Super Bowl XVI: The game that started the Summerall-Madden era in the Super Bowl, a new era in football, period. This would the first of eight Super Bowls during their 20-year run. RIP Pat (1930-2013), and John (1936-2021), the greatest voices in the NFL.
The NFL Today set overlooking the field inside the Silverdome looked awesome. The NFL Today Super Bowl show was great. Nothing overhyped just a lot of good content from the best cast on a NFL show ever.
I must say I agree wholeheartedly, it was the best 2 teams without a doubt playing in this Superbowl 16 game who both played and won the right to host the AFC & NFC championship games
The 49ers’ Super Bowl win changed the paradigm of sports across the Bay Area. Before 1981, all the titles in the Bay Area were won across the Bay in Oakland, with the A’s, the Raiders and the Warriors. This was the first pro sports championship exclusively for San Francisco, and it brought The City to a level of fame & civic pride never before seen in its history. 1981 was also a year of transition for Bay Area sports, as the Raiders moved to Los Angeles the next season, while the 49ers ushered the Bay Area into a new & glorious era of sports through the 1980s.
For my birthday in 1982, my grandma got me “Gold Rush,” a record of the 49ers’ historic 1981 season. Our local Safeway grocery chain sold these records at the time as a promotion. It was one of my favorite birthday presents ever. I still have Don Klein & Wayne Walker’s KCBS calls in my head to this day. RIP to them both…they were legendary sports broadcasters in the Bay Area.
Turned out that figure was a myth and actual attendance was around 78k. McMahon was famous for fudging numbers from crowd sizes to height and weight of wrestlers.
This was so bittersweet to watch again. I could taste the excitement and anticipation I felt as a teenager all over again. The entire season leading up to Collinsworth fumbling on/near the SF 5-yard line early on was absolutely fantastic. This one still hurts, infinitely more than the SB XXIII "hey, isn't that John Candy?" loss. As always, phenomenal stuff, Dave. The NFL should be paying you obscene amounts of money to curate every fragment of film & video they possess.
I'm sure the loss to the Rams a couple of years ago didn't help either. Anyway I'm a Niner fan and wish you guys a Super Bowl win someday. As long as we're not playing you. 😂
How would you say Ford Field measures up now? BTW I’m a 40+ year Niner fan beginning with that first Super Bowl season. Look out…your Lions may have to come out to Levi’s to face the 49ers next month in the playoffs.❤️💛
I became a sports fan only months earlier as an 11-year old kid in the summer of 81, so this 49er season leading up to the Super Bowl was one of the most special events of my childhood. We watched this game at my neighbors’ house in Vallejo CA, on KPIX 5, the 49ers’ station. My mom & dad had a $20 bet with our neighbors on this game, & they cashed in after the 49ers won the title. I still remember seeing the wild celebrations all over San Francisco & the Bay Area after the game on the Channel 5 Eyewitness News. Everyone lost their minds over the 49ers’ first title & the police struggled to control the crowds across The City.
I’m convinced RUclips is a Time Machine! Oh man from the music to Brent to Irving to Jimmy the Greek and who can forget the best 2 legends to ever call games? Summerall and Madden!
It is a well thought opinion that the 1980's 49er dynasty started in that 1981 NFC Championship game played Jan 10, 1982. I have always felt the shocking demolition of the Cowboys October 11, 1981 in week 6 was the actual day. A 3-2 team became 4-2 defeating who many thought would be the NFC representative in Super Bowl XVI. After that the 49ers never looked back. The win also acted as sort of a Tie breaker between eventual 12-4 Cowboys and 13-3 49ers. Who knows what may have happened if Dallas had home field advantage and the 'mental edge' over SF.
Great points Dan. I also didn't know until just the other day that the week 6 contest was Fred Dean's first game with the Niners and he recorded two sacks and put pressure on Danny White throughout. I think the defense changed that day as well. Dean was probably the unsung hero of that team.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Exactly! --- Something the Cowboys were not ready or prepared for. If we dig deeper, the Fred Dean Factor also changed the destiny of the Chargers.....SB XVI could have been a Dallas vs San Diego Matchup.
@@romelovesdan I recall the 1983 game between the 49ers and Cowboys, where they hammered each other in a game that quieted the critics that said the Niners were only a _finesse_ football team. The Niners won that game, where it seemed the lasting effects of that game cursed the Cowboys in 1984 with having one of the most dismal season in the team's history up to that time.
