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Originally Posted by Skip Towne
Were you born in 1964? If not, it wasn't SB IV.
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Aside from lingering questions about whether I'm a bastard, this football game is the greatest mystery of my life.
For a long time, I thought it was Super Bowl IV. It was an important game, because I remember my dad's friend really wanted to watch it in color, and my parents NEVER invited anyone over to the house. I also remember that it was a home game (Chiefs in red) and that a wide receiver made a catch and a long run down the right sideline, just like Otis Taylor did in SB IV.
However, the dates don't appear to work for it to be SB IV. I know that I lived in Springfield at the time, which means that it would've been when I was in second grade. Working the math, I think that I lived there from about July of 1970 to May of 1971, which is of course too late for the Super Bowl.
However, the Chiefs didn't make the playoffs that season, so the game couldn't have been a playoff game. Also, they lost their last two games, and I distinctly remember that the Chiefs won. It's possible that my dad's friend was a bandwagon guy, and maybe there was just some game in the middle of the season that was important, or perhaps it could've been Week 11 or Week 12, when the Chiefs beat the Chargers and the Broncos at home. Neither of those games was a big matchup, though, since both of those teams were pretty weak at the time.
I really wish I could figure it out, because that game was a tipping point in my life.