I was at the 78 game...pandemonium... the spirit in this city has gone unmatched to this day.... something the Texans have yet to find...... I am still and always will be an Oiler fan...be it reality or virtual I don't care.... This was my team and always will be.
You kids today really have no idea how different football was back in the 70s. It was so much better. Monday Night Football was the game the entire country tuned in to every week. It was a huge deal for the teams playing at night & on nationwide TV which was rare. The brand of football was just different. Harder hits, tougher players. Teams didn’t like each other. The players took it all personally. They weren’t spoiled like they are today. I could write on & on about this subject. If you experienced it, you know what I’m talking about. Just the sound of Howard Cosell’s voice takes me back.
@@denisceballos9745 I remember that news too and seeing footage of the Hostages blindfolded walking out the Embassy to be paraded. I was 9 years old and even was topic from teacher of reasons of news. Iran celebrates that date and diabolic event..
@@nickj3513 Just noticed of watching again, my take on ya oh really duh look. TH-cam a site , see many footages of our past ,giving US the vibes at that time. A major time in our country due to our own being humiliated and used as shit to deal with US. Thruout game the commentators didnt mention the crisis due to MNF an escape from the stupidity of folks like you. Grow out of this ignorant waste of time looking to crap on ppl so Im just taking a large shit back in ya face of a toilet looking fool. really.?>/. game reminding me of 8th grade with that BS. Sorry, I just had to diarria all over ya, Ill be back.
I loved Howard Cossell--he was also a lawyer and contributed a lot of his time/money to charitable causes (he had a special affection for the Boy Scouts)--not much was said about it until after he had passed away--RIP Mr. Cossell
Cool to catch this classic from a much simpler time in pro football. The Oilers were on the edge of dominance and the Dolphins were in a long period of trying to find it again after their undefeated season a few years beforehand. And the cultural stuff is awesome with the old commercials. If you listen closely during the first quarter, you can hear whatever band that is playing the theme from "CHiPs."
@@billkeogh639 No way. Municipal stadium in Cleveland was definitely the hardest place to win a tough game. Been to both, and to 5 different stadiums outside of New York, and that Cleveland Municipal was crazy.
The commercial of Earl Campbell takin a dip of Schols. lol.. I recall at 9 years old that year, the kids everywhere were doing this. You can see why they no longer run those commercials but was everywhere back then in billboards, poster walls, ect..
lol I remember being just about 9 years old. A friend got a hold of a can of that stuff and I put a massive chunk of it “between my cheek n’ gum”. Spitting the juice like I was a big guy. About 5 minutes later I’m soooo sick. 🤢 Dizzy, nauseous, headache, stomachache, vomiting. Had to lay down for a couple hours 🤮 Man, to this day, the smell of it makes me sick. Never touched it again. Thanks Earl Campbell. lol
lovin this. the commercials put you right in the mnf atmosphere. with all the negativity going on nowadays it feels good to be in 79- at least for a little while...
Some say,Earl Campbell was not in particular good shape,if that was true,that was a very scary thought considering... I don't recall seeing him caught from behind very often.
Wow! I'm watching the Broncos/Colts field goal fest tonight and it reminded me of this game that I went to as a kid. I thought I'd look it up for shits and giggles. I can't believe it's here. Haha!.
I'm dying here! I was featured during the halftime highlight reel during this game as the Denver Bronco Mascot of the Week. WHY WOULD YOU CUT THE HALFTIME SHOW??? If you have it I would pay $s to get that show :).
The commentary ,& analysis is " pedestrian " compared to today's week-long barrage of X ,& O breakdown..... yet I enjoyed it far greater than I do today.
Yes indeed. NFL in this period is not the NFL today. Guys had to work off season. Got your bell rung? Shake it off. Docs were on patch & repair script. CBs could really cover WRs-- pre five yard rule. QBs were truly part of the game-- no roughing rules. Guys didn't showboat. Can't say it was perfect. We should've been aware of brain injury. Still, the game then is not what it is now. No more Orange Bowl... Candlestick...Yankee Stadium. (Yes, the Giants played somewhere else before the Meadowlands). National shared experience--that was MNF. A better time. 🇺🇸
GM operated an assembly plant in Lordstown for 53 years. It halted production at the plant in March 2019 and officially sold the plant to Lordstown Motors Corp. in November. Lordstown Motors plans to build electric trucks at the plant.--GM is also planning on building a new battery plant on the site--but the days of having a career working 30-40 years at an auto plant are long gone
The lack of creativity is because the 70's was a running back League. It might surprise people that two of the best power backs ever, Csonka and Campbell are playing on the field together in this video. Creativity would come soon when the 49ers would feature Joe Montana.
