NFL Network botched its first-ever showing of Super Bowl I - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 01-19-2016, 02:17 AM

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17...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. UPDATE: NFL Network will re-air Super Bowl I on Friday the right way.

Mr. Television · 01-19-2016, 11:41 AM

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

TMC · 02-02-2016, 06:21 PM

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. 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.

Mr. Television · 02-02-2016, 06:25 PM

Talk about being cheap/ The NFL can afford it.

TVFactFan · 02-03-2016, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Television

Talk about being cheap/ The NFL can afford it.

He better hold out for more money. lol

mets82 · 02-03-2016, 10:16 PM

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.

TVFactFan · 02-03-2016, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mets82

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

TMC · 02-10-2016, 07:58 PM

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

01-19-2016, 02:17 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,636	NFL Network botched its first-ever showing of Super Bowl I http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17...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. UPDATE: NFL Network will re-air Super Bowl I on Friday the right way.

01-19-2016, 11:41 AM	#2
Mr. Television 23 Years at Sitcoms Online Forum Icon Join Date: Jun 06, 2003 Location: Somewhere you're Not Posts: 62,132	Thank God. I wasted 3 hours of my life watching a bunch of talking heads. Talk about false advertising.
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02-02-2016, 06:21 PM	#3
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,636	NFL refuses to pay $1 million for the only known TV recording of Super Bowl I 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. 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.

02-03-2016, 10:16 PM	#6
mets82 Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Mar 14, 2011 Location: Connecticut Posts: 5,060	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.
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02-10-2016, 07:58 PM	#8
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 127,636	The History of the NFL on Television Discussion about the respective CBS and NBC coverage of the very first Super Bowl begins at about the 36:24 mark.

02-02-2016, 06:25 PM	#4
Mr. Television 23 Years at Sitcoms Online Forum Icon Join Date: Jun 06, 2003 Location: Somewhere you're Not Posts: 62,132	Talk about being cheap/ The NFL can afford it.