Before his acting days in the Miller Light commercials or playing
Moses Hightower in the Police Academy movies Bubba Smith discussed with
NBC how he and the Baltimore Colts planned on stopping Joe Namath and
the New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl.
Bubba said that Joe
Namath sets deep into the backfield and he hoped they would get a jump
on the ball and catch him as he is going back. The Colts only got to Joe
Namath twice for total of 11 yards lost for the entire game. The Jets
went on to win Super Bowl by the score of 16-7.
Sadly, we lost Bubba Smith at the age of 66 on August 3, 2011.
Tag: SUper Bowl
The Super Bowl Shuffle
The Super Bowl Shuffle is a rap song performed by the Chicago Bears.
The song was released a month before Super Bowl XX and actually made it
as high as #41 on the Billboard hot 100 and sold over a half a million
copies. This made the Chicago Bears is the only American professional
team to have a hit single. The song was nominated for a Grammy but lost
to Kiss.
The song made over $300,000 which was donated to the
Chicago Community Trust to help needy families in the Chicago area with
clothing and food.
The Bears did go on to win the Super Bowl defeating the New England Patriots by a score of 46 to 10.