@@whataboutrob442 LOL!! Csonka rushed for 837 yards and had 13 TDS in 1979. Our home NFL teams could use a terrible old running back like Csonka! LOL!!
@@radar0412 I had no idea he did that well in '79, because he was stinking it up in New York prior to that, never rushing for 600 yards if I remember correctly.
@@whataboutrob442 If you give Great fullbacks like Riggins and Csonka solid coaches like Shula and Gibbs, you should expect a return on your investment.
When pass-friendly rule changes were instituted the previous season (1978), many people whined that they gave an unfair advantage to the offense. This nationally televised game -- a game in which not a single touchdown was scored by two playoff-caliber teams -- should have put that myth to rest once and for all.
Where have I heard that complaint (unfair advantage to the offense) hmm!,sounds familiar..L guess whining about rules changes passes from generation to generation,or maybe not
Actually, this one didn't sell out. Because of that, it couldn't be seen on TV in Miami, West Palm Beach, or Fort Myers. Even with Bob Griese and Dan Marino as star QBs, blackouts still used to be a huge problem for the Dolphins. It was worst in the Orange Bowl, which was already 29 years old when the Dolphins began playing there in 1966. Sports venues built in 1937 weren't built with the same kind of amenities that sports venues built today have. The Dolphins moved to what is now Hard Rock Stadium in 1987. Only three home dates did not sell out then. But despite the stadium being new, and the star power of Dan Marino, blackouts would start happening more frequently the next year. The team's last 16 home games of the 80s, encompassing two entire seasons, failed to sell out and this included 3 national TV games. Into the first two years of the 90s, the Dolphins continued to be blacked out at home more often than selling out at home, only two sellouts each of those seasons. The blackouts in those two seasons included two primetime games on cable against the Patriots and a 1991 MNF game against the Bengals, which was the first MNF blackout in the two-season era in which Hank Williams Jr. opened the broadcasts with "Monday Night Football Boogie", rather than "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night". The other such blackout in that era also involved the Dolphins, but on the road in Cleveland. In 1992, the Dolphins were able to sell out half their home schedule, and the two years after that there were more sellouts than blackouts, though one blackout was a game against the Colts on TNT Sunday Night Football. That was the last time the Dolphins were blacked out at night. They would have only four more regular season blackouts in the 90s, 3 of them in 1997. However, wild card games against the Colts (formerly in Baltimore) in 2000 and Ravens (the replacements in Baltimore) in 2001 were blacked out. The former was the last blackout of any kind on ABC, and the latter was the last ever playoff blackout of any team. So, blackouts used to affect even the most popular of NFL teams. After the 1973 rule came into effect, perhaps the most popular NFL team, the Cowboys, still didn't have a blackout-free season until 1978, coming off a Super Bowl championship. They would be blackout free for three more seasons, but still from 1982 to 1986, they had a total of 6 blackouts, half of them in 1984. After the Cowboys started to struggle more often, blackouts became more frequent. From 1987-90, the Cowboys had only 8 sellouts, and several Thanksgiving games were among the blackouts in this period, such as a game against in-state rivals the Houston Oilers in 1988, and the Bounty Bowl against the Eagles in 1989. The Cowboys have sold out every home game since the start of the 1991 season. Occasionally though through 2002, not enough visiting fans came to a Cowboys road game to ensure broadcast of those games in the market of origin. Most often, these were games at the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, who often failed to sell out Sun Devil Stadium. It was the Cardinals in 2002 who were the last team to fail to sell out against the Cowboys.
Lowenbrau, or "lions den" was made by Anheuser-Busch back in the '50s, then was bought out by the Miller company. It was originally made in the authentic German style of making beer. I thought it was a step above back in the mid '80s.
One of the dullest Monday Night football games ever. This was the pits after so much anticipation for it. Houston could never win home field advantage for playoffs. That,s why the Oilers never went anywhere. The ugliness of American cars was starting at this time.
Bum definitely had Shula's number there for a few years. The 1975 win probably cost Miami a playoff spot. He beat Miami twice in '78, found a way to win this game. On a side note, this was the first full day of captivity for the American hostages. There would be over four hundred more before they were released.
