Cowboys vs. Giants Sep. 20 , 1987 part 8 Halftime Show

[jabron2009]

IT'S FUNNY HOW THEY FREEZE THE ENDZONE CELEBRATIONS.....THE NFL WAS TRULY A DIFFERENT BRAND BACK IN THE EIGHTIES....AND THAT WAS THE WORSE PLAYCALL (THE BENGALS) I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE...LOL

[RoyalTebowDoom]

I always loved CBS' graphics in the 80s, they were epic!

[CatW2Kidz]

The Cowboys were in decline by this time but a win over the Giants in their house when kind of unexpected was nice.

[H2HOtex]

Bill Bates was a bad mofo!

[LordChristan1]

@H2HOtex was that the guy herschel steam rolled?

[H2HOtex]

@LordChristan1 yea in college Bates played safety for Tennesee

[H2HOtex]

fucking Rich Corliss! cost me $50 in 87

[jbsmg]

@H2HOtex Figuring inflation, that's like way more nowadays, lol.

[Soniaspapa]

How the bengals could make that call is beyond me. I mean its obvious there was no one on their sideline who knew that was a terrible call. How does that happen?? pretty pathetic.

[BillyT92679]

cool how CBS color codes the games

red background for AFC

blue background for NFC

[JBTHREAT]

@BillyT92679 and grey when it's a AFC vs. NFC games!!

[unicronrocks]

Great play call on 4th down Bengals....

[southplnk]

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[thegorn68]

HA! The Bungles were still the Bungles. Only they could lose like that.

[nrwilliams015]

Faukin' Bengals! They should have they monley ass whooped! That's good for them!

[gjs78]

Love the 17-17 Broncos- Packers Tie. Karlis missing the field goal in the rain. That would never happen in the NFL today because the Packers coach would have called a fucking time out as ball being snapped; giving Karlis another try.

[scason]

There is just so much money involved in the NFL now. They've pretty much tried to sanitized it in order to not "offend" anyone and to protect their investment. And can we please take the damn pink shoes off? 

[ultraback29]

At 4:30, Musberger comments on pending '87 strike.

There maybe no NFL in 2011, so have greater joy for football during the upcoming 2010 season.

Given issues like concussions and the league's economic structure, there's much at stake in the months ahead.

This is an incredibly successful league. Of all YouTube posts you've ever read, give some remembrance to this one: 2011 could be a watershed moment in the history of American spectator sports.

[Crede06]

Wow, what was Cincy thinking there. I think a 2 yr-old would of made a better decision. In today's NFL, the coach would be immediately fired

[jln55]

"Chuck Long takes conrol of the Lions offense." lol!

[thetruthis9]

man, hearing the names of the players in these highlights takes me back to the home i grew up in....ahhh...nostalgia at it's finest...

[dolphinbuc]

Man,I remember this.

[ramboconan1]

"Absolute Free Agency would destroy the fabric of the NFL"

Man he is right and wrong. Good thing we dont have to see the same teams in the SuperBowl every year (other than waht the Pats did). But I think the NFL is a better league cause of Free Agency.

[zeppelinfan]

ahh, brings back a lot of memories

[shaunnol]

Karlis missed because he likes to kick barefoot.

[Tubewings]

Hmm...does the incident at 1:00 remind anyone here of something?

[prwright2]

lol funny

[2nd2nun1]

I love the background colors of the scores on the board behind Brent. Red for the AFC, blue for the NFC, and steel gray for an intraconference matchup.

[prwright2]

The little things man...that was great.brought back memories

[nyjin08]

2nd2nun1,

Good call on that. Detroit @ L.A. Raiders looks strange on the steel gray background with their silver/gray helmets.

[nyjin08]

Why are the Rams and Raiders both at home and playing at the same time? I thought that never happened? Almost like San Fran and Oakland now. The Jets and Giants in my town as well, and even though they share a stadium, they never play at the same time, (only 3 times in 30 years), including twice this year.

[2nd2nun1]

Thanks Nyjin. Sometimes the little things like color applications make or break a broadcast. In this case, CBS did a great job in focusing on this.

As a lifelong L.A. resident, the reason why the Rams and Raiders both played at home at the same time is that the Rams played in Orange County's Anaheim Stadium (since 1980), and the Raiders played in the Coliseum upon moving from Oakland in 1983.

I miss the days when we had TWO teams to cheer for. I blame Al Davis and Georgia Frontiere.

[nyjin08]

2nd2nun1,

Well, I realize they played in different stadiums, but my question was more about what game was shown in the L.A. area??? The Rams were hosting Minnesota, and the Raiders were hosting Detroit, meaning both were CBS games. Which game was shown?  They couldn't have both been offered, right? Or was it an Anaheim/L.A. thing? This is strange...

[edvhou812]

This would not happen today, but rules were different back in 1987.

[southplnk]

@nyjin08  both

[whostheman6]

@2nd2nun1 I think that Los Angeles will have one (maybe two, again) team to cheer for sooner than you think.

[cfoster81]

I think it was around 1989 CBS switched from gray to green on the scoreboard for interconferece games.

[goodmorningcapt1]

Musberger schilling for management. "I'm on the players' side and even I think they shouldn't strike." Oldest trick in the book, Scab!

[BradJames3384]

Bobby Hebert was awesome!

[unicronrocks]

THE NFL TODAY was awesome. Good commentating, good reporting. The crap on FOX Sports nowadays is horrible. Bradshaw is a moron, Howie Long is smug and Jimmy Johnson is annoying as hell. Joe Buck is an ass, too.

