sb 1

[BLITZ]

Watching Super Bowl 1 on NFL channel.

a few huge differences

I think 1 flag in 1st half. refs are not really a part of game.

very few mistakes just sound fundamental football.

Len Dawson (drafted by the Steelers) was smoking at half time.

 

[Hypocycloids]

Interesting. Do you happen to be from Wilkes-Barre??lol

Unlike today, where games are DVR’ed, saved, edited into YouTube clips, and preserved for all eternity, there is no complete copy of the broadcast edition of Super Bowl I. In 2005, a man from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, found a copy of the CBS broadcast in his attic, which had been recorded by his father on two-inch quadruplex tapes. However, the halftime show and parts of the third quarter are missing. The footage has been digitally restored and is currently locked in a vault at The Paley Center for Media in Manhattan. To this day, it hasn’t been shown to the public as Troy Haupt, the tape’s owner, is in legal limbo with the NFL over the exact worth of the footage.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/91643/8-facts-about-super-bowl-i


The game didn't even come close to selling out.

 

[slashsteel]

Coach says YouTube highlights is more than enough to fulfill an agenda. Who needs game tapes anyways bah humbuggery.

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[Drink IRON City]

Interesting
The game didn't even come close to selling out.

Kind of like today's baseball. You could walk right up to the gate and buy a ticket the day of the game.






Salute the nation

 

[mightyguru]

The Superb Owl wasn't any kind of attraction...at first.

The "flag" observation makes me sour...today's game is a litany of laundry...just removes any kind of enjoyable flow.

 

[Stainless]

Where da black men at?

 

[slashsteel]

Where da black men at?

what "y"inz do in your off time is your business.

 

[Hypocycloids]

Where da black men at?

They were told that in order to play in the NFL you had to learn to swim.

Kidding aside, supposedly there were unwritten, agreed upon quotas on how many blacks could play on a team. Heard that on a sports talk show eons ago...and being we're talking the 50's and 60's I have no reason to doubt it was true.

Then in the early seventies came the Pittsburgh Steelers...the first NFL team where a sizable portion (at least half) of the players were black. Thanks to the vision of Bill Nunn who scouted players from small black colleges and helped open the door for blacks in the NFL.

Nunn and the Steelers have received very little credit for this.

 

[BLITZ]

They were told that in order to play in the NFL you had to learn to swim.

Kidding aside, supposedly there were unwritten, agreed upon quotas on how many blacks could play on a team. Heard that on a sports talk show eons ago...and being we're talking the 50's and 60's I have no reason to doubt it was true.

Then in the early seventies came the Pittsburgh Steelers...the first NFL team where a sizable portion (at least half) of the players were black. Thanks to the vision of Bill Nunn who scouted players from small black colleges and helped open the door for blacks in the NFL.

Nunn and the Steelers have received very little credit for this.

I was thinking about this last night while watching the game. Everyone knows Jackie Robinson was the 1st Black player in Baseball. Why isn't the 1st black player in Football as famous?

 

[mightyguru]

I was thinking about this last night while watching the game. Everyone knows Jackie Robinson was the 1st Black player in Baseball. Why isn't the 1st black player in Football as famous?

Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first black players in what is now the NFL in 1920. Pollard became the first (and until 1989, only) black coach in 1921; during the early-to-mid-1920s the league used player-coaches and did not have separate coaching staffs.

There ya go. NFL did it decades before baseball.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I was thinking about this last night while watching the game. Everyone knows Jackie Robinson was the 1st Black player in Baseball. Why isn't the 1st black player in Football as famous?

Because the foozball didn't replace baseball as the national sport until the 80's.

 

[Drink IRON City]

Ron, that movie is PRETTY efN funny, thanks for the reminder





Salute the nation