http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/sports/football/for-broadcast-of-super-bowl-i-nfl-network-picks-excess-over-tact.html

Instead of letting the historic game stand on its own, NFL Network decided to have its studio commentators deliver annoying real-time commentary (http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/nfl-network-butchers-its-lost-super-bowl-i-broadcast.html). UPDATE: NFL Network will re-air (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/18/nfl-network-will-re-air-super-bowl-i-the-right-way-this-time/) Super Bowl I on Friday the right way.

Thank God. I wasted 3 hours of my life watching a bunch of talking heads. Talk about false advertising.

https://t.co/Clq9J2cP1g

NBC and CBS destroyed their copies of the January 1967 game years ago. So the only known copy of Super Bowl I is one that nurse anesthetist Troy Haupt's father taped -- years before the popularity of the VCR -- on a massive quadruplex taping machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWY2JzrrM4). Haupt wants to sell the tapes for $1 million, but the NFL is only willing to offer $30,000. The NFL has also blocked Haupt from selling the tapes to anybody else. For now, the historic recording is stuck in limbo.

Talk about being cheap/ The NFL can afford it.

Talk about being cheap/ The NFL can afford it.


He better hold out for more money. lol

I watched it with the talking heads and it was lousy. Luckily, the following week they did a better job. NFL can't afford it? Yeah right.

I watched it with the talking heads and it was lousy. Luckily, the following week they did a better job. NFL can't afford it? Yeah right.


He said the NFL can afford it

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Discussion about the respective CBS and NBC coverage of the very first Super Bowl begins at about the 36:24 mark.