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Super Bowl memories: New Orleans

Others that were up for consideration: Arizona | Miami

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 New Orleans:

   The 
  Kansas City Chiefs gave the American Football League its second shocking victory over a National Football League team. 
   "Next year's champions," the 
  Dallas Cowboys, finally got that Lombardi Trophy with a 24-3 rout of the upstart Miami 
  Dolphins. 
   For decades one of the NFL's most mediocre franchises, the 
  Pittsburgh Steelers finally stood at the top following their first 
  Super Bowl appearance. 
   "Doomsday" ruined the 
  Denver Broncos' first 
  Super Bowl appearance, rolling to a 27-10 win in the first 
  Super Bowl played in a dome. 

Game MVP Jim Plunkett helped make the Oakland Raiders the first wild-card playoff team to ever win football's grandest game.

   Mike Ditka's "Monsters of the Midway" steamrolled the 
  New England Patriots, giving the 
  Chicago Bears their first 
  Super Bowl triumph. 
   The 
  San Francisco 49ers defeated the Denver 
  Broncos 55-10 in the biggest blowout in 
  Super Bowl history. 

Game MVP Desmond Howard's 99-yard kickoff return for a TD sparked the Green Bay Packers' first Super Bowl victory in 29 years.

   The 
  New England Patriots closed the curtain on the "Greatest Show on Turf" with a startling upset of the explosive St. Louis 
  Rams.