This 74-year-old sports activities photographer is the one particular person to shoot each Super Bowl in historical past. Super Bowl LX will probably be his final

The Super Bowl comes with a number of givens – championship-level athleticism, one of the best commercials of the 12 months – and, on the sidelines, John Biever together with his digicam. Biever, 74, is the one photographer to {photograph} each single Super Bowl sport, and after Sunday, the longtime photographer plans to retire, making Super Bowl LX his final.

In reality, Biever’s historical past on the sidelines begins earlier than the NFL’s nationwide championship sport even earned the Super Bowl moniker. He was simply 14 when he photographed the NFL Championship Game in 1965, alongside his father, Vern Biever, who was the staff photographer for the Green Bay Packers. Despite being solely 14, one of many pictures that he took on the 1965 sport between the Packers and the Cleveland Browns was revealed in {a magazine}, a black-and-white photograph of quarterback Bart Starr.

The following 12 months, Biever would {photograph} the Packers’ win within the first-ever Super Bowl, once more alongside his dad, who would go on to {photograph} 35 Super Bowls alongside his son. The first ever Super Bowl wasn’t the identical crowds – or variety of photographers – that the sport has right now. One of Biever’s all-time favorite photos reveals extensive receiver Max McGee working to the top zone with a line of empty seats behind him.

“First of all, there weren’t that many photographers on the sideline for the first one, like there are now,” Biever told the Associated Press. “I remember Bob Hope being next to me at one point on the sidelines at the first Super Bowl. Hollywood stars would show up and just walk on the field and go where they wanted to go. And here’s Bob Hope, and it’s like, wow, for a kid from Wisconsin, that’s pretty cool.”