[goodmorningcapt1]

yeah, somewhere along the way they got the idea in their heads that what we really wanted from a pregame and halftime show was comedy, not information. Sometimes you just see four nitwits on your tv with their faces frozen in glassy smiles and laughter, and you think it was lobobotomy day at the studio.

[igocommando1979]

This reminds me of Tecmo Bowl!

[baghdad03]

thats funny, I was thinkin the same thing, but more like nes playaction football

[UICOMEDY]

Doug Williams was a prisoner? At what price to his career!? Gee for a prisoner he did quite well, Super Bowl MVP.

[WesMantooth73]

Wow, this takes me back.  The Falcons with red helmets, the Browns beat the Steelers 34-10, and oh those poor Bengals--punt the ball!!

Chuck Long recently got fired as coach at San Diego St. Look how chunky Pat Summerall was.

[DangeloM27]

what was wyche doing?

[stansayer]

I think the replacement players were the solution.

[cllamont]

Look at how low tech this footage id. THe simple set. THe basic graphics. It is still better than what you can see today on TV.

[bmasters1981]

I've said it before and I'll say it again-- this studio, CBS Studio 43 in NYC circa '87, beats the FOX studio in Hollywood any day.

[twfownerman]

lol theres a squirrel on the field

[pablocoon]

NFL today in the 80's...so good.

[NuRm69]

Holy crap!

A Chuck Long sighting!

[Jeff051176]

And sad thing is Long is pretty much the last decent QB the Lions had lol.

[steelerman1978]

steelers!

[SammieDeLuce]

CONTINUED-

The Patiots were LUCKY enough to just do enough to get those 3 they have

All 3 Super Bowl victories were won by 3 points on the leg of Vinatieri

They would NOT have beaten ANY of the Cowboys-49ers teams or ANY of the PRE FREE-AGENCY era teams

I truly believe that

Continuity goes along way-especially in the NFL

[mrp0518]

I agree but the Pats of 2 seasons ago would have matched up really well and Brady was a big reason for the 3 not just Vinateri

[krissykimono]

football in the 80's was great

[SammieDeLuce]

Absolutely!! No free-agency to make everything fair

Screw what's fair-Nowadays teams are practically punished if the orginazation knows what their doing(Drafting/Trading)

There is no way a team can dominate and keep all the players they know they should keep-I say toss away the salary cap and let the orginizations build a REAL Super Bowl team

Not-oh we're pretty good and with a little luck and a couple of bounces our way we'll be champs

Sorry I just can't take the Patriots serious enough

[CatW2Kidz]

AH the scabs

[quietriotfan1976]

this was a few weeks before the strike.

[Jeff051176]

Actually it was 2 days before the players (well most of them) went out on strike, it was 2 weeks before the scab games started.

[quietriotfan1976]

Thanks Jeff, it's been awhile, and sometimes the memory fails.

[Jeff051176]

No prob, yeah it's been a long time, I just happen to remember it because my dad and I were probably going to have tickets to the Redskins game that got cancelled the following Sunday.

[cbaldwinjr]

This was a few DAYS before the strike.

[cllamont]

Dorsett was on his way to leading the league in rushing that year. Strike ruined it.

[cfoster81]

I was born and grew up in the D.C. area in the 80's and the Skins were very good back then during Joe Gibbs' first tenure and who knew back then that they would wind up in Super Bowl XXII and have the game that most Washingtonians still remember to this day. To comment on the ending of the SF/CIN game, why would they run the run the ball on 4th down and who also knew that the Cardinals would play their last season in St. Louis before moving to Arizona.

[Jeff051176]

Ditto for me cfoster, I was also born & grew up in the D.C. area in the 80's, and I remember how crappy the Skins looked in the 1st half of that season and then they turned it on in the 2nd half of the season. It helped in the playoffs that the Vikings beat the Niners so the Skins had the NFC title game at RFK that year. And yeah Sam Wyche was a moron for that last play call in that game.

[pablocoon]

LOL Willaims a victim, if that trade to the Raiders had occured can you imagine how different football History might be? Musberger was greath though, Dear lord I miss the NFL today in the 80's.

[mrkingofkings]

My dad watched the 49ers kicked the Bengals' tails on KPIX channel 5 in the bay area that's when the '9ers dominating the '80's, but what's not cool in the post season, is that Minnesota kick the '9ers butts. This was good back then before I was born.

[karaokelegend1997]

What in the world was Sam Wyche thinking? Crazy!

[Campbell7204]

by far one of the dumbest calls ever. should've been fired. just as bad as the miracle at the meadowlands call.

[cbaldwinjr]

Considering he took the Bengals to the Super Bowl the next year, I think Paul Brown got it right

[jdog34505]

thats the thing he wasnt thinking, they couldve just taken a knee to end the game but nooo

[Mookie961]

It was 4th down. Taking a knee would've stopped the clock even sooner. They probably were worried about a blocked punt -- they needed to run a final play that would take more time off the clock. Musburger's suggestion wasn't all that bad...have the QB run around for a bit, even taking a safety, since they were up by 6.

Set up a classic finish, though. Vintage Montana.

[SaskBlade]

Were the Eagles scabs in the strike?  I knew Dallas was.

[outgoing37]

GO falcons.I remember that game.Hell we didnt win many games in the 80's so anytime Atlanta won.I remember it.I remember in 1988 The falcons beat the Bills 30-28 in Atlanta on a last second fg by Davis i believe.Anyone have that game?? CLASSIC ..LOL