After a 188-game season of startling upsets and comebacks, a couple of semi-Cinderella teams stumbled into the 1971 Super Bowl. Both the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys have been prime contenders for the championship game since it began in 1967. The Colts reached it once—only to lose; Dallas, despite innumerable preseason predictions that the puissant Cowboys were certain winners, never made it at all. In this Sunday's encounter in Miami, both teams will be less concerned with replenishing their bank accounts (each player on the winning team will receive $15,000) than with...
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