The top picture appears to be just before the second half kickoff. The bottom photograph may be after Oakland intercepted a pass and scored again, putting the game out of reach.
Look, I was disappointed that it wasn't the Rams in the Super Bowl that year. The first two years of their run under Chuck Knox in 1973 and 1974, the Rams were 12-2, had a better record that Dallas, and had beaten Dallas in the regular season; they were 10-4 the next year and had beaten Minnesota in the regular season and had the same regular season record; however, both of those years in the playoffs, the Rams had to travel to Dallas the first year and to Minnesota the next year.
Everyone knows now how important home field advantage is. Yet, in those days the playoffs rotated home field among division champs rather than rely on regular season records and head-to-head competition. The one year the Rams finally got home-field against the Vikings, a freak heavy rainstorm began before the game started, turned the field into mud very quickly, and continued all game long. The Rams could get nothing going and lost another close game.
Chuck Knox was a good coach, winning far more often than he lost; but when his game plan wasn't working, he never seemed able to adjust. Too often, the Rams lost games they should have won, most especially in the playoffs. And, given their regular-season dominance, they should have been in several Super Bowls in the 1970's. Nineteen Seventy-Seven was another year in which an inferior Minnesota team again got to the Super Bowl, and lost again, badly. Chuck Knox left after the 1978 season.
So I rooted for Oakland in this Super Bowl and was pleased to note that Minnesota was not very good, having lost all four Super Bowls against Kansas City, Miami, Pittsburgh and, finally, Oakland. That was the end of their run of futility, and appearances, in the Super Bowl.
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