returns, kickoff returns, and fumble returns ‡ Sacks an official statistic since Super Bowl XVII by the NFL. Sacks are listed as "tackled attempting to pass" in the official NFL box score for Super Bowl III. Turnovers are defined as the number of times losing the ball on interceptions and fumbles. Starting lineups Source: Starting lineup provided by NFL.com Officials Referee: Tom Bell (NFL) #7 first Super Bowl Umpire: Walt Parker (AFL) #25 first Super Bowl Head Linesman: George Murphy (NFL) #30 first Super Bowl Line Judge: Cal Lepore (AFL) #32 first Super Bowl Back Judge: Jack Reader (AFL) #42 second Super Bowl (I) Field Judge: Joe Gonzales (NFL) #54 first Super Bowl Note: A seven-official system was not instituted until 1978. Unlike the first two Super Bowls, officials wore their standard uniform. The AFL switched to the NFL uniform for 1968 in anticipation of the 1970 merger. Jack Reader became the first official to work two Super Bowls. He was the only official to work two prior to the merger. He was promoted to referee in 1969. Aftermath The following season, 1969, would be the last one before the AFL–NFL merger. The AFL's Kansas City Chiefs would go on to defeat the NFL's Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV. That victory by the AFL squared the Super Bowl series with the NFL at two games apiece before the two leagues merged into one. As part of the merger, the Colts were one of three NFL teams that moved to the newly formed American Football Conference (AFC) with the Jets and the other AFL teams (the other two were the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers, who were first division rivals in the AFC Central and later the AFC North, with a three-year gap that resulted from the Browns' controversial relocation to Baltimore interrupting it). The former Super Bowl III combatants became divisional rivals in the AFC East until the 2002 realignment shifted the Colts, who had moved to Indianapolis in 1984, to the new AFC South; the teams would however not meet in the playoffs until the 2002 season. Due to being in the same conference, a Super Bowl rematch is no longer possible unless the NFL radically changes its conference alignment and/or its playoff structure. The Jets have not played in the Super Bowl since the merger, losing the AFC Championship Game in the 1982, 1998, 2009 and 2010