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Super Bowl XVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion ___MASK85___ and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion ___MASK53___ to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1982 season . The Redskins defeated the Dolphins by the score of 27  17 to win their first Super Bowl . The game was played on January 30 , 1983 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . This Super Bowl came at the end of a season that was significantly shortened by a players ' strike . Teams ended up only playing nine regular season games , and the league conducted a special 16 - team , four - round playoff tournament where divisions were ignored in the seeding . The Redskins had an NFC - best 8  1 regular season record , while the Dolphins finished at 7  2 . Both teams advanced through the first three postseason rounds to Super Bowl XVII . The game then became a rematch of Super Bowl VII , also played in the Los Angeles area at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ten years before , where the Dolphins completed their 17  0 perfect season at the Redskins ' expense by a score of 14  7 . This was also the second Super Bowl to rematch teams , the first being Super Bowl XIII . Super Bowl VII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion ___MASK85___ and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion ___MASK53___ to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1972 season . The Dolphins defeated the Redskins by the score of 14  7 , and became the first and still the only team in NFL history to complete a perfect undefeated season . They also remain the only Super Bowl team to be shut out in the second half and still win . The game was played on January 14 , 1973 , at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles , the second time the Super Bowl was played in that city . Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium is a football stadium located in Louisville , Kentucky , United States , on the southern end of the campus of the University of Louisville . Debuting in 1998 , it serves as the home of the ___MASK41___ football program . The official seating capacity in the quasi - horseshoe shaped facility was 42 , 000 through the 2008 season . An expansion project that started after the 2008 season was completed in time for the 2010 season has brought the official capacity to 55 , 000 . An additional expansion project aiming to close the open end of the horseshoe to add 10 , 000 additional seats was announced on August 28 , 2015 , with the goal of opening within 2 years . Defensive end ( DE ) is a defensive position in the ___MASK58___ of American and Canadian football . The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is an American sports stadium located in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles , California . The stadium serves as the home to the University of Southern California ( USC ) Trojans football team , and as the temporary home for the ___MASK89___ of the National Football League ( NFL ). The Coliseum was home to the Rams from 1946 to 1979 , when they moved to Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim , California , and is serving as their home stadium again until the completion of Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood , California . The facility has a permanent seating capacity of 93 , 607 for USC football games , making it the largest football stadium in the Pac - 12 Conference . For Rams games , capacity is at 80 , 000 , giving it the fourth - largest capacity in the NFL . Mathew W . Mendenhall ( born May 14 , 1957 ) is a former American football defensive end who played two seasons in the National Football League ( NFL ) . He started in Super Bowl XVII . He played college football at Brigham Young University . He attended East High School and played alongside future Columbia star Ed Harris . He is the older brother of UVA Head coach Bronco Mendenhall . American football , referred to as football in the United States and Canada , and also known as gridiron , is a ___MASK58___ played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end . The offense , the team with control of the oval - shaped football , attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball , while the team without control of the ball , the defense , aims to stop their advance and take control of the ball for themselves . The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs , or plays , or else they turn over the football to the opposing team ; if they succeed , they are given a new set of four downs . Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team ' s end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent ' s goalposts for a field goal . The team with the most points at the end of a game wins . The ___MASK32___ football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football . The Cavaliers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ). Established in 1888 , playing local YMCA teams and other state teams without pads , the Virginia football program has evolved into a multimillion - dollar operation that plays in front of 61 , 500 seats at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville , Virginia . Starting in the early 1900s , the program has played an outsized role in the shaping of the modern game ' s ethics and eligibility rules . History . Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League ( NFL ), college football remained extremely popular throughout the U . S . Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart , the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game , with Division I programs  the highest level  playing in huge stadiums , six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100 , 000 . In many cases , college stadiums employ bench - style seating , as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests . This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium , which tends to have more features and comforts for fans . ( Only two stadiums owned by U . S . colleges or universities  Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University  consist entirely of chairback seating .) Marc Bronco Clay Mendenhall ( born February 21 , 1966 ) is the head coach of the ___MASK32___ football team at the University of Virginia . Previously he was the head coach at Brigham Young University , where he had the second - most wins in school history and guided the Cougars to eleven straight bowl invitations , two outright conference championships and regular national Top 25 rankings . Super Bowl XIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion ___MASK59___ and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1978 season . The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 35  31 . The game was played on January 21 , 1979 , at the Orange Bowl in Miami , the fifth and last time that the Super Bowl was played in that stadium . Super Bowl XVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion ___MASK5___ and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Cincinnati Bengals to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1981 season . The 49ers defeated the Bengals by the score of 26  21 to win their first Super Bowl .