this post from 10/03/1976 rams vs dolphins was super indeed WHERE I THINK THAT GAME WAS JAMES HARRIS' CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sad to say the following week on 10/11/1976 in a monday night game against the san francisco 49'ers james harris and the rams lost 16 to 0 !!!!!!!!!!! james harris WAS SACKED 10 TIMES ( i am not joking) and james harris WAS HIT 44 TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in that game harris suffered multiple concussions,neck and rib injuries!!!!!!!!!!! james came back a month later on a monday night game on the road against the cincinnati bengals !!!!!!!!!!! i gave harris a B rating but his reactions from all those concussions were slow and methodical and even when he got hit a few times james harris would walk gingerly and slowly off the field !!!!!!!!!!!!!JAMES HARRIS WAS NEVER EVER THE SAME AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!from that point on pat haden became the rams quarterback and occasionally the rams gave ron jaworski a chance !!!!!!!!!!!! a healthy james harris would have made a 500% diffrence for the rams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if james harris had a weakness it was that james had a SLOW release where he could be susceptible and vulnerable of getting hit more and hard by opposing defenses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nevertheless there is a happy ending!!!! when the ravens beat the giants in super bowl 35, ozzie newsome who was the head of player personnel and his assistant of player personnel JAMES HARRIS received super bowl world champion rings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must say that I was very disappointed in the commentary from Tom Brookshire, because you can tell that he continued to not give James Harris the credit that he deserved during his record breaking passing performance (436yds). But then I remembered that during that time the black quarterback was not treated fairly. He also had to look over his shoulder constantly throughout his time with the Rams especially when Pat Hayden arrived in 1975, and I would assume that the fact that they lost those playoffs to the vikings and cowboys (1973-76) didn't help much at all!!.
James Harris bombs Dolphins' vaunted zone pass defense: First game-winning, 400-yard passing performance by an African American QB in NFL history. "The ball travels well in the Orange Bowl," Harris joked.
@Randall Denison The owner forced Head Coach Chuck Knox to bench Harris and start Haden. The only thing Haden has on Harris was blonde hair and blue eyes. It's called bigotry, numbskull.
@@JAWrightonline the rams vs dolphins game in 1976 MIGHT HAVE BEEN JAMES HARRIS' CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT where he threw for over 400 yards WITH A BROKEN THUMB!!!!!!!!!! the next week was a monday night game against the 49'ers at home WHERE JAMES HARRIS' was sacked 10 TIMES and was HIT 44 TIMES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sad to say james harris SUFFERED MULTIPLE CONCUSSIONS from that monday night game and NEVER EVER was the same again !!!!!!!!!!james harris had chronic headaches which would not go away!!!!!!!!!!!! james had a decent game at best against the cincinnati bengals but his REACTIONS ON THE FIELD WERE EXTREMELY SLOW since he still was suffering from multiple concussions from that 49ers game!!!!!!!!!! his headaches WERE GETTING WORSE AND WORSE, so that is why the rams had to start pat haden and occasionally ron jaworski !!!!! if anything the rams dynamic owner carroll rosenbloom WAS PROTECTING JAMES HARRIS because if the truth came out about james harris' multiple concussions some of these "SAVAGE RIGHT WING CRITICS" would say that james harris WAS NOT TOUGH ENOUGH which is complete rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!! nevertheless the great news is that when the baltimore ravens beat the new york giants in super bowl 35 ozzie newsome was in charge of player personnel!!!!!! do you know who ozzie newsome's assistant was?,,,,,,,,,,JAMES HARRIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! so james harris DID GET A SUPER BOWL RING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@robertperrella4194 I appreciate you. However. please don't mention that 10-sack 49er debacle on that sad Monday Night. I was at that game at the Coliseum. Bigoted fans were mocking him, saying, "Put Haden in there!" I was nine years old. That was more traumatic for me than when Muhammad Ali lost to Joe Frazier in '71.
@@JAWrightonline ,,hey joseph wright i gave you a thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!! i did hear a lot about those bigoted fans which is very sad indeed!!!!! i have seen some of the hate mail on you tube that james harris received during his playing days !!!!!!! sad to say it is similar to what jackie robinson went through but maybe a little worse mentally !!!!!!!!!!!
