Editing NFL on CBS (section)

====The beginning of the Super Bowl era====
For the [[1966 NFL season|1966 season]], CBS featured a number of regular season games in [[Color television|color]], stepping up from the sole regular season color telecast in 1965, including all postseason games. The Week 1 game between [[1966 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore]] and [[1966 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay]] was a national Saturday night telecast. Ray Scott and Pat Summerall called the first half, while Chuck Thompson and Summerall worked the second half. This was a black and white telecast. With Summerall working the Green Bay-Baltimore game and with the [[1966 Dallas Cowboys season|Cowboys]] idle, [[Eddie LeBaron]] filled in for Summerall on the [[1966 Cleveland Browns season|Cleveland]]-[[1966 Washington Redskins season|Washington]] game (alongside [[Jim Gibbons (sportscaster)|Jim Gibbons]]) for Redskins viewers. Frank Glieber and Warren Lahr called the game for Browns viewers. With [[Lowell Perry]]<ref>{{Cite news
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In Week 11 of the 1966 season, the [[1966 Philadelphia Eagles season|Philadelphia]]-San Francisco game was a regional telecast with a single audio feed. San Francisco play-by-play announcer Bob Fouts worked with Philadelphia analyst [[Tom Brookshier]], while [[Chick Hearn]] was called in for [[CBS Broadcast Center|CBS Control]] duty. For that year's Thanksgiving Day game, CBS aired a "day/twilight" doubleheader that were both in color. For the San Francisco-Detroit game, Van Patrick and Frank Gifford called the first half while Bob Fouts and Gifford worked the second half. For the Cleveland-Dallas game, Jack Buck and Pat Summerall were on the call for the first half, while Frank Glieber and Summerall announced the second half. Week 12's Green Bay-Minnesota game was the Sunday doubleheader telecast. Hal Scott called the first half, while Ray Scott called the second half. Tony Canadeo was the analyst for the full game and Jim Morse had CBS Control duties. For Week 12, St. Louis-Dallas was the main doubleheader game with Jack Buck and Eddie LeBaron working the first half and Jack Drees and LeBaron calling the second half. 
 
The first [[Super Bowl I|AFL-NFL World Championship Game]] was played on January 15, 1967. Because CBS held the rights to nationally televise NFL games and NBC had the rights to broadcast AFL games, it was decided by the newly merged league to have both of them cover that first game. Ray Scott, [[Jack Whitaker]], Frank Gifford and Pat Summerall called the game for CBS. 39.9 million viewers would watch [[Bart Starr]]'s performance in the game that earned him the [[Super Bowl MVP|MVP]] trophy. NBC did have some problems. The network did not return from a commercial break during [[halftime]] in time for the start of the second half; therefore, the first [[Kickoff (American football)|kickoff]] was stopped by the game's officials and was redone once NBC was back on the air. NBC was also forced to broadcast the game over CBS' feed and cameras (CBS received prerogative to use its feed and camera angles since the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] was home to the NFL's [[1966 Los Angeles Rams season|Rams]]). In other words, NBC's crew had little to no control over how the game was shot. The next three AFL-NFL World Championship Games, later renamed the Super Bowl, were then divided by the two networks: CBS televised [[Super Bowl II|Super Bowls II]] and [[Super Bowl IV|IV]] while NBC covered [[Super Bowl III]].