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FOR
THE FIRST TIME EVER, SUPER BOWL I WILL BE RE-AIRED ON TELEVISION
SUPER BOWL I: THE LOST GAME TO PREMIERE ON
NFL NETWORK ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 AT 8:00 PM ET
Former Packers Jerry Kramer, Dave Robinson,
Willie Davis & Antonio Freeman Join NFL Media Analysts to React To &
Dissect This Historic Game
Forty-nine years to the day after the
Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs squared off in Super Bowl I, NFL
Network will be the first network to ever replay this historic game on
television.
Super Bowl I was broadcast by both NBC –
the official broadcaster of the AFL- and CBS – the official broadcaster of the
NFL and remains the only Super Bowl to have been broadcast live in the United
States by two television networks. Considered to be the Holy Grail of sports
broadcasts, the CBS and NBC tapes of the game were either lost or recorded over
and no full video version of the game has existed…until now.
In an exhaustive process that took
months to complete, NFL Films searched its enormous archives of footage and
were able to locate all 145 plays from Super Bowl I from more than a couple
dozen disparate sources. Once all the plays were located, NFL Films was able to
put the plays in order and stich them together while fully restoring,
re-mastering, and color correcting the footage. Finally, audio from the NBC
Sports radio broadcast featuring announcers Jim Simpson and George
Ratterman was layered on top of the footage to complete the broadcast.
The final result represents the only
known video footage of the entire action from Super Bowl 1 and NFL Network will
show it to the world for the first time on the 49th anniversary of
the game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, January 15.
Super Bowl I: The Lost Game
will air on Friday, January 15 at 8:00 PM ET on NFL Network. The
three-hour program is enhanced with 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.
Embeddable
link to promo of Super Bowl I: The Lost Game
http://bit.ly/1Pl33JC
Host Chris Rose and Steve
Mariucci anchor the broadcast and are joined by a plethora of NFL Media
talent, such as Terrell Davis, Daniel Jeremiah, Steve Wyche,
and Elliot Harrison. Additionally, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive
end for the Packers Willie Davis and former Packers wide receiver Antonio
Freeman join in-studio, while former Packers greats Jerry Kramer and
Dave Robinson join the show from remote.
In addition to the broadcast of the
game, Super Bowl I: The Lost Game includes the following features:
- Wired
sound from Packers head coach Vince Lombardi
- Footage
of a postgame interview with Chiefs head coach Hank Stram and NFL
Commissioner Pete Rozelle being interviewed by Pat Summerall
- In-depth
discussion on how the Super Bowl I broadcast was lost and then re-assembled
using NFL Films footage
- 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.
- An
interview with Super Bowl I CBS producer Bill Creasy on why the second
half kickoff was kicked twice
All 145 plays of game footage from Super
Bowl I: The Lost Game were compiled from NFL Films video shot at the
game. The NFL Films crew for Super Bowl I were John Butterworth, Joe Fain,
Morris Kellman, Stan Kirby, Stanley Leshner, Dave Marx, Skip & Ken Nelson,
Walt & Jim Porep, and Art Spieller. There were only two
ground cameras and just one sound camera, the rest of the staff were top
cameras or assistants. By comparison, there will be approximately 35 NFL Films
cameras at Super Bowl 50 and an additional support crew of well over 50 other
NFL Films personnel.
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