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SUPER BOWL I: THE LOST GAME
January 15, 2016  | By David Bianculli

NFL Network, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

The first Super Bowl game has long been considered one of the “lost” TV events – no surviving videotape was thought to exist, for some reason, of the 1967 game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs. Yet NFL Films has found in its archives enough raw footage, and surviving outtakes from other specials, to put together what it’s calling an every-play recreation of the game itself. As for the game, it wasn’t even called the Super Bowl at the time – that appellation didn’t arrive until the third game in 1969, the one in which New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath guaranteed, and delivered, victory against the Baltimore Colts. “Super Bowl I,” at the time, was known as the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game.” And check out all the empty seats in the stands…

 
 
 
 
 
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