Do you remember the next day ABC refused to air highlights of that asskicking we gave the Cowboys? Yeah it way supposed to air on Howard Cosell's famous " Halftime Highlights" segment on Monday Night Football. I sat there in eager anticipation to see us finally featured nationally and us 49er fan got SCREWED by Cosell and ABC. WHY? popular sentiment claims that ABC had scheduled Dallas to play the following Monday night and because they " respected" head coach Tom Landry and didn't want to tarnish his or Dallas ' " image", they refused to show it. I, along with thousands of 49er fans were ..PISSED!. We flooded ABC with calls letters and telegrams voicing our displeasure.
Thanks Dave! Looks better than ever. I was 19 years old and in attendance at The Silverdome as a die hard Bengals fan from Reading Ohio 10 mins from Cincinnati. I survived The Freezer Bowl 2 weeks earlier at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. -59 degrees below zero-9 air temperature. Still the coldest NFL game ever by wind chill. Bengals destroyed San Diego Chargers. Walking over to The Silverdome we couldn't bundle up too much bc of the game being indoors with 81,000 fans. I froze my ass off just walking to the stadium from the parking lot!. We got through the CBS Media Gates 3 hrs before game by accident (imagine that now by today's security). Got up to the stadium doors. Security cussed us out. Had to go back to the van as the gates weren't open yet. Froze as the 2 of our 5 guys went a different time than us. They had the keys so we couldn't get in! Some Bengals fans let us get in their car to warm up. *This was before cellphones of course. Luckily they came back and we waited til later to walk over again. Crazy! Our seats were in the endzone where the famous goaline stand by 49ers happened. Disappointing end for me and the Bengals,but so proud of what they accomplished that season. Walking inside and seeing the Super scene was electrifying! I also attended SB XIII in Miami in 1989 for the rematch and the Bengals lost it with 34 seconds left. Memories!
Damn what great stories. I was only 4 years old at the time of this game but I wish I was old enough to remember all these classic games and other sporting events.
The beginning of two beautiful eras The 49ers championship era (5 championships from Super Bowls 16 through 29) The Super Bowls of Pat Summerall and John Madden (8 Super Bowls called from 16 through 36)
My first super bowl that I remember getting ready for and watching as an 8 year old from Boston. I was actually a huge Cowboys fan early on in my life so I was actually really bitter during this whole game cause I had wished it was the Cowboys. But I remember the day well. Sledding at my neighbor's and heading home to watch pregame and the game. What a special time
Damn I was a 49er fan growing up in the Bay Area. That's pretty cool you were watching all the way from Boston. That 1981 season was a magical year for us. We had never won before. If you lived out here it was insane. I'm sure you all felt the same way once Brady won you guys all of your championships.😂
I cannot Remember what I had for dinner 4 days ago but I Remember where I was during this game. Freezing my A$$ of in a GP Medium at Grafenwöhr W. Germany and listening to the Game on AFN Radio. Our C.O. Was a Cincy fan and was pretty SALTY after the game.
@50:57 what a cool feature, Staubach and Bradshaw go through game situations and play options that are fed to the “video computer”. this segment reminds me of one of my favorite games growing up “NFL Strategy”
That was very thoughtful of you to write about the dearly departed ones connected with this game. While it is sad that those legends have departed, it's particularly heartbreaking that with the strength and athletic skills Dwight Clark possessed, being struck down with ALS.
@@mayhemjr.803 With your personal connection to DC, allow me to share with you an anecdote about him at the time of his retirement from pro football after the 1987 season: It was a human interest story piece about Dwight Clark, on KPIX-TV, possibly "Evening Magazine," or a sport piece in the newscast anchored by Wayne Walker, where the subject of DC retiring from the game was brought up. Clark was emotionally torn about retiring when he did, as he may have had a few more seasons of play left in him, but he was concerned about the physical toll the game had on him; whereupon he wanted to be physically capable of enjoying activities with his growing kids. It was his concerns about having the physical capabilities of being active with his kids that was a significant factor with his retirement from the 49ers. I recall that human interest story video about DC to this day, as he impressed me with his attitude towards his family; as back in the go-go 1980s, it was a career-driven decade for many.
These pre and post game segments add a lot to the overall enjoyment of the actual games....thanks for sharing these are well as your collection of full game videos.
