Super Bowl 1 Video Found: Packers-Chiefs Tape Finally Discovered (VIDEO)

Now that Super Bowl 45 is finally here, it's time to take a look back at the first Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs on Jan. 15, 1967. The Packers won 35-10, but unless you were watched it live or were in attendance, nobody since then has ever seen the game.

More from the Wall Street Journal:

In a bizarre confluence of events, neither network preserved a tape. All that survived of this broadcast is sideline footage shot by NFL Films and roughly 30 seconds of footage CBS included in a pre-game show for Super Bowl XXV. Somehow, an historic football game that was seen by 26.8 million people had, for all intents and purposes, vanished.

Well, The Paley Center for Media in New York believes they have found a copy of the CBS broadcast.

According to the Paley Center, the tape was originally recorded on a "bulky two-inch video and had been stored in an attic in Pennsylvania for nearly 38 years."

Scroll down to watch the video from the Wall Street Journal's Lee Hawkins.

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Comments

[noaxe397]

02:21 PM on 02/07/2011

My recollection first hand of that time was that the Super Bowl was more of a gimmick game to create more interest in the sport.
 
At a time when several teams regularly sold out their season, this game was not a sell out.
 
The supremacy of the NFL was considered a closed case and it was with  begrudging acceptence that they played the "inferior" rival league.
 
Until Superbowl 3 changed all that.

[provgrays1]

12:04 AM on 02/07/2011

Too much talk.

[jasperblue]

09:25 PM on 02/06/2011

Old news. I heard this on Mike and Mike a few months ago.

[RogerHWerner]

07:21 PM on 02/06/2011

I recall watching this game very well. I was not a football fan but the neighborhood kids were divided into NFL and AFL fans and we watched the game at a friends house. The thing I remember most was Bart Starr's performance. The Chief's were a good team but Starr picked their defense apart and his performance as arguable been the greatest in game history. Although the score was lop sided it was nevertheless fun and exciting to watch. I looked forward to the championship games every year through the mid-1980s when the game and sport became sort of a bloated parody of what it used to be. The over-hyping killed the enjoyment for me and I ceased paying attention to it about 20 years ago.

[Sneakerface]

12:29 AM on 02/07/2011

"The Chief's ?"

[AcademicFreedom]

07:14 PM on 02/06/2011

Maybe they'll find that birth certificate some day.

[CalebAbell]

09:39 PM on 02/06/2011

Bart Starr is a Kenyan?

[hrc04]

04:36 PM on 02/07/2011

He does have a funny name.

[Chomot]

10:37 PM on 02/06/2011

No need to find it, it has been there all along. What is lost is a since of reality by the 10thers.

However we are all still looking for the WMDs............. Can you tell me where those are?

[Rasalom]

06:33 PM on 02/06/2011

"You can see how far football has come from the footage."

*Footage of football that looks exactly the same as today's, just as boring as today's*

Yep.

[gomezrules]

05:24 PM on 02/06/2011

From the days when QBs did not wear skirts!

[paxatman]

05:45 PM on 02/06/2011

And the ball didn't have pointy ends.

[JJovana]

03:29 PM on 02/06/2011

Chiefs!!!!!!! My dear Chiefs!!! Yayy!!

[NJmikeV]

03:04 PM on 02/06/2011

I remember watching the first NFL AFL Championship Game as a kid at my aunt's house.My dad and my uncle, both big football fans, didn't bother. They thought the AFL was a joke. Not many folks were interested in it. It was a foregone conclusion that the Packers would crush the Chiefs, which they did. Of course my favorite player, Joe Willie Namath changed all that only two years later. The stodgy old NFL was upset by the upstart AFL's Jets. I still like the game, but all the hoopla is nauseating. The millions that watch remind me of the churches that get over crowded on Easter and Christmas. The true faithful watch the game all year and really don't care for all the noise.

[NJmikeV]

02:50 PM on 02/06/2011

It wasn't called The Super Bowl until after Joe Willie & Weeb and the rest of the NY Jets upset the Colts.

The fourth game actually had "Super Bowl" printed on the ticket.

[Tunghoy]

06:10 PM on 02/06/2011

That was 1969. I remember watching that game in my cousin's kitchen in the Bronx. (They're still huge Jets fans.)

[OP3366]

11:31 PM on 02/06/2011

The name came from Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs who had seen his kids play with a "super ball" -- remember that compressed rubber ball that would bounce sky high? Bowl games were already big in college.

I have the audio recording of Curt Gowdy, I think, calling the Jets-Colts game that I taped off my TV...somewhere. I remember that despite all the hoopla over Namath, he called a great game (remember when quarterbacks called the offensive plays?) with mostly running plays. And the defense came through. Too bad Unitas missed most of that game for the Colts.

[noaxe397]

02:26 PM on 02/07/2011

As I recall it, Namath did not complete a pass in the entire second half.

[Crumbx]

02:37 PM on 02/06/2011

A stadium that could fill 100,000 seats filled 66,000 that day. It wasn't known as the Super Bowl then, but I was there. I hung out at Joe's Smoke Shop in Pacific Heights, SF an 8 X 18 room which held the remaining World War I veterans who lived near it. It was also the hangout of tight end Monty Stickles of the 49ers, who had been given a number of tickets to pass out to friends to pump out the league's sponsorship of this new Championship game. Joe's Smoke Shop sponsored his off-season mens softball team and I was the scorekeeper, a 19 year old who enjoyed the quirkiness of the place like Stickles. He realized after he had passed out the tickets to the WWI veterans (many in their 80's by then) that they didn't have transportation to take the long bus trip to So. California either. So he hired a bus for them and we all went to the First "superbowl" together. This was before the generation gap and there were certainly many Damon Runyan like characters on the bus who had never been to a football game in their lives but enjoyed the comaraderie with a famous football player with the biggest heart in the world.

[fla kracker]

05:29 PM on 02/06/2011

great story !!!

[ls1z28chris]

12:59 PM on 02/06/2011

Oh look, the NFL rushing in to claim copyright on something they didn't care about for decades. Who ever would have guessed that would happen?

[CatfishJohn]

12:46 PM on 02/06/2011

ah Yes, the early Super Bowls...when it was all and just about the football game..no mindless idiocy of herd-like super bowl commercial zealotry, no super bowl parties where 2/3 in attendance know so little about the actaul x's and o's but pretend they do, , no mind- numbingly banal halftime shows... and 45 second commercial blocks...

[Prousa]

12:06 PM on 02/06/2011

Cool story.