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Other than that, the closest the Vikings got to the Chiefs' goal line was the Kansas City 38 in the first quarter, the first time Minnesota got the ball.Īgainst probably the biggest team in pro football the Vikings could not make a dent with their straight-ahead running and occasional long throws.

He rolled to his left to evade the charge of Buck Buchanan and Aaron Brown and hit tight end John Beasley for 15 yards, threw a screen pass to his left to fullback Bill Brown for 11 yards, and on second-and-one drifted to his left and connected with running back Oscar Reed for 12 yards to the Kansas City four.ĭave Osborn, who was held to 15 yards in seven attempts for the afternoon, humped, bumped and dived backward over his right tackle for a touchdown. Kapp took Minnesota 69 yards to cut the Chiefs' lead to 16-7 in the third quarter. The huge Chief defenders began overrunning the Minnesota offensive line early and Kapp was intercepted twice and thrown for losses three times. Split end Gene Washington, his favorite target all season, was held to one reception. Kapp was throwing relatively well early in the game but the Kansas City defenders had his receivers smothered.

He said this past week that Kapp was going to be hurt running the ball unnecessarily. It recalled a prophecy by Weeb Ewbank, coach of last year's upsetter in the Super Bowl, the New York Jets. He suffered a shoulder injury when he went down under massive Aaron Brown, and Gary Cuozzo replaced him. Joe Kapp of the Vikings ran the ball twice for nine yards total and was knocked out of the game with 5:44 to go in the final period while in desperate retreat from the Chiefs. Dawson ran the ball only once during the regular season, his mobility limited by a knee injury. Not surprisingly, Dawson was voted the game's most valuable player in a Sport Magazine poll after completing 71 per cent of his passes 12 of 17, for 142 yards including a shortie that flanker Otis Taylor stretched into a 46-yard touchdown by flouting the tackles of two Viking defenders.ĭawson, a mere 190-pounder, ran the ball three times, too, once for 11 yards and a first down in the fourth quarter after the Chiefs' third interception left the Vikings for dead. He frequently mocked the front four of Minnesota with quick-count plays off the I formation. He threw an end-around play at the vaunted Viking defense from a double-reverse formation, did it again from a single reverse, and after Minnesota finally scored a touchdown in the third quarter, he did it again on third-and-seven and split end Frank Pitts just made the first down that set up the Chiefs' last touchdown.ĭawson was spitting in the eye of the Vikings' defense by mixing up his tricky calls with shotgun formations as early as the second quarter. And he brought it off despite the pressures created by his link to a gambling investigation earlier this week.ĭawson did some gambling today. The victory marked a courageous personal comeback for Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson, whose interception in the first of these four Super Bowls touched off a 35-10 victory for Green Bay. Today the 80,997 witnesses in Tulane Stadium awaited only the final gun, so total was the Chiefs' domination. In 1969 football fans waited expectantly, if vainly, for the Baltimore Colts to overtake the New York Jets. The Chiefs shot into a 16-0 advantage by the second quarter, ridiculed the 13-point spread favoring the Vikings and established the AFL's superiority over the best the National Football League had to offer for the second straight year. 11 The Kansas City Chiefs, second best team in the American League West standings, became the champions of all football today with a smashing 23-7 upset of the Minnesota Vikings in the Super Bowl. : Super Bowl IV: Super Chiefs Shock Vikings, 23-7

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