1980 - Browns at Colts (Week 10) - Enhanced NBC Broadcast - 1080p
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2024
- Major upgrade here. The original picture was SO dark and drab, but after toiling with it for several hours in Resolve I managed to majorly brighten it and pull out some fantastic color. Topaz was used to remove compression artifacts, sharpen, and upscale to 1080p. You can see before/after screenshots here -- imgbox.com/g/b1ZSdtvbEq -- My thanks to romelovesdan for providing the DVD files used for this project.
I miss the simplicity of the 1970s and 1980s game along with the simplicity of the way it was broadcasted. I know it was due to the limitations of technology, but some NFL broadcasts (particularly FOX) are terribly overstimulating with the music and graphics before and during the game. And there was little time wasted. They introduced the game, a few quick company ads, here are the standings, and then kickoff.
Completely agree
The current product is an unbalanced, over officiated, mess. The presentation is horrific with garbage popping up all over the place cluttering up the screen, non stop commercials the announcers breaking into ad copy in between play...utterly unwatchable.
Nice to see Memorial Stadium with the grass not being turned to dirt, even a midfield logo and end zone scripts! The team itself went into the toilet after the following two years, 2-22-1.
You have another masterpiece here sir….ANYTHING that has BERT JONES and my childhood Colts is a PLUS!!!!!
Throw in old Memorial Stadium and it’s Xmas for me!
Back then games started at 2pm and for one of many rare games, the Colts wore their road uniforms at home. They did it vs Pittsburgh that year too. Classic Dave, another fine time capsule you’ve unearthed dear Friend 😊
Thank you Dave for another good one......NBC games are rare pre 1980... "Cardiac Kids" Browns...beautiful restoration. You brought it to life.
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Major upgrade here. The original picture was SO dark and drab, but after toiling with it for several hours in Resolve I managed to majorly brighten it and pull out some fantastic color. Topaz was used to remove compression artifacts, sharpen, and upscale to 1080p. You can see before/after screenshots here -- imgbox.com/g/b1ZSdtvbEq -- My thanks to romelovesdan for providing the DVD files used for this project.
As a Fins fan, I couldn't stand Bert Jones because he got the best of us many times. Unfortunately, his career was cut short. Missed him when he was gone.
Love any Browns game, but especially from you. Your treatment makes these games an EVENT again.
Thanks guys. Obscure game & great upgrade as always Dave.
RIP Charles White. Was one of my favorite players while he was at USC and I wanted him to succeed in the NFL, but his career was hampered by drug addiction. Glad he had at least one all-star year with the Rams in the late 80s.
I never knew Carl Eller did broadcasting, don't recall hearing him back then. He must not have done it very long. Thanks for another great game Dave!
Looks like Eller only called games for NBC in 1980. According to my research he did 7 games that year, 4 of them being Colt games. 6 of the 7 games he was paired up with Merle Harmon, but in the week 12 Chiefs at Cardinals game he teamed with Bob Costas.
Watched this game on tv. 15yrs old. Loved the Cardiac Kids!
Every time I see Bert Jones post 1977 I always think of what could've been. Maybe the most important player to the success of his team during that decade anyone else (along with Walter Payton). Thanks again Dave. AWESOME job!!!!
Another banger, Dave! :) This was easily Sipe's best season as a Brown and their playoff run that year really should've gone deeper. And Bert Jones is easily tops on any list of great-but-underrated QBs of any era. Had sports medicine been a little farther along, he'd have gotten his shoulder taken care of better than he did.
Thank you, Dave, this is a great restoration. Thanks especially for including the funky disco NBC opening from the late Seventies that continued into 1980. Have not heard it or seen it since back then. Great stuff here. In fact. I recall Cleveland played Oakland in the playoffs that season and Don Cockcroft could not hit his extra points in the snow and ice in Cleveland and the Raiders went in to win that game and the Superbowl.
Love the disco opening music
Such a pleasure to watch these thanks Dave hope all is well Happy Saturday and Beyond 🙂👍
Thanks Al! Same to you :)
Thanks for posting this one Dave, I got this one on my computer from a few years ago, but need it restored and enhanced. I loved watching the Kardiac Kids era of the Browns with the orange pants with Sipe at the helm. I love any late 70s/early 80s NBC games that you bring to us, Dave. One of the last seasons in Baltimore for the Colts before their move to Indianapolis in 1984. I would love to see a home game from that season enhanced at the Hoosier Dome in the future. I think I saw the Cardinals and Dolphins games from that season against the Colts uploaded to RUclips before, but I'm not sure.
