Yup... it's the NBC broacast, with Curt Gowdy & Al DeRogatis, without commercials. It'll be up for download for 30 days (no stream). If anyone has a place they could re-up it online permanently, that would be great. Here ya go... enjoy! Super Bowl III, 12 January 1969 --------> https://ufile.io/cqit1u2q (Not fastest DL, 1MB/s) (Brook!, can you delete the blank post above, not sure how that got there)
Like so many live TV shows from back in the day, either they failed to record, or they've been lost over time. There's a highlight video with Pat Summerall that's out there, which I have on a thumbdrive.
I got a operational one in my basement. Only analog output though so doing a digital conversion would be somewhat futile.
Many years ago I converted analog video cam footage I had to digital. It was a pain in the ass but it can be done.
The World Professional Football Championship game on January 12, 1969 was blacked out within 75 miles of Miami, the city in which it was played. That, and every other game in what was later to be called the Superbowl was broadcast in New York. The first had been aired on the host networks of both leagues, NBC and CBS.
Countless hours of television recordings are gone forever thanks to cost cutting. 2" videotape was routinely de-gaussed and re-used for other recordings.
Yup, so much historic stuff gone... at least from earth. There may be some weird being 50+ light years away, who turned his super trinitron on today, & is watching the Jets beat the Raiders. Little does it know, the frustrations & disappointments to follow, if it becomes a Jets fan!
I'll tell ya, he almost destroyed me being a Jets fan. When they hired him, I just turned away, for the first time in my history. It wasn't til a few games into last season, that I literally forced myself to start paying attention again.
