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| Super Bowl IV | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 11, 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tulane Stadium , New Orleans, LA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 80,562 | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Len Dawson, QB, Kansas City | ||||||||||||||||||
Super Bowl IV was the fourth Super Bowl, the championship of American football. The game was played on January 11, 1970, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The final result was the Kansas City Chiefs, 23, the Minnesota Vikings, 7.
The crowd of 80,562 was a Super Bowl record for attendance.
In the AFL Divisional Playoffs, the Chiefs faced off against the Super Bowl III champions, the New York Jets, with the Chiefs winning 13-6. The Oakland Raiders also played the Houston Oilers, blowing them out, 56-7. The Chiefs then faced the Raiders in the AFL Championship , defeating them, 17-7.
In the NFLFor other uses of the abbreviation "NFL," see NFL (disambiguation). The National Football League NFL is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. The league was fo Conference Championships, the Cleveland BrownsThe Cleveland Browns are a National Football League team based in Cleveland, Ohio. In some accounts there is confusion over the history of the Cleveland Browns. This is due to the unusual and unprecedented actions taken by the city of Cleveland and the Na defeated the Dallas CowboysThe Dallas Cowboys are a National Football League team based in Irving, Texas. The team is sometimes referred to colloquially as America's Team due its having a large number of fans who live outside its immediate local area (the term itself is derived fro, 38-14 and the Minnesota Vikings defeated the Los Angeles Rams, 23-20. In the NFL Championship , the Vikings defeated the Browns, 27-7, for the NFL's Super Bowl berth.
Coming into the game, the Vikings were a 13-point favorite over the Chiefs.
The Chiefs scored three field goals in the first 23 minutes and then capitalized with a touchdown off a fumbled punt by the Vikings to enter halftime with a 16-0 lead. The Vikings responded in the third quarter with a 10-play, 69-yard drive that was capped with a Dave Osborn rushing touchdown.
However, the Chiefs responded with their own drive, scoring on a 46-yard pass from quarterback Len Dawson three minutes later. The Chiefs would then go on to shut out the Vikings for the rest of the game, winning 23-7.
Len Dawson was named the Super Bowl MVP, the fourth consecutive quarterback MVP, for completing 12 of 17 passes for 122 yards and one touchdown.
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