Blast from the past I remember this broadcast and game. CBS certainly knew what it had with trailblazer Phyllis George who was insanely gorgeous and every female broadcaster today owes a debt of gratitude to her....."You are looking liiiive" should be on Brent Musburger's grave marker LOL. That is his trademark slogan. TV graphics and chyron was beginning to take off also..
What a beautiful cat 🐈⬛.....my cat in the picture just passed on January 31 2024 at 14 years old 😢 enjoy your pets while they are alive and never take it for granted. Nothing lasts forever.
it's amazing how a good trade and some great draft picks for your defensive secondary, can take you from the NFL cellar to Champions in the span of a year.
Very true. The Niners won this one, then they had an unsuccessful season in the 82 strike year, and followed it up with 16 straight seasons of double digit wins, four more Super Bowls, and a further five teams that made the NFC Championship Game over the next two decades.
Apparently the 49ers team bus (which didn't arrive at the stadium until 90 minutes before kickoff) and a motorcade carrying the Vice President were caught up in the traffic jam seen at 6:22
The wind was so intense outside that fans struggled just to hold on to their hats. A sportscasters coffee ☕️ frozed up on him indoors!! Exposing a number of problems with the Silverdome.
This still hurts after 42 years. The pain never gets easier. So many missed opportunities in that game. Super Bowl 23 and 56 hurt too but not like this.
Wonder the lucky person who might have got the football caught by Dwight Clark. Dallas vs SF with The Catch was just as special as the Freezer Bowl - amazing in 7 days San Diego went from 88 degrees & high humidity in Miami to -59 degrees wind chill in Cincinnati.
It's hilarious to see how many were picking the Bengals to win this Super Bowl. 😂 Especially after we hammered them 21-3 in Cincinnati in the regular season. When the score was 20 - 0 at halftime, I would have loved to see their faces. As of 2024 SF 5 Cincy 0.
@@Kickingit06An official NFL website has the game as a 4:20 PM ET start which means 1:20 PM PM on the west coast. www.nflgsis.com/1981/Post/04/14062/Gamebook.pdf
I think it's so funny that Bill Walsh would in a way get offended that people would describe his offense as finesse and they he would come back like "finesse is not the name for our offense" 😂
Jimmy The Greek's analysis was spot on, however there was one thing he didn't account for... The magic of Joe Montana. It was displayed in the NFC title game and it would be front and center by the time Super Bowl 16 concluded.
Once again my friend excellent job!!!! By the way pieces of superbowl 8 pregame show has poped up recently, wondering if you could clean it up for us. Just asking. Your work is second to none!
That's pretty much it for the pre and postgame shows. I have the XI postgame, but it gets blocked for copyright if I try to upload it. Don't have any individual NFL Today shows, but there's a bunch located inside of game enhancements I've already posted
I recall that NFL season with San Francisco going to the Super Bowl, as Monday Night Football had no 49ers game on the televised schedule due to the team's dismal performance in the previous season. Howard Cosell was nearly apologetic about that, where only a few highlights of the team's play were shown during the half-time show.
Cosell wasn't apologetic. He totally STIFFED us! He never believed the 49ers were any good. Always downplayed our achievements. He gave us no respect at all.
Dave - I would love for you to find the NFL Today pregame show for Super Bowl X. It was the first pre-game show ever shot live on location and was also the first that was 90 minutes.
Interesting to hear the national anthem sung without indulgence. Since Whitney Houston did it in 1991, the singer has tried to extend the notes or try to sound sexy or unique, which is surely against the point of people feeling able to join in.
Wait a minute, sorry, it actually is not up on the NFL channel. It is posted on a couple other channels though. I'd love to enhance it myself, but yeah, it gets blocked for viewing because of copyright if I try to upload. Don't know why others have managed to post it.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 its a shame they wont let you post it cuz every channel its on youtube,NFL network from the middle of the 3rd quarter to like 2 minutes left in the game the picture has bad tracking issues the picture jumps constantly nobody has been able to fix it i am sure you fixed those issues
Was it cause I was 8, but in 1982 if they showed highlights of something that happened in 1978 it seemed like forever ago. When in reality 4 years is nothing. But for whatever reason back then it seemed like distance memories. Again probably cause I was a dumb kid
I think Pat O’Brien, Charles Osgood, Sandy Hill are still living along with Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw, who just did Fox NFL studio work on Christmas.
