50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl
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All known broadcast tapes of the game in its entirety were subsequently wiped by both NBC and CBS to save costs, a common practice at the time.
On January 11, 2016, the NFL announced that, "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. 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. Finally, audio from the NBC Sports radio broadcast featuring announcers Jim Simpson and George Ratterman was layered on top of the footage to complete the broadcast. The final result represents the only known video footage of the entire action from Super Bowl I."
It then announced that NFL Network would broadcast the newly pieced together game footage in its entirety on January 15, 2016 - the 49th anniversary of the contest.
Because the 49th anniversary makes so much more sense than the 50th anniversary.
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@El_Heffe said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Because the 49th anniversary makes so much more sense than the 50th anniversary.
Sounds to me like a test run before the real event on the 50th ;)
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"Super bowl" is such a goofy name.
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Do US sports people not know what the word 'world' means?
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@El_Heffe said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Because the 49th anniversary makes so much more sense than the 50th anniversary.
How is the 49th anniversary of Superbowl 1 Superbowl 51? The first anniversary is superbowl 2, so shouldn't the 49th anniversary be superbowl 50? Did some year have two superbowls? or am I just not doing math right?Nevermind. This aired last year, on superbowl 50. That's why the 49th anniversary instead of the 50th anniversary.
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@coldandtired I'm not sure US sports people know anything about anything. In fact, I would be surprised if they do.
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@coldandtired said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Do US sports people not know what the word 'world' means?
Hey, if Burkina Faso or Liechtenstein or Laos want to send a team, we'd be more than happy to have them compete against the others.
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Why were no owls prior to 50 years ago deemed superb?
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@Jaloopa Because Hogwarts hadn't been founded yet.
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@RaceProUK Yes it had. Maybe you're thinking of Ilvermorny? I have no idea when that came about.
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@CarrieVS What Ilvermorny?
I've not seen the prequel/spin-off/whatever it's called.
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@RaceProUK Corrected spelling
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Is this where the inevitable jokes about the Super Bowl Flush Effect UL go?
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@coldandtired said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Do US sports people not know what the word 'world' means?
For a lot of Americans, the world ends at USA's border.
FileUnder: If only I was joking
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@ScholRLEA said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@coldandtired I'm not sure
USsports people know anything about anything. In fact, I would be surprised if they do.The "dumb jock" stereotype exists for a reason...
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@ScholRLEA said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Is this where the inevitable jokes about the Super Bowl Flush Effect UL go?
I actually read it several times as Super Bowel.
So, yes.
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It isn't our fault we are the best at the games we created. Maybe the rest of the world should try harder if they don't like us being the best?
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@Dragoon said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
It isn't our fault we are the best at the games we created.
It does need some sort of twisted skill to take a game, make it at the same time wimpier and with more chance of brain injury, and then reduce the time spent actually playing to a single-digit percent.
I think kids were playing rounders quite a while before people started wasting good tea, though.
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@Dragoon said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
It isn't our fault we are the
best atonly ones who play the games we created
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what is sportsball I AM FUNNY
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@Jaloopa said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@Dragoon said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
It isn't our fault we are the
best atonly ones who play the games we createdThat's not true of baseball. Canadians play baseball, too, eh. It's very popular in Japan. It is also very popular in some of the Caribbean islands; the entire economy of the Dominican Republic is based on money sent home by American professional shortstops.
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@HardwareGeek said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Canadians play baseball
Yeah, with a hockey stick.
And a puck.
On ice.
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@Lorne-Kates said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
what is sportsball I AM FUNNY
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That's not hard to do; the mean height of countries (above sea level) is only 800km. A more impressive claim would be "My income is higher than the income of most countries" or the shorter "My income is higher than that of most countries".
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@Yamikuronue Does that mean that, even if your income is $1 a year, if you're on the peak of Everest, your income is higher than every country's?
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@Yamikuronue what's the median height? That's the measure to use for whether his income is more than most of them. We also need to work out a way to reliably measure income in metres above sea level, although the sportser seems to have some method in mind to declare it like he does
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@Jaloopa said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
what's the median height?
It took more than 2 minutes on google to find it, so I gave up and used the mean XD The low is -418m and the high is 8848m
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@Yamikuronue I'd say it's pretty impressive if your yearly earnings stack up 800 km, although it may not be as good depending on the unit of currency.
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@hungrier The thickness of a GBP pound coin is 3.15mm according to Google. Therefore, you'd need to earn £253,968,254 p/a to have an income higher than 800km.
The average UK salary is about £26,500 p/a.
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@RaceProUK what about pennies?
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@Jaloopa Using the thicker 1.65mm copper-plated steel pennies introduced in 1992... £4,848,484.85 p/a.
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@RaceProUK You could earn less while being far more impressive if you balanced the coins standing up on their edge
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@hungrier said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
balanced the coins standing up on their edge
£35,555,556 p/a for pound coins.
£394,088.67 p/a for pennies.That second one is actually not totally unreasonable.
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@RaceProUK said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Does that mean that, even if your income is $1 a year, if you're on the peak of Everest, your income is higher than every country's?
No, but if your bank was on Everest, it would.
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@CarrieVS said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
No, but if your bank was on Everest, it would.
And you would have the highest interest rates for your savings
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Himalayan Banking Corporation: Keeping your income high
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@TimeBandit said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@CarrieVS said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
No, but if your bank was on Everest, it would.
And you would have the highest interest rates for your savings
But you'd also have the highest rates for interest on your overdraft
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@Yamikuronue said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@RaceProUK
That's not hard to do; the mean height of countries (above sea level) is only 800kmThe average height of countries is 500 miles above sea level? I guess I don't need to travel to Denver to join the mile high club any more...
(ITYM: the mean height is 800m)
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@izzion said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@Yamikuronue said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@RaceProUK
That's not hard to do; the mean height of countries (above sea level) is only 800kmThe average height of countries is 500 miles above sea level? I guess I don't need to travel to Denver to join the mile high club any more...
(ITYM: the mean height is 800m)
Damn. All my calculations are out by a factor or 1000.
Oh well. At least it's easy to fix: divide all my totals by 1000 :D
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@RaceProUK said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
But you'd also have the highest rates for interest on your overdraft
With Himalayan Banking Corporation, you can't overdraft because there is no breathing room in your bank account.
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@izzion said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
(ITYM: the mean height is 800m)
Space Wales throws off the mean quite a bit.
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@izzion said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
The average height of countries is 500 miles above sea level?
I'm amazed it took so long for someone to point that out.
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@RaceProUK said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
@Jaloopa Using the thicker 1.65mm copper-plated steel pennies introduced in 1992... £4,848,484.85 p/a.
I could name more than ten players making at least that much, just from the NFL.
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The title is a lie.
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@Yamikuronue said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
Nevermind. This aired last year, on superbowl 50. That's why the 49th anniversary instead of the 50th anniversary.
See, if they'd gotten programmers involved, the first superbowl would have been superbowl 0 and we could have avoided this problem.
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@RaceProUK said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
But you'd also have the highest rates for interest on your overdraft
So keep your savings in the Himalayas and your current account in the Netherlands.
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@Yamikuronue said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
the mean height of countries (above sea level) is only 800km
Ã’_o 160km is low earth orbit.
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@coldandtired said in 50 Years Ago Today - The First Superbowl:
It does need some sort of twisted skill to take a game, make it at the same time wimpier and with more chance of brain injury, and then reduce the time spent actually playing to a single-digit percent.
If you think it's somehow "wimpier" then you aren't familiar with what goes on there.