I am not a Ram fan. In 1976 I was 8 years old. I lived in Baltimore but not a Colt fan. The Redskins were my team. I gave all of that because Im going to talk about James Harris. I remember Harris as a Ram and Charger for a second. Doug Williams. reminds me a lot of Harris. Tall, not extra mobile, but he can move around, and you gotta bring some wood if you're gonna tackle him. As we saw Harris had a game against the Dolphins, showing his "real true" potential. What I saw in this game is proof that coaches had a lot to do with screwing over some black QBs. Now Chuck Knox is a run. run, and run some more coach, and he I'm sure didn't want to see Harris balling out in the pocket. The coaches back then would bring these drop back, strong armed black QBs in and NOT build a offensive game plan around their skills, but stick these guys in a unimaginative offense where they throw the football on 3rd down and never dictate to the defense. We saw Harris straight ballin', making all the throws, gunning it deep down field to his speedy recievers Ron Jessie and Harold Jackson. If Harris would have had a coach that would craft the offense around Harris, he would have been much better than his stats indicated. The same hapoened to Williams in Tampa. Run...Run.. and more run, and when he got a chance to throw it was usuallt on predictable down and distance plays that usually was defended properly. Never give them a rhythm. Always as a "oh well". Then when çalled on to do it in pressure situations, snake eyes. The ' know, but yet continued to boo him right out the Colosseum. At least he has this one game to say, I could've done it regularly, but....
Excellent post. Being a rams fan back then, I always thought Harris was used wrong. That man threw the prettiest passes and if chuck hadn't been such a dumbass, LA with shack Harris, wins 3 superbowls...74 75 76
in that dolphin-rams game JAMES HARRIS PLAYED WITH A BROKEN THUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let me share with you another bombshell: on friday night the rams visiting locker room was burglarized and 25 RAMS HELMETS AND SHOULDER PADS WERE STOLEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! many of the rams offensive ,defensive linemen SHARED HELMETS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am not joking!!!!!!!!!!!! thank GOD the rams equipment manager don hewitt had many "connections" with a lot of equipment managers and sporting goods dealers across the country let alone in the miami area !!!!!!!!!!!!!! so don picked up a bunch of helmets and had the helmets spray painted with the rams colors and thank the lord don knew the size of each players heads !!!!!!!!!without don hewitt's genius organization skills the rams would have to forfeit the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........oh by the way james harris was the mvp of the 1975 pro bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@brettshepherd5240 james harris was the MVP of the 1975 pro bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,JAMES HARRIS PLAYED WITH A BROKEN THUMB IN THAT DOLPHINS-RAMS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on firiday night the rams visiting locker room was burglarized and 25 helmets and shoulder pads were stolen!!!!!!!!!!!! many of the rams offensive and defensive linemen HAD TO SHARE HELMETS!!!!!!!!!!! thank GOD don hewitt the rams equipment manager had many connections with other equipment managers from college and high school teams and sporting goods dealers in the florida area so on saturday late morning he picked up a bunch of helmets and spray painted them with the rams colors!!!!!!!!!thank GOD don knew the sizes of all the players heads !!!!!!!!!!!without don hewitt the rams would have had to forfeit this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@brettshepherd5240 highly doubtful your beating the steelers or the raiders Rams were good Not that good Weak divison And James was good I always wondered that myself 436 yds says it all
1976 was near the end for Ali. He wound up doing some stunts like a match for the WWF( As it was called then), fought Japanese Antonio Inoki (In which his legs were kicked so much he head massive blood clots and almost had to have a leg amputated). He had to keep fighting and doing these stunts because he was almost broke. His inner circle, including some of his own family had siphoned off most of Ali's money. Going as far as submitting phony receipts. The Nation of Islam had drained Ali as well, that being one of the reasons Ali split with them in the 70s. Ali would beat Ken Norton in 1976, a decision that was not popular, split a pair of uninspiring fights with Leon Spinks (Claiming the title for the third time) and ended his career with a horrid fight vs Larry Holmes.
Classic NFL MNF games and any other classic games they can get is what ESPN should be broadcasting without regular sports these days. Should be mixed in with all the replayed games they show now.
The Houston-New Orleans game on this day had a bench-clearer that featured, among other things, Oiler cornerback Zeke Moore jabbing two fingers into the eyes of Saint receiver Tinker Owens.
