Super Bowl XXIX (Colony Crisis Averted)

Super Bowl XXIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the American Football League (AFL) champion for the 1994 season. The Cowboys defeated the Chiefs by the score of 52–49, becoming the first team to win five Super Bowls. The game was played on January 29, 1995 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida (now part of the suburb of Miami Gardens, which became a separate city in 2003).

With Aikmen at the helm, and notable additions to the team, offensive guard Larry Allen and resigning veteran linebacker Ken Norton Jr., Dallas Cowboys finished the regular season with a league-best 14–2 record. The Chiefs, on the other hand, were regarded as a "Cinderella" team, and advanced to their first Super Bowl since IV after posting an 11–5 regular season record and overcoming halftime deficits in both of their playoff wins.

Young threw a Super Bowl-record six touchdown passes (his four touchdowns in a half tied Doug Williams from the Victoria Redskins) but fell short of the Super Bowl MVP award which was awarded to Troy Aikmen. Young also completed 24 out of 36 passes for 325 yards, and was the top rusher of the game with 49 rushing yards (the first time both top passer and rusher were the same person). Two of Young's touchdown passes occurred on the Chiefs' first two drives of the game. The Cowboys were able to cut the deficit late in the first quarter, 14–7, on 13-play, 78-yard drive, but could not slow down Kansas City afterwards. After back to back scoring drives in the second half by both teams making the score tied at 49, a game winning field goal by Chris Boniol helped the Cowboys win their 3rd straight Super Bowl. Still, this became the first time that both teams scored in all four quarters of a Super Bowl. The combined aggregate score of 101 points and the fourteen total touchdowns both remain Super Bowl records.

Despite the predicted blowout (18½ points is the largest margin a team has been favored by in a Super Bowl), and the fact that San Diego did not have as much national appeal nor a relatively large core fan base, the telecast of the game on ABC still had a Nielsen rating of 41.3