Next February in New Orleans, Lance Barrow, CBS' coordinating and lead game producer for the NFL, will helm his third Super Bowl telecast. And if the past is prologue, fans should prepare themselves for the unexpected. Barrow's first NFL championship production-Super Bowl XLI in February 2007-featured history on the very first play: The Chicago Bears' Devin Hester ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown, a first for the Super Bowl. Barrow was going through his normal early-game routine, getting the starting lineup graphics ready. "All of a sudden, that was thrown out the window," he recalls. In the second Super Bowl that Barrow produced, in February 2010, the New Orleans Saints began the second half with a surprise onside kick recovery.
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