Posted on 01/13/2016 5:49:52 PM PST by big'ol_freeper
Super Bowl I between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs on Jan. 15, 1967 was the only Super Bowl ever to have been broadcast on two television networks.
Friday, on the 49th anniversary of the Packers' 35-10 win over the Chiefs, it will be shown again for the first time since.
The NFL Network announced that it will re-air Super Bowl I for the first time ever at 7 p.m. CST Friday. Originally aired by NBC and CBS -- the official broadcasters of the AFL and NFL, respectively -- the tapes of Super Bowl I were either lost or recorded over, according to a release. Because of that, there was no full video remaining of the game, which was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
However, "in an exhaustive process that took months to complete," the folks at NFL Films were able to find all 145 plays from Super Bowl I and compile them in order while also re-mastering the sound and video. The three-hour broadcast scheduled for Friday will use audio from the NBC Sports radio broadcast of the game and have modern graphics added to enhance the viewing experience. Chris Rose and Steve Mariucci will anchor pregame, halftime and postgame segments with various guests joining them.
According to the release, other things to look forward to include Packers head coach Vince Lombardi wired for sound, postgame interviews with Chiefs head coach Hank Stram and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and a full detailed explanation of what exactly happened to the original tapes.
Fittingly, one day after the historic re-air, both the Packers and Chiefs will continue their quest for Super Bowl 50, as Kansas City will head to New England to take on the Patriots and Green Bay travels to Arizona to face the Cardinals.
You just have to drink for 3 years.
I would love to see the original commercial breaks from 1967, also.
I gave up on sports around the mid 80s.
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A statement belied by the statement itself.
Fortunately, NBC was able to find a copy of Super Bowl III. I believe they made new copies and we may just see that TV production again before Super Bowl 50.
I’ve heard all sorts of stories about how the networks both in North America and the UK back in the 1960s and 1970s chucked or taped over untold numbers of programs and how miraculously how some programs were recovered or saved. It really is heartbreaking to read about what ones were lost forever all in the name of conserving storage space or the naïve idea of videotape being reusable or copies intended for preservation being accidentally destroyed by some nameless idiot or even actors/production crew unions regarding the preservation and rerunning of programs a threat to their jobs.
This happened with videotape so much that the show Dr. Who had to put out a call to all with home video to find lost episodes. There were many.
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