Dave, as u know, many of these players are deceased. Most weren't paid in excess and many worked jobs in the off-season. Players today owe everything to these pioneers. Thanks for keeping their memories alive..
That's a great comment, Jeff, and well expressed. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those guys who built the game and made it the most popular sport in the U.S. and giving it appeal in other countries as well.
I watched arguably the worst NFL game of the past season when the Jets beat the Patriots in Foxboro. I watched because it was in the snow. There’s nothing like bad weather games in the NFL. That’s football.
When I see the NFL in the 70s the first thing that comes to my mind is the Oakland Raiders. It seemed like they played in the AFC Championship game every year 70,73,74,75,76, 77. I can’t believe they didn’t win more Super Bowls. They were the best team every season and then would catch bad breaks in the AFC Championship
Looking forward to it! Nowadays you just don't see the grit, grime, mud and dirty uniforms that gave these games such personality and character. Shame. It's what made them memorable and gave us so many incredible images of past gladiators
The NFL as backyard slug-it-out football on a miserable afternoon. The game was never more spectacular. This channel evokes childhood football memories like nothing else. Bravo, Dave.
Nowadays, games are moved to other stadiums or cancelled if the snow is too bad , which is an absolute shame. Thanks for documenting the way it used to be
football is a winter sport. its intended to be played in cold, wet, windy, snowy weather. and its more fun that way. i remember as a young superstar among my football peers, playing in jr high, there was nothing we liked better than playing in the muck, mud and snow! thanks for the video.
DANG DAVE You done it again , pearls of NFL > Football was meant for outside on real grass . Everybook-bio by every player has basically SAID THAT ! Thats why i watch the NFL when it was the NFL ! Can't hardly show outside NFL with some of fake turf thats ok , back in the day > What player said "you play on it ". And thks a bunch!
This was football when it was a "man's game" and played by tough, masculine men. No complaints about the weather, field conditions--- and no unfounded, wild exaggerations about concussions. ...This is not the almost feminine football that is played today.
The way the game was meant to be played. Men battling each other and the elements also. None of this sanitized junk of today! thank you for your dedication!
Here is the entire music cue sheet for this video... 00:01 - Classics IV - Stormy 01:20 - Keith Mansfield - Soul Thing 04:37 - William Soden - Overdrive 06:09 - A. Goddard & R. Komie - Compulsive 08:32 - Frans Mijits - Night Flash 10:50 - Laurent Lombard - Together Forever 12:27 - Tom Jenkins & Barry Schleifer - The Right Stuff 14:39 - Alan Hawkshaw - Fuel Injection 17:31 - Sam Spence - Thunder & Lightning 20:03 - Alan Parker - Relaxed Spacious 23:19 - Craig Palmer - Victory's Pursuit 26:58 - Roger Webb - Orion II 29:46 - Sam Spence - The Ultimate Victor 31:41 - Erik Lasar - House of Cards 34:01 - Cyril Stapleton & Johnny Harris - Swinging Sombrero 36:08 - Sam Spence - The Magnificent Eleven 39:48 - Paul Lewis - Vision of Glory 42:42 - Johnny Pearson - Power Drive 44:41 - Hugo De Groot - Automania 46:25 - Keith Papworth - Aces High 48:31 - Clive Hicks - Silver Stream 51:47 - Peter Reno - Jets 53:50 - Paul Lewis - Pursuit of Power 56:04 - Sam Spence - Open Plains 58:39 - Sam Spence - The Edge 01:00:22 - Jonathan Mark Taylor - Meltdown 01:02:41 - Sam Spence - Silver Streak 01:04:33 - Simon Park - Knock Onward 01:06:41 - Sam Spence - Macho Theme 01:08:44 - Chris Evans-Ironside - Hercules 01:11:54 - Sam Spence - Round-Up 01:13:51 - Sam Spence - Raider Might 01:16:07 - Sam Spence - Barren Land 01:17:52 - Sam Spence - Gotcha 01:20:33 - Sam Spence - Plenty Puente 01:23:13 - Sam Spence - Water Bug 01:25:25 - Sam Spence - Battleground 01:27:58 - John Scott - Race The Sun 01:29:29 - Sam Spence - Torpedo 01:31:28 - Sam Spence - Danger Plan 01:34:12 - Sam Spence - Jazz Undercurrents 01:36:18 - Sam Spence - Pell Mell 01:38:54 - Martha Jane Weber - The Will To Win 01:40:19 - Craig Palmer - Breaking The Tape 01:42:43 - Sam Spence - Juggernaut 01:44:50 - Caesar Giovanni & Wayne Robinson - Blue Mountain
Your hard work putting these gems together is always appreciated Dave. I've watched football going on 55 years, and it always amazes me when I see something in your videos I never saw before or never knew existed. You should be put in the football HOF for all the work you do preserving and restoring these gems. You're basically are an extension of NFL films and the Sabols who I grew up watching as a kid. I know Ed and Steve Sabol (may they RIP) would be darn proud of what you've done with all this vintage footage. You should be very proud.
