Super Bowl XVIII
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| Date | January 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Marcus Allen, Running back | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Redskins by 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Gene Barth | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 72,920 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Raiders: Al Davis (owner/general manager), Marcus Allen, Ray Guy, Mike Haynes, Ted Hendricks, Howie Long Redskins: Joe Gibbs (coach), Darrell Green, Russ Grimm, Art Monk, John Riggins |
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| National anthem | Barry Manilow | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coin toss | Bronko Nagurski | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | "Salute to Superstars of the Silver Screen" | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Pat Summerall and John Madden | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 46.4 (an estimated 77.62 million viewers) |
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| Market share | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of 30-second commercial | $368,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
Super Bowl XVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Los Angeles Raiders to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1983 season. The Raiders defeated the Redskins by the score of 38–9. The Raiders' 38 points and their 29-point margin of victory broke Super Bowl records; it still remains the most points scored by an AFC team in a Super Bowl. The game was played on January 22, 1984, at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida, the first time the Super Bowl was held in that city. This would be the AFC's last Super Bowl win until Super Bowl XXXII, won by the Denver Broncos.
The Redskins entered the game as the defending Super Bowl XVII champions, and finished the 1983 regular season with a league-best 14–2 record, and led the league in fewest rushing yards allowed, and set a then-NFL record in scoring with 541 points. The Raiders posted a 12-4 regular season record in 1983, their second in Los Angeles, having moved there from Oakland in May 1982.
As the favored team, the Redskins' 38–9 defeat at the hands of the black-jerseyed Raiders led Super Bowl XVIII to be known as "Black Sunday". The Raiders outgained the Redskins in total yards, 385 to 283. Los Angeles built a 21–3 halftime lead, aided by touchdowns on Derrick Jensen's blocked punt recovery, and Jack Squirek's 5-yard interception return on a screen pass with seven seconds left in the first half. Raiders running back Marcus Allen, who became the third Heisman Trophy winner to be named the Super Bowl MVP, carried the ball 20 times for a then-record total of 191 yards and two touchdowns, including a then-record 74-yard run in the third quarter.
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