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Summary: NFL FILMS HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Comment: From what i understand and have found out that CBS Sports and NFL Films no longer have the original broadcasts of Super Bowl I and II, BUT!!!! NFL Films does have all the original footage taken by The NFL Films crew, I think they could piece together play by play with radio commentary and that would make me very happy to see the game play by play...maybe someday.
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Summary: A mixed bag with too many recent games
Comment: This DVD series would have been much better if it had contained games from the Lombardi era, such as Super Bowl II or the Ice Bowl. The 1980's Monday Night game is excellent, with very little cuts, but the 1990's Bears game had a few plays cut, which was puzzling. In the 1996 San Francisco game, there is a shot of the Packers coaches box, and Ted Thompson is visible. Who would have thought that 12 years later he would have traded away the Packers' legendary quarterback for almost nothing out of spite and vindictiveness?
All the games pre-2007 are in standard format which is how they were broadcast. But so is the January 2008 Seattle playoff game even though it was broadcast in widescreen format on digital broadcast channels. My home recording in widescreen format is better than this standard format DVD, so I feel ripped off with this game's DVD. The opening advertisements, which are the same on each DVD, are annoying.
This collection is a mixed bag with too many recent games. But I enjoyed the older games, and would marginally recommend this product if you can buy it at a discounted price.
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Summary: The Packers are playing whenever you want -- and they're gonna win!
Comment: To those griping about the "missing" Ice Bowl and S.B. I & II, they are part of another set (actually a combo of two 2-DVD sets) which costs about the same as this and contains a lot more historical info, so just buy it and stop whining. It includes a painstaking reconstruction of the Ice Bowl using thousands of feet of film obtained from many sources, and it has lots of interviews and background stuff missing from this ten-game set. No true Packer fan could do without both packages
These aren't necessarily the games I would have chosen. For one thing, most Pack fans would really love to see the Vikings get creamed at least once, or maybe the Viking game where Favre broke the all-time record for TD passes. However, surely Set Two will be in the works soon, especially after what happened to the Vikings last night in Mister Rodgers' Neighborhood, which I nominate for the next collection as being a milestone worthy of Favre's first win on 9/20/92 vs the Bengals.
Despite the absence of purple bloodshed, however, these are all GREAT games, about half of them with the Holmgren-coached mid-90's teams with Butler, White, Brown, Levens, Freeman, Brooks, Chmura, Howard, you know the gang, with SB XXXI as the centerpiece, of course. Most have fine audio and video quality except for Favre's dissection of the Bengals on 9/20/92, and the 1983 Redskins game, but they are still worthy of inclusion and great to watch.
We have to skip a few tracks of noisy NFL blah-blah at the beginning of each disk. I would have also liked to see more background and follow-up on the games, and discussion & interviews with players and coaches. We get just the bare essentials, with much excised between the plays, including a few entire plays. This makes the flow a bit jerky and the transitions rather abrupt at times. However, this is a minor quibble, and it probably helped keep the price down, and enabled the producers to get the set in our hands a few months sooner.
What a tremendous value! Even the $50 list price in the Lambeau Store would be a bargain at five bucks a game, but nobody has any basis for complaining about this set at the price offered here, just over $3 per DVD, nice and compact, only about twice as thick as a single DVD package. These are great games, all but one from the Favre era, surely some of the most watchable years of football that any team ever put together. The one pre-Favre game has the then-world champ Redskins with Riggins & co. getting the worst of the highest-scoring MNF contest ever with commentary by the tarnished MNF crew, unfortunately, minus Howard Cosell.
All in all, this is easily worth five stars. Maybe if enough of us buy it, there'll be a sequel. Not every team could say this, but for the Packers, finding ten more great games should be no problem!
Now what we need are the ten most embarrassing and humiliating losses by the Vikings, Bears, Cowboys, Patriots, and Dolphins. Just think -- the NFL could sell each of those sets to fans of 31 teams instead of just one . . .
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Summary: Great set for Packer fans!
Comment: YES, THIS IS COMPLETE GAMES AND 10 DISCS!!!
I just got this in the mail last week and I have had a chance to start watching the games and it is great! The video quality is surprizingly good so far (I haven't watched the game from 83 yet). The only thing keeping this from a 5-star would have been some extras.
Also, if the NFL could ever package these with an alternate audio tracks, say, the official Packers radio broadcast it would be amazing, but that is kind of a wish list. Commentary tracks would be welcome too.
Still, wish list aside, this set is amazing! Complete NFL games at watch at your leasure!
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Summary: If you are a big Packers fan you should get this dvd.
Comment: It takes me back when I was a little boy when the Packers out gun the Redskins 48-47. I will watch this dvd over and over again.
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