Super Bowl X-XVIII: The NFL Replaces Baseball as the National Pastime

Football’s golden age was the 1970s. It was when the NFL overtook the NCAA as the premier expression of the gridiron game. The Steelers, Raiders and Cowboys all won Super Bowls, while Bud Grant’s Vikings became the first team to go 0-4 in Super Bowls.

The ‘eighties saw more change, as the Raiders moved to LA, Washington won a strike-shortened season in 1982 and San Francisco emerged with a new brand of football. Bill Walsh first used the West Coast offense in the Midwest, when Walsh was an assistant at the Bengals in the last ‘sixties, but it was in San Francisco that the world saw its full effect as the 49ers dominated their era and football would never be about three yards and a cloud of dust again.

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