So these were the older days 36:54 OH THERE HE IS! 38:30 OH THERE THEY ARE! Was not alive during this so it’s cool to see these two through the internet
Phyllis George on the NFL Today...Man oh man, we have fallen since then. Almost the very end of the pre-caste system NFL of today of overhyped "nba on turf" crap.
Nice to see Jimmy the Greek. His comments about black athletes were totally blown out of proportion. Yeah, they were stupid and uninformed, but people have said much worse.
Super Bowl XVI: The game that started the Summerall-Madden era in the Super Bowl, a new era in football, period. This would the first of eight Super Bowls during their 20-year run. RIP Pat (1930-2013), and John (1936-2021), the greatest voices in the NFL.
I'm glued to every second of this!....Great upload.
I was 21 that year my son Scottie was born, it's so cool to see this, doesn't seem that long ago.
The NFL Today set overlooking the field inside the Silverdome looked awesome. The NFL Today Super Bowl show was great. Nothing overhyped just a lot of good content from the best cast on a NFL show ever.
It’s too bad that the Silverdome fell into such disrepair so many years later & had to be demolished.
I must say I agree wholeheartedly, it was the best 2 teams without a doubt playing in this Superbowl 16 game who both played and won the right to host the AFC & NFC championship games
,@@jeffbowen2608
@@jeffbowen2608Same here in Texas. First the astrodome in Houston and then Texas stadium in Irving.
Is it me or is Phyllis George’s hair blonder than it was in the mid 70’s?
Looks great on her regardless.
The 49ers’ Super Bowl win changed the paradigm of sports across the Bay Area. Before 1981, all the titles in the Bay Area were won across the Bay in Oakland, with the A’s, the Raiders and the Warriors. This was the first pro sports championship exclusively for San Francisco, and it brought The City to a level of fame & civic pride never before seen in its history. 1981 was also a year of transition for Bay Area sports, as the Raiders moved to Los Angeles the next season, while the 49ers ushered the Bay Area into a new & glorious era of sports through the 1980s.
And now SF is so fucked up they have to play in fake ass Santa Clara...
Only 4 out over 10 years.
@RAJohns the 49ers sill were the Team of the 80's.
@@mayhemjr.803 Who said they weren’t?
This 49ers team made this Chicagoan a 49ers fan forever
For my birthday in 1982, my grandma got me “Gold Rush,” a record of the 49ers’ historic 1981 season. Our local Safeway grocery chain sold these records at the time as a promotion. It was one of my favorite birthday presents ever. I still have Don Klein & Wayne Walker’s KCBS calls in my head to this day. RIP to them both…they were legendary sports broadcasters in the Bay Area.
I actually bought that record off EBAY some years ago and got it transferred to an audio file :)
That's cool
I miss Wayne Walker. RIP😢
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 I have a copy of it too please let me know that if you upload that on RUclips?
Thanks!
The Pontiac Silverdome was the same place that WWF Wrestlemania 3 happened were 93,173 was the largest indoor attendance
Turned out that figure was a myth and actual attendance was around 78k. McMahon was famous for fudging numbers from crowd sizes to height and weight of wrestlers.
Now it's a huge empty dirt lot
WWF totally inflated that number.
@@mayhemjr.803 Actually it's a Amazon warehouse site
@@JohnDoe-gk7okYes; the actual Wrestlemania III attendance was 78,000 (exact number still unknown to this day).
Dave, you are the man! I truly appreciate these Super Bowl pregame uploads. Especially during the 70s and 80s.
Thank you! You do a great job!
This was so bittersweet to watch again. I could taste the excitement and anticipation I felt as a teenager all over again. The entire season leading up to Collinsworth fumbling on/near the SF 5-yard line early on was absolutely fantastic. This one still hurts, infinitely more than the SB XXIII "hey, isn't that John Candy?" loss. As always, phenomenal stuff, Dave. The NFL should be paying you obscene amounts of money to curate every fragment of film & video they possess.
If the Bengals win this game, then Ken Anderson is probably in Canton 15 years ago.
I'm sure the loss to the Rams a couple of years ago didn't help either. Anyway I'm a Niner fan and wish you guys a Super Bowl win someday. As long as we're not playing you. 😂
This is great! Had Lions season tickets from 1988-1994, my home stadium was LOUD!
