Ed Driscoll

By Ed Driscoll

Videotape of Super Bowl I Emerges

February 5, 2011 - 11:55 am - by Ed Driscoll

When I visited NFL Films in Mt. Laurel NJ in 2004 for Videomaker magazine and Tech Central Station, they showed me their huge archives of video and film of NFL and some college games, and mentioned that there was one rather important, but still missing item.

Until now.

“For years, the Holy Grail of American sports video has been Super Bowl I — the championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “Now, the Paley Center for Media in New York believes it has a tape of a mostly complete broadcast of the 1967 game. WSJ’s Lee Hawkins reports:”

Filed under: Run To Daylight, The Memory Hole

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1. Buck O'Fama

I was one of the 3 or 4 people in the world who watched that game on TV. It was a contest until halftime and then the Chiefs fell apart like a poorly-written healthcare reform bill. Well, it was either that or Vince Lombardi inspired the Packers to great heights by telling them “someday somebody with a funny name will be president….”

February 5, 2011 - 12:17 pm Link to this Comment