Allan Hutchen and I had been searching for 'Pursuit of Power' for over 10 years. We knew the music company, the title, the composer, and even the record it was released on, just couldn't locate anyone who had it. Last month Allan, by sheer chance, found a copy of the record posted online at the internet archive. Amazing.
Thanks Dave. Absolutely loved the NFL Films camera segment. Being from NE Ohio loved seeing the spinning Chief Wahoo on top of Municipal Stadium. I can see you love Sam Spense’s Thunder and Lightning, one of my top five NFL tracks. I’ve always wanted to to ask you if you’ve seen the 69 NFL Title highlight called Fire and Fury. It’s not the GOTW style highlight but a stand alone film like the 69 AFL Title The Last Showdown both narrated by John Facenda. I have an audio copy of the film when it was aired in 1972 on Championship Games of the NFL. I don’t have the Paul Burke intro and outright and it’s on an old Radio Shack Realistic brand cassette tape. Would you be interested in hearing it? If I had your address I’d send it to you. All my NFL reel to reel tapes have fallen apart, but this one’s okay.
Seeing these clips, with the amazing music 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵 with it was perfectly done! As always your hard work shows. Your creations are beyond words. You have allowed younger generations the opportunity to be able to watch these games from the 70's, 80's, and 90's in full beautiful HD! Preserving their importance and incredible players. You've done so much more than made die-hard fans like me ecstatic, again you've preserved many players legacies. You've saved and showed the commercials as well giving people a chance to step back in time. See ads from the 70's and 80's. Things that are long since gone, but had a major impact back then. People like me can relive memories, past childhood experiences, whatever the case, you've given us something SPECIAL! THANK YOU!!
That was really cool to watch even though all those games where played before I was born! Iv watched Documentary’s and read about a lot of those football games in books!
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, since 1963. I was fortunate enough to attend some games in the Cotton Bowl and then later at Texas Stadium. We even went down to Houston and saw the Oilers a few times. When the Oilers moved from Rice Stadium to the Astrodome l didn't realize at the time that that move was going to change pro football forever. As a watcher and fan of pro football since the very late 1950s and early 1960s, l will say that for my taste and IMO.... football was meant to be played OUTDOORS. One of the saddest times for me was when the Vikings moved out of Metropolitan Stadium and then the eventual demolition of that great stadium. God bless pro football and it's heroes from a by-gone era 🏈
There’s something about a quarterback sack, face planted into the frigid watery slush, that exceeds in quality of experience a plastic rug in neon dome.
Absolutely outstanding compilation, Dave! The heyday of the NFL and the weather it was meant to be played in. Can't ask for much else if you're a fan of the old, real, classic NFL.
Listening to this right now while watching pro day highlights and its a trip the music fits perfectly. It still fits with any football highlight video even after all these years
This really is fantastic! Great concept, great music and brilliantly executed. I can't imagine how much work you put into this. On behalf of all of us, THANK YOU!
Dave, another tour de force. Thank you for all the time you put in to make this. I love the behind-the-scenes footage atop the Cleveland Stadium roof from '66, and the transition from "Vision of Glory" to "Power Drive" for the game itself gave me an unexpected adrenalin jolt. Well done, Mister!
Wow, thanks for this Dave. The game at 6:09 I actually attended. It's the 1980 season finale between the Niners and Bills. Without a doubt the worst weather conditions at a sporting event I ever experienced. I was 16 and it didn't just rain for 3 hours, it was a freakin' DOWNPOUR for 3 hours! The Niners lost 18-13 and the thing I remember most was that everyone was still talking about the Niners historic comeback win against the Saints 2 weeks earlier( down 35-7 at the half)!
I call today’s NFL “Flag Football”: (1) Because every bit of hard contact is a penalty “flag” and (2) The lack of physical play they might as well play “flag football” - which they do now for the Pro Bowl anyway.
Dave, you have created a GREAT playlist of the times. Starting off with one of my favorites...Stormy. Classics IV members later formed Atlanta Rhythm Section...
