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There will probably be a phalanx of photographers lined up on the sector Sunday, Feb. 8 for Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in California. John Biever may have bragging rights over all his friends for that showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.
Only he’ll have the ability to say he is shot pictures in any respect 60 Super Bowls.
“Coming to the 60th Super Bowl now and–’Wow!’–I’ve been very fortunate,” mentioned Biever when reflecting on his monitor file.
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Biever’s curiosity in pictures got here early. His father, Vern Biever, was the Green Bay Packers crew photographer who began taking pictures of them in 1941 as a scholar at close by St. Norbert’s College.
John soaked in all the things his father taught and was 14 in the midst of the Packers dynasty years within the Nineteen Sixties.
“How many kids can grab a professional camera at that age and get on the field of the championship game? Not too many,” mentioned Biever. “But then you’ve got to come along with the goods, too, so I guess I did that eventually.”
At the 1965 NFL championship between the Packers and Cleveland Browns, Biever took a black-and-white photograph of Packers quarterback Bart Starr, spinning and getting ready handy the ball off, that finally bought revealed in Look journal.
The subsequent yr, at 15, he wandered the sideline as a photographer at Super Bowl I on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was an thrilling journey for a teen photographer from Wisconsin at the moment.
“Part-way through the game, I look next to me and there’s Bob Hope kneeling down,” mentioned Biever and added with amusing, “It’s like, ‘That’s not going to happen anymore.'”
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Biever’s favourite image from that first Super Bowl was one other black-and-white photograph —of Vince Lombardi. The picture of the Packers legendary coach was captured within the second he ran off the sector following their Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Biever mentioned that photograph’s particular as a result of his father, who labored with him for the primary 35 Super Bowls, can be within the image.
The subsequent yr, vying for an opportunity to play in Super Bowl II, the Packers performed the Dallas Cowboys within the 1967 NFL championship sport. It was referred to as the Ice Bowl as a result of the temperature was 13-below zero in Green Bay, Wis., that day.
Biever was in the proper spot for the game-winning landing within the last seconds.
“My dad was over photographing Lombardi and Lombardi just turned and ran to the locker room. That was it,” mentioned Biever. “He got nothing and I got the winning play of the Ice Bowl.”
Biever’s black-and-white photograph, taken from the tip zone, exhibits the brute power of the blockers opening a gap, permitting Bart Starr to interrupt by and rating.
“It’s the only picture I have on my wall here,” mentioned Biever from the lounge of his San Diego dwelling. “That was probably my, if it’s not my favorite photo, it’s the one most remembered.”
In truth, Biever says it is an iconic photograph he nonetheless sees on tavern partitions in Wisconsin. The results of that Packers win over the Cowboys allowed him to journey to Super Bowl II.
He’s been on a roll ever since.
For 30 Super Bowls, Biever shot pictures for Sports Illustrated journal and, in all of the years since, he is been taking footage for the NFL.
Jamie Squire, a long-time photographer for Getty Images, says Biever has a knack for being on the proper place on the proper time,
“The most amazing thing about still photography is the fleeting moment. That’s what John is best at capturing. That split-second moment that lives on forever.”
John Biever turns 75 just a little greater than every week after the Super Bowl, on Feb. 17. He says Super Bowl LX will in all probability be his final however he nonetheless appears ahead to capturing the spontaneous second everybody will bear in mind.
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