Still get chills watching MNF highlights. Pops ALWAYS let me stay up late. Only way to see legend's that you read sport's illustrated about. RIP Howard Cosell.
This is from the Dallas at 49er MNF game. A fairly poor SF team sort of acquitted themselves against the soon SB champs, losing in a deceptively close game, 42-35. Big nights for both QB's Plunkett and Staubach. Halftime Highlights were THE thing to watch all week. After every game was finished on a Sunday you began dreaming of hopefully seeing your team appear on Halftime Highlights the next day. An excitement of anticipation built up through you all day long each Monday as that night's game approached. Each MNF game was an event in itself but Halftime Highlights were the cherry on top. The canned crowd noise roaring, Howard's impeccable and unforgettable narration, and the great camera shots by NFL Films made watching this the Hightlight of one's week! And hopefully your team DID appear, in my case the Niners did NOT appear very often. And as people point out, these were the only highlights you could see of these games. You got to know the teams and playmakers a little better just by seeing them on MNF HH. It was a source of pride in knowing the whole country, and I mean almost the entire TV viewing audience on a given Monday night, was seeing your team and getting recognition in kind from ABC, Howard, and the nation! Wonderful emotion filled times!
Great description of MNF highlights. Only problem was if your team made it to highlight reels for the opposing team's Big Time plays... all the damn time. It was rough being a Seahawks fan from 1991 - 1994. Only RB Chris Warren, DT Cortez Kennedy, CB Robert Blackman and the QBs John Friez and Warren Moon altered those highlights from 1995 - 1997.
can you imagine this today? they would never ever devote so much time to actual football highlights. it would be mostly commercials. the great howard cosell, he made these halftime highlights fantastic. I hated him at the time, now I miss him greatly
I was 14 on 12/12/77...These are great memories for me! I was a Minnesota Viking fan since I was 6 (1969)..they always broke my fucking heart in the long run!
I grew up a Rams fan,and we couldn't beat Minny to save our life. We always had to play them in Metropolitan stadium in the freezing cold,and our defense handled it well,but our offense was a bunch of pussy's.Joe Kapp and those dreaded wings on the side of the helmet looked like a duck's ass.We couldn't even beat the Vikings in LA in 1977 during the monsoon.I saw a documentary on Bud Grant and he said when he saw the opposing team huddled up by the heaters,he knew they weren't paying attention to the game and were only thinking about keeping warm. Bud wouldn't let his team have heaters on the sidelines.
...I agree there Gary! I am now 53, I remember those days well, James Harris was great and he did have the best deep arm! Those were some days in the NFL!
harris was a horrid qb. there was no prejudice. had a great arm, but was clueless. haden had no arm,yes. roman gabriel at some point would have won a super bowl with the rams if he had stayed, hadl had a great season in 73, until the playoffs, of course. it took kurt warner, in jan 2000, to win a sb for a ram qb. warner best ram qb since waterfield.
Try not to tell someone about heartbreak, since I was a Lions fan from their run into the playoffs in 1970. We referred to the Vikings-Lions game at the Silverdome that next Saturday as the "Eddie Payton game" since he returned a kickoff, then a punt for touchdowns, and the Lions couldn't spoil the party in a 30-21 loss. Fifty yards rushing in the game on that super Silverdome turf.
In Minnesota we always looked forward to Cosell bashing us at halftime-it was similar to Kevin Bacon in Animal House:”Thank you Sir,May I have another.”
The '77 Buc's were bound to get their first win sometime during that season, if they had any kind of offense it would have come sooner, they had a heck of a defense.
They could have won 5 the defense keep them in games the offense had some talent but they never had the right game plan . There is a saying to many chefs spoil the broth
John mckay would have been superbowl winning coach had he started NFL younger ;; NFL only get one first round draft pick; unlike college football it recuiting or grabbing high school football players ;;ex usc football coach John Robertson same story; should started NFL coaching earlier
@@uknowiamgreat In my Raider heart, I believe Oakland. That group was gritty enough for a Dallas showdown. In reality, it probably would have come down to whichever QB had the ball last. Both Staubach and Stabler were legendary and capable of delivering last second heroics.
Dallas’s defensive line vs Oakland’s offensive line?who knows,but it would have been epic. I’m a cowboys fan so I lean towards Dallas,but who knows.I think it would have been a great game.SuperBowl XII
Man, after losing to the Raiders in the previous Super Bowl the Vikings are practically wetting themselves at the prospect of a rematch. But then on the other hand, anybody who has played football has at one point or another been on the losing side of a good old fashioned ass-kicking.