Man this was awesome! Beautifully done! Cinematography and soundtrack were both spectacular. I was born in 1985 but Ive always had an addinity and curiousity for old school football before my time. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Unbelievable footage....just can't stop watching. " The Mud Bowl" , 4th and inches. Like the year before , the Vikings rise , essentially ending the game 1:21:08
Living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin we've seen some horrendous weather. Now this specific incident wasn't football, but it was brutal. I can remember one specific time, my family had tickets for Opening Day for the Brewers game. I was allowed to take a day off school, and I was so stoked! April 4 I think it was around that date. Anyway I went to bed early, like 7pm. That NEVER happened EVER...LOL. I finally fell asleep who knows when. I woke up that morning and I raced to the kitchen. My Dad was awake and listening to the TV? I was so lucky, happy, then my Dad said, look outside. OK I knew it would be chilly, but NOT 10"+ of snow! School was canceled, and Opening Day was snowed out! I was maybe 8-9 years old and that killed my happiness. I cried for an hour holding my Baseball glove looking at the snow still falling. I hoped, MAYBE if it stops they'll be able to play? Ah the foolishness of youth. The first two games were canceled maybe all three. I can't remember exactly what happened except I was crushed. That was to be my first ever Opening Day Baseball game. Decades later I got Playoff tickets for the Packers versus the Lions at Lambeau Field. That game, the Packers defense held Barry Sanders to either 0 yards or -negative yards. The one and only time that happened to him. The temperature was 🥶FRIGID🥶COLD🥶!! Not Ice Bowl cold but wind chills well below zero🌡 and we froze our butts off. I had tickets in the back right corner of the end-zone about ½ to ¾ up. My buddy had tickets on the 40 yard line. We had to get them 2nd hand and we paid over $275.⁰⁰ for the end zone seats, and he paid over $500.⁰⁰ for the 40 yard line seats. I remember my toes were burning from the cold. I had gotten frost bite as a kid when I fell through the ice into a deep creek. My hands/fingers, feet, toes, etc were frost bit. It was really bad. I had on 2 pairs of long underwear, smaller sweatpants, and larger sweats, under a deer hunting snowmobile suit. Thermo socks, regular socks X 2 pairs, and snow boots. Thermo t-shirts a regular t-shirt, a sweatshirt, and a flannel hoodie under the deer suit, and gloves. I was still froze. When temperatures hit -5° below zero and wind gusts that make your face burn, it was brutal. That was my last game I saw that late in the year. I don't mind snow, but below zero temperatures with wind? NOPE! Or rain and Temperatures around 35-40°. I used to love playing football in the winter. But as I got older, I quickly decided that cold sucked! LOL, and I preferred the warm house.
Not only is this supremely edited, the timing of the edits to the music is incredible! Well done, Dave! I have to channel Howard and ask: RIGHT THERE at 4:37 is the track used by Monday Night Football for their halftime highlights in the early 80s, but I (and Shazam) can't place a name to the track - could you tell us?
Dave, that footage of the Cowboys playing the Steelers at the old Pitt Stadium, do you know what year that was around? Watching the camera man from behind while filming the game was unbelievable. Like you could reach out and touch his shoulder on your computer screen.
That entire segment of NFL Films cameramen footage at the different stadiums was all shot on November 20, 1966. I believe that footage was probably all shot for possible use in an 'NFL Today' segment on CBS about NFL Films.
Had to comment again Dave on this video. Loved the NFL Films camera segment at Cleveland Stadium. Being in NE Ohio I especially liked the revolving Chief Wahoo. No sense going into our local woke baseball franchise. Also thanks again for including Thunder and Lightning in this film track. One of my top five musical cuts. I’ve always wanted to to ask you if you’ve ever seen the 1969 NFL title highlight I believe entitled Fire and Fury. It’s not the standard GOTW film but like the 69 AFL title film The Last Showdown, both of which were narrated by John Facenda. I have an audio copy of the film when it was presented on the 1972 series Championship Games of the NFL. I don’t have the Paul Burke intro and outtro and it’s on an old Radio Shack Realistic Cassette tape. Would you be interested in it?
I've never seen that film, but I also have the audio of it, recorded by a subscriber of mine named Bill Fox back when it aired on TV way back in 1970. Any relation? :)
No, no relation that I know of. Does a copy of the film exist? I used to stay up late at night to audio record anything highlight that our local tv stations would broadcast, often at the end of some truly awful late night movies. Used to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and buy the NFL Films Albums. Was a broadcasting student at Kent State with aspirations of being a play by play announcer which I was in High School in Massillon Ohio. Your posts are pure gold to me and you are doing things I’ve dreamed of doing. You are doing gods work. First football game I ever attended was a Chiefs game in Canton at the Hall of Fame and been a fan since 1971. Never thought I would hear and see again fils I used to listen to as a child. Thank you!!!!!
I'm sure a copy of the film exists in the NFL Films archives and maybe in the hands of a collector, but I've never come across it or seen it. NFL Films never offered it for sale.
