Autumn Wind
Footballguy
They completely botched this. I heard more from Steve Mariucci than Jim Simpson. Major fail.
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UPDATE: Super Bowl I to re-air this time w/o the garbage See post #68 (1 Viewer)
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CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Higgs
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
I was excited for this, but couldn't last more than a minute or two of them talking over it. Terrible.
Willie Neslon
Footballguy
Awful. Why didn't they just show the game?
Deamon
Footballguy
Ya just started watching this. I'm not sure what the purpose of this was. Did they think we'd be bored watching just the game? Was really distracting with that commentary. Fail.
johnnyboy8102
Footballguy
Would have liked to watch the game without all the discussion.
Good to see The Hammer hasn't mellowed out much at all with age!
Good to see The Hammer hasn't mellowed out much at all with age!
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
My parents watched all but the first 2 minutes of fame action without sound. They said it was awesome. 
Buffaloes
Footballguy
they nfl networked it. just play the game. with the old commentary. espn still does that with some games and it's so much better than pretty much anything nfl network does--outside of live games.
simsarge
Footballguy
Pretty much sums it up. #### and show the game. They went through all t whole "painstaking" process of finding and putting all this footage and marrying it up to the audio and then they blabber through 95% of it. Hopefully they'll come out with a blu-ray of the game minus the talking heads 
ILUVBEER99
Footballguy
So wait. Someone has the original footage of the game (at least almost all of it) and the NFL won't pony up what is chump change for them to get it?
They probably spent 10x's that amount to put out this garbage.
They probably spent 10x's that amount to put out this garbage.
Fariq
Footballguy
You are correct. The NFL should just pay the guy and then let NFL Films restore the film or whatever.
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
Why? They would #### it up just as bad as they did this one.
Unbelievable. I had to turn it off within the first 20 minutes because I couldn't stand all the commentators. There was more footage of them than their was of the actual game. Totally unwatchable.
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KingPrawn
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https://twitter.com/RichSandomir/status/689233828393668608
Richard Sandomir @RichSandomir
NFL Net will show Super Bowl I reconstruction Friday at 8 pm w/o extra programming or in-game chatter.Just archival film and NBC Radio call
My guess is they got blasted for their absolutely #####y coverage the first time.
Richard Sandomir @RichSandomir NFL Net will show Super Bowl I reconstruction Friday at 8 pm w/o extra programming or in-game chatter.Just archival film and NBC Radio call
My guess is they got blasted for their absolutely #####y coverage the first time.
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
THANK YOU JESUS!https://twitter.com/RichSandomir/status/689233828393668608
My guess is they got blasted for their absolutely #####y coverage the first time.
Yeah, they ####ed that up bad last Friday with all dumb-### commentators.
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When I first heard about the creation of the NFLN I just assumed this was going to make up a chunk of their programming, especially off-season.
I still think they are badly missing the boat on this and think it would be ideal as a fill in the content they create.
Some examples. When they did that Timeline series called the Jersey Boys it would have been sweet to roll out some Parcells era full Giants games.
Insein
Footballguy
Early years of NFLN was great. Actual analysis of current games. Highlight footage of old games. First time we saw the combine. The original broadcast of America's game. It was good. Slowly buy surely though, they started grabbing every reired player they could instead of seeking out the talented ones for broadcasting. Just like ESPN, they turned into sideshow to see which one could out Buffoon the other.
I haven't watched either channel in years unless it's for an actual game. Their original content and analysis shows are some of the worst TV you can find now.
Fariq
Footballguy
Years ago, maybe a half decade ago now, I thought I had heard that NFL Films was miffed at NFLN due to not showing enough old highlight films or something or NFLN was starting to charge more. Umm or something. Something definitely happened though. NFLN was pretty good for a year or two and by about year 3 (2005) started to go in the ESPN direction. The last time I think they reaired some random game (Falcons vs Cowboys 1991) was when Merlin Olsen passed away. Olsen was the color commentator for that game.
Since then, whenever the network shows an old game it is something very recent or the Bengals at Packers game from 1992.
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ShamrockPride
Footballguy
Do they still do that half hour season recap for each individual team in the summer? I really enjoyed those.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
They could literally run old games 24 hours a day with commercial breaks and the channel would run itself. (Reminds me, I miss the old ESPN Classic )
Unfortunately in the never ending quest for more money that's not good enough and it has to be "improved" i.e.; changed to try and make more money.
Unfortunately in the never ending quest for more money that's not good enough and it has to be "improved" i.e.; changed to try and make more money.
Fariq
Footballguy
They do but it seems like they are just shown for one week in August. I don't even like those anymore. The ones in the 70s and 80s were great. I find them to be overproduced now. I also hate the format if the team in question has a new head coach. Background- I am a Jets fan who disliked Rex Ryan and wanted Todd Bowles to replace
him. When I tried to watch the 2014 Jets season highlight film I had to turn it off because the first seven minutes was about Todd Bowles. Bowles was a Cardinals assistant coach in 2014. I wanted to watch the few Jets highlights of 2014 and see how NFL Films would have made it seem they were a good team as they did with teams like the 1980 Cardinals (a high quality production I actually have seen).
I didn't want to watch Todd Bowles and how he is gonna try to make the Jets be good. Bowles had nothing to do with the 2014 Jets.
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ShamrockPride
Footballguy
Same. ESPN became a joke the second Tebow arrived in the NFL and Bron went to South Beach. Just about the same time. The severe overcoverage those 2 things together made the network a laughing stock. I'm convinced they knew what they were doing dragging the network down and just didn't care, just felt like p###ing people off.
drummer
Footballguy
Make me the third who can't watch ESPN, especially anything Trent Dilfer. He is horrid.
I like the post game Sunday show on NFLN. It's like guys in a barber shop talking about the games.
belljr
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BobbyLayne
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snogger
Footballguy
https://twitter.com/RichSandomir/status/689233828393668608
My guess is they got blasted for their absolutely #####y coverage the first time.
when Peter King calls you out in his MMQB article you know you REALLY 
up.
Chaka
Footballguy
I don't watch NFLN much but I have seen a couple A Football Life and I found them to be interesting.
I wonder if it's a $$ thing. Gotta figure their programming execs are smart enough to know the difference between poo like this (or two hour special of A Football Life - Super Bowl Half Time Shows on a 48 hour loop) about and their bread and butter which is the games.
