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Vince Lombardi Threw Shade At Chiefs After First Super Bowl

Monty McMahon by Monty McMahon
February 2, 2016
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Vince Lombardi

Super Bowl 50 is coming up and that means… well, it means it’s the 49th anniversary of the first Super Bowl, which was then known as the NFL-AFL World Championship.

But hey, 50 Super Bowls!

So there’s a bit of reflection about the first Super Bowl, which, as we mentioned, wasn’t a Super Bowl at all.

It did feature the Green Bay Packers. They went to the Los Angeles Coliseum and beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in a game, that for many, was an afterthought.

It was an afterthought for a number of reasons.

At the time, the NFL was considered the superior league by pretty much everyone except those associated with the AFL. As far as most people were concerned, the match-up between the two best football teams on the planet had already taken place when the Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-27 on the first day of January, 1967.

Packers coach Vince Lombardi was among them.

He didn’t let his feelings be known leading up to the game, but he let it fly after the game, as we were reminded by Deadspin, via the Los Angeles Times.

Lombardi considered the Chiefs — and the AFL — inferior and his post-game comments made that perfectly evident.

“I don’t think that Kansas City compares with the top teams of the NFL,” said the Green Bay coach.

“That’s what you wanted me to say, and I said it,” shouted Lombardi from a podium in the cramped Packer dressing room. “It [the statement] has been a long time coming out.”

Love that guy.

Said what was on his mind and didn’t give a fuck.

As you know, the Packers would come back a year later and beat the hell out of the Oakland Raiders, the AFL’s best in 1967.

What this does is shed some light on is just how improbable the New York Jets’ win over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III — then actually known as the Super Bowl — was.

Joe Namath was Brett Favre before Brett Favre was, though.

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Comments 4

  1. Avatar for geopack geopack says:
    7 years ago

    But then Brett went to Broadway….

  2. Avatar for DJ DJ says:
    7 years ago

    He said it but I’m not sure he totally believed it. That was more Vince the GM & NFL guy….placating the NFL owners pissed about the AFL driving up salaries & diluting the talent pool & throwing the media a bone….than the Coach & evaluator sizing up a team. Carrying the NFL banner vs the AFL weighed on the man, significantly, especially the next year. I think he regretted serving up bulletin board material like that but it also drove him to push his team to back up his words. I think he knew the AFL was good…just not Vince Lombardi Green Bay Packers type good. And he proved it. Twice.

  3. Avatar for Shawn Shawn says:
    7 years ago

    Well, the Chiefs nor the Raiders were as good as the Cowboys either year. That is obvious by the results of the games. The Packers just barely beat the Cowboys both years and then stomped the AFL team in the Super Bowl.

    The Jets had the NY mafia working for them. What was it- 6 Colt turnovers? The Colts thru that game away.

    • Avatar for DJ DJ says:
      7 years ago

      Both games were tight at half time. I think 14-10 & 13-7 or something like that. We just owned the 3rd quarter in both & broke them open. Whatever Vince said at half…worked. You may be right but I’ll never give the Cowboys credit for shit. Ever. I was force fed their games EVERY Sunday where I grew up & still flinch whenever I see that fucking star. lol

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