How would you say Ford Field measures up now? BTW I’m a 40+ year Niner fan beginning with that first Super Bowl season. Look out…your Lions may have to come out to Levi’s to face the 49ers next month in the playoffs.❤️💛
Irv cross and that headset . Looking at it now looks primitive , but Cross was great !
I became a sports fan only months earlier as an 11-year old kid in the summer of 81, so this 49er season leading up to the Super Bowl was one of the most special events of my childhood. We watched this game at my neighbors’ house in Vallejo CA, on KPIX 5, the 49ers’ station. My mom & dad had a $20 bet with our neighbors on this game, & they cashed in after the 49ers won the title. I still remember seeing the wild celebrations all over San Francisco & the Bay Area after the game on the Channel 5 Eyewitness News. Everyone lost their minds over the 49ers’ first title & the police struggled to control the crowds across The City.
I remember. It was insane 😂
This is a rare sight this super bowl xvi pregame intro
Great memories. I loved this CBS crew
Everything about this pregame show was tremendous
I’m convinced RUclips is a Time Machine! Oh man from the music to Brent to Irving to Jimmy the Greek and who can forget the best 2 legends to ever call games? Summerall and Madden!
It is a well thought opinion that the 1980's 49er dynasty started in that 1981 NFC Championship game played Jan 10, 1982. I have always felt the shocking demolition of the Cowboys October 11, 1981 in week 6 was the actual day.
A 3-2 team became 4-2 defeating who many thought would be the NFC representative in Super Bowl XVI. After that the 49ers never looked back. The win also acted as sort of a Tie breaker between eventual 12-4 Cowboys and 13-3 49ers. Who knows what may have happened if Dallas had home field advantage and the 'mental edge' over SF.
Great points Dan. I also didn't know until just the other day that the week 6 contest was Fred Dean's first game with the Niners and he recorded two sacks and put pressure on Danny White throughout. I think the defense changed that day as well. Dean was probably the unsung hero of that team.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Exactly! --- Something the Cowboys were not ready or prepared for. If we dig deeper, the Fred Dean Factor also changed the destiny of the Chargers.....SB XVI could have been a Dallas vs San Diego Matchup.
Another great point Dan :)
@@romelovesdan I recall the 1983 game between the 49ers and Cowboys, where they hammered each other in a game that quieted the critics that said the Niners were only a _finesse_ football team.
The Niners won that game, where it seemed the lasting effects of that game cursed the Cowboys in 1984 with having one of the most dismal season in the team's history up to that time.
Do you remember the next day ABC refused to air highlights of that asskicking we gave the Cowboys? Yeah it way supposed to air on Howard Cosell's famous " Halftime Highlights" segment on Monday Night Football. I sat there in eager anticipation to see us finally featured nationally and us 49er fan got SCREWED by Cosell and ABC. WHY? popular sentiment claims that ABC had scheduled Dallas to play the following Monday night and because they " respected" head coach Tom Landry and didn't want to tarnish his or Dallas ' " image", they refused to show it. I, along with thousands of 49er fans were ..PISSED!. We flooded ABC with calls letters and telegrams voicing our displeasure.
Thanks Dave! Looks better than ever. I was 19 years old and in attendance at The Silverdome as a die hard Bengals fan from Reading Ohio 10 mins from Cincinnati. I survived The Freezer Bowl 2 weeks earlier at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. -59 degrees below zero-9 air temperature. Still the coldest NFL game ever by wind chill. Bengals destroyed San Diego Chargers. Walking over to The Silverdome we couldn't bundle up too much bc of the game being indoors with 81,000 fans. I froze my ass off just walking to the stadium from the parking lot!. We got through the CBS Media Gates 3 hrs before game by accident (imagine that now by today's security). Got up to the stadium doors. Security cussed us out. Had to go back to the van as the gates weren't open yet. Froze as the 2 of our 5 guys went a different time than us. They had the keys so we couldn't get in! Some Bengals fans let us get in their car to warm up. *This was before cellphones of course. Luckily they came back and we waited til later to walk over again. Crazy! Our seats were in the endzone where the famous goaline stand by 49ers happened. Disappointing end for me and the Bengals,but so proud of what they accomplished that season. Walking inside and seeing the Super scene was electrifying! I also attended SB XIII in Miami in 1989 for the rematch and the Bengals lost it with 34 seconds left. Memories!
Damn what great stories. I was only 4 years old at the time of this game but I wish I was old enough to remember all these classic games and other sporting events.
