NFL Network will show Super Bowl I on Friday night, which should please and surprise anyone who thought copies of the game had been lost, erased or turned to video dust.
In resurrected form, it is a relic of the time before Super Bowl excess: a daytime game, contested in a stadium with swaths of empty seats, televised by CBS and NBC, and played by men of reasonable dimensions, at least by today’s standards. It featured the Grambling College marching band at halftime — and a bizarre second-half kickoff that had to be rebooted because NBC was late returning to the first one from a commercial break.