The game that changed the futureAt the end of January, people will gather their chips and salsa, appetizers and drinks to spend time with their friends and family. family and watch the champions match. Some people can even buy tickets to enjoy this event in person and feel the real thrill. This year, Americans celebrated the forty-eighth edition of this event. The Denver Broncos vs. the Seattle Seahawks, where the Seahawks dominated the Broncos, 43-8, leading to a Super Bowl championship. It all started in 1967 during the first Super Bowl and will focus on the main points, like players, AFL and NFL games, key plays and scores. The first of these “Super” competitions opposed Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers. (13-2) against the Hank Stram Chiefs (12-2-1) (Alder). The match took place in front of 61,946 spectators in the 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum (Alder) in Los Angeles. The television audience for this game was estimated at around sixty million viewers (Alder). It was the only one not to sell out in the entire history of the Super Bowl (Cosgrove). One day, Lamar Hunt, architect of the AFL and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, came across his daughter's Super Ball and was inspired for the name. of the championship match (Alder). The name was not applied to this first competition until a few years later, however, when it was retroactively labeled (Alder). The game itself quickly spread and thus an American tradition was born (Alder). The loudest and most combative aficionados would agree that "Super Bowl" is a much better and snappier name for the sport's ultimate competition, the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game" (Cosgrove). It was actually called "AFL-NFL World Championship Game", for the first time...... middle of paper ...... mmitt Thomas, Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanan and longtime coach, Hank Stram (Cosgrove).A one-minute television commercial sold for $75,000 to $85,000; pocket money compared to the millions spent on airtime currently (Alder). The Packers took in $15,000 per player and the Chiefs took in $7,500 – the largest single-game split in team sports history (Super Bowl). Finally, Green Bay was coached by none other than Vince Lombardi, later immortalized in the ultimate symbol of the great game: the great silver Vince Lombardi (Cosgrove) trophy. Both teams not only played for bragging rights or pride, they also played for the big shiny trophy that everyone wants (Cosgrove). The Packers won the first-ever Super Bowl in 1967 – the only Super Bowl that didn't sell out – handily beating the Chiefs 35-10 (Cosgrove). This is the game that changed the future of football.