@@AlRedsoxFan Yes! Even though it had NOTHING to do with the weather subject, it's almost like the main focus of the film. That footage came my way just a few days after I started on the weather concept, and instead of doing just a 'short', I found a way to incorporate it into the full film. Definitely unique and one-of-a-kind stuff. Still get goosebumps watching that Steelers/Cowboys footage at Pitt Stadium. Those sideline shots of the Cowboy bench are really something :)
Was November 20, 1966 actually. That came from a subscriber of mine and all the footage shot at the different stadiums that day was probably done for an NFL Today segment on CBS back in 1966
I meant to post this earlier, but here is the entire music cue sheet for this video... 00:01 - Classics IV - Stormy 01:20 - Keith Mansfield - Soul Thing 04:37 - William Soden - Overdrive 06:09 - A. Goddard & R. Komie - Compulsive 08:32 - Frans Mijits - Night Flash 10:50 - Laurent Lombard - Together Forever 12:27 - Tom Jenkins & Barry Schleifer - The Right Stuff 14:39 - Alan Hawkshaw - Fuel Injection 17:31 - Sam Spence - Thunder & Lightning 20:03 - Alan Parker - Relaxed Spacious 23:19 - Craig Palmer - Victory's Pursuit 26:58 - Roger Webb - Orion II 29:46 - Sam Spence - The Ultimate Victor 31:41 - Erik Lasar - House of Cards 34:01 - Cyril Stapleton & Johnny Harris - Swinging Sombrero 36:08 - Sam Spence - The Magnificent Eleven 39:48 - Paul Lewis - Vision of Glory 42:42 - Johnny Pearson - Power Drive 44:41 - Hugo De Groot - Automania 46:25 - Keith Papworth - Aces High 48:31 - Clive Hicks - Silver Stream 51:47 - Peter Reno - Jets 53:50 - Paul Lewis - Pursuit of Power 56:04 - Sam Spence - Open Plains 58:39 - Sam Spence - The Edge 01:00:22 - Jonathan Mark Taylor - Meltdown 01:02:41 - Sam Spence - Silver Streak 01:04:33 - Simon Park - Knock Onward 01:06:41 - Sam Spence - Macho Theme 01:08:44 - Chris Evans-Ironside - Hercules 01:11:54 - Sam Spence - Round-Up 01:13:51 - Sam Spence - Raider Might 01:16:07 - Sam Spence - Barren Land 01:17:52 - Sam Spence - Gotcha 01:20:33 - Sam Spence - Plenty Puente 01:23:13 - Sam Spence - Water Bug 01:25:25 - Sam Spence - Battleground 01:27:58 - John Scott - Race The Sun 01:29:29 - Sam Spence - Torpedo 01:31:28 - Sam Spence - Danger Plan 01:34:12 - Sam Spence - Jazz Undercurrents 01:36:18 - Sam Spence - Pell Mell 01:38:54 - Martha Jane Weber - The Will To Win 01:40:19 - Craig Palmer - Breaking The Tape 01:42:43 - Sam Spence - Juggernaut 01:44:50 - Caesar Giovanni & Wayne Robinson - Blue Mountain
New subscriber here. Love everything about this channel. Can you tell me the song that starts around 1:11:50? I’ve been hearing that for years on NFL Films and have never been able to pin it down.
Dave, as u know, many of these players are deceased. Most weren't paid in excess and many worked jobs in the off-season. Players today owe everything to these pioneers. Thanks for keeping their memories alive..
Damn right they do.
That's a great comment, Jeff, and well expressed. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those guys who built the game and made it the most popular sport in the U.S. and giving it appeal in other countries as well.
My grandfather was Sam Williams he played 1959 Los Angeles rams 1960-1965 Detroit Lions 1966-1967 Atlanta falcons and had a job during the off-season
They were regular guys any of us could identify with.
I watched arguably the worst NFL game of the past season when the Jets beat the Patriots in Foxboro. I watched because it was in the snow. There’s nothing like bad weather games in the NFL. That’s football.
FOOTBALL IN RAIN IS BETTER!!
On a Sunday afternoon after Mass with a beer and something in the smoker !
Dave Volsky comes through with another masterpiece.
When I see the NFL in the 70s the first thing that comes to my mind is the Oakland Raiders. It seemed like they played in the AFC Championship game every year 70,73,74,75,76, 77. I can’t believe they didn’t win more Super Bowls. They were the best team every season and then would catch bad breaks in the AFC Championship
Looking forward to it! Nowadays you just don't see the grit, grime, mud and dirty uniforms that gave these games such personality and character. Shame. It's what made them memorable and gave us so many incredible images of past gladiators
Oh the memories ! Lions in Tiger Stadium..... the old GREEN at The Corner !!! thank you !
The NFL as backyard slug-it-out football on a miserable afternoon. The game was never more spectacular. This channel evokes childhood football memories like nothing else. Bravo, Dave.
Oh, the muddy, snowy carnage.
Fricken Jaw Dropping Amazing as is all your passionate restorations and creations. Thank you ,thank you!
Thanks!
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL..
SAT BACK LIT A CIGAR SIPPED BOURBON AND ENJOYED
Best channel on TH-cam. Thank you for your passion and dedication.
Nowadays, games are moved to other stadiums or cancelled if the snow is too bad , which is an absolute shame. Thanks for documenting the way it used to be
football is a winter sport. its intended to be played in cold, wet, windy, snowy weather. and its more fun that way. i remember as a young superstar among my football peers, playing in jr high, there was nothing we liked better than playing in the muck, mud and snow! thanks for the video.
DANG DAVE You done it again , pearls of NFL > Football was meant for outside on real grass . Everybook-bio by every player has basically SAID THAT ! Thats why i watch the NFL when it was the NFL ! Can't hardly show outside NFL with some of fake turf thats ok , back in the day > What player said "you play on it ". And thks a bunch!
This was football when it was a "man's game" and played by tough, masculine men. No complaints about the weather, field conditions--- and no unfounded, wild exaggerations about concussions.
...This is not the almost feminine football that is played today.
Dick Butkus never laid on his back to make a pretty snow angel.
Weather. The great equalizer. Founders knew this, thus Fall (into Winter) play. Thanks Dave as always..... a fun watch !!
As an enthusiast of many NFL FILMS broadcasts in the 1980s on ESPN, these on TH-cam are well done.
