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Johnny MckayI think a lot of it has to do with the contract that the NFL has with NFL Films. It seems to me that NFL Films only has footage that they shot themselves from the 60's and later. Anything earlier and they would have to buy the rights which I guess they don't want to do. So they only package footage of the late stuff. If they have very little footage of someone like Jim Brown, then you can probably forget about seeing guys like Tuffy Leemans anytime soon. Which is a shame because in baseball or even basketball, they have tons of footage of old world series and playoff games of Russell and Chamberlain on youtube.