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Every year, right before the SuperBowl, ESPN shows highlights of SuperBowls from years past. They provide fans with memories that brings them back to the days where these legends played a massive role on how they reshaped the NFL into the spectacle that it is today.
Now, instead of waiting once a year to watch these shows on TV, you can now watch them whenever you want, all year round.
In some of the earlier SuperBowl highlights you get to hear The Voice of God, John Facenda, as he narrates the pivotal moments of many SuperBowl, including the one that I'll provide a link to in a minute. Should anyone become a father to a son in the future, there's no better place than to have him listen to John Facenda narrate these football games as a way to get him introduced to the game of football.
I particularly like the narrator of SuperBowls 41 and 42. I have no idea who he is, but he is this generation's "John Facenda" because he has a voice that blends in well with the game and he's a fantastic storyteller.
Without going much further, here are the highlights from SuperBowls 1-43. Here's the link to SupreBowl X, but towards the bottom of that page, you can click on any SuperBowl you wish to relive.
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That is what I am talking about! I love Super Bowl Highlights, one of my all-time favorite series. I'm an absolute nerd when it comes to the Super Bowl.
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It's one of my favorite series, also. That's a package that I looked forward to seeing every year during the weeks leading into the SuperBowl. Now with this thing, anyone can watch it whenever he wants, without having to wait until January for ESPN to show these highlights.
One of my favorite ones is SuperBowl III. Speaking of that game, I'm starting to become a believer that that game was fixed. I'm not a conspiracy theorist when it comes to general topics, but with sports, there are a few things that doesn't make sense. That game was is of them.
I'm not complaining about the possibility of it being fixed. I think it adds more complex interest to the history to how this game went from what it was in the 60s to what it is today.
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It's the time of year where the sport that is America's Passion gets ready for the spectacle that has become our unofficial holiday. The SuperBowl is sports' pageantry where superstars try to become immortals.
Every year, ESPN shows Superbowl highlights to bridge the gap between those who are new to the sport to the older folks who want to relive those moments with the game's greatest stars, and starting debates as to who the greatest of the greatest were and compare those to the players who currently have profiles that can fit in with the legends of the past.
In this thread, instead of waiting for ESPN to show these highlights once a year, you can watch the same footage whenever you want.
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SuperBowl XLII -- The Giants vs. The Patriots
I have to tell you ... After watching that game, I thought I would never watch another NFL game for the rest of my life. That was the very first time where I felt THAT displeased about a loss from a team I was rooting for, especially being that there was never another time in my life where I felt so sure about a team's chances of winning a game of great historical significance as I did on that night.
My Number 1 sport is baseball, and I never felt the way I did about a baseball game the way I did about the finishing result of SuperBowl 42.
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God I hated Super Bowl XLII. Not only did the team I was going for lose, not only did I miss out on the chance to see something once in a lifetime, not only was I wrong, but one of my friends happened to be a Giants fan and he very nearly came close to rubbing it in my face before he realized I was this close to kicking his ass if he said another gloating word to me, especially since I hadn't been talking that much shit.
With that said, I'm watching all the Super Bowl Highlights again this year and I'm up to Super Bowl XXII myself. I resolved to finally watch the one for XLII.
I didn't care for the actual Highlight of XLIII (Steelers vs. Cardinals) because I thought Jeff Goldblum sounded weird doing the narration.
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That's a funny story, Salvy, although I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time it happened. I wasn't laughing, either. Seeing Manning throw his second touchdown in the fourth quarter felt as if the world had turned inside out because that was something that "wasn't supposed to happen."
quote:Originally posted by Salvy_Mic: I didn't care for the actual Highlight of XLIII (Steelers vs. Cardinals) because I thought Jeff Goldblum sounded weird doing the narration.
Interesting you brought that up. You know, I always wondered who was the narrator of SuperBowls 41 and 42? It's the same guy. He voice is identical to the one you hear when the show 60 Minutes come on. In any event, he is the Second Coming of John Facenda. Whoever is behind that voice should do every SuperBowl for as long as he's breathing. Like Facenda, he is a fantastic story teller and his voice makes for a very compelling story. You also hear his voice in other NFL Films specials on ESPN from time to time.
If you know the name to the man with that voice, that would be appreciative.
They don't have it in hulu just yet, but a year or two ago, I saw the highlights to the SuperBowl 44 between Manning and Brees. That was the WORSE package that Steve Sabol and Co. have ever put together. The narrator was not someone whose voice was not a good fit to describe just how much football is a warfare between two armies. As I was listening to it, I could've sworn I watching a Disney special, waiting for Goofy and Donald to appear out of nowhere. And it was so anti-climatic with the way they described the on-side kick to start the second half.
With the SuperBowl 42 highlights, it was genius with the way the narrator used his words to describe the emotion of what was at stake. Watching that would make you believe that the Patriots actually won it before the game was over, even though you know they lost it.
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