Rare Super Bowl I, Kramer footage to air tonight

Kramer is one of a select few Packer legends to play in the first two Super Bowls, and fans of Kramer won’t want to miss a special presentation of Super Bowl I tonight at 5 p.m. on the NFL Network (Direct TV channel 212, Dish channel 154).

For the first time since its original broadcast 49 years ago, the first Super Bowl will air in its entirety.

Considered to be the Holy Grail of sports broadcasts, the CBS and NBC tapes of the game were either lost or recorded over and no full video version of the game has existed – until now. “It’s sad to say, but I’ve grown to expect this kind of treatment from them”, said Kevin Simmons, 29, a seat license holder in Cotati. The game, played in January 1967 between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, was shown on both NBC and CBS, yet the broadcast appears to be a lost artifact from a time when television shows weren’t regularly recorded for posterity. Hunt of course owned the Chiefs during Super Bowl I and until his death. The three-hour production features the NBC Sports radio play-by-play from Jim Simpson and George Ratterman layered over the broadcast, plus pregame, halftime and postgame segments, modern broadcast graphics and a group of commentators who will discuss the game as it’s shown. Back then, for example, it was less Beyonce and Coldplay and much more marching bands.

“Vince said, ‘Man, football has come a long way from when I used to play in cow pastures, ‘ and I said, ‘Well, you’re right, Coach.’ He thought that this was a long way, but if he could see the Super Bowl today, with all the grandeur”, he says, he probably wouldn’t believe it.

“Unfortunately the issue of scarcity of Super Bowl tickets for season tickets holders is something the host National Football League team has to manage for every Super Bowl as there simply isn’t enough inventory to accommodate all interested parties”, the team said this week in a statement through a spokesman.

Spoiler alert: The Packers won that first Super Bowl, beating the Chiefs 35-10.

The ceremony was originally scheduled for last week’s Foothill-Tustin game but when the game was postponed a day, the ceremony was rescheduled for Friday night. “I’m not going to pay to watch football”.

His prediction for this year’s Super Bowl? To be able to have gold footballs here for honoring them in their accomplishments as well as Cooper High School I think is an unbelievable thing.