The DUMBEST ANNOUNCER in Super Bowl HISTORY | Super Bowl XI
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- The Super Bowl is the worst possible time for an announcer to get the facts wrong. And man, did Don Meredith do that at Super Bowl XI
During Super Bowl XI between the Oakland Raiders and the Minnesota Vikings, Don Meredith made an insane blunder when talking about Raiders kicker Errol Mann, which was equivalent to saying that Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield replaced the injured Tom Brady, or that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Gardner Minshew replaced the injured Matt Ryan
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That didn't sound wrong to me. It sounded like he was saying "He wasn't their kicker coming in (to the season), we know they replaced George Blanda (with Steinfort) this year, had an injury..." He didn't say "he" had an injury, there was no subject, meaning the previous subject (they) "had an injury", as in the Raiders, referring to Steinfort. I don't know the whole context though, of course.
I was thinking that could possibly be a defense, but with the context of the rest of the broadcast, with Gowdy’s correction, and with other publications chiming in afterwards, it wasn’t. Meredith was talking about an injured Blanda
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 Kabazame is correct. Just because Gowdy "corrected" Meredith and then others chimed in afterwards, doesn't make it so. Millions of people bought into the nonsense of Covid lockdowns, does that make it correct?? No.
I agree with you. Meredith made a mistake by omitting Steinfort's name, but I think he meant it just as you stated: Blanda had been replaced, then there was an injury. Don should have been clearer, of course, but it's not as egregious as it was made out to be. (To my ears anyway)
Stienfort also got hurt , that season. EARL MANN WAS THE KICKER FOR THE RAIDERS IN SUPER BOWL 11.
STIENFORT GOT THE LOVE OF THE RAIDER NATION WITH HIS LAST SECOND FG AGAINST THE HATED STEELERS ON OPENING DAY IN 1976 , A MIRICLE 17 POINT RALLY WITH FIVE AND CHANGE LEFT IN THE GAME AND A DRAMATIC 31-28 VICTORY.
Nah - Even if Meredith mistakenly said that Blanda had been injured (and it's not even clear from his exact words that he did), it's an utterly trivial slip-up. The key point there was that the Raiders were minus a first-string kicker. Meredith knew it and pointed it out. He messed up the precise details as to who Mann replaced, but so what? To make an entire video about it, and calling Meredith "the dumbest SB announcer ever" is just lame.
One thing I like to say about Blanda, who I remember, is that he played football in the same decade as The Three Stooges (the 40's)
Barely.
I think the mistake made in the NFC Championship game this year was worse. Someone said Barry Sanders was on the 1983 Lions team. Actually he was 15 and #20 for the Lions was Billy Sims.
People in Philadelphia swear that Wentz won some super bowl somewhere
After you mentioning that Blanda had been around since the AAFC-NFL merger, I was wondering how many players who played the 1960 season in the NFL or AFL (or both) were still active in 1976.
I can tell you that Jim Marshall is the only player from the 1960 draft who was still active in '76, and only two other players from that draft were still around in '75.
Jim Bakken, kicker for the STL Cardinals
The AAFC-NFL merger was the 1950 season. George Blanda was drafted by the Bears in 1949. He played in four different decades.
Remember watching Blanda at 43 years old winning The NFL man of The Year Award with multiple comeback wins I thought he looked as old as father time, When Tom Brady won a Super Bowl in his eighties I was thinking The NFL has softened because Brady looks like he's in his twenties.
Yes, I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Meredith just had a verbal stumble. Yes, there was injury to the previous FG kicker. Yes, Blanda had been replaced. As the replay was about to start, Meredith had to speed up his delivery, probably because he got a direction in his earphone that the replay was imminent. He just compressed the Blanda story with the Steinfort story to get it out before the replay.
I think you're being unfair to Don.
Mann I remember from the 1970 game where he gave the Lions a 17-16 lead with just seconds left and Detroit only lost because Tom Dempsey hit his record setting 63 yarder as time ran out to give the Saints the 19-17 win.
Lions have a habit of losing games on record setting FG's.