@@kencummings953 that was a great job providing that small but important part of american history I was only 8 years old but I remember as if it happened last year. The the allotolla khomehni , Jimmy Carter and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Thanks!!!
Anything would have been a letdown after the two great confrontations from the year before. Especially the first game which may be the best MNF telecast ever.
I was at the 78 game...pandemonium... the spirit in this city has gone unmatched to this day.... something the Texans have yet to find...... I am still and always will be an Oiler fan...be it reality or virtual I don't care.... This was my team and always will be.
Their game in 78 is one of the best in MNF history. Earl Campbell was a beast...one of the greatest runners I've ever seen
I just turned 57 and remember these classic times 🌈. Absolutely wonderful time to be young !
❤❤
Hate him or not,Howard always captured the excitement.MNF truly was special then.
You kids today really have no idea how different football was back in the 70s. It was so much better. Monday Night Football was the game the entire country tuned in to every week. It was a huge deal for the teams playing at night & on nationwide TV which was rare. The brand of football was just different. Harder hits, tougher players. Teams didn’t like each other. The players took it all personally. They weren’t spoiled like they are today. I could write on & on about this subject. If you experienced it, you know what I’m talking about. Just the sound of Howard Cosell’s voice takes me back.
That game was being watched every where in the nation. I recall watching it with huge gathering of family and friends in Wisconsin
User 619 o really??!!
This game was played the day after a fateful day in the news. The Iran Hostage Crisis had just begun.
@@denisceballos9745 I remember that news too and seeing footage of the Hostages blindfolded walking out the Embassy to be paraded. I was 9 years old and even was topic from teacher of reasons of news. Iran celebrates that date and diabolic event..
User619 TLSDCA; True; It was a weird time. I was 27 and remember those scenes on the news.We gathered to watch MNF - and people were talking about it.
@@nickj3513 Just noticed of watching again, my take on ya oh really duh look. TH-cam a site , see many footages of our past ,giving US the vibes at that time. A major time in our country due to our own being humiliated and used as shit to deal with US. Thruout game the commentators didnt mention the crisis due to MNF an escape from the stupidity of folks like you. Grow out of this ignorant waste of time looking to crap on ppl so Im just taking a large shit back in ya face of a toilet looking fool. really.?>/. game reminding me of 8th grade with that BS. Sorry, I just had to diarria all over ya, Ill be back.
I have never seen, or heard of this one. Obviously I have looked back at the games and scores, but this is another gem from Classic NFL.
RIP the Orange Bowl in Miami, FL. You will be missed by the people of the City of Miami and the State of Florida.
Frank, Howard, and Dandy Don were the best. I can't stand MNF on ESPN now. I hardly ever even watch it
I loved Howard Cossell--he was also a lawyer and contributed a lot of his time/money to charitable causes (he had a special affection for the Boy Scouts)--not much was said about it until after he had passed away--RIP Mr. Cossell
What energy in the opening back in those days
the days of classic Uniforms...
Larry Horricks the days of BETTER uniforms
Cool to catch this classic from a much simpler time in pro football. The Oilers were on the edge of dominance and the Dolphins were in a long period of trying to find it again after their undefeated season a few years beforehand. And the cultural stuff is awesome with the old commercials. If you listen closely during the first quarter, you can hear whatever band that is playing the theme from "CHiPs."
Thanks for keeping the commercials. I enjoy them as much as the game
In a word, the MNF game between the same two teams a year prior was....ELECTRIC!!!! ⚡ ⚡
Fabulous. Thanks
Big oilers fan back then. Bigger Earl Campbell fan. I remember both great
I miss the Orange Bowl😣
The most intimidating home field advantage in football.
@@billkeogh639 No way. Municipal stadium in Cleveland was definitely the hardest place to win a tough game. Been to both, and to 5 different stadiums outside of New York, and that Cleveland Municipal was crazy.
I was at that game....don't remember much about it but I did have a diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper
I'm in A goddam hurry
I wonder how many people get that joke
Smokey and the Bandit
The commercial of Earl Campbell takin a dip of Schols. lol.. I recall at 9 years old that year, the kids everywhere were doing this. You can see why they no longer run those commercials but was everywhere back then in billboards, poster walls, ect..
lol I remember being just about 9 years old. A friend got a hold of a can of that stuff and I put a massive chunk of it “between my cheek n’ gum”. Spitting the juice like I was a big guy. About 5 minutes later I’m soooo sick. 🤢 Dizzy, nauseous, headache, stomachache, vomiting. Had to lay down for a couple hours 🤮 Man, to this day, the smell of it makes me sick. Never touched it again. Thanks Earl Campbell. lol
lovin this. the commercials put you right in the mnf atmosphere. with all the negativity going on nowadays it feels good to be in 79- at least for a little while...