Thanks Dave for this one 👍 🏈 along with the commercials 👏
The disco opening was from an obscure disco tune, Don’t Turn Away by Midnight Flite. Not much of a song but NBC put it to good use for its opening of NFL games in the late 70s and early 80s.
Brian Sipe looking like an accountant out there playing QB.
The “Cardiac Kids”……….The Raiders going into Cleveland in the dead of winter taking down the Browns in the AFC Championship game that year was huge.
Before Elway I think Bert Jones was considered to have one of if not the best arm in the NFL.
Did I see Bill Cowher is playing in this game? Wild.
May the 4th be with you Dave. I got a funny feeling you're a Star Wars fan 🤔. Another great game. Keep them coming
Oh yeah Dave you are the man my favorite team is my home team the Baltimore Colts with the Ruxton Rifle Bert Jones along with Joe Washington and the crew Brian Sipe was one of the best of his era also thanks I really appreciate your channel it’s my favorite. Good job as usual
This video is a treat, as myself living in California at the time, eastern NFL games were rarely telecasted on Sundays in the west.
The video quality here has done well to replicate what KRON, San Francisco, Channel 4's over-the-air reception was like back in that era with its subtle ghost imaging.
That station was a low-VHF weak signal, which, combined with the nearby coastal mountain range, there was subtle ghosting with the TV image with the over-the-air reception. Getting a cable-TV hookup eliminated the issue.
Dick Bam Bam Ambrose was a solid 70's Linebacker.
Colts wore white at home v. Washington in 1964 with the would-be 107 yard interception return that was instead ruled a touchback.
Yes Sir! 👍👍👍👍👍
I didn't realize the Colts ever wore white at home in Baltimore. I thought they always wore their
Blue uniform shirts at home.
Thanks!
Bill Cowher at Linebacker for Cleveland !!
The Great Bert Jones!
1st of all... wow great redo!!! Carl Eller? How do I not recall that dude? Horrible.. absolutely didnt do his homework, nor could he talk! Charles White should have NEVER replaced Pruitt on any down! 😂
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Love this game
The halftime show was unique as there was no "toss" to the NBC studio for the presenters there to give highlights and scores updates of other NFL games..
Instead, Merle Harmon and Carl Eller did the halftime show with showing first-half game highlights and analysis of the Browns/Colts game from their announcing booth at the stadium in Baltimore.
Awesome!!!!
The peak of the "Cardiac Kids" era.
Merle Harmon got dropped as the Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer in 1980 because he asked for a month off to cover the Summer Olympics in Moscow that the USA boycotted and NBC never aired.
Save for MNF games, weren’t all “early start” games in Baltimore required to start from 2pm Eastern onward due to local blue laws?
They were through the 1983 season. They actually had rescinded the Blue Laws after the 1983 season I believe to appease the NFL's broadcast partners and would have taken effect for the 1984 season except of course the Colts bolted for Indy under threat of the city of Baltimore taking the team from the Irsay family using eminent domain to do it (the Hoosier Dome, later RCA Dome in Indy had already been built as Indy looked to land an NFL team so they were ready-made). Why those blue laws were there did show up during 1996 and '97 after the original Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens (though IMO, then-NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue should have forced the Irsays to give up the Colts name with that going back to Baltimore with the former Browns who had given up that name with the Indy team taking the name "Racers" (the name of the former WHA franchise in Indy that folded midway through the 1978-'79) with IndyCars on the helmets even giving the Irsays the top two picks in the 1996, '97 and '98 drafts in addition to their own picks to do that). Crowds on game days made it difficult for people to get to and from church on Sunday mornings in the area surrounding Memorial Stadium when games started at 1:00 PM which was why the games when the Colts were there started at 2:00, though beginning with 1979 when they hosted the Jets that was always a 4:00 PM game as beginning with '79, one of the Giants or Jets always played at 1:00 with the other at 4:00 except when one was playing on Monday Night Football or on Saturday.
This was a 2 pm start (per Baltimore's Blue Law at the time). Questions for Baltimore-area fans: Would NBC fill the 1 - 2 pm slot with a 1 pm game or alternate programming?
alternate programming
born and raised in Baltimore
most of the cold home games for blacked out
due to the fact the local games had to be sold out by Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in order to be televised in Baltimore
most COLT home games where blacked out
we had to sell out by Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. to see our home team play home games
29:27 , 1:55:50 hard hits
PBP: Merle Harmon