I was almost in tears when this aired. I'm glad CBS eventually got the NFL back. FOX turned the classic pregame show into a sideshow full of nonsense.
CBS may have gotten back into NFL coverage in 1998, but the feel and tone it's broadcasts of the AFC today is nothing like it's coverage of the NFC. Their announcer crews were much better and I kind of chuckle at how short a leash CBS kept Terry Bradshaw on. They had to! I'm a Steelers fan and I love Terry, but sometimes I just wanted to be able to reach into the picture tube and give him a shake..."DAMMIT BRADSHAW, WHAT ARE YA' THINKIN'?!"
Right before this clip started to air live, the camera focused on Greg Gumbel sitting up in the press box at Texas Stadium, saluting all the staff and his broadcast colleagues, and starting to choke/tear up while saying "thank you everyone and good night." And Terry reached his arm over to put it on Greg's back to console him. It really was the end of an era for CBS.
It was indeed a sad moment---but the new era of the NFL is better because now no network has been left out. FOX now has NFC, CBS has AFC, NBC has Sunday Night, and ESPN/ABC has Monday Night. It really is amazing to see how much the NFL has grown over the years.
I was pretty happy when CBS stopped broadcasting because all we had was a roof top antenna and it didn't pick up the CBS channel very well. Fox, NBC and ABC almost always came in better than most cable channels did at my grandma's house.
I read of a messge board CBS broadcasted it's first colored game between Baltamore & Detroit on Thansgiving on 65, but wasn't till the following year they did all color games.
Too bad because NBC went all color in 65 and since they carried all of the AFL games, it must have been bothersome for The NFL since both leagues were at war with each other.
Here's a odd thought, the Cowboys were the last NFC team to win some sort of a championship on CBS (NFC Title) until 2010 when the Saints won (Super Bowl title). Odd isn't it?
Here's hoping the NFL tells that cheese-sucking Rupert Murdoch to shove a rugby ball up his Australian rules bum, and fires Fox Sports when their contract is up. Just imagine a football world without the bleating of Joe Buck..
Well at least the 49ers won it the next year, I remeber the 49ers played one of the last games at texas stadium and the announcer said the place was a mess because of minimal maintenance.
NFL seasons ALWAYS spill over into the new year for example 17th week of the season falls on January 2nd. With the playoffs starting January 8th. So thats why it was copyright 1994 Fox officially took over in September of that year!
Thanks CBS but to hell with KDAL Duluth. Local affiliate did all they could to keep the Packer games off the air. Reason number 610 why in Northern Wisconsin the hatred runs full in a river of PBR.
So, the final NFC game broadcast on CBS was at Texas Stadium......alas, Texas Stadium is no more; it was blasted into a pile of rubble last week (4/11/2010).
I got my own little piece of that stadium, though.....actually a little 5x3 square of the original astro-turf which was pulled up and sold in pieces in 1981. It was called Tartan Turf and was a dark olive colored green....not what you'd expect.
i like the old nfl better when in was on cbs,nbc,abc in the 80s.and the old nfl today theme song because i grew up watching the NFL back in the 1980s with brent musburger saying you are looking live.
Fox took the classic NFL pre-game show and turned it into an annoying parade of ass-clowns. I'll take the classic days of The NFL Today over Fox's "Hollywood" crap anyday.
@unicronrocks Bullshit. I love today's NFL on Fox and CBS was great itself. No need to diss Fox though and accept change. But Fox has done a great job.
@unicronrocks Well young man, I remember when CBS had actual analysis by Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier - both All Pros - for EVERY GAME to be played that Sunday - and then they changed this to happy talk with a CHICK, a CHICK I say, on the panel (Phyllis George). There is no way to describe how shitty football analysis is on the main networks, including that home-planet of assclowns, ESPN. Even the NFL Network is mostly dreck, with some good stuff like Coach's Corner and Playbook.
@antimatterXXXIII I totally agree antimatterXXXIII. ESPN is 100 mph short attention span garbage, with meaningless stats and a bunch of ego-driven talking heads.