Some say,Earl Campbell was not in particular good shape,if that was true,that was a very scary thought considering... I don't recall seeing him caught from behind very often.
Thank you
Nothing today even comes close to MNF back in the day!! Miss those days!
Bob Griese looked more like a librarian than a football player.
I was born on this day in 1979 and a classic game on this day
Wow! I'm watching the Broncos/Colts field goal fest tonight and it reminded me of this game that I went to as a kid. I thought I'd look it up for shits and giggles. I can't believe it's here. Haha!.
I enjoy the commercials too
I'm dying here! I was featured during the halftime highlight reel during this game as the Denver Bronco Mascot of the Week. WHY WOULD YOU CUT THE HALFTIME SHOW??? If you have it I would pay $s to get that show :).
Who would have thought that actor legend Burgess Meredith would host Pioneer's audio speakers!
I thought that was him
The commentary ,& analysis is " pedestrian " compared to today's week-long barrage of X ,& O breakdown..... yet I enjoyed it far greater than I do today.
This must be the first time I have ever seen a QB wearing glasses.
Dammit, my husband taped this over our WEDDING video !!!! 😫😫 😁😁
Don Shula was a great coach but I don't think he ever beat Bum Phillips.
Yes indeed. NFL in this period is not the NFL today. Guys had to work off season. Got your bell rung? Shake it off. Docs were on patch & repair script. CBs could really cover WRs-- pre five yard rule. QBs were truly part of the game-- no roughing rules. Guys didn't showboat. Can't say it was perfect. We should've been aware of brain injury. Still, the game then is not what it is now. No more Orange Bowl... Candlestick...Yankee Stadium. (Yes, the Giants played somewhere else before the Meadowlands). National shared experience--that was MNF. A better time. 🇺🇸
LOL some people don't even remember when the giants played in new haven CT while the meadowlands was being built in the 70s!!
@@bdog1323 The Yale Bowl
great opening!
Live from the Orange Bowl in MIAMA FLORIDA ? Love ya Frank 👍
... remarkable with what the GM commercial says as a 1979 commentary of the times at 27:53 ...
GM operated an assembly plant in Lordstown for 53 years. It halted production at the plant in March 2019 and officially sold the plant to Lordstown Motors Corp. in November. Lordstown Motors plans to build electric trucks at the plant.--GM is also planning on building a new battery plant on the site--but the days of having a career working 30-40 years at an auto plant are long gone
50:10 Oh! the memories..LOL!!!
Where was the iconic theme music for the intro?
Rich Caster former long time Jet
At this time the league was moving into its Golden Era.
Robert Brazile had a big game.
There was a lack of offensive creativity in play calling on both teams. One of the worst I have ever seen.
The lack of creativity is because the 70's was a running back League. It might surprise people that two of the best power backs ever, Csonka and Campbell are playing on the field together in this video. Creativity would come soon when the 49ers would feature Joe Montana.
@@radar0412 Csonka was terrible by 1979.
@@whataboutrob442 LOL!! Csonka rushed for 837 yards and had 13 TDS in 1979. Our home NFL teams could use a terrible old running back like Csonka! LOL!!
@@radar0412 I had no idea he did that well in '79, because he was stinking it up in New York prior to that, never rushing for 600 yards if I remember correctly.
@@whataboutrob442 If you give Great fullbacks like Riggins and Csonka solid coaches like Shula and Gibbs, you should expect a return on your investment.
When pass-friendly rule changes were instituted the previous season (1978), many people whined that they gave an unfair advantage to the offense. This nationally televised game -- a game in which not a single touchdown was scored by two playoff-caliber teams -- should have put that myth to rest once and for all.
Where have I heard that complaint (unfair advantage to the offense) hmm!,sounds familiar..L guess whining about rules changes passes from generation to generation,or maybe not
When Miami sports teams sold out home games.
Actually, this one didn't sell out. Because of that, it couldn't be seen on TV in Miami, West Palm Beach, or Fort Myers.
Even with Bob Griese and Dan Marino as star QBs, blackouts still used to be a huge problem for the Dolphins. It was worst in the Orange Bowl, which was already 29 years old when the Dolphins began playing there in 1966. Sports venues built in 1937 weren't built with the same kind of amenities that sports venues built today have.