Even in the late 80s, boxing was huge. My college buddies and I would get together for pay per views in a room that should have held HALF the number of people there. lol. Boxing, and not just heavyweight boxing was huge when I was growing up. now, not so much.
@@stevep8445 I think it's kinda of a perfect storm--sleazy promoters, no good match ups and mma, but I think mma is on borrowed time, women have carried that for a bit, I have a little with problems some people getting hit when they're obviously out cold, but I've seen some bad refereeing in boxing cost lives, my girl has multi-blacks she doesn't fight for sport-as she simply says "someone could get hurt".
20 weight classes, 4 “world champions” in each class. Almost impossible to keep up with it. That’s what happened to boxing. Having said that, it’s bigger internationally than ever.
Miami would lose this game on a late Dempsey field goal 31-28. It would be one of only two losing seasons that Don Shula would have in his 33 years as head coach.
The Rams were the world to me back in '76. My parents had taken me to an air show (blue angels?) and somebody had a radio with this game on. I was just 3 weeks shy of turning 9 years old. I remember being captivated by the back and forth and eventual Rams victory. So awesome to finally see what actually happened. Thank you!
That NE vs OAK game 'this day' and their subsequent AFC Playoff game are on my ultimate game recording wish list.....
Too Bad the Rams did not stick with Harris or Jaworski over the little engine that couldn't in Pat Haden.
this post from 10/03/1976 rams vs dolphins was super indeed WHERE I THINK THAT GAME WAS JAMES HARRIS' CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sad to say the following week on 10/11/1976 in a monday night game against the san francisco 49'ers james harris and the rams lost 16 to 0 !!!!!!!!!!! james harris WAS SACKED 10 TIMES ( i am not joking) and james harris WAS HIT 44 TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in that game harris suffered multiple concussions,neck and rib injuries!!!!!!!!!!! james came back a month later on a monday night game on the road against the cincinnati bengals !!!!!!!!!!! i gave harris a B rating but his reactions from all those concussions were slow and methodical and even when he got hit a few times james harris would walk gingerly and slowly off the field !!!!!!!!!!!!!JAMES HARRIS WAS NEVER EVER THE SAME AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!from that point on pat haden became the rams quarterback and occasionally the rams gave ron jaworski a chance !!!!!!!!!!!! a healthy james harris would have made a 500% diffrence for the rams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if james harris had a weakness it was that james had a SLOW release where he could be susceptible and vulnerable of getting hit more and hard by opposing defenses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nevertheless there is a happy ending!!!! when the ravens beat the giants in super bowl 35, ozzie newsome who was the head of player personnel and his assistant of player personnel JAMES HARRIS received super bowl world champion rings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go RAMS Go !!!
It sounds like Jack Buck (along with Paul Maguire) calling the Jets-49ers game. I knew he was with NBC for a time.
I must say that I was very disappointed in the commentary from Tom Brookshire, because you can tell that he continued to not give James Harris the credit that he deserved during his record breaking passing performance (436yds). But then I remembered that during that time the black quarterback was not treated fairly. He also had to look over his shoulder constantly throughout his time with the Rams especially when Pat Hayden arrived in 1975, and I would assume that the fact that they lost those playoffs to the vikings and cowboys (1973-76) didn't help much at all!!.
James Harris bombs Dolphins' vaunted zone pass defense: First game-winning, 400-yard passing performance by an African American QB in NFL history. "The ball travels well in the Orange Bowl," Harris joked.
@Randall Denison The owner forced Head Coach Chuck Knox to bench Harris and start Haden. The only thing Haden has on Harris was blonde hair and blue eyes. It's called bigotry, numbskull.
