Editing Super Bowl V (section)

===Postscript===
Morrall was the top passer of the game, with 7 out of 15 completions for 147 yards, with 1 interception. Before being knocked out of the game, Unitas completed 3 out of 9 passes for 88 yards and a touchdown, with 2 interceptions. Morton completed more passes than Morrall and Unitas combined (12), but finished the game with 118 fewer passing yards (127), and was intercepted 3 times (all in the fourth quarter). Mackey was the top receiver of the game with 2 receptions for 80 yards and a touchdown. Nowatzke was the Colts' leading rusher with 33 yards and a touchdown, while also catching a pass for 47 yards. Dallas running back [[Walt Garrison]] was the leading rusher of the game with 65 rushing yards, and added 19 yards on 2 pass receptions.

Referencing the numerous turnovers, Morrall said, "It really was a physical game. I mean, people were flying into one another out there."<ref name=McGrane/> "It was really a hard-hitting game," wrote O'Brien. "It wasn't just guys dropping the ball. They fumbled because they got the snot knocked out of them."<ref name=OBrien/> Said Tom Landry:

<blockquote>I haven't been around many games where the players hit harder. Sometimes people watch a game and see turnovers and they talk about how sloppy the play was. The mistakes in that game weren't invented, at least not by the people who made them. Most were forced.<ref name=McGrane/></blockquote>

"We figured we could win if our offense didn't put us into too many holes", said 35-year-old Colts lineman [[Billy Ray Smith, Sr.|Billy Ray Smith]], who was playing in his last NFL game, "Let me put it this way, they didn't put us into any holes we couldn't get out of".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nfl.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223233356/http://ag.nfl.com/|url-status=dead|title=NFL.com &#124; Official Site of the National Football League|archivedate=December 23, 2010|website=NFL.com}}</ref>

Colts defensive end [[Bubba Smith]] would later refuse to wear his Super Bowl V ring because of the "sloppy" play.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/page2/s/neel/030122.html|title=The Super Bowl barely makes the grade|author=Eric Neel|work=ESPN Page 2|publisher=ESPN.com|date=January 22, 2003|access-date=December 31, 2007}}</ref> In a similar action, Cowboys linebacker [[Chuck Howley]] was named the Super Bowl MVP, despite being on the losing team, but Howley initially refused to accept the award because he stated that it was meaningless to him since his team lost. He reluctantly accepted the honor since it included the awarding of a brand-new station wagon that he decided to use as a gift for his wife. During the game, Howley recorded two tackles and two interceptions, one of which he returned for 22 yards.

[[Don McCafferty]] became the first rookie head coach to win a Super Bowl. The feat was not repeated until [[George Seifert]] led the [[1989 San Francisco 49ers season|San Francisco 49ers]] to victory in [[Super Bowl XXIV]]. McCafferty was also the first Super Bowl-winning coach who did not wear coat and tie, opting for a short-sleeved T-shirt with a mock turtleneck.

This Super Bowl would also start a trend with the team that lost the game would come back the next year and win it. Dallas lost this game but they would come back and win it all the next year in [[Super Bowl VI]] while their opponents, the [[Miami Dolphins]], lost that game, and would go on to win [[Super Bowl VII]] the following season.

Two rule changes that were adopted before the [[1974 NFL season|1974 season]] were: 
* When the defensive team commits an illegal use of hands, arms, or body foul from behind the line of scrimmage, the penalty will be assessed from the previous spot instead of the spot of the foul.
* The penalties for offensive holding, illegal use of hands, and tripping were reduced from 15-yards to 10-yards.
These would have reduced the severity of the two Dallas offensive holding penalties in Super Bowl V.<ref name=fgrch>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HicxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5326%2C2592806 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |location=Ohio |agency=Associated Press |title=NFL rule changes |date=April 26, 1974 |page=26 }}</ref><ref name=mxrexn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EnhQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qxEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1603%2C2418677 |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |agency=Associated Press |title=NFL rule changes bring mixed reactions |date=April 26, 1974 |page=1, part 2 }}</ref>

This was the first and only Super Bowl where the Trophy presentation was done by somebody other than the commissioner, in this case, [[Marie Lombardi]] the wife of recently deceased coach [[Vince Lombardi]]. Super Bowl V also marked the debut of the newly renamed Vince Lombardi Trophy.