I always heard that Cosell used to do the Halftime Highlights without a script, he basically ad libbed the whole thing. Anyone know if that's true or not?
no doubt, the highlight shows have just gotten worse, and worse over time. this really hit me a few years ago when instead of just showing the games, Dion sanders would do these stupid zoom/computer interviews with players, where they were all blurry and featured super up close shots of the players face. it was more like two brothers yakking about meaningless stuff. it really annoyed me. just show the games for god's sake. they had a good highlight show with rich eisen, coach maruicci and dion sanders, then dion got to big for that, eisen had to have his own show, and the regulated the coach to an also ran guy. that was the last decent one. Now, all I will watch is boomer and his highlight show, but you have to pay for it on espn+
I scored on n off this field back n 77 , I cough cough dated about 15 chicks from my ol ladies Sr class that year , 40 years later she still reminds me of how active I was 🙀🤣😂
Worst to first. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the then St. Louis Cardinals the following week AND won their first six games in a row the following season, that's eight in a row. Worst to first! John McKay a great head coach, by far the best the Bucs ever had! NFL football was AMERICAN football back then.
Chris Kreager Yes, and George Burns, who had recently played the title role in the movie "Oh, God!", claimed responsibility, but said the Bucs would have to get the next win on their own. It came the next week.
@Orn Gorn The real bad trade the Saints made was Ken Burrough and Dave Rowe to the Houston Oilers for backup Hoyle Granger, a draft choice to be named later and two other players who did not make the Saints Roster. Rowe was a very short time later traded to the New England Patriots for tackle Tom Funchess.
Despite his success as HC in Kansas City-Hank Stram was a bomb in New Orleans--he was so embarrassed by this loss to Tampa Bay he took a video of this game and burned it in front of the Saint players in their locker room
stram was a boob who got to much credit for the chiefs sb win. chiefs won sb because they had far better talent-not because of fancy-assed formations...or strams' sideline antics....
david graham Yeah the Saints were quite pathetic as a franchise in the 70s and 80s just like the Packers. Wonder if they played each other several times in this era.
I grew up during those seemingly endless years of football pain in New Orleans, when a 4-win season was considered a _good_ year and 5 wins a miracle. There was just no hope of the Saints ever achieving anything as long as the Meacoms owned the team.
@@LordZontar There is a belief that NO QB Archie Manning was actually more talented than either of his sons in the NFL (Peyton/Eli). But the Saints organization simply didn't provide him with the players that could have built a good team. Never understood why Archie Manning didn't demand a trade to a more competitive team
Bobby Scott may have had the worse game ever for an NFL QB. There have been other QBs with worse numbers than 4-12 with 3 interceptions, but he was at home playing against the hapless Buccaneers
Ah!!!! I was in 6th grade n could not wait for Monday night highlights 😁
The only highlights of other games we could get in those days!
Still get chills watching MNF
highlights. Pops ALWAYS let me stay up late. Only way to see legend's that you read sport's illustrated about.
RIP Howard Cosell.
This is from the Dallas at 49er MNF game. A fairly poor SF team sort of acquitted themselves against the soon SB champs, losing in a deceptively close game, 42-35. Big nights for both QB's Plunkett and Staubach.
Halftime Highlights were THE thing to watch all week. After every game was finished on a Sunday you began dreaming of hopefully seeing your team appear on Halftime Highlights the next day. An excitement of anticipation built up through you all day long each Monday as that night's game approached.
Each MNF game was an event in itself but Halftime Highlights were the cherry on top. The canned crowd noise roaring, Howard's impeccable and unforgettable narration, and the great camera shots by NFL Films made watching this the Hightlight of one's week!
And hopefully your team DID appear, in my case the Niners did NOT appear very often. And as people point out, these were the only highlights you could see of these games. You got to know the teams and playmakers a little better just by seeing them on MNF HH.
It was a source of pride in knowing the whole country, and I mean almost the entire TV viewing audience on a given Monday night, was seeing your team and getting recognition in kind from ABC, Howard, and the nation! Wonderful emotion filled times!
Well said.
Yes sir, I concur.
We must be around the same age to understand.
Instablaster
Great description of MNF highlights. Only problem was if your team made it to highlight reels for the opposing team's Big Time plays... all the damn time. It was rough being a Seahawks fan from 1991 - 1994.
Only RB Chris Warren, DT Cortez Kennedy, CB Robert Blackman and the QBs John Friez and Warren Moon altered those highlights from 1995 - 1997.