Fox handled the transition well, but I still miss the old CBS coverage of the NFC. In particular CBS used to have a dramatic intro before every game (even regular season) , that really got you pshched and ready for the game. (particularly when Summerall did the intro). Also no one beats Musburger as the studio host in the 70's and 80's.
@malikstarks couldn't have agreed more. It was like the theme come on and i was a kid then but i would blast into living room to watch the game. CBS was good about that. Damn the crap we wore to back then haha.
Interesting to note how CBS handled this, and how NBC handled it when they lost the AFC games in 1998. CBS went out with class. NBC went out by leading straight into a crappy episode of "3rd Rock From The Sun" without even saying goodbye. I hate to see what Fox would do to mark the occasion if they ever lost the NFL.
@untexan If Fox loses the NFL rights, they would probably have their Fox News guys throw fits for a half hour after their last game is over, making false claims about the other networks outbidding them for BS reasons.
In a bit of an irony, when CBS covered the NFL (today the NFC) back in the 60s they were forbiddened from announcing AFL (today the AFC) scores. Now CBS has the AFC TV package.
In Philadelphia, the memories are doubly nostalgic. CBS coverage of the Eagles had been on Channel 10, WCAU. They swapped affiliations with the NBC station, KYW Channel 3, in '95.
I know you're going to think me a Cowboys homer, but it's the truth. It's appropriate that the final shot of CBS's coverage of the NFC package should be Texas Stadium. The Cowboys played in the most NFC Championship games in the modern era at 11 appearances, edging out the 49ers by one. As far as wins go, they won 7 NFC Championships on CBS's package, by far the most of any NFC team.
But while CBS's coverage has gotten better since '98, my Cowboys have only floundered.
I believe that CBS got into broadcasting the NFL in 1956 by inheriting TV deals for six or seven NFL teams that had been held by the old DuMont network at the time it ceased operations.
I've also heard an urban legend that CBS almost dropped the NFL after the 1958 season, but the huge ratings for that year's Championship Game convinced CBS to give the NFL a second chance, and that by 1960, the network was making huge money from the NFL and that the league had become a national obsession!
It was the NFC Title Game held on 1/23/94. Greg Gumbel and Terry Bradshaw hosted the pregame/halftime/postgame coverage. At the time, they were the hosts of "The NFL Today" (after Brent Musburger and Irv Cross left). Pat Summerall and John Madden called the game itself.
It was a landmark game in NFL history, but I wonder why CBS included clips of the '58 Championship in that montage. NBC had the TV rights to that game.
1994 would be FOX's first year covering the NFL. Not only that, It was also be the last year for Football in Los Angeles with the Rams moving to St. Louis and the Raiders moving to Oakland. I was very upset when that happened.
Well, now you know how fans in Minneapolis, Brooklyn, San Diego, Cleveland (though waaay back in the day), and Oakland the first time, felt when they lost their teams to Los Angeles.
CBS also said goodbye to Major League Baseball that same year (& also the very last time the Toronto Blue Jays ever played nationally since Fox likes to snub them).
Four years later, another end of an era when NBC lost football after 33 years & CBS got it back in 1998.
Since CBS lost the NFL in 1994 and got it back in 1998, and then NBC lost the NFL in 1998 and got it back 2 years ago, and ABC lost Monday Night Football, I think it would balance things if Fox were to lose the NFL come 2011 when the contracts come back up.
Ok, so Fox might not fumble the NFC package anytime soon, but it would be nice to see ABC, or TNT or ESPN take over the Thursday night and Saturday night "Run to the Playoffs" series from NFL network.
Actually, it would be even better if cable companies would get their collective head out of their "you know what's" and start carrying the NFL Network on a regular tier. Why do we have to watch "Lifetime" and "Hallmark Channel" but can't get the NFL Network...which more people would watch than those two (and many more) combined?
The cable companies want to squeeze money out of everything for something that would only cost 10 cents more per subsriber (on average).
