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"My personal feelings are of satisfaction and pride. We were the last AFL champions ever. We won the last game between the two leagues before the implementation of the merger."
-Chiefs head coach Hank Stram

Super Bowl IV

January 11, 1970 - Tulane Stadium - New Orleans, LA

Minnesota Vikings (14-2)		Kansas City Chiefs (13-3)

	Minnesota -7 Kansas City -23

Super Bowl IV Quick Stats
Date:	January 11, 1970
Location:	Tulane Stadium - New Orleans, LA
Surface:	Outdoors on grass
Game Weather:	Overcast and wet
Conditions:	Temp: 61 F
Attendance:	80,562
Kickoff Time:	2:35 P.M. Central
Commentary:	Jack Buck, Frank Gifford, and Pat Summerall (CBS)
Officials:	Referee: Jack McDonough (11), Umpire: Lou Palazzi (51), Line Judge: Bill Schliebaum (28), Head Linesman: Harry Kessel (73), Back Judge: Tom Kelleher (25), Field Judge: Charlie Musser (55)
Pre-Game Show:	"Battle of the Horns" with Al Hirt and Doc Severinsen
National Anthem:	Trumpeters Al Hirt and Doc Severinsen Recital by Pat O'Brien Pledge of Allegiance: Astronauts
Coin Toss:	The Referee
Halftime Show:	"Mardi Gras" Ftr: Carol Channing
Winner Share:	$15,000
Loser Share:	$7,500
Ticket Price:	$15 (varying ticket colors depending on level)
Favorite:	Minnesota by 12.0 pts.
TV Rating:	36.4, 69 share (CBS)
Most Valuable Player:	Chiefs QB Len Dawson (12/17, 142 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT; 3 for 11 yds)

* Denotes Division Champion | † Denotes Overtime
1969 Playoffs
AFL Divisional		AFL Championship		NFL Championship		NFL Conference
Kansas City (11-3) at N.Y. Jets* (10-4)	13 6	Kansas City (12-3) at Oakland (13-1-1)	17 7	Cleveland (11-3-1) at Minnesota (13-2)	7 27	Cleveland* (10-3-1) at Dallas* (11-2-1)	38 14
Houston (6-6-2) at Oakland* (12-1-1)	7 56					Los Angeles* (11-3) at Minnesota* (12-2)	20 23

1969 AFL Standings
Eastern Division			Western Division
New York Jets Houston Oilers Boston Patriots Buffalo Bills Miami Dolphins	10-4-0 6-6-2 4-10-0 4-10-0 3-10-1	0.714 0.500 0.286 0.286 0.231	Oakland Raiders Kansas City Chiefs San Diego Chargers Denver Broncos Cincinnati Bengals	12-1-1 11-3-0 8-6-0 5-8-1 4-9-1	0.923 0.786 0.571 0.385 0.308

1969 NFL Standings
Eastern Conference
Capitol Division			Century Division
Dallas Cowboys Washington Redskins New Orleans Saints Philadelphia Eagles	11-2-1 7-5-2 5-9-0 4-9-1	0.846 0.583 0.357 0.308	Cleveland Browns New York Giants St. Louis Cardinals Pittsburgh Steelers	10-3-1 6-8-0 4-9-1 1-13-0	0.769 0.429 0.308 0.071
Western Conference
Coastal Division			Central Division
Los Angeles Rams Baltimore Colts Atlanta Falcons San Francisco 49ers	11-3-0 8-5-1 6-8-0 4-8-2	0.786 0.615 0.429 0.333	Minnesota Vikings Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Chicago Bears	12-2-0 9-4-1 8-6-0 1-13-0	0.857 0.692 0.571 0.071

* Denotes night game | † Denotes Overtime | [m] Played in Milwaukee, WI
Minnesota 1969 Schedule
Date		Opponent	Score
Regular Season (12-2)
Sun	9/21	at N.Y. Giants	L	23-24
Sun	9/28	Baltimore	W	52-14
Sun	10/5	Green Bay	W	19-7
Sun	10/12	at Chicago	W	31-0
Sun	10/19	at St. Louis	W	27-10
Sun	10/26	Detroit	W	24-10
Sun	11/2	Chicago	W	31-14
Sun	11/9	Cleveland	W	51-3
Sun	11/16	at Green Bay [m]	W	9-7
Sun	11/23	Pittsburgh	W	52-14
Thu	11/27	at Detroit	W	27-0
Sun	12/7	at Los Angeles	W	20-13
Sun	12/14	San Francisco	W	10-7
Sun	12/21	at Atlanta	L	3-10
Post Season
Sat	12/27	Los Angeles	W	23-20
Sun	1/4	Cleveland	W	27-7

