag "Stars and Stripes" that served as the inner lining.
For many, the performance is considered one of the most emotional of the Super Bowl.
»Sometimes music can express something
You can see the video of the performance here.
Super Bowl XXVII: Michael Jackson
The King of Pop on the big show stage, the Super Bowl halftime?
A perfect match.
»Billie Jean«, »Black or White«, »We are the World« – Michael Jackson played his classics in 1993, but the start of the performance was particularly remarkable.
First, doubles dressed like Jackson and copying his dance moves jumped out of the billboards at the edges of the stadium.
Then Jackson himself jumped onto the stage in the middle of the stadium, dressed in a fantasy uniform and with thick black sunglasses on his nose.
And then – nothing happened at first.
Jackson stood motionless, his fans screaming.
According to an NFL documentary, it was agreed with the director that the music would only begin when Jackson was supposed to take off his sunglasses.
But he took his time.
"Come on Michael, do it,
Baby«, the director can be heard pleading in the documentary.
After what felt like an eternity, he did it – and started his show.
You can see the video of the performance here.
Super Bowl XXXVIII: Nipplegate
When the (almost) bare right breast of singer Janet Jackson was seen in 2003, her nipple still covered with a star piercing, America boiled!
Duet partner Justin Timberlake had torn off the singer's costume just as the lyrics "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song" rang out.
The singers later explained that Timberlake should only rip off her corset and not her bra.
Numerous complaints from TV viewers about the "indecent exposure" followed.
Almost 20 years after the incident, Jackson said, "Of course it was an accident that wasn't supposed to happen.
But everyone is looking for a scapegoat and this has to stop,” says Jackson: “To be honest, the whole thing was completely overblown.” A legacy of this scandal:
You can see the scene in video here.
Super Bowl XLIX: Left Shark
The Super Bowl 2015 produced one of his first major internet memes. When singer Katy Perry performed her song »Teenage Dream«, millions of viewers were particularly struck by the performance of a background dancer in a shark costume, who from then on made an internet career as »Left Shark« should.
The shark danced out of line, or out of step - and thus provided a topic of conversation.
Snoop Dog meanwhile tweeted that he was in the costume, but three years after the Super Bowl, a Hollywood hairdresser who may have been responsible for the performance came to the fore.
All intentional, the failed performance was planned, he said.
You can see the video of the performance here.
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