MEET THE SAN DIEGAN WHO HAS SHOT EVERY SUPER BOWL

John Biever photographed his first game in 1967 at age 15; today will be his 56th

BY K.C. ALFRED

While his teenage friends were inside huddled around a television set watching football’s biggest game on a freezing Wisconsin day in 1967, John Biever was on the uncrowded sidelines of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on a warm sunny afternoon, photographing the first Super Bowl with his father Vernon.

Today, Biever, now 70 and a San Diego resident for the past decade, will be in a familiar spot. He will be photographing the Cincinnati Bengals playing the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, just seven miles and a lifetime of images away from that initial game at the Coliseum.

It’s the 56th Super Bowl for the NFL and for Biever, who is the only person to photograph every Super Bowl. Biever has seen it all, from Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi in the first game to last year’s Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady and everything in between.

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