Last week on Pablo Torre Finds Out, journalist Devin Gordon told the story of how he had the opportunity to be one of the few people in the world to watch the first Super Bowl’s broadcast after it was shown live. According to Gordon, fewer than five people — outside of those in the museum in which it is stored — have had the chance to watch it.
As Gordon tells it, the broadcast was originally filmed by an employee at a tape repair shop — well before VCRs. When that employee was diagnosed with a deadly illness, he passed the tapes along to his family, hoping that one day they would have value.