You want to know what's scary. Out of the host the only one left alive is Brent.
Pat O’ Brien is still alive.
Why such a depressing comment?
The beginning of two beautiful eras
The 49ers championship era (5 championships from Super Bowls 16 through 29)
The Super Bowls of Pat Summerall and John Madden (8 Super Bowls called from 16 through 36)
First SB I ever watched with my Dad😢
Nice !! Me too
Phyllis George. Nuff said!
Hot stuff
@@bryanburnap4537 Amen. Erin Andrews is a close second.
@@bryanburnap4537 Phyllis George's daughter Pamela Brown is also really beautiful, if you ever get a chance to catch her on CNN.
Back when American women were still feminine.
My first super bowl that I remember getting ready for and watching as an 8 year old from Boston. I was actually a huge Cowboys fan early on in my life so I was actually really bitter during this whole game cause I had wished it was the Cowboys. But I remember the day well. Sledding at my neighbor's and heading home to watch pregame and the game. What a special time
Damn I was a 49er fan growing up in the Bay Area. That's pretty cool you were watching all the way from Boston. That 1981 season was a magical year for us. We had never won before. If you lived out here it was insane. I'm sure you all felt the same way once Brady won you guys all of your championships.😂
The world was different then, and watching these videos is so nostalgic.
@@djeanpierre it's great. This is when football was REALLY football🙂
@@djeanpierre it's great
I cannot Remember what I had for dinner 4 days ago but I Remember where I was during this game. Freezing my A$$ of in a GP Medium at Grafenwöhr W. Germany and listening to the Game on AFN Radio. Our C.O. Was a Cincy fan and was pretty SALTY after the game.
I'm a 49er fan. Oops sorry about that😂
@@mayhemjr.803 I could have Given a Rats A$$ Who won that Super Bowl. My Team already had 4 Under is belt.
@jamesford3648 but you already said you were Cincy fan and were pissed off after the game. You're NOT a Cincy fan?
@@mayhemjr.803 “Our C.O was Cincy was Fan”. Our Commanding Officer was the Cincy Fan, He was From Cincinnati.
@@jamesford3648 oh my bad😂
This is cool to watch. I love that trippy intro at 1:07
And looks and sounds much better than any opening today w/Posthumus Zone.
Wow your content is unbelievable. My first Super Bowl that I have ever watched. I became a 49ers fan that day. Still is 42 years later
Thank you!
@50:57 what a cool feature, Staubach and Bradshaw go through game situations and play options that are fed to the “video computer”. this segment reminds me of one of my favorite games growing up “NFL Strategy”
Bobby Layne, Irv Cross, Jimmy Snyder, Phyllis George, Pat Summerall, John Madden, Freddie Solomon, Dwight Clark, Bill Walsh, and Forrest Gregg R.I.P
That was very thoughtful of you to write about the dearly departed ones connected with this game.
While it is sad that those legends have departed, it's particularly heartbreaking that with the strength and athletic skills Dwight Clark possessed, being struck down with ALS.
@bloqk16 Dwight Clark was my neighbor in Foster City, Ca at that time. He was very nice. RIp DC miss ya😢
@@mayhemjr.803 With your personal connection to DC, allow me to share with you an anecdote about him at the time of his retirement from pro football after the 1987 season:
It was a human interest story piece about Dwight Clark, on KPIX-TV, possibly "Evening Magazine," or a sport piece in the newscast anchored by Wayne Walker, where the subject of DC retiring from the game was brought up. Clark was emotionally torn about retiring when he did, as he may have had a few more seasons of play left in him, but he was concerned about the physical toll the game had on him; whereupon he wanted to be physically capable of enjoying activities with his growing kids. It was his concerns about having the physical capabilities of being active with his kids that was a significant factor with his retirement from the 49ers.
I recall that human interest story video about DC to this day, as he impressed me with his attitude towards his family; as back in the go-go 1980s, it was a career-driven decade for many.
When it was all about the game , not the experience.
These pre and post game segments add a lot to the overall enjoyment of the actual games....thanks for sharing these are well as your collection of full game videos.
I love these videos with the Super Bowl pregame shows! It’s amazing
Was 17 at the time, great pre game show.
