Troy Haupt is the only man in the world to own the remaining copy of Super Bowl I. He is a 47-year-old nurse anesthetist in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

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Haupt’s father, Martin, taped the game.

Haupt never knew him.

Haupt and his mother, Beth Rebuck, say they have no idea what he did for a living back then.

They also don’t know why he went to work on Jan. 15, 1967, with a pair of two-inch Scotch tapes, slipped one, and then the other, into a Quadruplex taping machine and recorded the Green Bay Packers’ 35-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

He told his family nothing about his day’s activity.

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The NFL says of the only Super Bowl I tape: "Considered to be the Holy Grail of sports broadcasts, the CBS and NBC tapes of the game were either lost or recorded over and no full video version of the game has existed... until now."

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According to the viewing administered by The New York Times:

"Colors fade in and out.

The picture is grainy and skips.

And it suffers somewhat from Martin Haupt’s decision to stop or pause before most commercial breaks and hitting play when the break ended, which caused him to miss parts of the action when play resumed.

The stops and starts give the tapes an occasional herky-jerky feel.

And more important, he did not tape halftime and about half of the third quarter.

“It’s like he thought he would run out of tape,” Troy Haupt said.

A 1960s sensibility is preserved, helping to separate the tape from the NFL Films reconstruction."

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Until 2005, when Troy learned that the two networks that aired Super Bowl I had failed to save their recordings of the game.

One estimate at the time put a value on such a tape at around $1 million.

The tapes have been restored, thanks to the Paley Center for Media, but Troy’s attempts to see any money from the video have been unsuccessful.

He says the league only offered $30,000 for the footage and refused to budge.

In fact, according to the Times, the NFL now refuses to offer any money at all for the tapes.

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