Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

single wing wrote:So its just Super Bowl 1 and 2 that the video broadcast is missing ?

Super Bowl V is not complete; I think it is missing a good deal of the second half although it has the ending. Super Bowl III is complete; it is the oldest complete color broadcast of an NFL or AFL game. Super Bowl IV also exists although it is a black and white CBC rebroadcast of the American broadcast of the game. The oldest nearly complete broadcast of an American pro football game is the 1962 AFL Championship game, which is missing a couple minutes here and there but is about 95 percent complete.

I recorded it but it sounds like it turned out exactly as I predicted in my post on Page 1. I don't know if I'll ever get around to watching it. What the hell is wrong with the NFL N that they can't do anything right?

So, is there any chance NFLF will make this available for commercial release, without the side panels or the stupid talking heads ... still don't understand the choices the NFL Network made for the commentators ... sit Len Dawson and Jerry Kramer down with Rich Eisen, someone from NFL Films, a couple of actual football historians (gee, I wonder where they could a few of those ...) and have them talk between quarters of significant plays. Part of the reason we are interested is to here the original play-by-play and color commentary ... not to hear some clowns who are disrespectful of the past and couldn't even tell you who Hank Stram was ...

JeffreyMiller wrote:So, is there any chance NFLF will make this available for commercial release, without the side panels or the stupid talking heads ... still don't understand the choices the NFL Network made for the commentators ... sit Len Dawson and Jerry Kramer down with Rich Eisen, someone from NFL Films, a couple of actual football historians (gee, I wonder where they could a few of those ...) and have them talk between quarters of significant plays. Part of the reason we are interested is to here the original play-by-play and color commentary ... not to hear some clowns who are disrespectful of the past and couldn't even tell you who Hank Stram was ...

They couldn't even find a broadcaster with some credibility with regards to pro football history (particuarly the 1960's era) like Chris Berman, or a true historian who had already worked with the NFL Network before like Coach TJ Troup.

JeffreyMiller wrote:So, is there any chance NFLF will make this available for commercial release, without the side panels or the stupid talking heads ... still don't understand the choices the NFL Network made for the commentators ... sit Len Dawson and Jerry Kramer down with Rich Eisen, someone from NFL Films, a couple of actual football historians (gee, I wonder where they could a few of those ...) and have them talk between quarters of significant plays. Part of the reason we are interested is to here the original play-by-play and color commentary ... not to hear some clowns who are disrespectful of the past and couldn't even tell you who Hank Stram was ...

Most of their Top 10 shows have these type of loudmouths on them, probably so they can hype them to their local audiences, credibility be damned.

I watched it. I thought it was awful but par for the course for NFLN. The legacy of the Sabols deserves better.

I just got bored with it after a while. But it was kinda cool seeing both teams backup QBs towards the end.

Who is Elliot Harrison? Is he a member here?

I had DVR'd it and I watched it yesterday. I thought it was worthwhile just to see the extra footage...so much of the recent NFL Films stuff that covers historic moments is just a re-hashing of the same clips that seeing new plays was interesting. From a certain point of view, the NFL Network production was genius. It was like being at an actual Super Bowl party...10 guys simultaneously trying to talk football...guys talking to you that you have no idea who they are...hard to hear the broadcast of the game...hard to see the action on the screen...

Bryan wrote:I had DVR'd it and I watched it yesterday. I thought it was worthwhile just to see the extra footage...so much of the recent NFL Films stuff that covers historic moments is just a re-hashing of the same clips that seeing new plays was interesting. From a certain point of view, the NFL Network production was genius. It was like being at an actual Super Bowl party...10 guys simultaneously trying to talk football...guys talking to you that you have no idea who they are...hard to hear the broadcast of the game...hard to see the action on the screen...

That's why I stopped going to Super Bowl parties. I was usually the only person actually watching the game. (And the only one who didn't watch the halftime show.)