Super Bowl XIX
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Miami Dolphins
(AFC) San Francisco 49ers
(NFC)
16 38
1 2 3 4 Total
MIA 10 6 0 0 16
SF 7 21 10 0 38
Date January 20, 1985
Stadium Stanford Stadium, Stanford, California
MVP Joe Montana, Quarterback
Favorite 49ers by 3.5[1][2]
Referee Pat Haggerty
Attendance 84,059[3]
Future Hall of Famers
Dolphins: Don Shula (coach), Dan Marino, Dwight Stephenson
49ers: Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. (o… Morewner), Bill Walsh (coach), Fred Dean, Ronnie Lott, Joe Montana
Ceremonies
National anthem San Francisco Boys Chorus, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Piedmont Children's Chorus and San Francisco Children's Chorus
Coin toss Ronald Reagan (via satellite from the White House) and Hugh McElhenny
Halftime show "World of Children's Dreams" with the United States Air Force Tops In Blue[4]
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Announcers Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and Joe Theismann
Nielsen ratings 46.4
(est. 85.53 million viewers)[5]
Market share 63
Cost of 30-second commercial $525,000
← XVIII Super Bowl XX →
Super Bowl XIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1984 season. The 49ers defeated the Dolphins by the score of 38–16,[6] to win their second Super Bowl. The game was played on January 20, 1985, at Stanford Stadium, on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, the first Super Bowl played in the San Francisco Bay Area. This also became the second Super Bowl after Super Bowl XIV where the game was coincidentally played in the home market of one of the participants.

The game was hyped as the battle between two great quarterbacks: Miami's Dan Marino and San Francisco's Joe Montana. The Dolphins entered their fifth Super Bowl in team history after posting a 14–2 regular season record. The 49ers were making their second Super Bowl appearance after becoming the first team ever to win 15 regular season games since the league expanded to a 16-game schedule in 1978.

With Marino and Montana, the game became the first Super Bowl in which the starting quarterbacks of each team both threw for over 300 yards. In addition, the two teams combined for 851 total offensive yards, which at that time was a Super Bowl record. But after trailing 10–7 in the first quarter, the 49ers would end up taking the game in dominating fashion, scoring three touchdowns in the second quarter, and 10 unanswered points in the second half. Montana, who was named the Super Bowl MVP, completed 24 of 35 passes for a Super Bowl-record 331 yards and three touchdowns. He also broke the Super Bowl record for most rushing yards gained by a quarterback with his 5 rushes for 59 yards and 1 rushing touchdown.

This was the first Super Bowl to be televised in the United States by ABC, joining the annual broadcasting rotation of the game with CBS and NBC. It was also the first time that the sitting U.S. president participated in the coin toss ceremony; Ronald Reagan appeared live via satellite from the White House and tossed the coin. This Super Bowl was unique in that it fell on the same day that he was inaugurated for a second term; because Inauguration Day (January 20) fell on a Sunday, Reagan was sworn in privately and the public ceremony took place the following day. Less