1978 - Colts at Steelers (Week 15) - Enhanced NBC Broadcast w/Steeler Radio - 1080p/60fps 

This is yet another gem uploaded by Tim McCartney 5 years ago on his previous RU-vid channel. I ran his recording through Topaz Video AI to enhance and clean it, and also doubled the framerate. Using Da Vinci Resolve, the color and contrast DRAMATICALLY came back to life. At the time Tim recorded this, he had the Steeler radio broadcast hooked into his VCR for the audio, which synchs perfectly with the broadcast. Tim's recording ended in the 4th quarter, but I tacked on the rest of the game from a lesser-quality source (which I enhanced as best I could, but it's no comparison to Tim's recording). This second source has the actual NBC-TV audio.

Goodness. Seeing these past gems, is like reliving that particular time.

I remember watching this game at my grandparents' house when I was 7. The beginning of my love of snow games.

The game that made me a Steelers and NFL fan. It was a Saturday game and I was 8 years old. The snow and the black and gold and I was hooked

So this awesome game was played on December 9th, 1978... I was born on September 30th, 1979, which means I was conceived probably during Christmas of 1978 lol... Just 16 days after this game. Now I'm turning 44 years old in six days. It's crazy how time flies! I really enjoyed the video! It was very clear for it's age! Thanks for sharing it 👍

Thank you for providing the best NFL there is.

This was a great Steelers team and tough as nails too!

What a game to watch. Playing in snow is always interesting. What a contrast with the Pittsburgh radio team. Jack has a voice for radio and Myron, well. you decide. Then Curt and John come in late on the TV broadcast. Thanks Dave. for posting this great game to watch. Pittsburgh was a magnificent team.

There will never be another Myron Cope & Jack Fleming. Terry Bradshaw is ultra-under-rated. In his later years, there was no better passer. I so miss those days. Loved that team.

Thanks for posting this. I'm 51 years old, became a fan when I was a child watching these games, this is Steelers football though and through. Smashmouth football! Been a loyal fan ever since, and will be forever.

I have been looking for this game for a long time. We were young & playing backyard football during this game. Seems like yesterday. I found some newspaper clippings from this game in the mid 80's. They were used to wrap up Christmas decorations at my Church. I still have them😊. Thank you so much for sharing😎🔥

Thank you so much for putting in the effort to put this out. I'm sitting here, day after Thanksgiving, stuck with an injury... can't walk. Found this. Was a kid in Coraopolis in the 70s, in Florida now. This has turned my mood around. Remember watching this game live. Awesome.

Legendary Steelers radio voices Jack Fleming and Myron Cope.

Thank you for completing the game telecast with an surviving alternate source!

Thanks Dave Volsky ! This is such a rare game. I remember it from when I was a kid. One of the coolest games from the 70s (at least for a Steelers fan.) It's always been hard to find a copy of it. Three Rivers in the snow at Christmas time ❤️

Nice restoration work Dave! With all respect to Bill Troup, who didn't play that badly this game all things considered (facing PITT's defense + the conditions)...the Colts were a much different/more dangerous team whenever Bert Jones was healthy enough to play. The Baltimore defense also collapsed in '78 from 11th to 28th in points allowed.

Those where the days👍🏻

You have done an absolutely AMAZING job editing this footage !!! Great job !!!

You can *hear* Myron Cope dealing with the cold weather in the booth.

Bradshaw to Swann. Doesn't get any better than that.👍

Was so used to seeing John Dutton as a Dallas Cowboy, forgot he started out as a Baltimore Colt. This is a great gem, thanks Dave.

Myron Cope: "And rhe Steeler blockers are playing as if they are interested in this ball game!" That's good to hear. We need more Steeler blockers interested in the ball game.

Please keep these games from the 1978 and 1979 coming....these looks so good.....and there are many games from these years that need some help. Love these games so much.....

My gosh Bradshaw had all DAY to throw the ball.

I was at this game. I had seats in the endzone. The TD pass to Stallworth was right in front of us. It was really nasty weather. When the game was over, we had to drive back to Youngstown, Ohio.

This was a few years before I was born but I'm die hard Black and Gold all the way. Awesome to watch the old legends in action. One thing that always cracks me up about Three Rivers back in the day was the fact that cars would literally be parked in each end zone and you'd always see them in the background on touchdowns. LOL! Different vibe to the league these days. Big time.

Colts fan here, well I was then, Ravens fan now... Was 9 at the time, I still remember watching this game with my dad in Maryland, we were on the warm side of this storm getting rain, It's so great being able to see these games again, even though we got throttled in this game, lol.

thanks so much for posting this Dave. I remember watching this game. It was on a SATURDAY. I know that for sure.

Thank you for giving us this game!

