No. 179: SUPER BOWL I (a.k.a. The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game) / The origin story of the biggest fixture on the TV sports calendar & memories of watching the game in glorious black & white.

For more than a half century the NFL was in no rush to let folks watch the broadcast from 1967.

Feb 09, 2024

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BEFORE the playoffs started, you could have got a pretty fair price on the Kansas City Chiefs landing back in the Super Bowl, given that they were likely going to have to win two games on the road against the AFC’s top teams.

And before the playoffs started, you could have got a pretty huge number if you were taking the Green Bay Packers making it to the big game. God knows, they scraped into the playoffs and would have to win three road games to get a whiff.

If you’ve been away on a monastic retreat on some distant mountain-top, you kno…

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