@@JAWrightonline the rams vs dolphins game in 1976 MIGHT HAVE BEEN JAMES HARRIS' CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT where he threw for over 400 yards WITH A BROKEN THUMB!!!!!!!!!! the next week was a monday night game against the 49'ers at home WHERE JAMES HARRIS' was sacked 10 TIMES and was HIT 44 TIMES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sad to say james harris SUFFERED MULTIPLE CONCUSSIONS from that monday night game and NEVER EVER was the same again !!!!!!!!!!james harris had chronic headaches which would not go away!!!!!!!!!!!! james had a decent game at best against the cincinnati bengals but his REACTIONS ON THE FIELD WERE EXTREMELY SLOW since he still was suffering from multiple concussions from that 49ers game!!!!!!!!!! his headaches WERE GETTING WORSE AND WORSE, so that is why the rams had to start pat haden and occasionally ron jaworski !!!!! if anything the rams dynamic owner carroll rosenbloom WAS PROTECTING JAMES HARRIS because if the truth came out about james harris' multiple concussions some of these "SAVAGE RIGHT WING CRITICS" would say that james harris WAS NOT TOUGH ENOUGH which is complete rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!! nevertheless the great news is that when the baltimore ravens beat the new york giants in super bowl 35 ozzie newsome was in charge of player personnel!!!!!! do you know who ozzie newsome's assistant was?,,,,,,,,,,JAMES HARRIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! so james harris DID GET A SUPER BOWL RING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@robertperrella4194 I appreciate you. However. please don't mention that 10-sack 49er debacle on that sad Monday Night. I was at that game at the Coliseum. Bigoted fans were mocking him, saying, "Put Haden in there!" I was nine years old. That was more traumatic for me than when Muhammad Ali lost to Joe Frazier in '71.
@@JAWrightonline ,,hey joseph wright i gave you a thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!! i did hear a lot about those bigoted fans which is very sad indeed!!!!! i have seen some of the hate mail on you tube that james harris received during his playing days !!!!!!! sad to say it is similar to what jackie robinson went through but maybe a little worse mentally !!!!!!!!!!!
I was at this game Harris TORCHED the Phins, mostly on long bombs.
Great games. The channel changing in the recording reminded me of the sound the TV made when turning the channel knob. How reminiscent!
I am not a Ram fan. In 1976 I was 8 years old. I lived in Baltimore but not a Colt fan. The Redskins were my team. I gave all of that because Im going to talk about James Harris. I remember Harris as a Ram and Charger for a second. Doug Williams. reminds me a lot of Harris. Tall, not extra mobile, but he can move around, and you gotta bring some wood if you're gonna tackle him. As we saw Harris had a game against the Dolphins, showing his "real true" potential. What I saw in this game is proof that coaches had a lot to do with screwing over some black QBs. Now Chuck Knox is a run. run, and run some more coach, and he I'm sure didn't want to see Harris balling out in the pocket. The coaches back then would bring these drop back, strong armed black QBs in and NOT build a offensive game plan around their skills, but stick these guys in a unimaginative offense where they throw the football on 3rd down and never dictate to the defense. We saw Harris straight ballin', making all the throws, gunning it deep down field to his speedy recievers Ron Jessie and Harold Jackson. If Harris would have had a coach that would craft the offense around Harris, he would have been much better than his stats indicated. The same hapoened to Williams in Tampa. Run...Run.. and more run, and when he got a chance to throw it was usuallt on predictable down and distance plays that usually was defended properly. Never give them a rhythm. Always as a "oh well". Then when çalled on to do it in pressure situations, snake eyes. The ' know, but yet continued to boo him right out the Colosseum. At least he has this one game to say, I could've done it regularly, but....
The over the hill gang
Excellent post. Being a rams fan back then, I always thought Harris was used wrong. That man threw the prettiest passes and if chuck hadn't been such a dumbass, LA with shack Harris, wins 3 superbowls...74 75 76
in that dolphin-rams game JAMES HARRIS PLAYED WITH A BROKEN THUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let me share with you another bombshell: on friday night the rams visiting locker room was burglarized and 25 RAMS HELMETS AND SHOULDER PADS WERE STOLEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! many of the rams offensive ,defensive linemen SHARED HELMETS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am not joking!!!!!!!!!!!! thank GOD the rams equipment manager don hewitt had many "connections" with a lot of equipment managers and sporting goods dealers across the country let alone in the miami area !!!!!!!!!!!!!! so don picked up a bunch of helmets and had the helmets spray painted with the rams colors and thank the lord don knew the size of each players heads !!!!!!!!!without don hewitt's genius organization skills the rams would have to forfeit