Editing Super Bowl VII (section)

==Broadcasting==
The game was broadcast in the United States by [[NFL on NBC|NBC]] with [[Play-by-play|play-by-play announcer]] [[Curt Gowdy]], [[color commentator]] [[Al DeRogatis]] and [[sideline reporter]] [[Bill Enis]]; who also covered the Trophy presentation, with other contributors including [[Kyle Rote]]. This was Enis' final Super Bowl telecast before his death on December 14, 1973, as well as Rote's last Super Bowl before leaving broadcasting and DeRogatis' first Super Bowl as lead color commentator (and only Super Bowl as the solo analyst).

This was the first Super Bowl to be televised live in the city in which it was being played, via NBC's flagship station in Los Angeles, [[KNBC]] (Channel 4). Despite unconditional [[blackout (broadcasting)|blackout]] rules in the NFL that normally would have prohibited the live telecast from being shown locally, the NFL allowed the game to be telecast in the Los Angeles area on an experimental basis when all tickets for the game were sold.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1971-1980|title=NFL History by Decade|website=www.nfl.com|access-date=May 6, 2006|archive-date=April 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402171348/http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1971-1980|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1973/1973-01-01-BC.pdf | title=NFL won't play ball; Nixon may blow whistle | work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]] | date=January 1, 1973 | page=33 | access-date=November 27, 2019}}</ref> The league then changed its blackout rules the following season to allow any game sold out at least 72 hours in advance to be televised in the host market.<ref>{{cite book | title=America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation | first=Michael | last=MacCambridge | author-link=Michael MacCambridge | year=2005 | page=301 | publisher=Anchor Books | isbn=978-0-375-72506-7}}</ref> No subsequent Super Bowl has ever been blacked out under this rule, as all have been sold out (owing to its status as the marquee event on the NFL schedule, meaning that tickets sell out quickly).

Because of Super Bowl VII, NBC was forced to delay its broadcast of [[Elvis Presley]]'s ''[[Aloha from Hawaii]]'' concert, which took place the same day and was intended to be broadcast around the world live. NBC eventually re-edited the concert and aired it later that April.

This game is featured on ''NFL's Greatest Games'' under the title "17–0".