NFL Network on Friday night will "show Super Bowl I," and the net's plan is to "turn the 40-odd minutes of game footage into a three-hour extravaganza, surrounding it with pregame, halftime and postgame shows that will be taped Thursday, and the addition of statistics, game notes and down, distance and clock graphics," according to Richard Sandomir of the N.Y. TIMES. NFL Net's telecast on Friday "is not an original broadcast" from the Jan. 15, 1967 game that aired on CBS and NBC, as "no complete copy of either network’s production appears to exist." Instead, Friday night's telecast is a version "stitched together by NFL Films." Extraneous moments that NFL Films "shot have been cut out." Footage "will be familiar to viewers from other NFL Films programs," but much of the original film "has remained in hibernation." The approach of Super Bowl 50 next month "prompted the league to ordain that the inaugural game in the series be reconstructed." NFL Films Senior Producer David Plaut said, "I was surprised that we had the full game." Sandomir writes outside of some "slow-motion plays that were used in live action, the NFL Films’ production of Super Bowl I looks as if it could have been CBS’s broadcast" (N.Y. TIMES, 1/11).