@cboy619 There's hope - the NFL want to do their own coverage and may torpedo Fox to facilitate this goal, before the anti-trust lawyers can get involved.
ABC didn't lose Monday Night Football, they just gave it to the main channel of its sports division, ESPN, so ABC can have normal programming on Monday nights.
MNF is was still not what it was in the 70s, eighties, or even early 90s. Way back ABC realized if the game was bad the announcers had to make it interesting. So they had "sports-journalists" like Howard Cosell. Today all they do is hire ex-jocks.
There's no one that can fill the role of Cosell today. ABC tried and failed miserably with Dennis Miller in 2000. Just last year ESPN failed with Tony Kornheiser.
@antimatterXXXIII Rush said NOTHING racist. He made the 100% accurate point that the media pushes black QBs and some crybaby's couldn't handle the truth.
@Srd1126 MNF worked because there was no 24/7 cable sports coverage. If you took away all the sports channels and forced people back to the newspaper, MNF would be as huge as it was in the Cosell days. The decline of MNF coincided with the rise of ESPN.
@antimatterXXXIII It wasn't the "news" aspect of it but so much sports of all kinds a person can watch. But MNF was known for innovation within sports (eg: the three man booth.) The NFL keeps watering down their product to the point I personally almost wish there will be a lockout/strike.
Pat Summerall and John Madden were the BEST and their voices will be missed forever
joecoppeta 3 days ago
If you want to know the truth, Fox has been a big step down from the old days when CBS held the rights to the NFC.
Fox moved over everyone from CBS, but over the years FOX has gotten so obnoxious
jojopuppyfish 3 weeks ago
I was almost in tears when this aired. I'm glad CBS eventually got the NFL back. FOX turned the classic pregame show into a sideshow full of nonsense.
unicronrocks 1 month ago
I miss that old CBS theme music.
ABWorsham4 2 months ago
CBS may have gotten back into NFL coverage in 1998, but the feel and tone it's broadcasts of the AFC today is nothing like it's coverage of the NFC. Their announcer crews were much better and I kind of chuckle at how short a leash CBS kept Terry Bradshaw on. They had to! I'm a Steelers fan and I love Terry, but sometimes I just wanted to be able to reach into the picture tube and give him a shake..."DAMMIT BRADSHAW, WHAT ARE YA' THINKIN'?!"
Ray Scott, Lindsay Nelson...I miss 'em.
conductorinblack 2 months ago
this outro for CBS's NFC coverage is really the end of an era until 1998 when football returned to the network
TheDarkwingj 3 months ago
Right before this clip started to air live, the camera focused on Greg Gumbel sitting up in the press box at Texas Stadium, saluting all the staff and his broadcast colleagues, and starting to choke/tear up while saying "thank you everyone and good night." And Terry reached his arm over to put it on Greg's back to console him. It really was the end of an era for CBS.
bayou432 4 months ago
It was indeed a sad moment---but the new era of the NFL is better because now no network has been left out. FOX now has NFC, CBS has AFC, NBC has Sunday Night, and ESPN/ABC has Monday Night. It really is amazing to see how much the NFL has grown over the years.
bluestripetiger 4 months ago
The NFL would return to CBS in 1998.
JHollowayNetwork 5 months ago
I watched this play live. Brought a tear to my eye.
phuturephunk 5 months ago
Enjoy the Fox Crew better then CBS....
guevaraz101 7 months ago
Jimmy Johnson last home win as Dallas coach and last trip to the Super Bowl
vitoduval 7 months ago
Pre game shows suck now...They're so tricked up...Yelling, laughing at stupid jokes..Its unwatchable.
tapehead004 8 months ago
The last 8 seconds are the saddest
money7373 8 months ago
I was pretty happy when CBS stopped broadcasting because all we had was a roof top antenna and it didn't pick up the CBS channel very well. Fox, NBC and ABC almost always came in better than most cable channels did at my grandma's house.
crowtservo 10 months ago
I read of a messge board CBS broadcasted it's first colored game between Baltamore & Detroit on Thansgiving on 65, but wasn't till the following year they did all color games.
