Here's some REAL football news... For the first time since its original broadcast, this Friday, January 15, 49 years to the day after the actual event, the first Super Bowl (actually called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game) will be broadcast. Set your DVR to NFL Network, 8pm EST.
Both the CBS (NFL) and NBC (AFL) footage has been lost for many years, so the game has never been re-broadcast in its entirety - just isolated plays. But, using a couple dozen different sources, NFL Films has managed to find footage of all 145 plays from the game, re-format, color-correct, and stitch it all together (a huge project) with original audio. Pretty damned impressive.
I saw the game on live TV back in 1967. I was 13.
It wasn't a great game (35-10 drubbing), but this is actually something of a historical broadcast event.
No doubt with plenty of extras to remind us of how special it all is.
So if you're into that sort of thing, now you know.
Both the CBS (NFL) and NBC (AFL) footage has been lost for many years, so the game has never been re-broadcast in its entirety - just isolated plays. But, using a couple dozen different sources, NFL Films has managed to find footage of all 145 plays from the game, re-format, color-correct, and stitch it all together (a huge project) with original audio. Pretty damned impressive.
I saw the game on live TV back in 1967. I was 13.
It wasn't a great game (35-10 drubbing), but this is actually something of a historical broadcast event.
No doubt with plenty of extras to remind us of how special it all is.
So if you're into that sort of thing, now you know.
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