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Super Bowl XXXII was an American football game between the National Football

Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers and the American Football

Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos to decide the National Football

League (NFL) champion for the 1997 season. The Broncos defeated the Packers by

the score of 31–24. The game was played on January 25, 1998 at Qualcomm

Stadium in San Diego, California, the second time that the Super Bowl was held in

that city. Super Bowl XXXII also made Qualcomm Stadium the only stadium in

history to have the Super Bowl and the World Series in the same year.

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This was Denver's first league championship after suffering four previous Super Bowl

losses, and snapped a 13-game losing streak for AFC teams in the Super Bowl (the

previous being the Los Angeles Raiders' win in Super Bowl XVIII after the 1983

season). The Broncos, who entered the game after posting a 12–4 regular season

record in 1997, became just the second wild card team to win a Super Bowl and the

first since the Raiders in Super Bowl XV. The Packers, who entered the game as the

defending Super Bowl XXXI champions after posting a 13–3 regular season record,

were the first team favored to win by double digits to lose a Super Bowl since Super

Bowl IV.

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The game was close throughout much of the contest. The Broncos converted two

turnovers to take a 17–7 lead in the second quarter before the Packers cut the score

to 17–14 at halftime. Green Bay kept pace with Denver in the second half, before

tying the game with 13:32 remaining. Both defenses stiffened until Broncos running

back Terrell Davis scored the go-ahead touchdown with 1:45 left. Despite suffering a

migraine headache that caused him to miss most of the second quarter, Davis (a San

Diego native) was named Super Bowl MVP. He ran for 157 yards, caught two passes

for 8 yards, and scored a Super Bowl record three rushing touchdowns.

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Denver was the first team with a previous 0-2 Super Bowl record to win (their record

had been 0-4). The Broncos' victory snapped the NFC's 13-game winning streak in the

Super Bowl, becoming the first AFC team to win the NFL championship since the Los

Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Denver also

became the first team to score on four 1-yard touchdown runs in a Super Bowl. The

Packers became the third defending Super Bowl champion to lose the Super Bowl,

joining the Dallas Cowboys (won Super Bowl XII, lost Super Bowl XIII) and the

Washington Redskins (won Super Bowl XVII, lost Super Bowl XVIII), and would be

later joined by the Seattle Seahawks in 2015 (won Super Bowl XLVIII, lost Super Bowl

XLIX).

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NFL owners awarded Super Bowl XXXII to San Diego during their October 26, 1993

meeting in Chicago. This was the second time San Diego hosted the game; the city

previously hosted Super Bowl XXII ten years earlier on January 31, 1988. The

Broncos played in both San Diego Super Bowls and became the first franchise to

play two different Super Bowls in two stadiums twice. They also played twice at the

Louisiana Superdome.

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