The golden era of the NFL 1970s
The way the game was meant to be played. Men battling each other and the elements also. None of this sanitized junk of today! thank you for your dedication!
Very cool history , one of the best and luckiest I was to watch Fran Tarkenton play in the snow and win , 👍
This is going to be GOOD...
Got my ticket, waiting on the Popcorn! Looking forward to more amazing work! Thanks again for all the great restorations.
The Vikings used a push flame thrower to thaw the field before games at the Old Met. Gosh I miss those days..
Bro, watching this now with scattered thunderstorms rolling through my area on a Friday night! Perfect atmosphere.
Here is the entire music cue sheet for this video...
00:01 - Classics IV - Stormy
01:20 - Keith Mansfield - Soul Thing
04:37 - William Soden - Overdrive
06:09 - A. Goddard & R. Komie - Compulsive
08:32 - Frans Mijits - Night Flash
10:50 - Laurent Lombard - Together Forever
12:27 - Tom Jenkins & Barry Schleifer - The Right Stuff
14:39 - Alan Hawkshaw - Fuel Injection
17:31 - Sam Spence - Thunder & Lightning
20:03 - Alan Parker - Relaxed Spacious
23:19 - Craig Palmer - Victory's Pursuit
26:58 - Roger Webb - Orion II
29:46 - Sam Spence - The Ultimate Victor
31:41 - Erik Lasar - House of Cards
34:01 - Cyril Stapleton & Johnny Harris - Swinging Sombrero
36:08 - Sam Spence - The Magnificent Eleven
39:48 - Paul Lewis - Vision of Glory
42:42 - Johnny Pearson - Power Drive
44:41 - Hugo De Groot - Automania
46:25 - Keith Papworth - Aces High
48:31 - Clive Hicks - Silver Stream
51:47 - Peter Reno - Jets
53:50 - Paul Lewis - Pursuit of Power
56:04 - Sam Spence - Open Plains
58:39 - Sam Spence - The Edge
01:00:22 - Jonathan Mark Taylor - Meltdown
01:02:41 - Sam Spence - Silver Streak
01:04:33 - Simon Park - Knock Onward
01:06:41 - Sam Spence - Macho Theme
01:08:44 - Chris Evans-Ironside - Hercules
01:11:54 - Sam Spence - Round-Up
01:13:51 - Sam Spence - Raider Might
01:16:07 - Sam Spence - Barren Land
01:17:52 - Sam Spence - Gotcha
01:20:33 - Sam Spence - Plenty Puente
01:23:13 - Sam Spence - Water Bug
01:25:25 - Sam Spence - Battleground
01:27:58 - John Scott - Race The Sun
01:29:29 - Sam Spence - Torpedo
01:31:28 - Sam Spence - Danger Plan
01:34:12 - Sam Spence - Jazz Undercurrents
01:36:18 - Sam Spence - Pell Mell
01:38:54 - Martha Jane Weber - The Will To Win
01:40:19 - Craig Palmer - Breaking The Tape
01:42:43 - Sam Spence - Juggernaut
01:44:50 - Caesar Giovanni & Wayne Robinson - Blue Mountain
Thanks per uzh!
Stormy, Classics IV great 👍 tune
Your hard work putting these gems together is always appreciated Dave. I've watched football going on 55 years, and it always amazes me when I see something in your videos I never saw before or never knew existed. You should be put in the football HOF for all the work you do preserving and restoring these gems. You're basically are an extension of NFL films and the Sabols who I grew up watching as a kid. I know Ed and Steve Sabol (may they RIP) would be darn proud of what you've done with all this vintage footage. You should be very proud.
Thank you Victor :)
The color on this is unreal! SO good..
Mud and snow still the best, but those ‘70s turf puddle games are memorable too.
Wow that was fantastic that you found that rare gem on a 78 RPM? Unbelievable
Allan Hutchen and I had been searching for 'Pursuit of Power' for over 10 years. We knew the music company, the title, the composer, and even the record it was released on, just couldn't locate anyone who had it. Last month Allan, by sheer chance, found a copy of the record posted online at the internet archive. Amazing.
Another masterpiece Dave. The resolution on my big screen is fantastic. I miss the flamethrowers at Met Stadium. And the Grant led Vikings.
Thanks Dave. Absolutely loved the NFL Films camera segment. Being from NE Ohio loved seeing the spinning Chief Wahoo on top of Municipal Stadium. I can see you love Sam Spense’s Thunder and Lightning, one of my top five NFL tracks. I’ve always wanted to to ask you if you’ve seen the 69 NFL Title highlight called Fire and Fury. It’s not the GOTW style highlight but a stand alone film like the 69 AFL Title The Last Showdown both narrated by John Facenda. I have an audio copy of the film when it was aired in 1972 on Championship Games of the NFL. I don’t have the Paul Burke intro and outright and it’s on an old Radio Shack Realistic brand cassette tape. Would you be interested in hearing it? If I had your address I’d send it to you. All my NFL reel to reel tapes have fallen apart, but this one’s okay.
