A highlight film of the 1997-98 National Football League season, leading up to the conference championship games. Though the Super Bowl itself is not shown, as this was produced the week prior to the big game, the Broncos won the championship that year over the Green Bay Packers. This came off of a Super Bowl XXXI-XL DVD collection I own. Again, I have no idea when, where, or even IF this ever aired on television, but if it did, it had to have been during the week leading up to the Super Bowl. It may have aired on NBC hours before kickoff that day, but I have no data to support this. Opinion: For an NFL Films production, this is very, very shoddy. There are numerous editing errors, way too many damn visual puns, and even Earl Mann's narration was irritatingly slow. In fact, in one sequence, they show Kordell Stewart making a touchdown run, where they cut to a shot of Kordell from the previous year (as evident by the numbering on his jersey) running down the sideline, then cut back to a shot of Kordell in the Steelers' current jersey running down the middle of the field. Definitely not NFL Films' best work.

• published: 12 Dec 2014
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