Geesh! Bradshaw love him or hate him. He sure could throw a nice ball!

Great job with the restoration and the radio portion. Nice to see the preservation of great history.

I remember watching this game when I was 13, brings back many memories of these hall of famers.

Rip Bill Troup. He was in bad shape from years of playing football Depression memory loss and substance abuse

A real football game

I remember the game well. It was on a Saturday, likely a 12:30 start. Baltimore was a preaeason Super Bowl favorite. The Colts won three straight AFC East titles and lost a heartbreaker in the 1977 playoffs to Oakland in overtime. That game was John Madden's only road playoff win in the NFL. Bert Jones suffered a separated shoulder. John Dutton and Lydell Mitchell were traded away and it was the beginning of the end for the Colts. It was not just Irsay who wanted out of Memorial Stadium. Carroll Rosenbloom hated the stadium and considered moving the Colts before he and Irsay made the deal that made Rosenbloom the Rams' owner in 1971. Memorial Stadium was a dump. Lots of history but still a dump. The parking was terrible, bumper to bumper. The locker rooms were tiny and there was not enough space for both the Orioles and Colts' office staff. Orioles' owner Edward Bennett Williams hated the stadium and made noises about moving the Orioles to Washington. Maryland had a Blue Law that mandated any athletic event had to start at 2PM. The Colts could not start a home game at 1PM. The law was repealed on early 1984. After the Colts left for Indianapolis, Maryland passed legislation to build a new baseball park for the Orioles and a new football stadium for a new or relocated team. The fact that Art Modell moved his team to take the new stadium offer is a huge story that no one party has ever told in complete detail.

Late Curt Gowdy, Sr. called this game for NBC-TV Network

I cringe thinking of how hard the turf was at Three Rivers Stadium. Even Bradshaw hated the turf.

Jack "Hydroplane" Dellaplain. One of the greatest NFL. nicknames ever😊

First game I ever went to, lots of fun to see this video.

21:10 Stickum. Awesome. Two jars. Creamy and chunky.

Thank you so much for this upload! I watched this game when I was in the 8th grade. Audio with Myron and Jack calling the game, I love it! If Kenny is the guy after the Canada debacle, we may have some very special times ahead of us soon. Here We Go Stillers!

Truly men vs boys.

thank you technology!!..just like yeaterday!!!❤❤

I learned how to throw the football like Terry did, index on the point of the ball. I'm 53 years old and I can still spin a perfect spiral about 35 yards.

I'd love to see the 4th quarter of "Ghost to the Post" (12-24-77 AFC Divisional - Raiders at Colts) get this treatment.

Wether in Baltimore or Indianapolis, Colts fans must REALLY hate the Steelers. We’ve owned that team for the longest time. But of course the Steelers went 14-2 in the first year of the 16 game format. Colts didn’t have a prayer of beating our team, virtually no one did. I think this ‘78 squad was the best unit to take the field of play in franchise history. But this video is visually excellent considering it’s 45 years old.

1978 in Pittsburgh. All it did was snow snow snow .

RU-vid is such a great platform. I live taking these trips back to my boyhood via ole school football games. I was a little league football player during these yes, I imitated Franco Harris, Lynn Swan and all the greats. (PS, yes kids the Colts were in Baltimore at one point. They sneaked out of town one night, landed in Indianapolis.)

Great work 🎉🎉🎉thanks so much dave.

Nice to watch footage from that time that isn't horribly slowed down by NFL films. Everyone thinks guys back then were slow as dirt, mainly bc NFL films decided for whatever reason to slow every piece of NFL footage prior to 1980 down to a crawl, and I could never fathom why they did this.

I was 9 but I remember the blizzard of 78 in Pittsburgh. Lots of awesome sled riding. Pump an iron with Myron.

Just came across your channel. Surprised I never saw it before. Great quality. I have many games on dvd from this era. Being a huge Steelers fan these vids are awesome. I have just about every Steeler game from this era on dvd an most are pretty good quality but yours are top notch! Still looking for the wk.3 1978 Steelers at Bengals (28-3) so if you ever come across this or the 1979 Steelers at Bengals please post it. Thanks again greatly appreciate your vids.

A TRUE CLASSIC WITH COPE AND FLEMING ON THE GAME CALL

I was 13 years old and remember this game.

Wow....punting from the opposing teams 34....WOW!!

Damn Jack Fleming was good. I know everybody loved Myron and his antics but for me I brought a walkman to the game when I would go to Three Rivers to listen to Jack. When they basically kicked him out the door despite the fact that he can still call a good game while Myron was obviously slipping due to his drinking, that was the end of me and my Walkman days anytime I was in Pittsburgh for a game.

This game was on December 9th. My sisters birthday was day. I was 13 I wish I could go back in time and restart life

There is one thing missing from these classic NFL games of the 1970's: The idiotic and childish 'celebrations' that today's players perform whenever they make a decent play!