Seeing these clips, with the amazing music 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵 with it was perfectly done! As always your hard work shows. Your creations are beyond words. You have allowed younger generations the opportunity to be able to watch these games from the 70's, 80's, and 90's in full beautiful HD! Preserving their importance and incredible players. You've done so much more than made die-hard fans like me ecstatic, again you've preserved many players legacies. You've saved and showed the commercials as well giving people a chance to step back in time. See ads from the 70's and 80's. Things that are long since gone, but had a major impact back then. People like me can relive memories, past childhood experiences, whatever the case, you've given us something SPECIAL! THANK YOU!!
Quite simply, this is a masterpiece. An ode to a long bygone era.
Thanks Bruce :)
That was really cool to watch even though all those games where played before I was born! Iv watched Documentary’s and read about a lot of those football games in books!
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, since 1963.
I was fortunate enough to attend some games in the
Cotton Bowl and then later at Texas Stadium. We even went down to Houston and saw the Oilers a few times.
When the Oilers moved from Rice Stadium to the Astrodome l didn't realize at the time that that move was going to change pro football forever.
As a watcher and fan of pro football since
the very late 1950s and early 1960s, l will say that for my taste and IMO.... football was meant to be played OUTDOORS.
One of the saddest times for me was when the Vikings moved out of Metropolitan Stadium and then the eventual demolition of that great stadium.
God bless pro football and it's heroes from a by-gone era 🏈
What an amazing compilation, restoration and treat for all of us (many who remember these days).
There’s something about a quarterback sack, face planted into the frigid watery slush, that exceeds in quality of experience a plastic rug in neon dome.
LOL, the infamous "snow plow game" at 29:06! Dave, this is the most beautiful video of that kick I've ever seen! Nicely done!
Your channel is just so amazing, thank you so much! Notification on 🙌🏻
Absolutely outstanding compilation, Dave! The heyday of the NFL and the weather it was meant to be played in. Can't ask for much else if you're a fan of the old, real, classic NFL.
Listening to this right now while watching pro day highlights and its a trip the music fits perfectly. It still fits with any football highlight video even after all these years
I've got to say that was a nice start to the video
Absolute peak nfl, wish things could stay like this forever
Love this song too
Thank you for all your hard work…
This really is fantastic! Great concept, great music and brilliantly executed. I can't imagine how much work you put into this. On behalf of all of us, THANK YOU!
This is the best nfl video on youtube. I'm in heaven
Thank you!
Since you liked this one, you'll probably like this one even more :) -- th-cam.com/video/eiAQJRcLl8U/w-d-xo.html
@davevolskysbackdoor5673 thanks! Where do you get all of that footage? A lot of it looks like cutting room floor stuff from nfl films
I have close to 2000 NFL Films programs from 1964-84 ripped from official DVDs.
Amazing! Thank you, Dave! I really enjoyed this one. I remember seeing alit of this action from when I was growing up back in the 70’s.
thank god for this guy right here🫡
Can't wait!
This looks like it’s going to be Good!
Best EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simply wonderful!
Looking forward to it!
Dave, another tour de force. Thank you for all the time you put in to make this. I love the behind-the-scenes footage atop the Cleveland Stadium roof from '66, and the transition from "Vision of Glory" to "Power Drive" for the game itself gave me an unexpected adrenalin jolt. Well done, Mister!
Wow, thanks for this Dave. The game at 6:09 I actually attended. It's the 1980 season finale between the Niners and Bills. Without a doubt the worst weather conditions at a sporting event I ever experienced. I was 16 and it didn't just rain for 3 hours, it was a freakin' DOWNPOUR for 3 hours! The Niners lost 18-13 and the thing I remember most was that everyone was still talking about the Niners historic comeback win against the Saints 2 weeks earlier( down 35-7 at the half)!
I call today’s NFL “Flag Football”: (1) Because every bit of hard contact is a penalty “flag” and (2) The lack of physical play they might as well play “flag football” - which they do now for the Pro Bowl anyway.
Mr Volsky this is nothing short of high art ! Thank you !
Thanks Dave for bringing joy to our lives. Your hard work is most certainly appreciated!!
What clarity😀
Great footage of what it used to be like
Great, Great video Dave!! The Ice Bowl clips as a highlight were awesome!! Thank You!!
Dave, you have created a GREAT playlist of the times. Starting off with one of my favorites...Stormy. Classics IV members later formed Atlanta Rhythm Section...
