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NFL America's Game Super Bowl I-XL

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I love a good work of fiction but sometimes reality can be very entertaining. This series is well-made and so intense and passionate that it brought me to tears more than one time. Every episode is a unique road to the superbowl by the team who won it and told by 3 important actors of the team. The 1985 conquest of the Bears for example is told by Mike Ditka, Mike Singletary and Jim McMahon. The stories that leads to the big game are fascinating, touching and often surprising. I love the series so much that I was comtemplating buying the first DVDs on the market which focus on one particular team and all the superbowls they won. But now, I was happy to see that they compile everything in one package. The packaging is very well made, the 40 DVDs being separated in 4 eras (66-75)(76-85)(86-95)and (96-05), 10 discs by DVD. Also, an interesting 88 page book with every conquest by every team. On the DVDs you have also a bunch of interviews that we couldn't see on the NFL network. If you love the NFL this is a great work by NFL films and Steve Sabol and a great piece of history to possess. The only thing missing is the Colts Superbowl last year but the documentary is about the first 40 Superbowl so we can't have everything unfortunately.

I bought the Superbowl Collector's Set and intended to return America's Game, not even cracked open but still factory sealed. The reason was the reviews that I read which said the Collector's Set was action/highlights and America's Game was more interviews and extras with highlights tossed in here and there. Well, thanks to a great wife and a gamble, I have both sets. I don't spend money liberally so I had to think about this. I did not return America's Game; I opened it because the reviews that I read led me to believe that both were great for different reasons. I can say this. Having both sets is like two sides of one golden coin. Both are beautiful in different ways. Each has something the other lacks. America's Game is full of highlights but uses them to illustrate the stories instead of using highlights to tell the stories. And it is FULL of stories you probably never heard during the football seasons and Superbowls of their times! These is a great set, just like the Collector's set. Buy America's Game for the stories and extras; buy the Collector's set if you just want to watch season and Superbowl coverage highlights with that classic NFL narration and music. One word of warning: like the Collector's Set, this set suffers from a quality control issue. The packaging is done poorly. There are scratched disks in both of these sets, some are pretty bad and I did not think they could possibly run. They all do, at least all that I have looked at. I don't know why this is, unless these are returned sets and they shouldn't be as both were factory sealed and I bought new sets. Rough handling when being packed at the factory? I was extremely careful with them as with all cd's and dvd's, since I HATE a skipping/damaged disk. So far these are all OK and I'll keep them; I may get burned someday when I look at a disc and find one skips or whatever. I'll take my chances since these are worth it and I don't have time to preview 60 dvd's. But now I can watch them for a looonnnggggg time.

Brilliant documentary series of the NFL Superbowls. As I haven't grown up with American Football it gives me a fascinating look at the behind the scenes action and also how some of the great players literally got a start in the game. It is also amazing how the players and coaches can be so easily heard during games and what types of things they say and concentrate on. First Class.

In 2005, the NFL Network decided to do a list of the 20 Greatest Super Bowl Champions ever. Well, Instead of doing a simple set of documentaries, they decided to pull out all the stops. The opening of every show is simply beautiful. Highlighting that teams specific Super Bowl ring, and the music...oh the music, nothing short of stunning.
Then, there are the celebrity narrators. Men who were chosen not just because of their names, but there use of voice. Tom Selleck, Gene Hackman, Bruce Willis, Kevin Bacon, Donald Sutherland, Ed Harris, Martin Sheen, Lawrence Fishbourne, and my personal favorite, Alec Baldwin.
The basic format of the show, is they select 3 men who were involved in the team. Coaches, players, or even members of the staff. And between the narrator, and the players they take you through the season were that peticular team won the Super Bowl. They outline the trials, hurddles, and obsticles that team faced throughout the year.
The major advantage with the series, was that it was produced by NFL Network, so they have unlimited access to footage.
When you first open the packaging, you realize, that a lot of love went into this set. The packaging is simply amazing. All in one box, is located 4 seperate box sets, and there's also a booklet that is also a really cool quick refrence guide, and there's a bonus disk that features a program on NFL Network, were they explain how they did the voting of the list, and how the show came to be.
I love seeing a box set that you can tell and lot of love and passion went into, instead of the typical cheap set you get. NFL Network, thank you...this one was a deep pass for an 87 yard touchdown!!!

I was very impressed upon viewing the 2001 Patriots Episode broadcast on NFL Network and just had to see if there was a compilation on DVD. Sure enough there was this AMAZING 40 Disc set. These are the most perfectly designed, well put together documentaries of the NFL and I firmly believe it always will be. This set is packed with over 40 years of NFL history spanning from the mid 60's to early 00's. This is a 40 disc set, with each episode plus extra interviews, stories, highlights, and history regarding the team for their respective year journeying to the Superbowl. This is the ultimate quencher for any fan during the off-season. In fact, no true fan would be without this compilation. A terrific collector and an NFL masterpiece.

This is the best series ever made about football. I follow an NFL team, like everyone else. but i loved the series so much i bought this whole box-set as I'm a football fan above all. If you love football you will love this amazing series, a behind the scenes look at every single champion in the game. A truly fantastic series i can't recommend highly enough.

This is more than a trip down memory lane with the NFL's best, as sweet as that may be. In separate vignettes for each season, the NFL has extracted poignant, powerful and funny interviews with current and former players and coaches. They bring each Super Bowl to life in a new, interesting, personal, and insightful way.

All our favorite teams are here - the 72-73 Dolphins, 85 Bears, 1971 Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, Steelers, Patriots, and everyone else. The NFL has created somethig special with this set.

The only thing that might make it a little better is an HD format. Nonetheless, the quality and production is first class.

I hate to conform to gender stereotypes, but I do. I got this item for my husband for Christmas and he and my 26 year old son love it! I am even a hit with my brothers in law for being the most thoughtful wife ever, not so much a hit with their wives, though.
I have seen parts of this series and find it has enough human interest material to keep me entertained. I had hoped it included all the games, in their entirety. but it doesn't. It includes interviews, some game footage and documents controversy surrounding each game.

This box set is really awesome. The history of the forty winning seasons in the voice of the principal actors. And the delivery is really good. It arrives 20 days before the deadline.

Any football lover should have this in their collection. The story of each of the first 40 Superbowls is recounted on it's own beautifully packaged DVD and put into the context of the world political situation at the time, the previous history of the winning team, the personalities that dominated the game, the season leading up to the game and the Superbowl itself. Each show has been meticulously put together and many of the DVDs are inspirational in showing how teams have overcome adversity in achieving the World Championship. I'd especially call out the 1970 Colts, the 1985 Bears, the 1986 Giants and individual stories like the Steelers Rocky Bleier who left the Steelers and went to Vietnam where he was injured and told he'd "never play football again" and subsequently won 4 Superbowls with them. I watch one of these every week to keep me going throughout the off-season.