It's Super Bowl Sunday folks!  We here at Trivia Today thought it was a good time to look back in history at the first-ever Super Bowl on January 15, 1967. We'll bet you didn't know these five things about the first AFL-NFL championship game, known retroactively as Super Bowl I...

Each Team Used Their Own Footballs Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson (middle) gets tackled by Willie Davis (left) and Henry Jordan (right) of the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I. Photo source: WikiCommons Long before Deflategate, the Chiefs and Packers had their own debate about appropriate ball size in preparation for Super Bowl I. The Packers represented the NFL and were accustomed to using the standard Wilson footballs that are still used today. The AFL, however, used a longer, skinnier, football produced by Spalding and wanted to use their ball—which they said was easier to throw—during the game. Neither team was willing to give in, so the NFL decided to let both teams use their own balls on offense.

Not Only Were There Two Footballs—the Game Was the Only Super Bowl Ever to Air on Two Networks At the time, CBS owned the rights to air NFL games and NBC aired AFL games. Because this was the first time the two leagues were playing each other, ratings were expected to be high and neither network wanted to miss out on airing the game. So, they both did. NBC was allowed to broadcast the CBS feed of the game with their own announcers and, more importantly, commercials.

And Because of Those Commercials, Green Bay Had to Redo Their Kick-Off to Start the Second Half Yep, you read that right. The Packers kicked off to start the third quarter, but NBC hadn't cut back from commercial break in time to catch it. So, like a movie set, word came down from the booth that they needed another take. The Packers kicked off a second time and this time, NBC was ready. Can you imagine something like that happening today?

Fifteen million people were barred from watching the game. Although the Super Bowl aired on two networks, NFL rules at the time required that its games be blacked out in the local vicinity. That meant that 15 million viewers within a 75-mile radius of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum could not watch the game.

The NFL Does Not Own a Recorded Copy of the Game Despite the fact that two networks aired the game, the NFL does not own a full record of Super Bowl I. The original tapes were erased following the game, and until 2005, only small snippets of the game were available to view. But in 2005, a man in North Carolina found a nearly-complete recording of the game in his mom's attic. He had the video completely restored and tried to sell it to the NFL for $1 million. They offered him $30,000 instead. He didn't bite, and now the two are in a deadlock about the fate of the recording.