Good video-I know what happened to George blanda-he wasn’t injured-he was cut by the raiders because he wasn’t good anymore-and replaced by Fred steinfort-the kicker then got hurt and they got errol Mann to do the job-I can’t believe dandy don didn’t get the facts straight-l loved him on Monday night football 🏈 and he was good on facts and made some quips-lol like the time the raiders played the Houston oilers and they were beating them back bad and Meredith saw a fan sitting in the seats giving a finger and he said they were number one! -funny,but this one wasn’t! 😮😮😮😮😅
My favorite Dandy Don Super Bowl moment is from his first one, SB IX, also with Curt Gowdy. The Steel Curtain was doing quite a number on Fran Tarkenton and the Minnesota offense. Not only just 17 yards rushing, but a putrid passing performance by Fran. The Steelers batted I believe 6 of his passes, and there was another one that didn't even count. One batted ball went back to Tarkenton, who caught it, reset, and threw a deep pass to John Gilliam for 42 yards. Gowdy is all excited because the Vikings offense finally had a big play, but you can hear Dandy Don in the background going "NO! NO! NO!". Gowdy then states that a marker is down, but still excited about the big play. Dandy Don repeats his no's, and says you can't do that, you can't throw two forward passes on one play!
Turn out the lights the party’s over.
Loved Don Meredith.
First! And SBXI, the last SB to begin and end with the sun shining.
The DUMBEST???? Meredith????? Dumb? He made a mistake. He's not dumb. And your headline doesn't say dumbest announcer moment.
Good lord man you could have wrapped this one up in 25 sec but you choose to babble on…….🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Meredith messed up by not even mentioning Fred Steinfort. That was the glaring omission on Meredith's part.
Im giving Dandy Don a pass on this one. Blanda had been around since 1949 and was cut for an inproven rookie who bounced arpund for 5 years. Fred who?
This is very similar to what happened in 2013 (though with the PBP side of things) when Gus Johnson called the city of Dortmund "a small town" during that year's Champions League Final between Borussia Dortmund & Bayern Munich even though the city had a population of 500,000 & the suburbs around it had a population around a million. For those wondering why Gus Johnson was calling the Champions League Final in the first place, it is because Fox (who had the rights to the Champions League at the time) wanted to get him comfortable with calling soccer especially since they had made him their lead soccer announcer for their World Cup coverage that was going to start with the 2015 Women's World Cup in an effort to get more casual fans watching their soccer coverage. In addition to this mistake, he also called soccer in the same way that he called college football/basketball which caused hardcore soccer fans as well as those in the soccer media to absolutely bash Fox for making this move. Gus called two more Champions League finals in 2014 & 2015 before deciding soccer was not his thing & sticking full time with college football/basketball along with the occasional NFL game & John Strong was brought over from NBC to replace him.
Announcers do that all the time. Brent Mussberger of CBS said just after the final buzzer in Portland's NBA win in 1977 that it was just like Vince Lombardi bringing the NFL title "to a small town." Green Bay had 80,000 in the '60s. Portland's metro area population in '77 was about a million.
My guess is that Don meant to say he replaced Steinfort, who was out with an injury (though also as you said wasn't good) and he wasn't the starter at the beginning of the season.
Man you must be busy every day making videos. I applaud your work ethic. You do an amazing job.
Listen to what he said, They replaced blanda, had an injury! Poor choice of words, go pick on someone for your click BAIT!!!
If what Don Meredith said happened today, social media would have had a field day
I see some people speculating that Meredith was drunk during this game. If so, that would be the last time a drunk announcer would call a Super Bowl played in the Rose Bowl.