I was 13😂
Blast from the past I remember this broadcast and game. CBS certainly knew what it had with trailblazer Phyllis George who was insanely gorgeous and every female broadcaster today owes a debt of gratitude to her....."You are looking liiiive" should be on Brent Musburger's grave marker LOL. That is his trademark slogan. TV graphics and chyron was beginning to take off also..
Phyllis was hot stuff😂
CBS super bowl coverage pre FOX was next level cutting edge. The pregame set had the feel like it was a regular season Sunday
Hoping that someday the entire game makes it to RUclips
If I remember correctly, Jimmy The Greek picked against SF--So glad he was wrong in the end!
What a beautiful cat 🐈⬛.....my cat in the picture just passed on January 31 2024 at 14 years old 😢 enjoy your pets while they are alive and never take it for granted. Nothing lasts forever.
He picked the rams in 1980
it's amazing how a good trade and some great draft picks for your defensive secondary, can take you from the NFL cellar to Champions in the span of a year.
Very true. The Niners won this one, then they had an unsuccessful season in the 82 strike year, and followed it up with 16 straight seasons of double digit wins, four more Super Bowls, and a further five teams that made the NFC Championship Game over the next two decades.
Man ! İs it always like that ? İ asked for it in your other vid and 24h later you deliver ? Wow ! Thx so much !!!
LOL, sometimes it's like that :)
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 time to put the game on ! 😂😉
Apparently the 49ers team bus (which didn't arrive at the stadium until 90 minutes before kickoff) and a motorcade carrying the Vice President were caught up in the traffic jam seen at 6:22
Bill Walsh was on that bus and relieved the tension by saying the 49’ers were ahead 7-0 with the trainer calling the plays.😊
@paulsonj72 Chico Norton who was the 49ers trainer😂
The First Super Bowl I ever watched
The wind was so intense outside that fans struggled just to hold on to their hats. A sportscasters coffee ☕️ frozed up on him indoors!! Exposing a number of problems with the Silverdome.
This seems like it marks a change in more than just football.
This still hurts after 42 years. The pain never gets easier. So many missed opportunities in that game. Super Bowl 23 and 56 hurt too but not like this.
Wonder the lucky person who might have got the football caught by Dwight Clark. Dallas vs SF with The Catch was just as special as the Freezer Bowl - amazing in 7 days San Diego went from 88 degrees & high humidity in Miami to -59 degrees wind chill in Cincinnati.
Damn that Bobby Layne sounds drunk. He probably WAS drunk!😂
He surely had some pre-game drinks.
Curse of Bobby Layne in 1958 on the Lions "not win for 50 years." nice to see him here
Was he drunk? 😂
It's hilarious to see how many were picking the Bengals to win this Super Bowl. 😂 Especially after we hammered them 21-3 in Cincinnati in the regular season. When the score was 20 - 0 at halftime, I would have loved to see their faces. As of 2024 SF 5 Cincy 0.
These are awesome ! Thanks for your work !
This Super Bowl was played before we went to church in the afternoon on the west coast. That's how early Super Bowls were played back then.
Are you sure because if memory serves me this game started at either 1pm or 3pm Pacific time?🤔
@@mayhemjr.803 A website lists the start time as 12:23 Pacific Time. I guess we must have watched it right after we returned from church.
@@Kickingit06An official NFL website has the game as a 4:20 PM ET start which means 1:20 PM PM on the west coast. www.nflgsis.com/1981/Post/04/14062/Gamebook.pdf
@Kickingit06 Super Bowls in my lifetime and I'm 55 so I've seen a lot of them, never started until after 3pm PST
@@mayhemjr.803 I looked it up already. You're wrong.
Sandy Hill co-anchored Good Morning America w/ David Hartman in the late 70's...
Is she still alive?
I looked up The Precinct there in Cincinnati. It's still there!😂
@@mayhemjr.803 Yes to this day and living back in her home state of Washington.
@bryankolen7265 wow!. Good for her. She was a cutie back in the day. Not quite Phyllis George, but cute.
I think it's so funny that Bill Walsh would in a way get offended that people would describe his offense as finesse and they he would come back like "finesse is not the name for our offense" 😂
The intro to the NFL was awesome too
That was epic
Didn’t know Pat O'Brien was at CBS that far back.
Jimmy The Greek's analysis was spot on, however there was one thing he didn't account for... The magic of Joe Montana. It was displayed in the NFC title game and it would be front and center by the time Super Bowl 16 concluded.
The highest TV-rated SB to date.
