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Super Bowl I post-game audio

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SUPER BOWL I POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE EXCLUSIVE

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With so much hype surrounding the 50th Anniversary of Super Bowl I, the Pro Football of Fame is proud to exclusively release a rare audio recording of the Super Bowl I postgame press conference. In the recording, Hall of Fame Head Coach Vince Lombardi shares his candid thoughts on how the AFL matched up with the NFL.

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“I have nothing to say,” said Lombardi after being baited by the media pundits, who demanded his reaction to the level of competition in the AFL. “[Kansas City Chiefs] a good football team but it doesn’t compare with the National Football League’s teams. That’s what you want me to say, I said it.”

The rare audio artifact was recorded by Dave Little of Canton, Ohio.

The Hall of Fame recently sat down with Little, a former production manager for WAKR-TV in Akron, Ohio, for an exclusive one-on-one. What the Hall discovered was Little is the only individual with the CBS postgame audio recording from Super Bowl I.

“Because I love broadcasting,” explained Little on why he recorded the post-game show. “Back in that day I had no professional knowledge of broadcasting…I knew how to connect a tape recorder to the entrance of a television set.

I could directly record the audio from the TV broadcast on to a reel to reel tape machine so I recorded the whole game and the post-game on a quarter of an inch audio tape. I just put it away. I folded a box up and put it away in the house and kept it in climate control conditions.”

At the time of Super Bowl I, then known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, CBS and NBC shared the broadcasting rights for the game. CBS held the rights to broadcasting NFL games, while NBC had the rights to air AFL games. NBC paid $1 million for the rights to televise their first Super Bowl.

Both networks fought tooth-and-nail for ratings, but NBC emerged with a slightly larger audience. This remains the only joint broadcast in Super Bowl history.

In a bizarre twist, CBS and NBC did not preserve the broadcast copy of the game and as a result, the only televised copy in the world is owned by Troy Haupt, whom is a resident of North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Haupt obtained the rich history from his dad whom he never met and left the rich artifacts for him as an heirloom. His Dad, Martin Haupt, taped the game. Unfortunately, Haupt never met his Dad and it’s still unclear as to why his father went to work on Jan. 15, 1967 and recorded the Green Bay Packers’ 35-10 win over the Chiefs.

Little felt it was important to preserve this piece of history, so he donated the tape to the Hall of Fame to keep in their archives.

Fans can listen to legendary announcers Pat Summerall and Curt Gowdy and Lombardi analyze and reflect on the Packers victory over the Chiefs.

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Pat Summerall, who was then 36 years old and recently retired as a player, handled the post-game proceedings and deftly showed the broadcasting talent that would make him the smoothest voice in pro football for decades to come. Summerall handled interviews with players, coaches and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had recently been named commissioner of the American Football League as well.

The Super Bowl wasn’t always called the Super Bowl back then; some referred to it as the “AFL-NFL Championship Game,” and although others used the term “Super Bowl,” it hadn’t yet been formally adopted.

The Super Bowl I post-game audio was believed to be lost to history, as is the full TV broadcast of the Super Bowl I game. But a former production manager for an Ohio television station recently informed the Hall of Fame that he had recorded the show at the time that it aired and still had the tape. For fans of football history, that’s like finding buried treasure.

River's McVay/Wade Mock ... No trades

Yes. And it will be the best $7 mil I ever spent.

Don't get me wrong, I try him at guard in offseason and give him every chance to succeed. But I'm not going into the season counting on him as a starter, that Is offensive suicide. He's a backup needing to earn his way. Ranking 36 on PFF. A few things have to drastically change on offense to get out of the cellar and Oline is one of them.

We have to take drastic measures to get things fixed. Gurley and Goff stand no chance with Olineman that aren't even average let alone worst in the league.

Let's at least see what we can do with GRob under a competent offensive coaching staff. If he still can't cut it, then fine, we let him go. But given that every single one of our OLinemen looked worse - noticeably worse - in the dumpster fire of an offense put together by Boras last year, I think we owe it to most of these guys to see what they can do with better coaching.

How the "Final Four" teams were built

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/01/19/how-nfc-afc-championship-teams-built-nfl-playoffs

How the Four Championship Game Teams Were Built
The commonality among the Packers, Falcons, Patriots and Steelers is obvious. But look past their elite quarterbacks, and other trends emerge.
by Albert Breer

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This all makes so much sense, now that we’re at the end of it.

In March, the Eagles gave injury-prone quarterback Sam Bradford a deal worth $36 million over two years. It was less than a week before the Texans handed Brock Osweiler—who started nine games before being benched in Denver—a four-year, $72 million contract.

A month later, the Rams gave up two first-round picks, two second-rounders and a third to get Jared Goff, and the Eagles dealt two 1's, a 2, a 3 and a starting corner to acquire Carson Wentz.

And that was all four months before the Vikings flipped a 1 and a 4 to Philly to get Bradford, because their former first-round pick, Teddy Bridgewater, got hurt.

