Super Bowl I Preview
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On Friday night (8 p.m.), NFL Network will present for the first time since it was played live (49 years prior to the day), a complete play-by-play broadcast of Super Bowl I.
Although the game was broadcast live on two networks (CBS and NBC), those tapes were lost or recorded over. Staff members at NFL Films spent months searching its enormous archives of footage and pieced together all 145 plays — including BOTH second-half kickoffs (yeah, I don't know why, either, but it promises to be explained during the broadcast) — and the result is a fully restored, re-mastered and color-corrected look at the first of what has become the iconic championship games of today's sports culture.
To help your enjoyment of this impressive event, we went back to the Daily News archives of the first Super Bowl week and pulled the material published by columnist Stan Hochman that week. (By the way, Stan had a real nice week, starting in San Francisco for the NBA All-Star Game, held the Tuesday before the Super Bowl. He also managed to stop in Las Vegas on his way home from the Super Bowl to write a gambling column.)
We added rosters and statistics to his pregame writings (much as we would for an Eagles game today) and a game summary to his live coverage and put it all in one nice, little package that you can access HERE.
Even aside from Stan's writing being among the best that has ever appeared in the Daily News Sports Section, it is fun to find informational tidbits that had been forgotten — such as the offensive lineman out of West Chester State who appeared in the game, or the all-pro wide receiver the Eagles drafted but never pursued heavily.
So spend a Friday evening on the couch and enjoy reading about — and watching — SUPER BOWL I!
