A rating that will probably never be replicated with the population having grown and thus the denominator of ratings increasing.
Collinsworth, same guy.
Awesome
52:00 two greats
Once again my friend excellent job!!!! By the way pieces of superbowl 8 pregame show has poped up recently, wondering if you could clean it up for us. Just asking. Your work is second to none!
Dave I asked and you delivered!!
Thanks for posting. Anymore Super Bowl pre game and post game shows ? How about any NFL Today shows from the 70’s and 80’s?
That's pretty much it for the pre and postgame shows. I have the XI postgame, but it gets blocked for copyright if I try to upload it. Don't have any individual NFL Today shows, but there's a bunch located inside of game enhancements I've already posted
I recall that NFL season with San Francisco going to the Super Bowl, as Monday Night Football had no 49ers game on the televised schedule due to the team's dismal performance in the previous season. Howard Cosell was nearly apologetic about that, where only a few highlights of the team's play were shown during the half-time show.
Cosell wasn't apologetic. He totally STIFFED us! He never believed the 49ers were any good. Always downplayed our achievements. He gave us no respect at all.
Dave - I would love for you to find the NFL Today pregame show for Super Bowl X. It was the first pre-game show ever shot live on location and was also the first that was 90 minutes.
Interesting to hear the national anthem sung without indulgence. Since Whitney Houston did it in 1991, the singer has tried to extend the notes or try to sound sexy or unique, which is surely against the point of people feeling able to join in.
This is Awesome 🌹❤✌️😎
That was the loudest indoor Stadium.
Bobby Lane, not having a single grey hair in his head. Personally, I find that fascinating all by itself.
Did he Debartalo call him merv?
What is that music on the 49ers cowboys segment
Jack Trombey's 'Passage'
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One of the best tunes
Do you have the game? If so, please post it. I would love to watch it again.
Can't for copyright reasons, but a pristine copy is up on the NFL's RUclips channel.
Wait a minute, sorry, it actually is not up on the NFL channel. It is posted on a couple other channels though. I'd love to enhance it myself, but yeah, it gets blocked for viewing because of copyright if I try to upload. Don't know why others have managed to post it.
I knew there had to be a reason. Thank you for the information. Love the channel. 👍
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 The only way we can sorta see the full game is on NFL Throwback.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 its a shame they wont let you post it cuz every channel its on youtube,NFL network from the middle of the 3rd quarter to like 2 minutes left in the game the picture has bad tracking issues the picture jumps constantly nobody has been able to fix it i am sure you fixed those issues
If these Bengals fans are still alive I wonder how they feel 40+ years later?
38:17 funny
Do you have the complete game of Super XVI thank you share them with us it to me was the golden age of NFL
I do, but I cannot upload it because it gets blocked due to copyright.
Is it possible to stream Super Bowl XVI? Seems pretty hard to find.
It's because no one can upload it to RUclips because it gets blocked for viewing because of copyright
Was it cause I was 8, but in 1982 if they showed highlights of something that happened in 1978 it seemed like forever ago. When in reality 4 years is nothing. But for whatever reason back then it seemed like distance memories. Again probably cause I was a dumb kid
Everybody on the broadcast team, with the exception of Musburger, is dead. Damn I'm old.
I think Pat O’Brien, Charles Osgood, Sandy Hill are still living along with Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw, who just did Fox NFL studio work on Christmas.
Me too😂
@@rjpsuh06 Osgood is gone now (having just passed on at 91 of dementia).
So these were the older days 36:54 OH THERE HE IS! 38:30 OH THERE THEY ARE! Was not alive during this so it’s cool to see these two through the internet
Better officiating
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Phyllis George on the NFL Today...Man oh man, we have fallen since then.
Almost the very end of the pre-caste system NFL of today of overhyped "nba on turf" crap.
Nice to see Jimmy the Greek. His comments about black athletes were totally blown out of proportion. Yeah, they were stupid and uninformed, but people have said much worse.
Jimmy got SCREWED!. that was such a shame because the man didn't have a mean bone in his body. Everybody loved The Greek!.
1:41
“And how is the weather….outside this beautiful arena?” -Musburger
(cuts to random fan)
“THIS WEATHER SUCKS.” 😒🥶
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I had a crush on Phyllis George in high school
4:41 cue vin scully
What's the music to Cincinnati San Diego segment?
Sam Spence's "Captain's Retreat"