the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........oh by the way james harris was the mvp of the 1975 pro bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@brettshepherd5240 james harris was the MVP of the 1975 pro bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,JAMES HARRIS PLAYED WITH A BROKEN THUMB IN THAT DOLPHINS-RAMS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on firiday night the rams visiting locker room was burglarized and 25 helmets and shoulder pads were stolen!!!!!!!!!!!! many of the rams offensive and defensive linemen HAD TO SHARE HELMETS!!!!!!!!!!! thank GOD don hewitt the rams equipment manager had many connections with other equipment managers from college and high school teams and sporting goods dealers in the florida area so on saturday late morning he picked up a bunch of helmets and spray painted them with the rams colors!!!!!!!!!thank GOD don knew the sizes of all the players heads !!!!!!!!!!!without don hewitt the rams would have had to forfeit this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@brettshepherd5240 highly doubtful your beating the steelers or the raiders
Rams were good
Not that good
Weak divison
And James was good
I always wondered that myself
436 yds says it all
1976 was near the end for Ali. He wound up doing some stunts like a match for the WWF( As it was called then), fought Japanese Antonio Inoki (In which his legs were kicked so much he head massive blood clots and almost had to have a leg amputated). He had to keep fighting and doing these stunts because he was almost broke. His inner circle, including some of his own family had siphoned off most of Ali's money. Going as far as submitting phony receipts. The Nation of Islam had drained Ali as well, that being one of the reasons Ali split with them in the 70s. Ali would beat Ken Norton in 1976, a decision that was not popular, split a pair of uninspiring fights with Leon Spinks (Claiming the title for the third time) and ended his career with a horrid fight vs Larry Holmes.
And yet he fought once more AFTER that against Trevor Berbick
Don't forget his thrilling exhibition against NFL tough guy Lyle Alzado at Mile High Stadium in Denver.
Oilers vs. Saints that day was a much better fight anyway.
Looking at Don King and Bob Arum, it’s hard to believe that those two were in their 40’s in 1976.
Classic NFL MNF games and any other classic games they can get is what ESPN should be broadcasting without regular sports these days. Should be mixed in with all the replayed games they show now.
The Houston-New Orleans game on this day had a bench-clearer that featured, among other things, Oiler cornerback Zeke Moore jabbing two fingers into the eyes of Saint receiver Tinker Owens.
Brent's Bears / Patriots SB prediction was accurate. Just 9 years too early.
So close to beating the Raiders in that year's playoffs.
Great Rams game it’s a shame uploader didn’t give the game much respect while recording it
This looked like this was recorded off a cable system in NYC?
Do you have the Dolphins/Patriots game from October 1978?
Brent predicted Chicago vs New England in the Super Bowl. He was nine years early
amazing...thanks for this..remember watching the jets niners game live as a kid..
Jets-49ers parts 18:21
20:52 29:22 37:32 39:24
42:16 45:00 50:27 54:56
1:01:13 1:07:38
1:12:22
Only appearance at the Stick for Joe Namath in a Jets uniform. 49ers are wearing their white uniform.
The Dolphins wore their aqua jerseys for a day game
What an amazing film. Ali too!
Two of the best...Pat Summerall and Jack Buck. Brookshire was a color man for both at CBS
norton won the ali fight at yankee stadium.
great find, brother!
Earnest Angley during the channel changing.
Rams, Harris BOMB Miami
How times have changed, and somebody actually cared about boxing.
Even in the late 80s, boxing was huge. My college buddies and I would get together for pay per views in a room that should have held HALF the number of people there. lol. Boxing, and not just heavyweight boxing was huge when I was growing up. now, not so much.
@@stevep8445 I think it's kinda of a perfect storm--sleazy promoters, no good match ups and mma, but I think mma is on borrowed time, women have carried that for a bit, I have a little with problems some people getting hit when they're obviously out cold, but I've seen some bad refereeing in boxing cost lives, my girl has multi-blacks she doesn't fight for sport-as she simply says "someone could get hurt".
20 weight classes, 4 “world champions” in each class. Almost impossible to keep up with it. That’s what happened to boxing. Having said that, it’s bigger internationally than ever.
Miami would lose this game on a late Dempsey field goal 31-28. It would be one of only two losing seasons that Don Shula would have in his 33 years as head coach.
The Rams were the world to me back in '76. My parents had taken me to an air show (blue angels?) and somebody had a radio with this game on. I was just 3 weeks shy of turning 9 years old. I remember being captivated by the back and forth and eventual Rams victory. So awesome to finally see what actually happened. Thank you!
Hearing the BBC Grandstand theme under the Oakland New England highlights is just - weird.....
That kicker was hubba bubba.
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