Thank you :) I was NOT aware of that! 'So Into You' and 'Imaginary Lover' are great songs
Man this was awesome! Beautifully done! Cinematography and soundtrack were both spectacular. I was born in 1985 but Ive always had an addinity and curiousity for old school football before my time. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Your work stands out like a clean uniform on a 3rd quarterback...! Simply great viewing & listening 👏
LOL - love that analogy :)
Unbelievable footage....just can't stop watching. " The Mud Bowl" , 4th and inches. Like the year before , the Vikings rise , essentially ending the game 1:21:08
Thanks you for this gem! When a NFL game was played for the love of it! 🏈
Living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin we've seen some horrendous weather. Now this specific incident wasn't football, but it was brutal. I can remember one specific time, my family had tickets for Opening Day for the Brewers game. I was allowed to take a day off school, and I was so stoked! April 4 I think it was around that date. Anyway I went to bed early, like 7pm. That NEVER happened EVER...LOL. I finally fell asleep who knows when. I woke up that morning and I raced to the kitchen. My Dad was awake and listening to the TV? I was so lucky, happy, then my Dad said, look outside. OK I knew it would be chilly, but NOT 10"+ of snow! School was canceled, and Opening Day was snowed out! I was maybe 8-9 years old and that killed my happiness. I cried for an hour holding my Baseball glove looking at the snow still falling. I hoped, MAYBE if it stops they'll be able to play? Ah the foolishness of youth. The first two games were canceled maybe all three. I can't remember exactly what happened except I was crushed. That was to be my first ever Opening Day Baseball game. Decades later I got Playoff tickets for the Packers versus the Lions at Lambeau Field. That game, the Packers defense held Barry Sanders to either 0 yards or -negative yards. The one and only time that happened to him. The temperature was 🥶FRIGID🥶COLD🥶!! Not Ice Bowl cold but wind chills well below zero🌡 and we froze our butts off. I had tickets in the back right corner of the end-zone about ½ to ¾ up. My buddy had tickets on the 40 yard line. We had to get them 2nd hand and we paid over $275.⁰⁰ for the end zone seats, and he paid over $500.⁰⁰ for the 40 yard line seats. I remember my toes were burning from the cold. I had gotten frost bite as a kid when I fell through the ice into a deep creek. My hands/fingers, feet, toes, etc were frost bit. It was really bad. I had on 2 pairs of long underwear, smaller sweatpants, and larger sweats, under a deer hunting snowmobile suit. Thermo socks, regular socks X 2 pairs, and snow boots. Thermo t-shirts a regular t-shirt, a sweatshirt, and a flannel hoodie under the deer suit, and gloves. I was still froze. When temperatures hit -5° below zero and wind gusts that make your face burn, it was brutal. That was my last game I saw that late in the year. I don't mind snow, but below zero temperatures with wind? NOPE! Or rain and Temperatures around 35-40°. I used to love playing football in the winter. But as I got older, I quickly decided that cold sucked! LOL, and I preferred the warm house.
The music is so incredible😊😊.
Dave you are amazing!
Not only is this supremely edited, the timing of the edits to the music is incredible! Well done, Dave! I have to channel Howard and ask: RIGHT THERE at 4:37 is the track used by Monday Night Football for their halftime highlights in the early 80s, but I (and Shazam) can't place a name to the track - could you tell us?
Thanks deputay! That piece is another grail track that I recently came across. It is William Soden's 'Overdrive'.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Thanks Dave !
This was just incredible. Can’t wait for your next project. Thank you
Thank you!
work of art thank you so much you are very talented and dedicated much appreciated
I enjoyed these all weather games. Thanks for showing
See a couple clips from Vikings last home game at Met?
This is just tremendous,
Dave always makes me wish for yesteryear. 😢
Fantastic video, a masterpiece!
Outstanding stuff !
Dave, you are a genius.
Dave, that footage of the Cowboys playing the Steelers at the old Pitt Stadium, do you know what year that was around? Watching the camera man from behind while filming the game was unbelievable. Like you could reach out and touch his shoulder on your computer screen.
That entire segment of NFL Films cameramen footage at the different stadiums was all shot on November 20, 1966. I believe that footage was probably all shot for possible use in an 'NFL Today' segment on CBS about NFL Films.
This can easily give nfl films a run for their money.. and I grew up on nfl films
I defy anyone to watch this and a film produced by NFLF and tell me that they can see a difference. This is pro-level filmmaking.
Just thanking you again for your hard work
Had to comment again Dave on this video. Loved the NFL Films camera segment at Cleveland Stadium. Being in NE Ohio I especially liked the revolving Chief Wahoo. No sense going into our local woke baseball franchise. Also thanks again for including Thunder and Lightning in this film track. One of my top five musical cuts. I’ve always wanted to to ask you if you’ve ever seen the 1969 NFL title highlight I believe entitled Fire and Fury. It’s not the standard GOTW film but like the 69 AFL title film The Last Showdown, both of which were narrated by John Facenda. I have an audio copy of the film when it was presented on the 1972 series Championship Games of the NFL. I don’t have the Paul Burke intro and outtro and it’s on an old Radio Shack Realistic Cassette tape. Would you be interested in it?
I've never seen that film, but I also have the audio of it, recorded by a subscriber of mine named Bill Fox back when it aired on TV way back in 1970. Any relation? :)
No, no relation that I know of. Does a copy of the film exist? I used to stay up late at night to audio record anything highlight that our local tv stations would broadcast, often at the end of some truly awful late night movies. Used to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and buy the NFL Films Albums. Was a broadcasting student at Kent State with aspirations of being a play by play announcer which I was in High School in Massillon Ohio. Your posts are pure gold to me and you are doing things I’ve dreamed of doing. You are doing gods work. First football game I ever attended was a Chiefs game in Canton at the Hall of Fame and been a fan since 1971. Never thought I would hear and see again fils I used to listen to as a child. Thank you!!!!!
