Editing Super Bowl IX (section)

===In popular culture===
''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' on [[CBS]] (which was set in Minneapolis) used this game as a plot line on the episode aired the night before the game. [[Lou Grant (fictional character)|Lou Grant]] taught [[Ted Baxter]] how to bet on football games; yet over the course of the football season, Ted was the one who developed a winning strategy. They pooled their money and finished the regular season in the black. Since Ted's strategy would not work on the Super Bowl game's spread, it was agreed they would not place a bet on the Super Bowl. However Ted was crushed when it was revealed that Lou actually did place a (losing) bet. Lou bet all the season's winnings on the Steelers. At the end of the show, [[Mary Tyler Moore]] announced the following over the credits: "If the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] win the actual Super Bowl tomorrow, we want to apologize to the Pittsburgh team and their fans for this purely fictional story. If on the other hand, they lose, remember, you heard it here first." And, as it turned out, her apology did go into effect.