Kickstarter to Buy Super Bowl I Broadcast

[Ronfitch]

From the article:

"Jeremy Coon, a producer and editor on the 2004 movie “Napoleon Dynamite,” and his collaborator Tim Skousen have launched a Kickstarter campaign with the intention of buying the footage from Haupt and bringing it to the viewing public. The two filmmakers are already working on a documentary about Super Bowl I, and if they raise the needed money to buy the film from Haupt for $750,000, they have vowed to stream the whole game for free before Super Bowl LV in February 2021."

According to the article, they are setting up a legal fund as well to deal with the inevitable.

Read:
https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2020 ... er-bowl-i/

[65 toss power trap]

Without the expressed written permission of the National and American Football Leagues?

[Ronfitch]

If you go to the Kickstarter site itself, you will see that their initial goal is for $50k. Goal #2 is $200k. Goal #3 is $1.5 million.

The $50k is what they say is needed to finish a documentary about the existence of the recording of SBI, the negotiation between the family and the NFL over the recording ... to tell the story and to garner attention.

With $200k they can make a much better documentary.

With $1.5 million, they take on the NFL and release it (I think they are seriously undershooting the legal costs ... personally, I think they really want to have a great documentary and not fight the NFL):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/je ... cle_inline