I'm sure a copy of the film exists in the NFL Films archives and maybe in the hands of a collector, but I've never come across it or seen it. NFL Films never offered it for sale.
Thanks, Dave.
Fantastic video!
This is AMAZING!
Thank you!
Whats the name of the song around an hour 21 seconds?
You dont even have to watch the video you can just close your eyes and transcend to another plain listening to the music
Sam Rutigliano sighting!
So much fun to watch 🙂 Hope all is well
Thanks Al!
@davevolskysbackdoor5673 love the scenes of NFL Films filming the games
@@AlRedsoxFan Yes! Even though it had NOTHING to do with the weather subject, it's almost like the main focus of the film. That footage came my way just a few days after I started on the weather concept, and instead of doing just a 'short', I found a way to incorporate it into the full film. Definitely unique and one-of-a-kind stuff. Still get goosebumps watching that Steelers/Cowboys footage at Pitt Stadium. Those sideline shots of the Cowboy bench are really something :)
The only thing missing is John Facenda's voice.
Danny Villanueva , with the stubby single bar,.....co-founder of Univison 50:27
29:12-knew we would get a Mark Henderson sighting with the snowplow..
1:45:00-the ONLY win the Saints got in 1980 when they beat the Jets at a windy and snowy Shea Stadium.
22:30-Red Right 88. Looks like at 5:20 Browns coach Sam Rutigliano is talking pre game to Steve Sabol at the same game.
33:37-that has to be about a 106 yard return for a TD by Jerry Logan (20) of the Jurgensen pass.
These Uniforms don't get Dirty anymore the Teams play inside or on Artificial surface
Great concept and execution! What is the name of the music cut at 21:00?
I posted the entire music cue sheet in the description of the video
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Sorry...not sure how I missed that...of course you did. Thank you!
Where did you get that raw footeege from the Halloween 1965 Steelers-Cowboys game?
Was November 20, 1966 actually. That came from a subscriber of mine and all the footage shot at the different stadiums that day was probably done for an NFL Today segment on CBS back in 1966
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 I assumed 65 because I thought Dallas went to two stripes in 66.
I would love to know the name of the song at 1:34:41
I meant to post this earlier, but here is the entire music cue sheet for this video...
00:01 - Classics IV - Stormy
01:20 - Keith Mansfield - Soul Thing
04:37 - William Soden - Overdrive
06:09 - A. Goddard & R. Komie - Compulsive
08:32 - Frans Mijits - Night Flash
10:50 - Laurent Lombard - Together Forever
12:27 - Tom Jenkins & Barry Schleifer - The Right Stuff
14:39 - Alan Hawkshaw - Fuel Injection
17:31 - Sam Spence - Thunder & Lightning
20:03 - Alan Parker - Relaxed Spacious
23:19 - Craig Palmer - Victory's Pursuit
26:58 - Roger Webb - Orion II
29:46 - Sam Spence - The Ultimate Victor
31:41 - Erik Lasar - House of Cards
34:01 - Cyril Stapleton & Johnny Harris - Swinging Sombrero
36:08 - Sam Spence - The Magnificent Eleven
39:48 - Paul Lewis - Vision of Glory
42:42 - Johnny Pearson - Power Drive
44:41 - Hugo De Groot - Automania
46:25 - Keith Papworth - Aces High
48:31 - Clive Hicks - Silver Stream
51:47 - Peter Reno - Jets
53:50 - Paul Lewis - Pursuit of Power
56:04 - Sam Spence - Open Plains
58:39 - Sam Spence - The Edge
01:00:22 - Jonathan Mark Taylor - Meltdown
01:02:41 - Sam Spence - Silver Streak
01:04:33 - Simon Park - Knock Onward
01:06:41 - Sam Spence - Macho Theme
01:08:44 - Chris Evans-Ironside - Hercules
01:11:54 - Sam Spence - Round-Up
01:13:51 - Sam Spence - Raider Might
01:16:07 - Sam Spence - Barren Land
01:17:52 - Sam Spence - Gotcha
01:20:33 - Sam Spence - Plenty Puente
01:23:13 - Sam Spence - Water Bug
01:25:25 - Sam Spence - Battleground
01:27:58 - John Scott - Race The Sun
01:29:29 - Sam Spence - Torpedo
01:31:28 - Sam Spence - Danger Plan
01:34:12 - Sam Spence - Jazz Undercurrents
01:36:18 - Sam Spence - Pell Mell
01:38:54 - Martha Jane Weber - The Will To Win
01:40:19 - Craig Palmer - Breaking The Tape
01:42:43 - Sam Spence - Juggernaut
01:44:50 - Caesar Giovanni & Wayne Robinson - Blue Mountain
New subscriber here. Love everything about this channel. Can you tell me the song that starts around 1:11:50? I’ve been hearing that for years on NFL Films and have never been able to pin it down.
Thank you! If you mean 1:11:56, that is 'Round-Up' by Sam Spence.
Hey thanks, I appreciate it
Real football
In all weather pro football is played.
Dec. 20th 1975 9:08