When they bring out the plow to clear the yard lines that's when you know you're enjoying REAL football

Remember this game like it was yesterday. I believe this game was in November of 78.

Lol wow all I can say is color commentary has come a long way.

Baltimore wiithout Bert Jones was nothing

Thank you

49:45 Then when he did hit the ground, he hit on his backside, he slid 9 yards on his backside like a kid, you know how they go dahn like on a garbage can lid, dahn the hill in the snow, hah? That's what he did! God bless Myron Cope.

1:26:51 Tony Dungy makes a highlight reel play

Thanks!

Sweet!!

It's amazing that because of the advancement of the game and the physical advancement of the players that the best team in 1978 would be destroyed by the worst team in 2023. No contest. But the '78 players would be confused with the different rules. No kick-off, no pounding the QB, and all this prissy stuff today. Also, look at the class of these guys. They score a touchdown and act like that's normal for them. No crazy celebration. This was a different time. A different class of men.

They sure were stingy with posting the score in those days.

Now, for my team of over 50 years...yeah, there were empty seats but every ticket was sold. Except for the strike year of 1987 and Covid in 2020, the Steelers have sold out since 1972. Keep in mind that there are always tickets set aside for fans of visiting teams and the Internet sites, unimaginable in the 1970s, make it possible for anyone to get a ticket. The 1978 Steelers were probably the best ever Steeler team. Considered to be on the decline after a 9-5 1977 record, Pittsburgh won in blowouts and close games alike. Until 1978, the Steelers has one win against Denver and never in Denver. They ended the season with a win in Denver, stopping Lonnie Perrin on the game's final play and then thrashed Denver, and then Houston in the AFC playoffs. The best Super Bowl to date ensued with a Steeler win. As for the comments about the "color commentator"...Myron Cope was a Pittsburgh institution. He was from the Squirrel Hill neighborhood and spoke with a thick Pittsburgh accent. He was a prolific journalist earlier in life. He was the sports anchor on WTAE TV for years, hosted a sports talk show on WTAE radio and was the Steelers color commentator for the better part of 30 years. He sounds grating to anyone not familiar with Pittsburgh sports. Cope invented the Terrible Towel and gave all royalties to a charity...he never made a dime from it.

At 1:05 Tony Dungy brings down #86, a guy almost twice his size with a quick and clean tackle!

Referees actually walked off the yards? Growing up it was frustrating not seeing the clock and score continuously as it is today....nice video quality ty

To me this is when football was football......

Jow Washington would win a Superbowl with the Redskins. He won Super Bowl 17 and was the only Redskin that DIDN'T wear the "Folded" Redskin

Oh man the ground must have felt so hard :0/

Randy Grossman should be in the hall of fame.

Jack Fleming was the reason I got into radio/ media.

I love it! This was football!

I love the Colts all white unis.

for anyone who has coached or knows defense and formations, why don't more teams line up the way the steelers did pre-snap, putting 6 to 8 men on the line of scrimmage, seems to work really well and more than just this contest?

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Ahh the good Ole days Football waz football n men were men wearing t-shirts in the bitter cold 🥶 no prima Donna's just slug it out hard nosed football .. 70s was a Steelers Fans dream !!😎

The late great Myron Kopelman, the man behind the Terrible Towel!!

1970 Bears and Steelers both had the worst record, coin flip gave the Steelers first draft pick, they Picked Terry Bradshaw and the rest is History

Grossman one of the very, very few drops he has had 5:26.

Real football, unlike today

They was playing football then .they will my team always

56:58 Terry and JoJo the original Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift of the NFL.

I believe this was on a Saturday

Look how slim and fit Bradshaw was! Almost look like Brady.

I noticed they switched announcers toward the end of the game. Anybody else?

Colts in white uniforms during winter.... automatic loss

I love weather games, i fell like they may be a thing of the past with stadiums being built to combat the elements. Plus environmental changes for whatever reason they may be. Player safety is always gonna win out.

I just joined in about halfway through. What's the score?

Terry definitely had a gun. Never got to watch him. But he just flicks his wrist and the ball goes 35 yards.

Colts never should of left Baltimore!! Baltimore Colts just sounds a 1000% better than Indianapolis Colts smh

I think those quick handoffs would kill today. Am I missing something?

Why hasn't anyone posted the Heidi Bowl?

The Steelers were the better team but man the offucials were giving them calls throughout; starts with David Lee non call roughing the punter, 2 PIs that were incidental contact, not interference, what was the unsportsmanlike on the Nettles pic? This snow game could have been a major upset but, well you know, so

"Bradshaw going for that bonus money" that goes with the Passing Title?! 😮😅😂