The Dolphins moved to what is now Hard Rock Stadium in 1987. Only three home dates did not sell out then. But despite the stadium being new, and the star power of Dan Marino, blackouts would start happening more frequently the next year. The team's last 16 home games of the 80s, encompassing two entire seasons, failed to sell out and this included 3 national TV games.
Into the first two years of the 90s, the Dolphins continued to be blacked out at home more often than selling out at home, only two sellouts each of those seasons. The blackouts in those two seasons included two primetime games on cable against the Patriots and a 1991 MNF game against the Bengals, which was the first MNF blackout in the two-season era in which Hank Williams Jr. opened the broadcasts with "Monday Night Football Boogie", rather than "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night". The other such blackout in that era also involved the Dolphins, but on the road in Cleveland.
In 1992, the Dolphins were able to sell out half their home schedule, and the two years after that there were more sellouts than blackouts, though one blackout was a game against the Colts on TNT Sunday Night Football. That was the last time the Dolphins were blacked out at night.
They would have only four more regular season blackouts in the 90s, 3 of them in 1997. However, wild card games against the Colts (formerly in Baltimore) in 2000 and Ravens (the replacements in Baltimore) in 2001 were blacked out. The former was the last blackout of any kind on ABC, and the latter was the last ever playoff blackout of any team.
So, blackouts used to affect even the most popular of NFL teams. After the 1973 rule came into effect, perhaps the most popular NFL team, the Cowboys, still didn't have a blackout-free season until 1978, coming off a Super Bowl championship. They would be blackout free for three more seasons, but still from 1982 to 1986, they had a total of 6 blackouts, half of them in 1984. After the Cowboys started to struggle more often, blackouts became more frequent. From 1987-90, the Cowboys had only 8 sellouts, and several Thanksgiving games were among the blackouts in this period, such as a game against in-state rivals the Houston Oilers in 1988, and the Bounty Bowl against the Eagles in 1989. The Cowboys have sold out every home game since the start of the 1991 season. Occasionally though through 2002, not enough visiting fans came to a Cowboys road game to ensure broadcast of those games in the market of origin. Most often, these were games at the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, who often failed to sell out Sun Devil Stadium. It was the Cardinals in 2002 who were the last team to fail to sell out against the Cowboys.
Robert Pine Sargent on Chips did a beer commercial
54:30 -- Even though the ball was thrown a bit too high, that still looked like pass interference to me.
At about 15:50 I don't think that they have that beer named Lowenbrau anymore today.
I've looked for it and can't find it either
Here's to good friends!
Lowenbrau, or "lions den" was made by Anheuser-Busch back in the '50s, then was bought out by the Miller company. It was originally made in the authentic German style of making beer. I thought it was a step above back in the mid '80s.
One of the dullest Monday Night football games ever. This was the pits after so much anticipation for it. Houston could never win home field advantage for playoffs. That,s why the Oilers never went anywhere. The ugliness of American cars was starting at this time.
you're a basket of cheer.
Houston actually won this game. What cost them homefield was their losses to St. Louis, at Cleveland, and Seattle
+UnleashTheGreen Why, Thank You!
Bum definitely had Shula's number there for a few years. The 1975 win probably cost Miami a playoff spot. He beat Miami twice in '78, found a way to win this game.
On a side note, this was the first full day of captivity for the American hostages. There would be over four hundred more before they were released.
@@kencummings953 that was a great job providing that small but important part of american history I was only 8 years old but I remember as if it happened last year. The the allotolla khomehni , Jimmy Carter and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Thanks!!!
One of the great duds of the 1970s
Anything would have been a letdown after the two great confrontations from the year before. Especially the first game which may be the best MNF telecast ever.
9-6, Oilers...
Memories of the orange bowl before joe robbie stadium
The sequel could not follow up the original.
This was the day after the Iranian hostage situation began.
I love an offensive shootout from time to time.......this ain't it,Lol
Howard was right, why throw when your in position for a game tying FG
Mia-muh, Florida
1:44
57:18 who's the blonnnd . . .
9 to 6 🙄😴😴😴😴😴😴
Didn't Miami rip off that Houston oiler song?
WASTE of time!
DON'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF, I'M SURE YOUR PARENTS STILL LOVE YOU!!
@@BIG-D-STARquit SHOUTING
Sorry, couldn't stand the commercials then and can't stand them now. Off to another poster.