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NFL Super Bowl I-XL Collector's Set

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This is pure heaven for any true NFL fan. Highlights of every Superbowl since 1967 are presented here in one glorious package. Each Superbowl has a 25-30 min ducumentary about the game itself and is preceeded by a 20 min review of the season that led up to it. Not only this but each game also has a couple of extra documentaries about the key players/events. The photography is fantastic, the music is adrenaline-pounding and the packaging/booklets include full player listings, score breakdowns, programme covers and reproduction tickets.
This box set will only disappoint those who were expecting the full game broadcast for every Superbowl but then does anyone truly think that's feasible at over 3 1/2 hours per game! Go on, treat yourself and work through them 1 to 40 to get a fascinating insight into the development of the game and first sight of every classic play.

I practically stole this from Amazon. They ran a one-day sale on the day of Super Bowl XLIII and I got this 20 disc collection for $55.00!
It comes in four attractive cases, and each case has a replica Super Bowl ticket along with an informative booklet that contains each Super Bowl's roster, game program cover, even the winning team's ring choice. Very cool.
One negative was that some of the disc holders had come unglued from the cases, but my wife's glue gun fixed that problem.
On the videos themselves: While I have only watched two discs so far, and while yes, the 48 hours of content are season summaries ending with a Super Bowl summary, and not the entire Super Bowl, play by play, I think the collection is perfect. As I Giants fan, I already own discs devoted to their three championships, so a 15 minute summation of any other team's Super Bowl win is enough for me. And anyway, I like the longer season summaries better. It's a great nostalgia trip.
Some have complained that these videos are already shown on the NFL network. Well as a cablevision subscriber, I don't get the NFL network, alas. Still, you get to OWN the videos, and watch them whenever, in any order you like.
Forty years of NFL history sit on my DVD shelf, and are a perfect cure for the sports death month that is February. I hate college basketball, so my sports void is filled until the Giants start camp in five months.

I recently bought this product for my boyfriend for his birthday. He is a football fanatic, and was absolutely blown away after opening this. Gratned, IT DOES NOT CONTAIN FULL LENGTH SUPER BOWLS. It is still one hell of a way to make a loved one in your life happy.

NFL Films is amazing. Their stuff gets better every year.

This 20-disc series, covering the first 40 Super Bowls, is quite possibly the best multi-disc set produced by the raving geniuses at NFL Films.

Two Super Bowl contests are featured on each DVD. A sweet bonus item, which has been included with each Super Bowl highlight film, is a 45-minute regular season highlight film, which includes selected highlights of all the NFL teams -- not just the two clubs that eventually ended up in the big game.

Just be careful not to confuse this series with the so-called "America's Game" series, involving the first 40 years of the Super Bowl era. That other 40-disc series focuses separately on the teams that would become the Super Bowl champions, examining their full season leading up to the big game, as well the Super Bowl, of course.

But either way, you will not be disappointed.

This is something really wonderful to have. No, it doesn't contain the whole game, it's more along the lines of what you get when you watch the NFL Channel's replays on Monday/Tuesday. However, it's got great commentary and other features for each Superbowl as well as nice histories of what went on that season pre-superbowl.

For any football fan, it's something to have. Beyond that, for any 'not really diehard fan' it's something that doesn't bore or get too 'technical' - so just about any interest level can have fun with it.

Fantastic buy.

This is a great set. The Seasons from 1966-2005 are shown in a documentary like video showcasing mainly the teams in the afc/nfc championship games, with it finishing with a piece on the superbowl game. I will warn you, the care of the packaging is horrible. Mine came in with discs all over the place and i had to super-glue the cases properly becuase they were not even attached. But beside that setback, this is a must have for anyone interested in the NFL.

I was very pleased with the item, especially for the price. I bought it for my son who is 9 and he is really enjoying it. The discs feature quick highligts of the preceeding season, longer reviews of the Chapionship games, and narrated highlights of the Superbowl games - plus special features like interviews etc. As long as you were not anticipating full renditions of the games, you will be pleased with these highlights - at least we have been.

I consider myself a major fan of the NFL and it's history and this set is simply fantastic.
I was going to purchase it based on the NFL Super Bowl highlight films alone.
Then I read that it has a synopsis of each season and that made it even better.
What made it even more valuable is that the the season overviews of each particular year are the original NFL season overviews from 1966 through 2005. Therefore, offering classic NFL Films nostalgia from the late 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and half of 2000s. As well you get additional classic NFL Films programing on the special features sections. In all between the SB highlight films, the season overviews and the special features you get more classic NFL Films material than you ever thought possible in one set.
Also, each Super Bowl film includes the original intros often times edited out on television when they choose to start with only the game highlights.
All though I own the America's game set as well, I can assure you that this is the better deal if you only buy one of the two.
The America's Game Dvds are awesome as well and they offer special features as well.
However, they are more current in their hindsight, as they were produced in 2005/06 with modern day actors as the narrators.
By all means it is a great set but if you grew up watching NFL Films "old school" productions and/or like the feel you get from the Classical Music and Narration that made NFL Films what it is today then the SB I-XL set is much more recommended.
Trust me, if you purchase this item you will not be disappointed!

I bought this after much deliberation between it and the "America's Game" complete set. I'm so glad I bought this one, since you get a balanced look at the Superbowls, teams, and the seasons. These are truly outstanding dvd sets, I'll be watching them forever and since I'm 47, I get a real nastalia trip back into the 70's when I was in high school (we loved football on network TV). There is a serious issue with quality control however. Not only is the packaging falling apart, as mentioned before, but a few of my dvds look used, with many superficial stratches on them. I did not buy a used set and it was factory sealed. I don't know if they took in a return and re-packaged it but the scratches I see are more than a blemish, on one disc particularly, it looks like someone played frisbee with it. However, it appears that all of these dvds work. I went through them and found none that froze or skipped around or anything like that. Not sure if all work perfectly but I don't have time to preveiw every dvd; I'll take my chances. Having said all of this, it is still an amazing amount of NFL footage, highlights, and some extras that I will watch forever (if the dvds actually work like new). It would have been given 10 stars for content but -5 for quality control. I did not send it back because the next set could be worse and I really like the content (so, its my fault if I get burned).

hi! i found this dvd set to be excellent! each season is individualy broken down and then concludes with a reel of super bowl highlights. i think that whole games would take to long to view and that the footage is just enough to give the viewer a sense of the total game. the music and announcer are perfect for the films,which i would suggest any nfl fan to purchase. just a tip in purchasing the set,i bought mine from a amazon seller for 36.00 it came shrink wrapped and in great condition. before you buy check out the "used" copies,their are real bargains out there!!