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WATCH: CBS includes Hank Aaron in Super Bowl pre-game show
Hall of Famer Hank Aaron turns 85 Wednesday.
CBS’s Super Bowl 53 pre-game coverage included several vignettes about host city Atlanta.
Among those brief highlights was a brief narrative by Braves Hall of Fame outfielder.
“Atlanta, really, truly has been a home to me,” Aaron says in the spot:
Atlanta is so much more than just a city to Henry Aaron. pic.twitter.com/TRuJ3eBDli
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) February 3, 2019
The New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams face in Super Bowl 53 in Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium Sunday. Aaron turns 85 on Wednesday.
The city’s rich civil-rights history was a centerpiece:
Atlanta is known as "The City Too Busy to Hate." We take a look at the impact the Super Bowl host city had on the civil rights movement. pic.twitter.com/ftOIGDRIjd
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) February 3, 2019
