Super Bowl XIX
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| Date | January 20, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Stanford Stadium, Stanford, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Joe Montana, Quarterback | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | 49ers by 3.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Pat Haggerty | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 84,059 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Dolphins: Don Shula (coach), Dan Marino, Dwight Stephenson 49ers: Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. (owner), Bill Walsh (coach), Fred Dean, Ronnie Lott, Joe Montana |
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| National anthem | San Francisco Boys Chorus, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Piedmont Children's Chorus and San Francisco Children's Chorus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coin toss | Ronald Reagan (via satellite from the White House) and Hugh McElhenny | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | "World of Children's Dreams" with the United States Air Force Tops In Blue | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and Joe Theismann | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 46.4 (est. 85.53 million viewers) |
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| Market share | 63 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of 30-second commercial | $525,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
Super Bowl XIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1984 season. The 49ers defeated the Dolphins by the score of 38–16, to win their second Super Bowl. The game was played on January 20, 1985, at Stanford Stadium, on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, a suburb of Silicon Valley within the San Francisco Bay Area.
The game was hyped as the battle between two great quarterbacks: Miami's Dan Marino and San Francisco's Joe Montana. The Dolphins entered their fifth Super Bowl in team history after posting a 14–2 regular season record. The 49ers were making their second Super Bowl appearance after becoming the first team ever to win 15 regular season games since the league expanded to a 16-game schedule in 1978.
With Marino and Montana, the game became the first Super Bowl in which the starting quarterbacks of each team both threw for over 300 yards. In addition, the two teams combined for 851 total offensive yards, which at that time was a Super Bowl record. But after trailing 10–7 in the first quarter, the 49ers would end up taking the game in dominating fashion, scoring three touchdowns in the second quarter, and 10 unanswered points in the second half. Montana, who was named the Super Bowl MVP, completed 24 of 35 passes for a Super Bowl-record 331 yards and three touchdowns. He also broke the Super Bowl record for most rushing yards gained by a quarterback with his 5 rushes for 59 yards and 1 rushing touchdown.
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