Monday Night football used to be such an institution. It was a big event when it came on. Gifford, Cosell and Meredith had a great chemistry together. Football will never be this great again.
Howard's halftime highlights were always gold. In the days before every game was available on tv, it was often the only way to see footage of teams not in your tv market.
Whoa!!!! Thanks for this... Willie Rodgers is my dad (R.I.P.) and we are always looking for footage. My mom found a lot of footage on youtube and you guys have done us a huge favor posting these
This game is almost 47 years old and I still never get tired of watching these during this era during our youth. Initially the Oilers made a game out of it until the 4th quarter defensive collapse. Penalties and failing to capitalize on breaks given to the Oilers also doomed them. Sometimes hard to believe that some of those guys would later endure two 1-13 seasons in a row.
Its a blowout (34-0), its 2 mismatched teams, its nearly 50 years old, its the always competitive Raiders against a bad, very bad Oilers team - YET its the best broadcast that I saw all year this year - 2020
'This Week in Pro Football' and Howard Cosell's MNF halftime show were the only highlights we had back then. Howard did a good job; I heard he did it all with no scripts or prompts of any kind.
Probably the only game in history with two players wearing 00. I remember watching this game live, and what happened at 2:55:40 was hilarious to an impressionable 11 year old. That's the world we were in at the time. Don Meredith played it perfectly.