Feb. 9—On a New Year's afternoon in Dallas, the Cowboys and Green Bay Packers played the last game before there was a Super Bowl.
The National Football League Championship featured a team of veterans who'd been to the top of the hill before and come down as kings. The previous season they had shut down the Cleveland Browns, 23-12 to win their third of five titles they would claim under legendary coach Vince Lombardi.
Dallas was a swift and efficient team, assembled by their own future Hall-of-Fame coach, Tom Landry.