The lesson? There’s no price too high for a franchise quarterback. Just look at this weekend. Three of the four quarterbacks still alive to see this weekend’s conference title games are making in excess of $20 million per year, and the fourth isn’t by choice—and he may be the greatest football player of all-time.

This isn’t just us on the outside thinking it, either. The coaches and GMs for the other 28 teams felt it, too, when they looked at that bracket after last weekend and saw the final four we’re all looking at: Aaron Rodgers at Matt Ryan at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, then Ben Roethlisberger at Tom Brady after that.

“They’re so hard to find,” one AFC head coach told me Tuesday. “If you go all in and make a decision that this is the guy, then you have to go get him. And then you have to support him, so he can be the guy you envision him being. If you go get a guy and you don’t support him—you don’t put what he needs around him, i.e. the right receivers, the right protection—then it doesn’t matter. It’s all gonna look bad.

“So it’s gotta be the right fit, the right coach, the right environment, it has to be the right everything. But you’ve gotta have a quarterback to win.”

In this week’s GamePlan, we’ll look deeper at the idea of investing at running back, what sets Aaron Rodgers apart in Mike McCarthy’s eyes, Le’Veon Bell as a pass-game weapon, Keanu Neal as a trend-setter, a quarterback who thinks Kyle Shanahan could be Bill Belichick and much more.

We’ll start with the four teams still alive, their rosters, and what lessons other teams are taking from watching. Again, the most obvious: Find a franchise quarterback. As our coach above said, though, there’s more to it than that. And so to dive in a little deeper, I repeated an exercise I did in my column at this time last year, and looked closely at the makeup of each team’s 53-man roster. Here they are:

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ATLANTA FALCONS
Homegrown Players: 27 (20 draftees, 7 college free agents)
Outside Free Agents: 24
Trades/Waivers: 2
Quarterback Acquired: Drafted Matt Ryan with the 3rd overall pick in 2008.
Last Five First-Round Picks: S Keanu Neal (2016, 22); OLB Vic Beasley (2015, 8); OT Jake Matthews (2014, 6); CB Desmond Trufant (2013, 22); WR Julio Jones (2012, 6).
Top 5 Cap Figures: Ryan $23.75M; Jones $15.9M; DE Tyson Jackson $6.35M; G Andy Levitre $5.375M; Matthews $4.48M.

GREEN BAY PACKERS
Homegrown Players: 44 (34 draftees, 10 college free agents)
Outside Free Agents: 7
Trades/Waivers: 2
Quarterback Acquired: Drafted Aaron Rodgers with the 24th pick in 2005.
Last Five First-Round Picks: DT Kenny Clark (2016, 27), S Damarious Randall (2015, 30), DB Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (2014, 21), DE Datone Jones (2013, 26), DE Nick Perry (2012, 28).
Top 5 Cap Figures: Rodgers $19.25M; OLB Clay Matthews $13.75M; CB Sam Shields $12.00M; OLB Julius Peppers $10.5M; WR Randall Cobb $9.15M.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
Homegrown Players: 37 (27 draftees, 10 college free agents)
Outside Free Agents: 10
Trades/Waivers: 6
Quarterback Acquired: Drafted Tom Brady with the 199th overall pick in 2000.
Last Five First-Round Picks: DT Malcom Brown (2015, 32); Dominique Easley (2014, 29); DE Chandler Jones (2012, 21); LB Dont’a Hightower (2012, 25); OT Nate Solder (2011, 17).
Top 5 Cap Figures: Brady $13.76M; Solder $10.32M; Hightower $7.75M; DE Jabaal Sheard $6.81M; TE Rob Gronkowski $6.62M

PITTSBURGH STEELERS
Homegrown Players: 30 (23 draftees, 7 college free agents)
Outside Free Agents: 21
Trades/Waivers: 2
Quarterback Acquired: Drafted Ben Roethlisberger with the 11th overall pick in 2004.
Last Five First-Round Picks: CB Artie Burns (2016, 25); OLB Bud Dupree (2015, 22); ILB Ryan Shazier (2014, 15); OLB Jarvis Jones (2013, 17); OG David DeCastro (2012, 24)
Top 5 Cap Figures: Roethlisberger $23.95M; ILB Lawrence Timmons $15.13M; WR Antonio Brown $11.88M; C Maurkice Pouncey $10.55M; DL Cam Heyward $10.4M.

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Clearly, the Falcons aren’t built like the Packers, the Steelers’ construction is different than it was with their most recent (drafted-player heavy) title teams, and the Patriots’ high percentage of homegrown talent belies the fact that half of their first-round picks since 2012 are on other rosters. But when other teams look, they do see a few commonalities.

First, the teams have strong leadership, and that’s beyond just the quarterbacks—there are characters here (i.e. Martellus Bennett, Antonio Brown), but there’s character too. None of the four is overrun with knuckleheads.

“I do think the scouting departments now, the GMs are listening to coaches on what they need,” said an NFC head coach. “We’re the ones with these players all the time. And you don’t have to get the most talented player. If you’re always holding your breath, and he’s a ticking timebomb, that’s a problem. You have to be careful. You want quality people, guys you can rely on.”

