By Larry Fine
Jan 30 (Reuters) - The stadium had 33,000 empty seats, tickets for the game went for a top price of $12 and college marching bands supplied most of the entertainment.
No, this was not some minor college football game.
This was the AFL-NFL World Championship, the 1967 origin of the Super Bowl, an event that has become a virtual national holiday in the United States and is celebrating its 50th anniversary game on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, California.
It all began as a showdown between the National Football League and American Football League champions played in Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum, a site announced just six weeks before the Jan.