Super Bowl XXXIII
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| Date | January 31, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | John Elway, Quarterback | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Broncos by 7.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Bernie Kukar | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 74,803 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Broncos: Terrell Davis, John Elway, Shannon Sharpe Falcons: Morten Andersen |
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| National anthem | Cher | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coin toss | Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti, Frank Gifford, Roosevelt Brown, Don Maynard, Sam Huff, Tom Landry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | Fox | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Pat Summerall and John Madden | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 40.2 (est. 83.7 million viewers) |
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| Market share | 61 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of 30-second commercial | $1.6 million | ||||||||||||||||||
Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1998 season. The Broncos defeated the Falcons by the score of 34–19, winning their second consecutive Super Bowl. The game was played on January 31, 1999, at Pro Player Stadium in Miami (now part of the suburb of Miami Gardens, which became a separate city in 2003).
The defending Super Bowl champion Broncos entered the game with an AFC-best 14–2 regular season record. The Falcons, under former Denver head coach Dan Reeves, were making their first Super Bowl appearance after also posting a 14–2 regular season record.
Aided by quarterback John Elway's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Rod Smith, Denver scored 17 consecutive points to build a 17–3 lead in the second quarter from which Atlanta could not recover. At 38 years old, Elway became the oldest player, at the time, to be named Super Bowl MVP (Tom Brady became the oldest in 2017 at the age of 39). In the final game of his career, he completed 18 of 29 passes for 336 yards with one touchdown and one interception, and also scored a 3-yard rushing touchdown. Elway retired on May 2, 1999 before the following season.
The NFL originally awarded Super Bowl XXXIII to Candlestick Park in San Francisco on November 2, 1994, at the owners meetings in Rosemont, Illinois but pulled the game away after it came unclear whether planned renovations to the stadium were going to happen.
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