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Super Bowl memories: Miami

Others that were up for consideration: Arizona | New Orleans

NFL owners awarded the 2013 Super Bowl to New Orleans over Glendale, Ariz., and Miami at the NFL Spring Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Relive the Super Bowl games played in Miami:

   In Vince Lombardi's final game as Green Bay 
  Packers coach, his team won a second straight 
  Super Bowl and a fifth title overall in the past seven years. 
   In one of the biggest upsets in 
  Super Bowl history, New York shattered New England's unbeaten season with an improbable 17-14 triumph. 
   Jim O'Brien's field goal gave the Baltimore 
  Colts a 16-13 win on the same field where the team was humbled by the New York 
  Jets two years earlier. 

Game MVP Lynn Swann's heroics helped make the Pittsburgh Steelers repeat winners in the NFL's grandest game.

   In the first rematch in 
  Super Bowl history, the 
  Steelers defeated the 
  Cowboys once again in Miami in a memorable showdown. 
   Joe Montana led a last-minute scoring drive to lift the 
  San Francisco 49ers past the 
  Cincinnati Bengals in this exciting matchup. 

Game MVP Steve Young threw a Super Bowl-record six touchdown passes in a 49-26 blowout of the overmatched San Diego Chargers.

   The 
  Denver Broncos sent 
  Game MVP John Elway out in fashion with a convincing win over the upstart Atlanta 
  Falcons. 
   A wet and wild night of 
  Super Bowl firsts brought Tony Dungy, 
  Peyton Manning and the 
  Indianapolis Colts to the top with a 29-17 victory.