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Every so often I do a Google search to see if any footage of long-lost films or telecasts (particularly sports telecasts) has been found lately. Along with learning about the discovery of a 1928 cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who 80 years later would be traded by NBC to ABC for Al Michae...

Maybe the NFL will follow MLB's lead if it ever strikes a deal for the Super Bowl I telecast footage discovered years ago. With Super Bowl 50 on the horizon, I hope pressure is mounting on both sides to make a deal.

I must say I'm surprised that there's been no media coverage about this discovery. Granted this is not comparable to the finding of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series in Bing Crosby's wine cellar, but still, I thought locating an almost complete broadcast of an early Super Bowl, the first one that was ...

Getting back to Super Bowl V, does anyone here know the source of this recently uncovered footage? Was it kept under wraps all this time by NBC or, as with Super Bowl I, was it some individual who had the foresight to preserve much of the game?

In response to an earlier post on this thread, I believe the reason the man who offered the NFL part of CBS' telecast of Super Bowl I can't just sell it or auction it off is because the NFL claims it has a copyright on the telecast. That may be so, but I still think the NFL should have offered more ...

I always liked the look of Dallas' blue jerseys and that's one reason why I like Super Bowl V. Earl Morrall's redemption is another. Those blue jerseys looked so nice with the Florida sun shining on them most of the game.

What I would like to see happen is for the NFL to partner with NFL Films and the Paley Center and make an effort to fully reconstruct all early Super Bowl broadcasts whose videotape footage is either incomplete, or, apparently in the case of Super Bowl II, nonexistent. The news that the Super Bowl V...

I've long heard that when it comes to NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl V, all that has survived is the second quarter, plus footage of Jim O'Brien's game-winning kick. Now I hear that not only do those parts of the game exist, but the pregame show, first quarter and third quarter as well. Does anyone h...