* Denotes night game | † Denotes Overtime
Kansas City 1969 Schedule
Date		Opponent	Score
Regular Season (11-3)
Sun	9/14	at San Diego	W	27-9
Sun	9/21	at Boston	W	31-0
Sun	9/28	at Cincinnati	L	19-24
Sun	10/5	at Denver	W	26-13
Sun	10/12	Houston	W	24-0
Sun	10/19	Miami	W	17-10
Sun	10/26	Cincinnati	W	42-22
Sun	11/2	at Buffalo	W	20-7
Sun	11/9	San Diego	W	27-3
Sun	11/16	at N.Y. Jets	W	34-16
Sun	11/23	Oakland	L	24-27
Thu	11/27	Denver	W	31-17
Sun	12/7	Buffalo	W	22-19
Sat	12/13	at Oakland	L	6-10
Post Season
Sat	12/20	at N.Y. Jets	W	13-6
Sun	1/4	at Oakland	W	17-7

Starting Lineups
MINNESOTA				KANSAS CITY
OFFENSE		DEFENSE		OFFENSE		DEFENSE
G.Washington	WR	C.Eller	LE	F.Pitts	WR	J.Mays	LE
G.Alderman	LT	G.Larsen	DT	J.Tyrer	LT	C.Culp	DT
J.Vellone	LG	A.Page	DT	E.Budde	LG	B.Buchanan	DT
M.Tingelhoff	C	J.Marshall	RE	E.J.Holub	C	A.Brown	RE
M.Sunde	RG	R.Winston	LLB	M.Moorman	RG	B.Bell	LLB
R.Yary	RT	L.Warwick	MLB	D.Hill	RT	W.Lanier	MLB
J.Beasley	TE	W.Hilgenberg	RLB	F.Arbanas	TE	J.Lynch	RLB
J.Henderson	WR	E.Mackbee	LCB	O.Taylor	WR	J.Marsalis	LCB
J.Kapp	QB	E.Sharockman	RCB	L.Dawson	QB	E.Thomas	RCB
D.Osborn	RB	K.Kassulke	SS	M.Garrett	RB	J.Kearney	SS
B.Brown	RB	P.Krause	FS	R.Holmes	RB	J.Robinson	FS

Substitutions
MINNESOTA		KANSAS CITY
OFFENSE	DEFENSE	OFFENSE	DEFENSE
B.Grim (WR)	P.Dickson (DL)	G.Richardson (WR)	G.Trosch (DL)
K.Kramer (TE)	D.Hackbart (LB)	C.McClinton (TE)	E.Lothamer (DL)
S.Smith (OL)	M.McGill (LB)	G.Daney (OL)	C.Hurston (DL)
E.White (OL)	J.Hargrove (LB)	R.Prudhomme (OL)	B.Stein (LB)
G.Cuozzo (QB)	C.West (DB)	M.Livingston (QB)	G.Sellers (DB)
C.Jones (RB)		W.McVea (RB)	W.Mitchell (DB)
B.Harris (RB)		W.Hayes (RB)	C.Belser (DB)
O.Reed (RB)		E.Podolak (RB)
J.Lindsey (RB)
KICKERS		KICKERS
F.Cox (K)	B.Lee (P)	J.Stenerud (K)	J.Wilson (P)
DID NOT PLAY		DID NOT PLAY
D.Davis (T)	M.Reilly (LB)	T.Flores (QB)

Team Statistics
	MIN	KC
FIRST DOWNS-Total Rushing Passing Penalty	13 2 10 1	18 8 7 3
3rd DOWN EFF.	3/9-33%	9/16-56%
4th DOWN EFF.	0/0-0%	0/0-0%
TOTAL NET YARDS Total Offensive Plays Average Gain	239 50 4.8	273 62 4.4
NET RUSH YARDS Rushing Plays Average Gain	67 19 3.5	151 42 3.6
NET PASS YARDS Pass Att-Comp-INT Tackled-Yds Lost Gross Yards Passing	172 28-17-3 3-27 199	122 17-12-1 3-20 142
PUNTS-Yards Average Dist. Blocked	3-111 37.0 0	4-194 48.5 0
RETURN YARDS-Total Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interception Returns	97 2-18 4-79 1-0	60 1-0 2-36 3-24
PENALTIES-yards	6-67	4-47
TOTAL TURNOVERS Fumbles-Lost Had Intercepted	5 3-2 3	1 0-0 1
TOUCHDOWNS-Total Rushing Passing Returns	1 1 0 0	2 1 1 0
EXTRA POINTS-Made Kicking-Made/Att Blocked	1 1/1 0	2 2/2 0
FIELD GOALS-Made/Att Blocked	0/1 0	3/3 0
SAFETIES	0	0
TOTAL POINTS	7	23
T.O.P.	25:27	34:33

Scoring Summary
Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
MINNESOTA	0	0	7	0	7
KANSAS CITY	3	13	7	0	23

1st Quarter

KC - J.Stenerud, 48 yard FG. 8-42, TOP 4:06 (8:08)

2nd Quarter

KC - J.Stenerud, 32 yard FG. 8-55, TOP 4:58 (1:40)
KC - J.Stenerud, 25 yard FG. 4-27, TOP 2:13 (7:08)
KC - M.Garrett, 5 yard rush. J.Stenerud kick. 6-19, TOP 1:47 (9:26)

3rd Quarter

MIN - D.Osborn, 4 yard rush. F.Cox kick. 10-69, TOP 4:34 (10:28)
KC - O.Taylor, 46 yard pass from L.Dawson. J.Stenerud kick. 6-82, TOP 3:10 (13:38)

Chiefs head coach Hank Stram is carried from the field. (?)