Too bad because NBC went all color in 65 and since they carried all of the AFL games, it must have been bothersome for The NFL since both leagues were at war with each other.
MIKECNW 11 months ago
@MIKECNW A handful of NFL games on CBS as late as 1967 were in black-and-white. These were regional games between teams that weren't contenders.
NBC's coverage of the American Football League went all-color in 1966.
altfactor 1 day ago
Here's a odd thought, the Cowboys were the last NFC team to win some sort of a championship on CBS (NFC Title) until 2010 when the Saints won (Super Bowl title). Odd isn't it?
dpfresh09 1 year ago
CBS got NFL back eight years later this time they had the AFC games.
petersupertigger 1 year ago
check out the folds on parcells. how bout goin up a couple of sizes
wilbert916 1 year ago
...and hello to AFC Football
Jean0987654321 1 year ago
Here's hoping the NFL tells that cheese-sucking Rupert Murdoch to shove a rugby ball up his Australian rules bum, and fires Fox Sports when their contract is up. Just imagine a football world without the bleating of Joe Buck..
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
Well at least the 49ers won it the next year, I remeber the 49ers played one of the last games at texas stadium and the announcer said the place was a mess because of minimal maintenance.
vitoduval 1 year ago
It says 1994 at the end of the video.
MajorImpact 1 year ago
@MajorImpact
NFL seasons ALWAYS spill over into the new year for example 17th week of the season falls on January 2nd. With the playoffs starting January 8th. So thats why it was copyright 1994 Fox officially took over in September of that year!
Kelski1998 1 year ago
@MajorImpact The postseason games for 1993 were played in 1994.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
The NFL on CBS returned for the 1998 season.
frankd1965 1 year ago
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newstarcadefan 1 year ago
Thanks CBS but to hell with KDAL Duluth. Local affiliate did all they could to keep the Packer games off the air. Reason number 610 why in Northern Wisconsin the hatred runs full in a river of PBR.
ThePretzelHead 1 year ago
So, the final NFC game broadcast on CBS was at Texas Stadium......alas, Texas Stadium is no more; it was blasted into a pile of rubble last week (4/11/2010).
I got my own little piece of that stadium, though.....actually a little 5x3 square of the original astro-turf which was pulled up and sold in pieces in 1981. It was called Tartan Turf and was a dark olive colored green....not what you'd expect.
possumtail 1 year ago
i can remember when texas stadium was new...all everyone talked about was the hole in the roof....the good old days...
darrylhaynes 1 year ago
NFL on both FOX and CBS is better today than it back then. Well, I like the earlier years of both FOX and CBS.
P.S. The ESPN version of MNF sucks. Put it back on ABC where it was and bring back ABC Sports and ESPN on ABC sucks.
webere50 2 years ago 3
i like the old nfl better when in was on cbs,nbc,abc in the 80s.and the old nfl today theme song because i grew up watching the NFL back in the 1980s with brent musburger saying you are looking live.
BRYANMEARS1975 2 years ago 2
Fox took the classic NFL pre-game show and turned it into an annoying parade of ass-clowns. I'll take the classic days of The NFL Today over Fox's "Hollywood" crap anyday.
unicronrocks 2 years ago 8
I couldn't have said it better.
lmswentzeljr 2 years ago
@unicronrocks Bullshit. I love today's NFL on Fox and CBS was great itself. No need to diss Fox though and accept change. But Fox has done a great job.
