The Super Bowl comes with a few givens – championship-level athleticism, the best commercials of the year – and, on the sidelines, John Biever with his camera. Biever, 74, is the only photographer to photograph every single Super Bowl game, and after Sunday, the longtime photographer plans to retire, making Super Bowl LX his last.
In fact, Biever’s history on the sidelines starts before the NFL’s national championship game even earned the Super Bowl moniker. He was just 14 when he photographed the NFL Championship Game in 1965, alongside his father, Vern Biever, who was the team photographer for the Green Bay Packers. Despite being only 14, one of the images that he took at the 1965 game between the Packers and the Cleveland Browns was published in a magazine, a black-and-white photo of quarterback Bart Starr.
