Super Bowl XLI

The Super Bowl XLI is an American football game that took place on the 4th of February in 2007 in Miami Gardens Florida at Dolphin Stadium. This game was played to decide the National Football League champion for the regular season in 2006. The kickoff time for the game was just minutes before half past six in the evening. The teams that participated in this game were the American Football League champions the Indianapolis Colts with a 16-4 record and the National Football Conference champions with a record of 15-4, the Chicago bears.

The game came at the end of long Super Bowl droughts for both of the teams that played. The Colts first appeared in the Super Bowl during their Baltimore tenure in the 1970 season Super Bowl V. In 1984, the Colts moved to Indianapolis. The Chicago Bears first appeared at Super Bowl XX in 1985. This was not the first time two pre-1960 teams met at the Super Bowl. The first time this happened was at Super Bowl XIV when the Pittsburgh Steelers met up with the Los Angeles Rams.

The quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning was awarded the title of Most Valuable Player for the game. He completed twenty-five of the thirty-eight passes he threw for two hundred forty-seven yards and one touch down with an interception. This was the first Super Bowl title for Peyton Manning after a ten-year long career of being the most dominating quarterback in the league.

According to Neilson Media Research, ninety-three million viewers tuned in to watch Super Bowl XLI. It was number four among the most viewed television programs in United States history, after Super Bowl XXX, Super Bowl XLII and the M*A*S*H series finale.

The Indianapolis Colts proved victorious over the Chicago Bears with a final score of 29 - 17. This was the third time that the Super Bowl had two players that rushed for over a hundred yards. The Indianapolis Colts' Dominic Rhodes rushed for one hundred fourteen yards and the Chicago Bears' Thomas Jones rushed for one hundred thirteen yards. Coach Tony Dungy became the third individual to win the Super Bowl and both a head coach and a player. The first two men to accomplish such a feat were Mike Ditka and Tom Flores.

The price for advertisements aired during the game was higher than it had been the previous year, with thirty-second spots costing as much as $2.6 million.