This was the time when some TV CHANNEL got it right Loved CH4 American Football Nowadays we have GAMEPLAN which is ok but wish could mute the ADS and the army of Commentators. If only UK PREMIER LEAGUE could take note of how a top sport is done. Camera use. Officials doing their job right(mostly) Etc A proper contact sport. Not over paid grass trippers and former over goal rugby players. Little boys pretending to be worth millions, cheating and playing like a bunch of pansies. The referees corrupt its so obvious. Soccer totally correupted by money.
When the teams met in the regular season, Washingon ran the same play for a 67-yd gain. The Raiders initially had a blitz called which would have played straight into a big gain for a screen play. Very easy to criticise with hindsight. A different era of football when screen and draw plays weren't the norm at end of 1st half that they are now. It was from seeing that play before that Defensive Co-ordinator Charlie Sumner sent Jack Squirek in with instructions to expect the play.
Thank you for putting this up. I have it on vhs somewhere. This is from week 1 right? Main game was my Redskins getting thumped by the Cowboys. Anyone have any footage of some of the end montages available?! 🤞🏻
Par Summerall was absolutely correct about the tickets. I grew up in the DC area through the 80's and trying to get a ticket to a Skins game at R.F.K. (or even tickets to a Georgetown Men's Basketball game at the Capial Centre in Landover) was virtually impossible cause at the time they were in the middle of a streak of consecutive seasons where all home games were sold out starting in 1968, which no Washington home game was ever blacked out on local TV (WRC-4, WTOP/WDVM/WUSA-9 or WJLA-7) and the wait list was years long
I remember the Raiders @49ers game. For some reason which I can't remember Channel 4 cut the highlights programme that week , they didn't have an intro , recap of the other games scores or music montage of the game. I can't believe it's almost 40 years ago, seems like it was yesterday . Go Hawks
I remember Nicky Horne had a regular pundit sharing screen time with him who was about 6 foot 8...was he called Miles Aitken ? I got into American Football in 1984 and these videos are a great reminder of when the sport was getting very popular in the UK.
I realise I'm 12 years too late but thank you so so much for uploading this. I still love the NFL and it's thanks to this show that this 80's kid got exposed to it. Using a kickass song like Two Tribes certainly helps. I bet even American NFL fans would have liked that too
Loved those Channel 4 early NFL days.Although the action was shown a week in arrears,a lot of us never knew the results and I would spend this entire results sequence on tenterhooks until Miami's score appeared.
A time when teams stayed put in cities, the coaches got 3-5 yrs to show whether they were good and rosters were built through the draft and veterans were long tenured. Different times!
These were the greatest of times. I loved growing up in the 80's. No stress or worries, violence was rare, playing football Saturday and Sunday morning before running in my house with my friends to watch NFL while my mom cooked dinner for us all. I wanna go back
Good spot. This was a UK broadcast so they may just have wanted to give the impression it was homemade. But even today they tend to blur out logos and station identifiers on foreign broadcasts. It may be a legal requirement or simply considered best practice
The Bucs wilted in the 100 degree heat? LOL I live in Tampa Bay and 100 degrees is a frosty morning here :-) it was probably the Bears crushing defense that did the Bucs in and not the heat :-) 1985 was a couple of years before I started following NFL on C4 so never got to see Nicky Horne present the show ('87 was the year I started watched with the ridiculous Vicious Boys) however Two Tribes is an absolute banger of a track for the results montage. Every time I hear that song it always reminds me of Sunday nights watching C4 NFL (They changed it to Duel's Propaganda the following year).
I remember lying in bed with my headphones plugged into my stereo "listening" to this game until the early hours of Tuesday morning (had to be up for school a couple of hours after this game ended) trying not to shout too loud when Eddie Anderson ran that INT back for a score. Other than C4 NFL show at 6PM on Sundays (and the Tuesday evening show), AFRTS was the only other option to get my NFL fix back in the day. Living in Edinburgh, used to get a pretty decent reception but as you noted the signal would fade at critical moments in the game leaving me no choice but to fiddle with the radio until the reception magically returned. I got to know a lot of the AFRTS announcers due to my football obsession, Ken Allen was my fav (he was only mostly on Sunday nights) and you are right about those NFL disclaimers they played them on every break :-) I had recorded every C4 NFL broadcast from 1988-1990, sadly those VHS tapes are long gone but watching your montages brings back many memories. I remember the Cyndi Lauper montage, Phil Collins (after Daryl Rogers was fired by the Lions), Supertramp (Dreamer), Don't Get mad get even (wk1 1988), Wild Wild West, Duel and many others. Living in the USA now, the networks here couldn't hold a candle to the C4 productions back in the day. They cram in as many adverts before kickoff and then BAM kickoff! :-)
Fantastic memories Graham. Think it was similar for a whole generation of teenage boys who grew up in the 1980s and wanted something different. I digitised much of my C4 collection a decade or so ago but have never had the desire to rewatch it like I did then. Mick Luckhurst was more wooden than I ever realised, John Smith not much better. Came across Nicky Horne on BBC Radio Solent a couple of Christmases ago and there is a grey-haired, worn but easily distinguishable version of Gary Imlach still presenting Tour de France coverage. Great times but life moves on. I still keep an interest in the NFL - almost gone full-circle as I now listen to online radio broadcasts of Patriots games! The modern highlights shows are ok but I never watch them. Too targeted at the modern short-attention spans with fast montages of clips and lack of context in games. None of the magazine style interviews we used to get on Red42 in 1990
Good interview with Gary Imlach over here about how his career covering cycling began with the American football. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WZq0JC_WZNM.html
@@mrbbshorts LOL Mick Luckhurst was a wooden as the chairs he sat on :-) Big difference from the Vicious Boys who hosted C4 NFL the year I started following NFL in 1987. Never got to see Nicky Horne's broadcasts but I know he is ingrained in British American Football lore. Cris Collinsworth broadcasts the Sunday night games on NBC and I remember seeing him on C4 way back in the day and I found one of those clips on your channel. Can't help but think C4 gave him his first opportunity after football and now he's one of the most recognized broadcasters in the States. Walter Payton was another regular on C4 shows as well but he was replaced by Gary Imlach after a couple of years. As you mentioned, life moves on but I remember those halcyon days of being a teenager in the late 80s struggling to listen to AFN radio to follow my favorite team while simultaneously hearing Spanish and opera mix with the signals :-) Living in the US I can watch any game on Sundays, oh what I wouldn't have given for that luxury back in the day and of the course the Internet too. No more waiting for my weekly edition of First Down and monthly edition of Touchdown to get my "latest" football news :-) Love your channel and the videos bring back many fond memories for me, thanks for posting them
a bit of a bugbear to hear Brits prounounce dee-fence and not the normal way. Defence is a word of English language and doesnt need different prounciation to give it a different meaning as many foreign language words do. still, nice memories of the 80's
The American football term is "defense"(with an S) so they're quite welcome, in my opinion, to pronounce it how they want and us Brits should respect their sport terminology. As for "defence" (with a C), I 'd have to suspect it's originally a French phrase "de fence" and us English have bastardised and repronounced it !!
@@mrbbshorts I also remember one with ELO's, "Hold on tight" (to your dreams), that had mostly fumbles. Maybe they're not available, due to song copyrights?
I watched this, it week 1 of 1985 season. I really believed that with the return of Curt Warner, the Hawks could win the SB. But the inconsistency that would plague the Hawks for the rest of 80's started that year. Go Hawks
The days when the Raiders featured at the top of the graphics..ah they were the days...makes the hairs on my neck stand on end listening to Two Tribes.
