The first Super Bowl (or AFL-NFL Championship Game) took place on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. The NFL boasts that 65 million people watched the game, which was simulcasted by CBS and NBC. And now those who wish to see the historic game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs can do so at New York's Paley Center Museum at 25 W. 52nd St., thanks to a man who had the technology (and desire) to record the game. The recording of the game was provided to the Paley Center by Troy Haupt.
Troy's dad, Martin Haupt, recorded the game at a television station in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A screening of the "rare" broadcast is scheduled for Saturday, February 10 at the Paley Center Museum in New York City.
The recording is missing some parts of the event, but the 95-minute video takes viewers back to the beginning of a beloved American tradition.
A lot of the commercials are not included in the recording, but some tobacco companies were sponsors, as the game took place just a few years before tobacco ads were banned, reports the New York Post.
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Life.com also shared a series of photos from the inaugural Super Bowl. The photos were taken by Bill Ray and Art Rickerby. The writer of the piece, Ben Cosgrove, described the images as being "like baby pictures of a game that is about to grow up — way, way up."