LMAO - "speculating".... hysterical
you misinterpreted what meredith said. they replaced george blanda this year. (correct). had an injury. (correct, steinfort was injured) he did NOT say george blanda was replaced because he was injured. you are wrong here
Watched (and rewatched) all the Raider games from the 70's as a huge and childhood Raider fan. Yes, Errol Mann was a complete nightmare. And much like Roy Gerela, the coach stuck with him way to long as he was losing games for us even into 1978. Towards the end of the '76 season and playoffs prior to the Superbowl, Madden actually had to work around Mann and went for some "long shot" 4th downs knowing Mann was not up to it (see the AFC Championship game). Sad that Blanda never got his Superbowl ring knowing that we would get a worse kicker in Mann...........As for the video and takeaway, nice work but you are making too much of Meredith's comments. Although Meredith's words at that spot were essentially a "word salad", it doesn't seem to me (even at the time and rewatching the broadcast) that he was implying that Blanda was replaced for the game or even during the season, but rather that Blanda, their long time kicker for almost a decade, was replaced for the '76 season. In fact, Meredith had broadcast and seen Mann kick in both Raider playoff games weeks earlier (against Pats & Steelers) as well as a whole bunch of '76 regular season Raider games for NBC (The Raiders and Gowdy/Meredith were teamed together often in '76 by NBC). In fact, Meredith even broadcast the 1976 Raider opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers in which the Raiders stormed back to score 17 points in the last 3 minutes with Fred Steinford kicking the winning field goal as time essentially expired. Both Meredith and Kurt Gowdy discussed during that first game about Blanda being cut before the season which you can listen to on TH-cam (th-cam.com/video/zlHkXkWxFgM/w-d-xo.html). From his own broadcasted statements from week one onward, Meredith's clearly was aware that Blanda had not played in the '76 season......Entertaining and some good research but it seems to me that calling one of the NFL's better color commentators "the dumbest" for some undeveloped, rushed sentences during a three hour, high exposure broadcast is an unfair and sensationalized legacy to level upon Meredith who pretty much defined the role of pro football color commentator during the decade.
Yep. Even before we know all you have pointed out here, a reasonable interpretation is that Meredith knew Blanda was gone before the season and that a rookie had replaced Blanda, and that Mann had replaced the rookie kicker, but in the moment he couldn't recall the injured rookie kicker's name, so he said "they replaced Blanda....had an injury..." He meant that Blanda had been replaced that year but there was an injury to Blanca's replacement, hence Mann on the roster. Meredith did NOT say "Mann replaced the injured Blanda" which is almost certainly what he would have said if the phony interpretation that forms the premise of this video were correct. But JG needs clicks....
What a waste of film for something few care about.
Blanca did make a field goal over 40 yards in 75. He made a 41 yard field goal on a frozen field in Pittsburgh in the 75 AFC championship game . His last ever kick in the NFL .
Yep. Was just talking regular season. Should have clarified
I read a story about Meredith calling a Monday Night game between the Bengals and Steelers. Number 58 for Pittsburgh (pre-Jack Lambert) made a good play. Howard Cosell asked Meredith to comment on Number 58 for Pittsburgh. Meredith went on to talk about Number 58 for Cincinnati.
Would have been a good time to mention Meredith's other SB gaffe: Mixing up Wendell Tyler and Carl Monroe eight years later--especially since you'd just done the strangest host vid. For being the first of the O.G. MNF crew to get to do a Super Bowl (though this was his second) he was, uh........................yeah
Now that being said is this really any worse the Dan Campbell truth squad burying Michael Badgley as if the Lions had just had him on the practice squad the whole year?
Speaking of Meredith, you could do a story about him commentating Super Bowl 19 with Frank Gifford and Joe Theismann. Theismann was still playing at the time, yet ABC had him call this game in place of their other usual color commentator, OJ Simpson. Simpson was on the pregame show instead. I’ve never known why ABC made that change. That story would be good for the JG9 treatment.
Especially with him yelling TYLER!!!!! TYLER!!!!!! during Carl Monroe's TD
Blanda was one of the greatest ever so to say that is almost insulting.
Not worth a video.
Thumbs down for disparaging Don Meredith
This was such a worthless, valueless video. Well produced, but absolute nonsense.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about a disastrous game Fred Steinfort had with the Broncos against the Raiders (ironically enough) in 1981.
