As the Green Bay Packers fight for their playoff lives Saturday night in Arizona, the NFL Network gave Packers fans a unique gift Friday night.
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A feature on the merger between the well-established National Football League and the upstart American Football League, giving birth to the modern-day NFL and the uniquely American spectacle called the Super Bowl.
The NFL has been working with high schools across the country and awarding a Golden Football to each high school that has had one of their alumni participate or play in a Super Bowl. Researchers spent months exhaustively searching its archives and compiling footage from the game, which was broadcast on both NBC and CBS on January 15, 1967.
Also, Former Packers Jerry Kramer, Dave Robinson, Willie Davis and Antonio Freeman join NFL Media Analysts to react to and dissect this historic game.
“We have never put this game together in its entirety until this project”, David Plaut, senior producer at NFL Films, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Back then, for example, it was less Beyonce and Coldplay and much more marching bands.
It’s possible. The current record is $230,401 for New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor’s Super Bowl XXV ring, sold in 2012, according to the Press-Gazette.
“Vince said, ‘Man, football has come a long way from when I used to play in cow pastures, ‘ and I said, ‘Well, you’re right, Coach.’ He thought that this was a long way, but if he could see the Super Bowl today, with all the grandeur”, he says, he probably wouldn’t believe it. Of the eight remaining teams, five starting quarterbacks have already won in a Super Bowl game, they are: Tom Brady (4 wins), Ben Roethlisberger (2 wins), Peyton Manning (1 win), Aaron Rodgers (1 win) and Russell Wilson (1 win). Wouldn’t it be phenomenal to have those two teams play Super Bowl 50, after having played Super Bowl I?
Despite being the second seeds in their respective conferences, the Patriots and the Cardinals are now the favorites to meet in Super Bowl 50.
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“You were representing the whole league in this game it wasn’t just Kansas City”, Chiefs Coach Hank Stram says in the video.
