Scene of the Week: Crashing the Super Bowl

The Goodyear Blimp has been providing aerial footage at sporting events for nearly 70 years now. In fact, it was the 1955 Rose Bowl game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the USC Trojans that first received the Goodyear Blimp treatment. Twenty-two years later, The Goodyear Blimp would be in the Hollywood spotlight as a major part of the 1977 film, Black Sunday.

In Black Sunday, a terrorist group known as Black September hijacks the Goodyear Blimp so they can blow it up over a stadium packed with 80,000 football fanatics there to witness the Dallas Cowboys battle the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl! Directed by John Frankenheimer and boasting an all-star cast that included Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and one of my personal favorites, Michael V. Gazzo, Black Sunday put a unique twist on the disaster movie genre that movie goers could not get enough of in the 1970s.

This week’s Scene of the Week chronicles the chaos that ensues when the Goodyear Blimp crashes the Super Bowl…