It would've been worse if someone said Doug Williams replaced an *injured* Jay Schroeder. Schroeder was injured during Week 1, but he was replaced at the end of the season because he sucked.
Williams clearly replaced an injured Joe Theismann, c’mon man!
@@CTubeMan *Sonny Juergensen, get it right!
@@msarzo Sammy Baugh
@@mgb4692 That was so long ago even if wasn't born yet!
Kinda silly! He mentioned Blanda then an injury just didn't say buckeyes name.nothing like romo
He was probably drunk.
Dandy Don was probably drunk
It takes an incredible talent to drag a misstatement 47 years ago into a three minute four minute video. Dandy Dawn was drunk most of the time he was in the booth. I have no doubt that he was probably drunk here too.
give "Dandy" Don a break, try doing a JG9 episode while polishing off a fifth of Johnny Walker and see how good you do
I'm sorry a jug of "Lipton Sun Tea"
Desperate for content I guess, If your gonna go this route maybe waste 30 mins on Steve Young calling Issac Bruce Andre Bruce when commenting on His game winning touchdown against the Titans. You could really create drama and go after Cosell saying monkey even though it was used in a playful way like discribing a child full of energy.
I remember this game very well. Thank you for explaining in an earlier video that this game was played on January 9th, 1977, due to the NFL obsession with avoiding playing on Christmas Day. The Raiders parted ways with a lot of long time players prior to the 1976 including Jim Otto and George Blanda. They also had injuries on the defensive line and went to the 3 -4 defense. What Dandy Don was trying to say. "The replaced George Blanda. (Period) Had an injury (to Fred Steinfort) . He left off the name Fred Steinfort. Meredith rushed the sentence. He made a mistake.. Curt Cowdy had to clarify it later in the game as you said. To this day people rush through their sentences.
Well, remember this because it was my birthday
You got it right......he was rushing. Meredith had already broadcasted a bunch of "76 Raider regular season and playoff games and was well aware of the Raider kicking situation. He was just stumbling through it....
🎶 Turn out the lights the party’s over
Dandy Don was a lot of fun on MNF.
announcing duo: Paul Hornug & Lindsey Nelson
Paul Lynde & Leslie Nielsen
Meh, still like him better than Collinsworth.
Dandy Don's Cowboys bias was pretty obvious. Drove me nuts 😂
Run your math again. 2 for 11 is not 22%
He was 4-for-11, but made the first 2 kicks, so after that, he was 2-for-9, so 22.2%
My dad liked him a lot! Dandy Don he called him
Wow, there's 10 minutes I'll never get back.
Never heard such word salad in my life
General observation on Don Meredith: I think 1976 was the only year where he was the solo color commentator, as before and after that season (when he returned to ABC) Dandy Don usually had a second color commentator to lighten his load (Howard Cosell at ABC; Al DeRogatis during the first two seasons of Meredith's time at NBC).
OH! He caught it! He caught it!
Back when teams were taking the Raiders seriously.
Dad Gummit! i shoulda beena kicker...
The Cowboys are interviewing Ron Rivera for DC this week. If he gets it, will there be a JG9 News report in which you will react the same as Tree when the Cowboys lost to the Packers? Which is hysterically laughing for 5 minutes.
I'm responding to this post here because for some reason TH-cam won't allow me to directly reply to it: "People in Philadelphia swear that Wentz won some super bowl somewhere". I live in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and have never, EVER, heard anyone even remotely say or even think this. However, if we're getting technical he did win a ring with the 2017 Eagles and played a very large part in their success winning 11 games as a starter.
I just noticed: Merideth, Romo, Aikman... all cowboy QBs
Roger Staubach also briefly did some broadcasting after he retired, wasn't a number one network guy like the others.
I didnt even know Don Meredith worked for NBC. Weird that ABC allowed Meredith to call a Super Bowl for NBC
They had no say in the matter. Meredith was working for NBC at the time, not ABC.
Meredith worked for NBC from 1974-76.
Meredith got a recurring role on Police Story as part of the deal
Incidentally, he wasn't part of the short-lived ABC revival in '88.
Loved Meredith
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