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Sports Illustrated Presents Neil Leifer’s For the Love of the Game at PDNB Gallery

DALLAS, TX.- Super Bowl Sunday now is certainly not what it was in the beginning. In 1967, when the Green Bay Packers played the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl, there were only 2 players from each team that met in the center of the expansive playing field for a simple coin toss. Now it is the “World Championship”, a week of sports madness playing up to the ultimate showdown of million dollar players sporting high-tech gear that has evolved from a simple set of light helmets, shoes and pads. The linebackers are heavier, stronger. The game is more brutal. Half Time has become star-studded and over-the-top. Thanks to Neil Leifer we have a great record of Pro-football since his first photographs taken at the NFL Championship Game January 15, 1958. On this day, his birthday, he witnessed what Sports Illustrated called, “the greatest game ever played” between the Colts and the Giants. Since then, Leifer has given us an extensive library of images of the heroes of Basketb