What an heirloom. Troy Haupt, in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, owns the only known recording of the broadcast of the very first Super Bowl. CBS and NBC televised the game, but
didn’t preserve any tapes. But the NFL does not want to buy the tapes, and has threatened Haupt with legal action if he tries to sell them elsewhere. Since this tussle started in 2005, the tapes
have been secreted in a former mine in upstate New York. “This year had to be the year, with all the hype of Super Bowl 50,” Haupt said.
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