God Bless Cliff Branch he was a great wide receiver just underrated but Al Davis is proud of him.
I'm proud of him as well, May he rest in peace, Speed Kills 21.
I agree, I remember Cliff Branch.
can you imagine this today? they would never ever devote so much time to actual football highlights. it would be mostly commercials. the great howard cosell, he made these halftime highlights fantastic. I hated him at the time, now I miss him greatly
I was 14 on 12/12/77...These are great memories for me! I was a Minnesota Viking fan since I was 6 (1969)..they always broke my fucking heart in the long run!
I grew up a Rams fan,and we couldn't beat Minny to save our life. We always had to play them in Metropolitan stadium in the freezing cold,and our defense handled it well,but our offense was a bunch of pussy's.Joe Kapp and those dreaded wings on the side of the helmet looked like a duck's ass.We couldn't even beat the Vikings in LA in 1977 during the monsoon.I saw a documentary on Bud Grant and he said when he saw the opposing team huddled up by the heaters,he knew they weren't paying attention to the game and were only thinking about keeping warm. Bud wouldn't let his team have heaters on the sidelines.
My" Vikes"..lost to some of the greatest AFC teams ever in those Super Bowl games!!
...I agree there Gary! I am now 53, I remember those days well, James Harris was great and he did have the best deep arm! Those were some days in the NFL!
harris was a horrid qb. there was no prejudice. had a great arm, but was clueless. haden had no arm,yes. roman gabriel at some point would have won a super bowl with the rams if he had stayed, hadl had a great season in 73, until the playoffs, of course. it took kurt warner, in jan 2000, to win a sb for a ram qb. warner best ram qb since waterfield.
Try not to tell someone about heartbreak, since I was a Lions fan from their run into the playoffs in 1970. We referred to the Vikings-Lions game at the Silverdome that next Saturday as the "Eddie Payton game" since he returned a kickoff, then a punt for touchdowns, and the Lions couldn't spoil the party in a 30-21 loss. Fifty yards rushing in the game on that super Silverdome turf.
In Minnesota we always looked forward to Cosell bashing us at halftime-it was similar to Kevin Bacon in Animal House:”Thank you Sir,May I
have another.”
Couldn't stand Howard Cosell,but man does his voice and these highlights bring back memories!
Really: bring back Minnesota viking superbowl losses; tell it like it is :: Howard Cassell die a lonely man badmouth co Monday night coworker
The '77 Buc's were bound to get their first win sometime during that season, if they had any kind of offense it would have come sooner, they had a heck of a defense.
They could have won 5 the defense keep them in games the offense had some talent but they never had the right game plan . There is a saying to many chefs spoil the broth
Howard was the GOAT at the highlights
@ 7:32 Stabler's stats for the entire game are what QB's pass for in just one quarter in today's pass-happy NFL.
The pinnacle of pro fb
Thank you
The first win in the history of the Tampa Bay Bucaneers.
Man I miss Howard , Dandy Don, Frank they were the best and that’s when it was still tackle football .
I was often working Monday nights in those days, but usually caught the 2nd half of MNF.
The Buccaneers were certainly happy to have their win over the Saints after their dreadful 0-26 debacle at the start.
John mckay would have been superbowl winning coach had he started NFL younger ;; NFL only get one first round draft pick; unlike college football it recuiting or grabbing high school football players ;;ex usc football coach John Robertson same story; should started NFL coaching earlier
❤️ johnath Mackey legendary great college football coach
would have loved to have seen raiders-cowboys superbowl in 77'.
Stabler v Staubach would have been epic
Geet Garvin ,but who would have won?
@@uknowiamgreat
In my Raider heart, I believe Oakland. That group was gritty enough for a Dallas showdown. In reality, it probably would have come down to whichever QB had the ball last. Both Staubach and Stabler were legendary and capable of delivering last second heroics.
@@uknowiamgreat
That's my thought. How about you?
Dallas’s defensive line vs Oakland’s offensive line?who knows,but it would have been epic. I’m a cowboys fan so I lean towards Dallas,but who knows.I think it would have been a great game.SuperBowl XII
Man, after losing to the Raiders in the previous Super Bowl the Vikings are practically wetting themselves at the prospect of a rematch. But then on the other hand, anybody who has played football has at one point or another been on the losing side of a good old fashioned ass-kicking.
Love those Saints and Bucs uniforms back then.
As the great Bucs coach John McKay once said, when asked about his teams Defense after a game in the 0-26 run " it would have been a good idea"
The shot at the beginning is Candlestick Park! I couldn't recognize it at first!
