Couldn't get the appropriate clearances you say? That's not what the article said, so you might wanna reread that part![]()
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/s...owl-i-recording-broadcast-nfl-troy-haupt.html
nikka do you work for the NFL?
Set to Tell His Story
Last month, the league countered in another way, showing that it did not need the tapes. NFL Network showed a reconstruction of Super Bowl Idrawn from the archives of NFL Films.
And last week, Haupt was angry about another turn in the dispute. CBS backed out of a plan to interview him for a Super Bowl pregame segment that would have used a few minutes from the game. It had agreed to pay him $25,000 and give him two tickets to the Super Bowl. A producer was preparing to watch a restored, digital copy of the game at the Paley Center. A crew was ready to go to Manteo. He was going to tell his story, and perhaps the league would listen.
“It was my right to tell my story, and they were paying me for it,” Haupt said.
But according to his lawyer, Steve Harwood, the deal collapsed when he was told that the N.F.L. had ordered CBS not to pay him.
“They said they’d still put Troy on but couldn’t pay,” Harwood said. “After dealing with the N.F.L. all these years, and with CBS, which screwed up, Troy said he wouldn’t do it for free.”
Brian McCarthy, a league spokesman, denied that the N.F.L. was involved.
“We didn’t tell them not to do it,” he said. “We didn’t talk to CBS about the payment.”
A CBS Sports spokeswoman said only that it chose not to do the feature “because we couldn’t get the appropriate clearances.”
Missing the 3rd quarter or not. They would just get narration over some highlights during that stretch or interview ex players and coaches

