{"id":16718,"date":"2025-07-05T23:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/1981-watching-super-bowl-xv-in-the-uk-newsnight-classic-bbc-sport-bbc-archive\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T23:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:53:23","slug":"1981-watching-super-bowl-xv-in-the-uk-newsnight-classic-bbc-sport-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/1981-watching-super-bowl-xv-in-the-uk-newsnight-classic-bbc-sport-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1981: Watching SUPER BOWL XV in the UK | Newsnight | Classic BBC sport | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlZwEWmfiyc?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Kevin Cosgrove reports on the clamour for tickets to a live screening of Super Bowl XV at the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square last night. Fans of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Oakland Raiders, along with celebrity enthusiasts like actor Omar Sharif and boxer Terry Downes, packed the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a sign that the UK is ready to embrace American Football? <\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from Newsnight, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 26 January, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website &#8211; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GlZwEWmfiyc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Cosgrove reports on the clamour for tickets to a live screening of Super Bowl XV at the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square last night. Fans of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Oakland Raiders, along with celebrity enthusiasts like actor Omar Sharif and boxer Terry Downes, packed the cinema. Is this a sign that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16720,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16718\/revisions\/16720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}