Individual Statistics

MINNESOTA VIKINGS

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS

PASSING

	AT	CMP	PCT	YDS	INT	YDS/CMP	SK/YD
J.Kapp	25	16	64.0	183	2	11.4	3/27
G.Cuozzo	3	1	33.3	16	1	16.0	0/0
TOTAL	28	17	60.7	199	3	11.7	3/27

PASSING

	AT	CMP	PCT	YDS	INT	TD	YDS/CMP	SK/YD
L.Dawson	17	12	70.6	142	1	1	11.8	3/20

RUSHING

	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
D.Osborn	7	15	2.1	4t	1
B.Brown	6	26	4.3	10	0
O.Reed	4	17	4.3	15	0
J.Kapp	2	9	4.5	7	0
TOTAL	19	67	3.5	15	1

RUSHING

	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
W.McVea	12	26	2.2	9	0
M.Garrett	11	39	3.5	6	1
W.Hayes	8	31	3.9	13	0
R.Holmes	5	7	1.4	7	0
F.Pitts	3	37	12.3	19	0
L.Dawson	3	11	3.7	11	0
TOTAL	42	151	3.5	19	1

RECEIVING

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
J.Henderson	7	111	15.9	28
B.Brown	3	11	3.7	10
J.Beasley	2	41	20.5	26
O.Reed	2	16	8.0	12
D.Osborn	2	11	5.5	10
G.Washington	1	9	9.0	9
TOTAL	17	199	11.7	28

RECEIVING

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
O.Taylor	6	81	13.5	46t	1
F.Pitts	3	33	11.0	20	0
M.Garrett	2	25	12.5	17	0
W.Hayes	1	3	3.0	3	0
TOTAL	12	142	11.8	46t	1

PUNTING

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	IN20	TB
B.Lee	3	111	37.0	50	1	1

PUNTING

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	IN20	TB
J.Wilson	4	194	48.5	59	2	1

PUNT RETURNS

	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG
C.West	2	0	18	9.0	11
B.Grim	0	1	0	0.0	0
TOTAL	2	1	18	9.0	11

PUNT RETURNS

	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
M.Garrett	1	0	0	0.0	0	0

KICKOFF RETURNS

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
C.West	3	46	15.3	27
C.Jones	1	33	33.0	33
TOTAL	4	77	19.3	33

KICKOFF RETURNS

	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
W.Hayes	2	0	36	18.0	18	0

INTERCEPTIONS BY

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
P.Krause	1	0	0.0	0	0

INTERCEPTIONS BY

	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
W.Lanier	1	9	9.0	9
J.Robinson	1	9	9.0	9
E.Thomas	1	6	6.0	6
TOTAL	3	24	8.0	9

FUMBLES

MINNESOTA	FUM	OWN-REC	YDS	TD	FRCD	OPP-REC	YDS	TD	OOB
J.Henderson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
C.West	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
J.Kapp	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
J.Vellone	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
KANSAS CITY	FUM	OWN-REC	YDS	TD	FRCD	OPP-REC	YDS	TD	OOB
J.Robinson	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
R.Prudhomme	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A.Brown	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0

Defensive Statistics

(Tackles are not an official stat, hence some variation from source to source)

MINNESOTA VIKINGS

REGULAR DEFENSIVE PLAYS

SPECIAL TEAMS

MISC

TKL

AST

COM

SCK/

YDS

INT

TKL

AST

TKL

AST

L.Warwick

0.0

W.Hilgenberg

0.0

E.Mackbee

0.0

J.Marshall

1.0

8.0

A.Page

0.0

R.Winston

1.0

8.0

E.Sharockman

0.0

C.Eller

1.0

4.0

G.Larsen

0.0

P.Krause

0.0

P.Dickson

0.0

M.Tingelhoff

0.0

D.Hackbart

0.0

W.Harris

0.0

J.Vellone

0.0

B.Brown

0.0

B.Grim

0.0

TOTAL

3.0

20.0

TKL = Tackle
PD = Pass Defense

AST = Assist
FF = Forced Fumble

COM = Combined
FR = Fumble Recovery

INT = Interception
BL = Blocked

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS

REGULAR DEFENSIVE PLAYS

SPECIAL TEAMS

MISC

TKL

AST

COM

SCK/

YDS

INT

TKL

AST

TKL

AST

B.Buchanan

1.0

8.0

J.Kearney

0.0

W.Lanier

0.0

J.Marsalis

0.0

B.Bell

0.0

C.Culp

0.0

E.Thomas

0.0

A.Brown

1.0

13.0

J.Lynch

0.0

J.Mays

1.0

6.0

J.Robinson

0.0

C.Belser

0.0

G.Daney

0.0

W.Mitchell

0.0

R.Prudhomme

0.0

B.Stein

0.0

O.Taylor

0.0

TOTAL

3.0

27.0

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