NFL Films - Super Bowl Collections - Super Bowl I-X
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: Warner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 602 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Disc 1 - I: Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs; II: Green Bay Packers vs. Oakland Raiders
- Disc 2 - III: New York Jets vs. Baltimore Raiders; IV: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Minnesota Vikings
- Disc 3 - V: Baltimore Ravens vs. Dallas Cowboys; VI: Dallas Cowboys vs. Miami DolphinsDisc 4 - VII: Miami Dolphins vs. Washington Redskins; VIII: Miami Dolphins vs. Minnesota Vikings
- Disc 5 - IX: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Minnesota Vikings; X: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys Number of discs: 5 Run time: 602 min
- MPAA Rating: NR Closed Captioning: Yes Subtitles: English
DVD Reviews of NFL Films - Super Bowl Collections - Super Bowl I-X
DVD Review: It's classic NFL Films, folks, not CBS, NBC or ABC.
Summary: 5 Stars
People like me, who knew what they were getting, should love this set as much as any of the three Super Bowl highlight sets. Other folks...well, I'll get to them later.
You've probably seen most or all of these Super Bowl highlight shows on ESPN or ESPN Classic over the years. It's vintage NFL Films stuff -- John Facenda narrating, Sam Spence's musical direction, the great shot angles and slo-mo style that became NFL Films' trademark.
When these have aired on TV over the years, they've often had a snip here or there to allow for two things: more commercials than they were originally designed to accommodate and a Steve Sabol introduction. These include those snips. Nothing important, some of it interesting minutiae, but it all just flows better.
In the highlight shows for each of the first three Super Bowls, the bias in the commentary towards the NFL team is a reminder that these were done by "NFL Films" and not "NFL-AFL Films." The AFL was still a rival league, though the merger had been agreed upon. The Super Bowl IV show, with the merger nigh, is much more even-handed and, in fact, acknowledges that the Chiefs were more talented and creative than the Vikings.
These highlight shows aren't as precisely produced as those that would come later. Particularly in Super Bowl V, there are some shots that attempt slick editing -- Tom Landry is supposed to be shouting over an incompletion to Reggie Rucker but Rucker is standing next to him; Mike Ditka and Craig Morton are shown yelling at a ref after the Colts first touchdown when that actually came after a Dallas fumble they thought should've been ruled down by contact; most notably, on the side view of the kick that's supposed to be Jim O'Brien's game-winner, the ball clearly reaches the uprights much too quickly to be a 32-yarder. It's actually an extra point.
Also, these highlight shows don't break down strategy as well as later ones would. The masters have been used so often, it's no wonder they aren't as clear as the Lost Treasures. Still, they create a mood and, as I said, established the style that would be forever identified with NFL Films.
To me, the season highlight films, sometimes narrated by Facenda, sometimes by Pat Summerall or someone else, were cool bonuses. The only problem in the first four season highlight videos is, of course, they don't include the AFL's season. The 1974 season highlight film, The Championship Chase, is a favorite of Sabol's. It's easy to see why. It sets the tone for the decade highlight films they would begin producing years later.
Some of the features are little gems because some are on topics and players I feel go underappreciated by those under 35 or 40 (I'm 37). Everyone knows about The Ice Bowl, but few know about the 1966 NFL Championship game from a year earlier. Same teams, Dallas and Green Bay, and almost as good. I liked the piece on the Vikings, to me, still the ultimate Super Bowl losers (hey, at least Buffalo LED in three of their four Super losses. The Vikes never did in their four and were often behind big before scoring.). I remember having a passing thought about Bob Lilly a day or two before buying this set, and was gleeful to see a feature on him.
Overall, I've never been sorry I bought this set.
For people who expected the full games and were disappointed, it's your own fault.
It says both here, in the set's Amazon ad, and on the box (if you saw it in the store somewhere) that there are 10 hours of game footage and features. Now, how the heck could the full game footage from 10 Super Bowls be condensed into 10 hours and still leave room for features? Common sense, folks. Elementary math.
Also, there's business sense. The full game broadcasts are owned by the broadcasters, not the NFL. Even the radio calls that are used in the highlight films from Super Bowls 11 forward aren't owned by the NFL. You want the full games? Go talk to CBS and NBC and pray they haven't destroyed the tapes for lack of storage space. Several great Tonight Shows and You Bet Your Lifes were lost because of this. NBC probably has Super Bowl III still around, as pieces of it have wound up on things like SportsCentury or NBC retrospectives over the years. And in the Don Shula SportsCentury that aired recently, there were a few seconds of the Super Bowl VIII broadcast,
Interestingly, a piece of the actual Super Bowl I broadcast is seen over the shoulders of some of the interviewees on one of the best features, Super Bowl I's unique telecast. This is the kind of footage NFL Films would have to get from NBC or CBS, both of which broadcast the first Super Bowl.
But the upshot is these aren't the full games, you weren't told you would get the full games and you shouldn't have expected the full games.
I'm going to go watch Supers V and VI now, then probably jump to XI and X. That's a lot of Dallas stuff for a guy who grew up a Pittsburgh fan...
Description of NFL Films - Super Bowl Collections - Super Bowl I-X
Live the excitement of the first 10 Super Bowls® and the seasons leading up to each big game in this NFL® Films 5-disc collector's set loaded with defining highlights, enhanced content and exclusive Super Bowl® I-X memorabilia.Bestsellers in DVD
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