Not enough corporations sponsorships slapped all over everything.
Before ESPN Prime Time, there was this.
Was crushed if Howard didnt show my 2 favorite teams--- Colts and Redskins--- my biggest problem as a kid...
Awesome
Led with the SAINTS. Archie Manning and Bobby Scott . Raining pick 6's
Howard was good period. Not a nice guy, but a hell of a announcer. We have nobody like him today.
I always heard that Cosell used to do the Halftime Highlights without a script, he basically ad libbed the whole thing. Anyone know if that's true or not?
Not true. The audio was pre-recorded.
@@martincaidin4166 Fair enough. Thanks for the response.
@@walterfox4761 That doesn't mean that he didn't ad-lib it. He was never at a loss for words and could think on his feet.
No matter how when or where he did them ...they where SPECTACULAR
The Bucs won the week after this one against the cardinals, both cards and saints coaches was fired.
Hank Stram went into the booth Don Coyell went to San Diego and did an excellent job there
great stats by bobby scott QB from new Orleans 4-12 for 36 yards and 3 picks lol
daniel shook 😂😂😂😂
Maybe the worst performance in NFL history. Not from the numbers standpoint, but he did it at home against Tampa Bay
Cosell did the highlights with out a script.
Jim Zorn rymes with Rip Torn
Jim "Zawn"
1:58.... They officially listed THIS play as a fumble recovery????!?!!! Wow......
Pro Football Reference has it listed as a fumble. All other accounts have it as a interception TD return
Compare this to the horrible highlights feature on FNIA prior to Sunday Night Football.
no doubt, the highlight shows have just gotten worse, and worse over time. this really hit me a few years ago when instead of just showing the games, Dion sanders would do these stupid zoom/computer interviews with players, where they were all blurry and featured super up close shots of the players face. it was more like two brothers yakking about meaningless stuff. it really annoyed me. just show the games for god's sake. they had a good highlight show with rich eisen, coach maruicci and dion sanders, then dion got to big for that, eisen had to have his own show, and the regulated the coach to an also ran guy. that was the last decent one. Now, all I will watch is boomer and his highlight show, but you have to pay for it on espn+
I scored on n off this field back n 77 , I cough cough dated about 15 chicks from my ol ladies Sr class that year , 40 years later she still reminds me of how active I was 🙀🤣😂
The day the Tampa Bay Buccaneers actually finally won a game
Great trivia question!!
Worst to first. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the then St. Louis Cardinals the following week AND won their first six games in a row the following season, that's eight in a row. Worst to first! John McKay a great head coach, by far the best the Bucs ever had! NFL football was AMERICAN football back then.
Chris Kreager Yes, and George Burns, who had recently played the title role in the movie "Oh, God!", claimed responsibility, but said the Bucs would have to get the next win on their own. It came the next week.
@Orn Gorn The real bad trade the Saints made was Ken Burrough and Dave Rowe to the Houston Oilers for backup Hoyle Granger, a draft choice to be named later and two other players who did not make the Saints Roster. Rowe was a very short time later traded to the New England Patriots for tackle Tom Funchess.
@@ripper-wrench that was the 1979 season
Top of the 4th quarter ???
Month after baseball season
Bobby fuckin Scott
Despite his success as HC in Kansas City-Hank Stram was a bomb in New Orleans--he was so embarrassed by this loss to Tampa Bay he took a video of this game and burned it in front of the Saint players in their locker room
...I loved Hank Stram! He should have also burned that awful hairpiece too!
stram was a boob who got to much credit for the chiefs sb win. chiefs won sb because they had far better talent-not because of fancy-assed formations...or strams' sideline antics....
david graham Yeah the Saints were quite pathetic as a franchise in the 70s and 80s just like the Packers. Wonder if they played each other several times in this era.
I grew up during those seemingly endless years of football pain in New Orleans, when a 4-win season was considered a _good_ year and 5 wins a miracle. There was just no hope of the Saints ever achieving anything as long as the Meacoms owned the team.
@@LordZontar There is a belief that NO QB Archie Manning was actually more talented than either of his sons in the NFL (Peyton/Eli). But the Saints organization simply didn't provide him with the players that could have built a good team. Never understood why Archie Manning didn't demand a trade to a more competitive team
Aints
Geez Manning was awful!
Bobby Scott may have had the worse game ever for an NFL QB. There have been other QBs with worse numbers than 4-12 with 3 interceptions, but he was at home playing against the hapless Buccaneers