First Super Bowl to Re-Air for First Time in Nearly 50 Years

The NFL Network will broadcast the inaugural Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. It will air January 15.

That first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles and the Packers won 35-10.

According to the NFL, this reassembled version represents the “only known video footage of the entire action from Super Bowl 1.”

“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,” the league said in a statement. “Once all the plays were located, NFL Films was able to put the plays in order and stitch them together while fully restoring, re-mastering, and color correcting the footage.”

The NFL Network is giving this broadcast an updated feel to it with imodern broadcast graphics and even social media interaction. Plus and this is a big PLUS...sound from legendary Packers coach Vince Lombardi and discussion on how the broadcast of Super Bowl I was lost and ultimately re-assembled.

The NFL Network’s Chris Rose, Steve Mariucci, and Terrell Davis, and former Packer stars from the era Jerry Kramer and Dave Robinson, who both played in the game, provide game analysis.

According to Fox 6 in Milwaukee, WI, there is another tape that has game footage from Super Bowl I, but it is locked in a vault at the Paley Center for Media. That version was found in an attic by a man in Pennsylvania in 2005.

Steve Harwood, an attorney for the man who found the tape and wishes to stay anonymous, said that the NFL, which holds the copyright on the game and the man who made the discovery couldn’t come to terms over compensation for the tape.

The NFL's Super Bowl 50 is next month.

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