StylistecS 2 years ago
@unicronrocks Well young man, I remember when CBS had actual analysis by Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier - both All Pros - for EVERY GAME to be played that Sunday - and then they changed this to happy talk with a CHICK, a CHICK I say, on the panel (Phyllis George). There is no way to describe how shitty football analysis is on the main networks, including that home-planet of assclowns, ESPN. Even the NFL Network is mostly dreck, with some good stuff like Coach's Corner and Playbook.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII I totally agree antimatterXXXIII. ESPN is 100 mph short attention span garbage, with meaningless stats and a bunch of ego-driven talking heads.
unicronrocks 1 year ago
Fox handled the transition well, but I still miss the old CBS coverage of the NFC. In particular CBS used to have a dramatic intro before every game (even regular season) , that really got you pshched and ready for the game. (particularly when Summerall did the intro). Also no one beats Musburger as the studio host in the 70's and 80's.
malikstarks 2 years ago 25
@malikstarks couldn't have agreed more. It was like the theme come on and i was a kid then but i would blast into living room to watch the game. CBS was good about that. Damn the crap we wore to back then haha.
TheBubba91 1 year ago
Interesting to note how CBS handled this, and how NBC handled it when they lost the AFC games in 1998. CBS went out with class. NBC went out by leading straight into a crappy episode of "3rd Rock From The Sun" without even saying goodbye. I hate to see what Fox would do to mark the occasion if they ever lost the NFL.
untexan 2 years ago 4
@untexan If Fox loses the NFL rights, they would probably have their Fox News guys throw fits for a half hour after their last game is over, making false claims about the other networks outbidding them for BS reasons.
neoprankster 1 year ago
In a bit of an irony, when CBS covered the NFL (today the NFC) back in the 60s they were forbiddened from announcing AFL (today the AFC) scores. Now CBS has the AFC TV package.
mjwatts1983 2 years ago 3
I liked it when it was just Fox and NBC. And ABC. And TNT doing Sunday nights the first half of the season.
MattKensethRules 2 years ago
In Philadelphia, the memories are doubly nostalgic. CBS coverage of the Eagles had been on Channel 10, WCAU. They swapped affiliations with the NBC station, KYW Channel 3, in '95.
DesiluTrek 2 years ago
I know you're going to think me a Cowboys homer, but it's the truth. It's appropriate that the final shot of CBS's coverage of the NFC package should be Texas Stadium. The Cowboys played in the most NFC Championship games in the modern era at 11 appearances, edging out the 49ers by one. As far as wins go, they won 7 NFC Championships on CBS's package, by far the most of any NFC team.
But while CBS's coverage has gotten better since '98, my Cowboys have only floundered.
stansayer 2 years ago
I'm sorry to laugh at your last sentence but I felt a quite strange sensation; a curious blend of pain and humor as I read your post.
rkozik87 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I like the AFC better anyway.
smackdatpat 3 years ago
I believe that CBS got into broadcasting the NFL in 1956 by inheriting TV deals for six or seven NFL teams that had been held by the old DuMont network at the time it ceased operations.
I've also heard an urban legend that CBS almost dropped the NFL after the 1958 season, but the huge ratings for that year's Championship Game convinced CBS to give the NFL a second chance, and that by 1960, the network was making huge money from the NFL and that the league had become a national obsession!
altfactor 3 years ago
You say this clip is from "the final CBS NFC game."
What was that last game?
chrisuncleahmad 3 years ago
Dallas beat San Francisco 38-21 @ Texas Stadium. Greg Gumbel and Terry Bradshaw were the commentators.
cbehr91 3 years ago
It was the NFC Title Game held on 1/23/94. Greg Gumbel and Terry Bradshaw hosted the pregame/halftime/postgame coverage. At the time, they were the hosts of "The NFL Today" (after Brent Musburger and Irv Cross left). Pat Summerall and John Madden called the game itself.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago 2
@cbehr91 Pat Summerall and John Madden called the game. Gumbel and Bradshaw hosted the "NFL Today."
MikeChuk21 5 months ago
When CBS got the NFL back, they got the Browns back for the first time since 1969 (Steelers, too).
Buckpenn 3 years ago
And the Colts....
seattlehawks94 3 years ago
@Buckpenn CBS did carry Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts home games against NFC clubs from 1970 through 1993.