Beyond that, the teams are built with purpose. The Patriots found Chris Hogan, the right kind of outside receiver for their offense, at a cheap rate. The Falcons plucked Keanu Neal to be Dan Quinn’s next Kam Chancellor. The Steelers brought James Harrison back to play a very specific role. The Packers have gotten way more out of the previously frustratingly talented Jared Cook than other clubs.

Those acquisitions worked because there was vision for what players would do. These aren’t collections of talent. They’re mosaics with each brushstroke tying into the next.

“Talent doesn’t win; talent in right places, coached right, motivated right gives you the best opportunity,” said the AFC head coach. “The most talented player might not be the best guy for your football team. The right fit is the right guy for your team. Nobody does that better than Belichick.

“It’s not about talent with him, it’s about fit. You can be the most talented guy, you might not fit what he wants to do, and he’s gonna pass you by. The teams (alive), I don’t think they really care about what other teams think.”

An NFC GM reinforced the point, saying, “It’s pretty clear with those four teams, if you have philosophical alignment, you can win.”

And the third one that was pointed out repeatedly to me—the teams can run the ball, and have defensive identity. The Packers, because of their injury issues, are the exception on both counts, which speaks to what Rodgers has done the past two months.

The Patriots and Falcons were both in the top quarter of the league running the ball. The Steelers weren’t, ranking 14th, but no one’s been better carrying the mail since Veteran’s Day than Le’Veon Bell. And that, as their rivals see it, is no mistake.

“Outside of Green Bay, they all have the ability to run the ball,” said an AFC GM. “And if you’re able to run it, it makes the quarterback that much better. If Matt Ryan has a run game like that one, he’s a top five quarterback every year. If he has to throw it 50 times every week? Any quarterback’s gonna have a hard time if that’s the way it is.”

So having a good locker room mix, a roster built with a purpose, and a run game to take the heat off the quarterback matters. But it’s hard to get away from the central theme—getting it right at the most important position is the starting point, and generating the right environment for that guy is next.

The flip side is there, too, with how disastrous it can be to force it with the wrong guy. (Surprise! Brock Osweiler’s name came up repeatedly).

“There probably isn’t a price too high, but you have to be careful selling the farm to get one piece,” said the NFC coach. “You have to be careful. You don’t want to just go get the best available. Look at Houston.”

Of the Texans, the AFC coach says, “The coach saw, ‘This guy isn’t gonna get us there.’ And then, eventually, the coach was right. He was right. So now they have a huge investment that’s killing them. And they have a decision to make.”

Something for everyone to remember in a few months when we’re all sorting through names like Jimmy Garoppolo, Kirk Cousins, Tony Romo, Mitch Trubisky, DeShone Kizer and DeShaun Watson—with the temptation being the payoff that the four franchises left standing are reaping now.

Just a little something to fire you up

Sick picture. Gets me excited!

This is a random post, but I'll throw it in here. Idk how the freak Goff managed to make this play, but it's one of those flashes of greatness I've seen from Goff. Give him some help and we have a QB.

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I like that Goff kept his eyes downfield the whole time, yet was able to evade the rush. That's awesome.

Tree a bust at mlb?

http://www.turfshowtimes.com/2017/1...de-phillips-defense-aaron-donald-robert-quinn
How was tree a bust this year? He played really well and it's only his first year in the middle . By the way he was all pro lol I wish people would watch the games before writing things like this

I like Ogletree. He really impressed me at training camp how he put in extra hours at the end of practice each day. And, he became vocal leader. However, near the end of the season I saw poor play that left me questioning if he is the right to man the middle for the future.

Here are some highlites from the 49er game in week 16 that had to be one of the most painful losses for me. There were 2 plays that I will mark below the 49ers scored on that Ogletree could've played better.

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1) On the first play of video, the 49er RB busted a big run. Ogletree decided to fill a gap between the RG and RT, but the RB never committed to that gap. The RB went left and made a big gain.

2) 30 seconds in, they throw short pass to Hyde and he took it to the house. Ogletree moved to his right and upfiled to try and cover Hyde, but he went too far to the right and ended up in a trail position. Hyde ran right by him.

3) At the 2:36 mark, Kapernick decides to run after surveying the field. The LB's are playing Zone but neither Barron or Ogletree are able pursue and make a play. They were both facing the play and could react to Kapernick's move, but it just looks like took poor angles and I didn't see any explosion from Ogletree. This TD brought the 49er's within 1 point and they they got the 2 point conversion. Heartbreaking to watch.

Jrry32 New Coaching Staff Excitement Mock

Not sure I'd characterize Barron's 2017 $4.mil in Dead Cap a 'minor inconvenience', or his $3.mil 2018 Dead CAP either, guess it's a matter of perspective. Now, on the other hand, ... Austin's $0 Dead Cap in 2018 is what I do call convenient.

$3 million dead cap is a minor inconvenience. As is $4 million dead cap. Especially when you're opening up $7 million in cap room.

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