Posted on 02/01/2009 5:24:18 PM PST by andrew roman
Forty years ago, the pregame show for Super Bowl III did not begin five days before kickoff. There were not pregame concerts, channels dedicated to endless prognostication, nor were there in-depth profiles of everyone from the waterboy to the clubhouse toilet scrubbers accopanied by cutting edge computer animation.
Not that any of that is bad.
Rather, back in the olden days, the pregame show was 30 minutes long.
Here is exactly how someone would have kicked off his Super Bowl III television festivities forty years ago.
It begins with the famed NBC peacock and a slight sampling of the state-of-the-art technology.
The clip is :59 seconds long.
It is the third of four clips I am sharing from Super Bowl III.
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