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SUPER BOWL I TIME CAPSULE: 1967

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Updated: December 21, 2007, 1:37 AM EST
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SUPER BOWL TIME CAPSULE
Long, strange trip through time ... 1967
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Game: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10

Super Bowl fun fact: Want to know just how far the Super Bowl has come in its 40 years? At Super Bowl I, the game was blacked out locally since only 61,946 attended at the 94,000-seat Los Angeles Coliseum. L.A. newspapers rallied against an "expensive" $12 ticket price and instructed readers on how to rig home TV antennas to pirate the signal from stations outside L.A. Tickets for this Sunday's Super Bowl will go for at least $1800, and the CBS telecast will be the most-watched television program of the year.

TIME's 1967 Man of the Year: Lyndon B. Johnson

1967 Academy Award for Best Movie: A Man for All Seasons
1967 Academy Award for Best Actor: Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons
1967 Academy Award for Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Look into the future and see: Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting

Age is relevant: In 1967, New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin was a senior wingback for Syracuse under legendary coach Ben Schwartzwalder, and his teammates were Larry Csonka and Floyd Little. Jim Mora, Sr. was a linebacker coach at Stanford. Legendary Vikings receiver Cris Carter would turn two years old in November. Quarterback Randall Cunningham would turn four years old in March.

1967 World Population: 3,485,807,350
1967 U.S. Population: 198,712,056

Top TV shows that year:
1) The Andy Griffith Show
2) The Lucy Show
3) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
4) Gunsmoke
5) Family Affair

Top 5 best-selling albums:
1) More of the Monkees, Monkees
2) Diana Ross and the Supremes' Greatest Hits
3) Sounds Like, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Top single: To Sir with Love, Lulu

Best-selling books: Fiction — The Arrangement, Elia Kazan; Nonfiction — Death of a President, William Manchester

Gone But Not Forgotten: Lava lamps, psychedelic art

Fashion statement: The biggest movement came in female fashion where mini skirts, boots, pin-striped jumpsuits and more revealing undergarments featured the boldest contrasting colors yet.

Other notable events: Three Apollo astronauts were killed in spacecraft fire during simulated launch ... Red China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb ... Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court justice ... A team of South African surgeons perform the world's first successful human heart transplant — patient dies 18 days later.

Memorable quote: "I don't have no personal quarrel with those Viet Congs," Muhammad Ali

1967, the year in sports:
College football: National champion — USC
Heisman Trophy winner — Gary Beban, UCLA, QB
Baseball: World Series — St. Louis Cardinals over Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3
NBA: Championship — Philadelphia 76ers over San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 2

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