DVD Transfer 77 (Super Bowl XXXVI)

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(c)2002 National Football League; FOX Sports-FOX Corporation; WVBT-Nexstar Media Group

This upload contains Super Bowl XXXVI; pitting the then-St. Louis Rams and their "Greatest Show on Turf" offense of Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt among others against a surprise contender in the New England Patriots; in the 2nd year under Bill Belichick and with 2nd-year quarterback Tom Brady having taken over for injured starter Drew Bledsoe after a hard hit by Jets linebacker Mo Lewis in Week 2 of the 2001 season.

In what may have been considered the biggest Super Bowl upset since the days of Broadway Joe and his guarantee prior to Super Bowl III; the Patriots got off to a 17-3 lead in the 3rd quarter, then after a rally by the Rams managed to hold on to win 20-17 off Adam Vinatieri's game-winning 48 yard field goal as time expired (notably; John Madden - noting that the Patriots had no timeouts at the time of their final drive - originally suggested that the Patriots run out the clock and play for overtime) to give the Patriots their first Super Bowl championship; with Brady finishing his Cinderella season with 145 yards and a touchdown with a Super Bowl MVP award, the first of many for a quarterback who 20 years later would be considered by many as the greatest of all time.

Calling the action were FOX' lead crew of Pat Summerall and John Madden; with Pam Oliver and Ron Pitts reporting from the sidelines and coverage hosted by James Brown, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Cris Collinsworth. The broadcast coverage would mark the end of an era in football coverage as the last game Pat and John worked together after 20 years (Summerall would move down to a mid-level crew for 2002 - his last year as a full-time broadcaster as advancing age {Summerall was 71 at the time of this Super Bowl} and increasing health issues {mostly due to Summerall being a heavy drinker for much of his broadcasting career prior to a religious awakening} resulting in his undergoing a liver transplant. Pat would then work the 2004 preseason and early regular-season for ESPN as a substitute while regular play-by-play broadcaster Mike Patrick was recovering from heart surgery and finished his career as a part-timer working for FOX covering games in Dallas; while Madden jumped ship to ABC, working Monday nights alongside Al Michaels from 2002 until ABC lost MNF rights to ESPN after 2005; with the two moving to NBC for their newly-acquired Sunday Night Football package; remaining there until Madden retired after Super Bowl XLIII). Performing the National anthem would be Mariah Carey (one of her first performances after a rough latter part of 2001 where she experienced an emotional and physical breakdown, coupled with her film "Glitter" bombing at the box office); while the halftime show would feature U2 (and included a screen with the names of those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks)

NOTES

1. As a result of the 9/11 attacks taking place one day after the first week of the 2001 season finished; this led to the NFL moving the remainder of the schedule down a week - with the games of Week 2 moved to the end of the regular season - and the Super Bowl moving from the scheduled January 27 date to February 3; the first time the big game was held outside of January. This would create a logistical hiccup, as the National Automobile Dealers Association was originally scheduled to hold their convention on February 3. Eventually an agreement would be reached where NADA moved their convention up one week to the original Super Bowl date. After playing Super Bowl XXXVII on January 26, 2003; every Super Bowl since has been played in February and with the schedule expanding to 17 games beginning in 2020, is currently held on the second week of February.

2. Another change that would eventually be adopted was the surprise announcement by the Patriots that they would leave the tunnel as a team for the player introductions (per David Halberstam's book "The Education of a Coach"; the NFL initially balked when Bill Belichick suggested such a move but eventually relented). Starting with Super Bowl XXXVII, both teams exit the tunnels together instead of the previous offensive or defensive starting lineup introductions

3. In addition to a change in scheduling, the original, New Orleans-themed Super Bowl XXXVI logo was changed post-9/11 to a red, white and blue colored depiction of the 48 contiguous states

4. This game would be the final Super Bowl to be played on the old-style AstroTurf; as during the early-to-mid 2000s; NFL teams that had played on AstroTurf began either replacing the surface and/or moving to new stadiums using either natural grass or newer, less rigid artificial surfaces such as FieldTurf (for this game, officials at the Superdome considered bringing in trays of natural grass for the game that had been cultivated and grown outdoors, similar to what Giants Stadium was doing around that time after switching from AstroTurf. Ultimately, the plan was dropped due to cost and quality control concerns)

5. This would make the Boston and St. Louis areas the first to have faced off against each other at least once in each of the championship games of all four major professional sports

6. Prior to U2 being chosen for halftime; Janet Jackson was being considered as the halftime performer (Jackson would get her chance two years later, but that ended up becoming infamous for a certain "wardrobe malfunction")

7. While not high-definition, FOX made this the first widescreen Super Bowl available to all viewers (the two previous Super Bowls had an alternate widescreen feed in addition to the standard feed)

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