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A Goal Line Stand in Super Bowl V: How it Failed, and Then Succeeded Pro Football in the 1970s

    • Football

Most pro football historians who study the past Super Bowls will tell you that the greatest goal-line stand in Super Bowl history came in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVI. I agree this was certainly the greatest in Super Bowl history. However, I am reminded of the goal-line stand in Super Bowl V.

Most pro football historians who study the past Super Bowls will tell you that the greatest goal-line stand in Super Bowl history came in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVI. I agree this was certainly the greatest in Super Bowl history. However, I am reminded of the goal-line stand in Super Bowl V.

7 min