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NFL Network to re-air historic Super Bowl I

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Forty-nine years to the day after the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs squared off in Super Bowl I, NFL Network will be the first network to ever replay this historic game on television.

Super Bowl I was broadcast by both NBC – the official broadcaster of the AFL- and CBS – the official broadcaster of the NFL and remains the only Super Bowl to have been broadcast live in the United States by two television networks. Considered to be the Holy Grail of sports broadcasts, the CBS and NBC tapes of the game were either lost or recorded over and no full video version of the game has existed…until now.

In an exhaustive process that took months to complete, NFL Films searched its enormous archives of footage and were able to locate all 145 plays from Super Bowl I from more than a couple dozen disparate sources. Once all the plays were located, NFL Films was able to put the plays in order and stich them together while fully restoring, re-mastering, and color correcting the footage. Finally, audio from the NBC Sports radio broadcast featuring announcers Jim Simpson and George Ratterman was layered on top of the footage to complete the broadcast.

The final result represents the only known video footage of the entire action from Super Bowl 1 and NFL Network will show it to the world for the first time on the 49th anniversary of the game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, January 15.
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http://www.sportsvideo.org/2016/01/12/nfl-network-to-re-air-historic-super-bowl-i/
 
I'm thinking that if one was looking for a "historic" Super Bowl it would have been between Joe Namath's Jets and Johnny Unitas' Baltimore Colts. It was the first time an AFL team had beaten an NFL team in some sort of championship (and thereby established some parity between the old NFL and the upstart) and was further "guaranteed" by Namath. As Super Bowl games go it wasn't the most exciting unless you had a big wad on the Jets. Bubba Smith always said that game was fixed and, if so, it was the most shrewd fix since the Garden of Gethsemane.
 
I did not expect the new program about the game to have commentators interrupting the new recording of it as it was being shown like a live game.
 
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Mario500 said:
I did not expect the new program about the game to have commentators interrupting the new recording of it as it was being shown like a live game.
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In my opinion, it was very mis-represented. They made it sound like it would be an authentic broadcast, as it was seen originally; from what I hear, they did not have the rights to do that and it was shown like you said.
 
Not to mention using footage that WASN'T EVEN FROM THE GAME. For example, a shot of Lombardi was from a December 1967 game against the Rams in the Coliseum, while Stram's comments were from Super Bowl IV.
 
Although if what NFL Network is going to show includes every snap, every play, then it is a full game. The fan's old tape, by his own admission, is missing a chunk of the third quarter.
 
Very disappointed with the Super Bowl I show. I also was expecting the videotape of the original broadcast, with NFL Films footage to cover what was missing. Would have been interesting to see the production techniques after all these years (I watched parts of the original broadcast in 1967, but was pretty young at the time and not much of an pro football fan then.)
 
I think it would have been better if they had played the game uninterrupted and kept the commentary between segments, not over the top of them.
 
I watched part of it myself...I don't mind roundtable discussions, but with the way they advertised it, it was rather disappointing.

NFL Network would have better served plugging in HBO's Super Bowl I documentary instead...at least that one had a bit more depth.
 
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