Best-ever 1ST HALF of a Super Bowl (or League Championship)?

[74_75_78_79_]

Without scrolling every box-score/summary of each and every one, I'm simply going to start off with Super Bowl XIII - and am pretty confident it would stay at #1 even if I would look at each and every one. Simply the two teams, the hype leading up, what was at stake at the time, the historical significance in hindsight, etc, and then Steelers 7-0, Dallas 14-7, Steelers 21-14...(the entire football world had to be ridiculously stoked at the half)…

I do agree with what most of you opine in that XIII as a whole not only wasn't at all the 'best SB ever', but not as good as X either; but strictly 1st-half-wise in any game for all the marbles, what tops that January '79 affair??

[SixtiesFan]

It was "just" the NFL Championship game (and the first time the winner would play the AFL Champion) but the first half of the 1966 NFL Championship, Green Bay at Dallas, is one I remember. I saw it on TV.

It started out 14-0 Packers and was tied 14-14 at the end of the first quarter. Then it was 21-14 Packers, and 21-17 at halftime. The Packers finally won 34-27, stopping the Cowboys at their 2-yard line in the last seconds.

I always thought it was a better game than the much glorified "Ice Bowl" the following year. And a better game overall than Super Bowl XIII.

[Rupert Patrick]

It was "just" the NFL Championship game (and the first time the winner would play the AFL Champion) but the first half of the 1966 NFL Championship, Green Bay at Dallas, is one I remember. I saw it on TV.

It started out 14-0 Packers and was tied 14-14 at the end of the first quarter. Then it was 21-14 Packers, and 21-17 at halftime. The Packers finally won 34-27, stopping the Cowboys at their 2-yard line in the last seconds.

I always thought it was a better game than the much glorified "Ice Bowl" the following year. And a better game overall than Super Bowl XIII.

The 1966 Championship Game was a much better game than the 1967 Championship Game. The 1967 contest is one of the most famous games ever played, but it was not one of the greatest games ever played. Somebody (and the writer's name escapes me) wrote in the PFRA 1966 Packers book that the 1966 NFL Championship Game was arguably the most underrated postseason game in pro football history) due to the Ice Bowl being so famous and the previous championship game between the Packers and Cowboys is often forgotten in its' wake.