Ozaukee-born photographer appears to be like again at 60 years photographing Super Bowls

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. — After photographing each Super Bowl because the first recreation in 1967, Port Washington native John Biever is retiring from his legendary profession capturing NFL historical past.

Biever is the one photographer to doc all 60 Super Bowls and can conclude his outstanding run at this 12 months’s championship recreation.

His in depth assortment, partly housed in his brother’s Port Washington basement, is taken into account the biggest archive of Packers and NFL pictures in existence.

“It doesn’t seem like 60 years, but it has,” Biever stated throughout a latest dialog together with his brother Jim, additionally a former Packers group photographer. “We got 36 exposures on a roll.”

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The pictures has developed dramatically since Biever started his profession. Where he as soon as had 36 pictures per roll of movie, fashionable digital cameras can seize 36 pictures in a single play.

Biever’s assortment consists of iconic moments spanning a long time of NFL historical past, that includes Packers quarterbacks Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers. His archive options the first-ever Super Bowl landing by Packers receiver Max McGee, together with 1000’s of different historic pictures.

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Ozaukee-born photographer appears to be like again at 60 years photographing Super Bowls

“I think the permanence of it,” Biever stated when requested about pictures’s enduring attraction. “On the printed page, you can always go back and look at a book.”

Jim Biever, who served because the Packers’ group photographer for many years, rigorously preserves the household’s photographic legacy at his Port Washington dwelling. The assortment consists of slides from Super Bowls I, II and III, pictures that “look like they were just shot yesterday.”

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John Biever acquired permission to depart Port Washington High School to {photograph} the earliest Super Bowls, starting a profession that may span six a long time and doc the evolution {of professional} soccer.

For this 12 months’s Super Bowl, Biever expects to be positioned on the sector, giving him an opportunity to say goodbye to colleagues and seize his ultimate championship pictures.

“I guess all I have to do is get to the opening kickoff to make it 60, but hopefully, I make it to the end,” Biever stated.

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