All-time Super Bowl power rankings: Which game was the best?
By James Dudko
48. Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13
This Super Bowl was decided by a last-gasp field goal and also marked the only time a losing player, Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley, won the MVP award. So why doesn’t it rank higher?
The explanation is simple. It was more like a bloopers reel than a competitive game between two conference kingpins.
A staggering 11 turnovers were committed, earning the game the unwanted moniker “Blunder Bowl,” per ESPN’s Larry Schwartz. Not even rookie Jim O’Brien being coolness personified to settle a Super Bowl with his foot way before Adam Vinatieri made it his trademark, could place this error show any higher.
47. Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14
No disrespect to the memory of Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers dynasty he created in the sixties. But it’s easy to believe a good portion of the football-watching public had had their fill of the Pack by the time Super Bowl II rolled around.
After all, these Packers had won the last five NFL titles in a row and already lifted the first-ever Super Bowl trophy a year earlier.
The 1967-68 group wasn’t even a vintage Lombardi team. The master motivator had seen his roster get old, but still keep enough in reserve to stay ahead of the competition.
By now, everything the Packers did had an air of predictability to it. Even their 19-point demolition of a plucky Oakland Raiders squad coached by John Madden had more than a touch of the routine about it.