But it wasn't until `19898 that the network began covering those three teams on a regular basis.
altfactor 1 month ago
It was a landmark game in NFL history, but I wonder why CBS included clips of the '58 Championship in that montage. NBC had the TV rights to that game.
devils950003 3 years ago
I think that might've been the 1959 Championship.
neoprankster 3 years ago
1994 would be FOX's first year covering the NFL. Not only that, It was also be the last year for Football in Los Angeles with the Rams moving to St. Louis and the Raiders moving to Oakland. I was very upset when that happened.
stevieboy247 3 years ago
Well, now you know how fans in Minneapolis, Brooklyn, San Diego, Cleveland (though waaay back in the day), and Oakland the first time, felt when they lost their teams to Los Angeles.
Ha Ha.
naruyamcha 3 years ago
CBS also said goodbye to Major League Baseball that same year (& also the very last time the Toronto Blue Jays ever played nationally since Fox likes to snub them).
Four years later, another end of an era when NBC lost football after 33 years & CBS got it back in 1998.
QBCNetwork 4 years ago 5
Since CBS lost the NFL in 1994 and got it back in 1998, and then NBC lost the NFL in 1998 and got it back 2 years ago, and ABC lost Monday Night Football, I think it would balance things if Fox were to lose the NFL come 2011 when the contracts come back up.
neoprankster 3 years ago
fitting, but it will never happen. The NFL rights for Fox put them on the map. I think they'd give ANYTHING to keep the NFL on their network.
cboy619 3 years ago
Ok, so Fox might not fumble the NFC package anytime soon, but it would be nice to see ABC, or TNT or ESPN take over the Thursday night and Saturday night "Run to the Playoffs" series from NFL network.
neoprankster 3 years ago
Actually, it would be even better if cable companies would get their collective head out of their "you know what's" and start carrying the NFL Network on a regular tier. Why do we have to watch "Lifetime" and "Hallmark Channel" but can't get the NFL Network...which more people would watch than those two (and many more) combined?
The cable companies want to squeeze money out of everything for something that would only cost 10 cents more per subsriber (on average).
cboy619 3 years ago 21
I rest my case.
neoprankster 3 years ago
@cboy619 You're right, thats only $2,300,000 more a year the company would have to pay for the rights, chump change.....
rencro123 1 year ago
@cboy619 There's hope - the NFL want to do their own coverage and may torpedo Fox to facilitate this goal, before the anti-trust lawyers can get involved.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
ABC didn't lose Monday Night Football, they just gave it to the main channel of its sports division, ESPN, so ABC can have normal programming on Monday nights.
diakr0n 3 years ago
ya but its still not the same and while the ratings on ESPN for MNF are strong if they were still on ABC the ratings would be bigger by about 3-4%
dadirrtywhyteboi 2 years ago
MNF is was still not what it was in the 70s, eighties, or even early 90s. Way back ABC realized if the game was bad the announcers had to make it interesting. So they had "sports-journalists" like Howard Cosell. Today all they do is hire ex-jocks.
Srd1126 2 years ago
There's no one that can fill the role of Cosell today. ABC tried and failed miserably with Dennis Miller in 2000. Just last year ESPN failed with Tony Kornheiser.
malikstarks 2 years ago
@malikstarks Remember Rush Limpblob's brief tenure? He didn't last 10 days before letting his racist crap fly.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII Rush said NOTHING racist. He made the 100% accurate point that the media pushes black QBs and some crybaby's couldn't handle the truth.
Srd1126 1 year ago 4
@Srd1126 Yeah, sure. OK.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@Srd1126 MNF worked because there was no 24/7 cable sports coverage. If you took away all the sports channels and forced people back to the newspaper, MNF would be as huge as it was in the Cosell days. The decline of MNF coincided with the rise of ESPN.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@antimatterXXXIII It wasn't the "news" aspect of it but so much sports of all kinds a person can watch. But MNF was known for innovation within sports (eg: the three man booth.) The NFL keeps watering down their product to the point I personally almost wish there will be a lockout/strike.
Srd1126 1 year ago