NFL Films has stitched together an important piece of Super Bowl history.
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The telecast of Super Bowl I, a broadcasting artifact, will be unveiled for the first time since its original airing thanks to the NFL Network.
The game, featuring Green Bay vs. Kansas City, will air on January 15, the 49th anniversary of the game.
A tape of the game, which was televised by both NBC and CBS in 1967, has become a relic with tapes becoming either lost or erased.
In an exhaustive process that took months to complete, NFL Films searched its archives of footage and were able to locate all 145 plays from Super Bowl I from more than two dozen sources. The three-hour program will include pregame, halftime and postgame segments, modern broadcast graphics and coverage, social media interaction, facts and information, with studio contributors and guests live reaction and storytelling throughout.
Making sure that visitors in town for the upcoming Santa Clara Super Bowl 50 don’t go home with food poisoning from bacon-wrapped hot dogs, city officials announced a crackdown on unpermitted street food vendors to take place the week of the big game. That sound was dubbed over the video footage collected by the league network to produce a full game of future Hall of Famer Bart Starr leading the Packers to a 35-10 victory, aided by Jim Taylor’s running behind the vaunted offensive line that featured Fuzzy Thurston, Forrest Gregg and Jerry Kramer.
Footage of a postgame interview with Chiefs head coach Hank Stram and National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle being interviewed by Pat Summerall.
A Santa Clara County judge will decide Tuesday whether to issue an injunction in the battle over youth soccer fields and their usage as a Super Bowl 50 media village.
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The 86 year old has worked on 50 Super Bowls helping install new grass, a duty he calls a “great honor and privilege”.
