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A rare Super Bowl rematch on Sunday

Here it is. The big rematch has arrived.

The Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos will do something Sunday that only has happened five other times since the first Super Bowl in 1967. The two teams that played in the big game will face each other the following season.

A little over seven months ago, Seattle crushed Denver 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. This is the first time since 1997 that Super Bowl opponents have played a rematch the next season.

In three of the five rematches, the team that won the previous Super Bowl won again. The last Super Bowl loser to earn revenge was the Buffalo Bills in 1993, defeating the Dallas Cowboys in the second game of the following season 13-10.

The Cowboys, however, defeated the Bills again (30-13) in a Super-Bowl rematch four months later.

The only other team to win the regular-season rematch was the Minnesota Vikings in 1970, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 27-10 after losing Super Bowl IV in New Orleans.

Here's the full list of previous Super Bowl rematches, with the score in the Super Bowl and the result of the rematch:

Super Bowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings 23-7

Rematch: Vikings won 27-10 in Week 1

Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders defeated the Vikings 32-14

Rematch: Raiders won 35-13 in Week 13

Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 35-31

Rematch: Steelers won 14-3 in Week 9.

Super Bowl XXVII: Cowboys defeated the Bills 52-17

Rematch: Bills won 13-10 in Week 2

Super Bowl XXXI: Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots 35-21

Rematch: Packers won 28-10 in Week 9