NFL Films – Super Bowl Collections – Super Bowl I-X
NFL Films – Super Bowl Collections – Super Bowl I-X
- 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
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. A must-own for every football fan.DVD Features:
Documentaries
Featurette
Photo gallery
List Price: $ 49.98
Price: $ 11.89
BE AWARE,
If you are expecting uncut versions of the Super Bowl themselves you will be disappointed. This DVD contains 20 half hour television shows created by NFL Films, two from each year of the Super Bowl’s first decade. Each year has two half hour programs dedicated to itself. The first is a recap of the season and the second half hour is a recap of the Super Bowl. The footage is priceless. It’s a great primer to that era of the NFL. You can see the game not only evolve on the field but you can sense the league gain momentum in the annuals of American Culture.
Many reviewers and people I talked to wish the NFL would sell the complete games as they aired on television on DVD and I wish that too. For those who were fooled into thinking this compilation was indeed that, did you not read the box? The entire DVD is just over 10 hours long. In 10 hours you could barely fit 2 and half games!
If you like the NFL and NFL films, you’ll love this box set..
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|Context is key to success for Super Bowl set,
For fans who are very familiar with NFL Films’ Super Bowl highlights after countless marathon viewings right before each year’s big game, the main draw of this five-disc set is having the added context of the annual season-in-review films. The 1966 season isn’t really summarized in “They Call It Pro Football,” the feature preceeding Super Bowl I, but beginning with “1967,” we get some sense of how the conference champions reached the Super Bowl. Also interesting to see are the very good playoff teams that came up short.
Some of the season-in-review films take the straightforward approach of explaining which teams won each division, and briefly recap what happened to the also-rans. This is true of the 1967, 1969 and 1970 features. In other years, the approach is less direct, as a look at the season’s outstanding rookies, strategies or units segues into a discussion of the teams. Key playoff games are generally highlighted, including many classics, such as 1967′s “Ice Bowl” between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, the 1969 Minnesota Vikings-Los Angeles Rams divisional playoff, the Miami Dolphins-Kansas City Chiefs overtime thriller in 1971, and the Dallas-Minnesota showdown in 1975.
The extra features are all very short, and some of them will be familiar to viewers of “NFL Films Presents” and other NFL Films programs.
The Super Bowls themselves are presented in the traditional, effective NFL Films style, making even lackluster contests compelling through thorough explanations of strategy, Sam Spence’s celebrated music scores, and John Facenda’s classic narration.
The fascinating season-in-review footage underscores the need for a comprehensive release of annual highlight films, at least for the dominant teams of the last few decades, as I said in a review of “NFL Films Inside the Vault: Vols. 1-3.” I have not seen the “History Of” DVD sets on the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, but it does appear that these, taken together with the “Super Bowl I-X” set, represent a definite step in the right direction.
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|What a waste . . . again,
I will not give the NFL a single red cent until they crawl out of their hole and release the complete unedited broadcasts of the entire games. They are wasting a great opportunity. How great it would be to watch every play, with all those great players of the past, to actually relive those great games. Who wants another edited rehash with some overpaid talking head pontificating about things every football fan already knows. Please do not buy this garbage. Make them do the right thing!
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