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February 6, 2016 at 1:23AM
A Super Bowl 50 sign stands in a park overlooking San Francisco Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. The Denver Broncos play the Carolina Panthers in the NFL Super Bowl 50 football game Sunday, Feb. 7, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ORG XMIT: CACR104
A Super Bowl 50 sign overlooked the city lights of San Francisco. On Sunday in nearby Santa Clara, Calif., the Panthers and Broncos will take center stage and battle for the Lombardi Trophy. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Super Bowl turns 50 on Sunday, having grown from a mid-'60s curiosity into a national obsession. We asked three columnists, two staff writers and two former Vikings beat writers to shake their notebooks and see what memories would fall out.

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