SUPER BOWL XIV
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Chuck Noll would bring his 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers to their fourth and second back-to-back Super Bowl by beating the Houston Oilers 27-13 in the AFC championship. This would be the first Super Bowl for the Los Angeles Rams. They made it to the Super Bowl by shutting out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-0 in the NFC Championship. Super Bowl XIV was played on January 20, 1980 in Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California. To start the game kicker Matt Bahr made a 3-point field goal for Pittsburgh. Los Angeles
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would answer back with a rushing by Bryant touchdown to make the score 7-3 Rams. On the next drive the Steelers would go right down the field and score a touchdown by Franco Harris. Later in the game the Rams’ kicker Corral made 2 field goals to make the score 13-10 Rams. Pittsburgh would then score with a touchdown from Terry Bradshaw to Lynn Swann and an extra point from Bahr, 17-13 Steelers. The Rams would score their second |  |
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touchdown when Rams’ quarterback McCutcheon hooked up with Smith but ended up missing the extra point to make it 19-17 Los Angeles. The Steelers would shut down the Rams and score two unanswered touchdowns one was a pass from Terry Bradshaw to John Stallworth and Franco Harris found the endzone for the other to end the game 31-19 Pittsburgh. The Steelers ended the game with 84 yards rushing and 309 |  |
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passing and the Rams ended the game with 107 yards rushing and 194 yards
passing. Terry Bradshaw would win his second Super Bowl MVP award and the
Steelers were the first team to win 4 Super Bowls and became the team of
the 70’s. Pittsburgh would be known as the “City of Champions”
because Pittsburgh had two championship teams that year, The 1979 World
Series Pirates, and the 1979 Super Bowl Steelers. |
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