Out of a Rare Super Bowl I Recording, a Clash With the N.F.L. Unspools

The New York Times ^ | 02 Feb 2016 | Richard Sandomir

[Theoria]

Troy Haupt is a 47-year-old nurse anesthetist here in North Carolina's Outer Banks. He has a secret to reveal about Super Bowl I: He owns the only known recording of its broadcast.

CBS and NBC, which televised the game, did not preserve any tapes. But the copy that Haupt owns -- of a broadcast that launched the Super Bowl as an enormous shared spectacle that attracts more than 100 million viewers -- might never be seen on any network. The N.F.L. does not want to buy the tapes and has warned Haupt not to sell them to outside parties or else the league will pursue legal action.

Unless the league and Haupt make a deal to resolve the financial differences that have privately divided them since 2005, the tapes will stay in storage in a former mine in upstate New York.

"This year had to be the year, with all the hype of Super Bowl 50," Haupt said.

The tapes are a bizarre heirloom that, for decades, sat largely ignored in the attic of his family's three-bedroom house in Shamokin, Pa., deteriorating from shifting temperatures.

Haupt's father, Martin, taped the game. Haupt never knew him. Haupt and his mother, Beth Rebuck, say they have no idea what he did for a living back then. They also don't know why he went to work on Jan. 15, 1967, with a pair of two-inch Scotch tapes, slipped one, and then the other, into a Quadruplex taping machine and recorded the Green Bay Packers' 35-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. He told his family nothing about his day's activity.

It would take another eight years for Martin Haupt to tell his wife what he had done. By then, they had divorced and both had remarried.

[hadaclueonce]

Jerry Jones thinks there might be an extra dime for his bottom line.

Jerry will not be denied.

[Blood of Tyrants]

When the stadium in Nashville was being constructed for the Titans, it was called the “Bud-hole” for owner Bud Adams because of the stupidity of the people of Nashville who voted to build it for the Titans.