I was 7 years old at the time and every Sunday we would all go to my friends house who used to live right down the hall from me and crowd around the TV with snacks waiting for the halftime highlights 😉
i thought i wrote this comment. my sentiments, EXACTLY. i am the same age too. I COULDN'T WAIT for the NBC pregame show every Sunday starting at 12:30pm. Also, being a Steeler fan living in Cleveland, i didn't get to see all the Steeler games. but ALWAYS when playing Cleveland of course. And when i couldn't see my Steelers, i couldn't wait to watch the highlights from the day before on Monday Night Football!!!
@@re8746 my FAVORITE games to watch were when the Steelers played the Cowboys. of course. But maybe even more so, when the Steelers played the Oilers. Especially the Monday Night Games i can still see the signs in the Astrodome, "LOVE YA BLUE"; and that song, "Houston Oilers, Houston Oilers, Houston Oilers Number One!" I wish the Oilers would go back to Houston. Such a great Era
I was 15 years old and grew up watching those great 70's Steelers teams and watched all the Super Bowl victories under Chuck Noll. Jack Lambert was my favorite Steeler of all time. I had a giant Sports Illustrated poster of Jack Lambert on my bedroom wall. 4 Super Bowls in 6 years made the Steelers a dynasty in the 70's. Those were good times that I will never forget.
We're the same age. I was born in January 1963 - graduated from High School in Cumberland, MD in 1981 (Fort Hill High School)... I'll tell you what I like about these old broadcast the best - MYRON COPE! Mr. Pittsburgh!!! "Did yinz see 'at? He picked off a pass at the Brahns 47 yard line and took it dahn to the 15..." Brings back some GREAT memories.
I’m a few years younger, but I remember thinking that the Steelers were *supposed* to go to the Super Bowl very year. Then at my first job my telephone extension was 5658
this is the football i grew up watching. maybe it's just me but it seemed rougher in those days, yardage was hard to gain, and scrimmage play was brutal. lots of helmet first collisions. thanks for posting!
Football is still the sport to watch. Baseball used to be exciting but now it's boring to watch, too many homeruns and not enough good pitching anymore, and the season is way too long, and NBA basketball is boring.
@@joesloadeddiaper3007 the nfl has changed the rules up drastically for the modern game so the scoring would open up. and the air game is so precise, with so many of the qb's being top notch, double threat athletes. you know, that cte thing is for real, and last sunday's games i noticed that many of the stadiums were almost half empty. a sports writer for my local paper told me that the nfl is going to be struggling in the next 15 years. the refs are calling the head first hits super tight as well, look at the penalty assessed to vontaze the other day. pretty trippy.
I was 15 on this day ! THIS, IS FOOTBALL !! Classic era ! I am so blessed to have come up when I did ! { 1970's & 80's !! BEST EVER in many ways !! The Music too !
We've got a lot in common. I too was 15 living in Pittsburgh. Haven't watched the full video yet but this could be my one and only game I attended. Agree about the music too.
sipesthebest Jack Fleming and Myron Cope. Legendary. Steeler trivia: Cope invented the iconic Terrible Towel®️. The trademarked Towel has produced a lot of money for charity since Cope thought it up back in ‘74. Lots of other teams have tried to start waving a team flag, but the Towel was the first and no team has come close to its popularity.
Nice! I was 15. I also attended some games during the 70s. Wasn’t this a great time to be a kid ? Also the NFL was so much better during this era. No player acting like A complete idiot after they make a great play. Glad I grew up when I grew up
my Dad used to take me to the old Municipal Stadium to watch the Browns loved how the baseball infield is part of the playing field OLD SCHOOL FOOTBALL AT ITS BEST !!!!!
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My goodness 83,000 fans could fit in the Mistake by the Lake. That was pretty impressive for Cleveland RIP to the greatest side guy commentator MR Myron Cope.
Love football back then, don’t watch it today. Don’t like the pristine fields, protecting quarterbacks like they are made of glass, the crappy people who play the game, the wokeness. Give me a field with mud and baseball diamond on it. Players played then, not the specialization they have today.
I was a Redskins fan in the early years of my life. I can truly say as a Redskins fan back then, that we loved the Steelers. Because they always beat those damn Cowboys that we couldn’t ! Lol
@@TheDeadlyYears Amen. The good ol' days.. I remember Bills games back in the mid 80s. It was like a minor league baseball crowd. It's probably a fortune to take a family to a Buffalo game now.
57:14 mark, right after Larry Anderson's kickoff return for a TD, they show the Steelers sideline, and watch Dick Hoak flip off the Browns! Camera cuts away as soon as he does it! Just noticed that for the first time!
I remember watching this game at the Delta Chi house in Erie in college. The local channel switched in the 3rd quarter to the Bills game. They said they were contractually obliged to show Bills games, which they had NEVER done before! Unbelievable.
Jack Fleming and Myron Cope...what a great local broadcast team...this is when they were really at the top of their game...this is so much better than todays grossly overhyped over officiated and grossly overanalyzed imitation of this example of what classic football was... this is a typical example of what football was and why it was so popular....tough men playing ball....no overanimated buffoons mugging for the camera after every play....name one of todays players who would have been dragged off the field and gone back in the game like Jack Ham did...they would have just called it a day and collected the paycheck in todays game..
Back when the rivalry was something to write about. If a time machine existed I would have loved to go to one of these in the 70s or 60s. Of the Chuck Noll teams, the '78 was probably the best.
‘76 was the Steelers best team ever. Bradshaw injured in game 3. The D only gave up about 20 points the rest of the year. Amazing. That D started 9 players in the pro bowl.
I watched both games that year between these two teams. What's amazing is Myron Cope, at 57:00, really comes up with some good analysis. That looks exactly like what happened on that kickoff return. Great rivalry back then.
Jack Fleming was so good. Even during his final seasons in 1992 and 1993 was still calling the good game and had to put up with Cope's ever-increasing drunken ramblings. Fleming never sounded as bad as Bill Hillgrove does now.
Not true. A lot of people didn't know this but Jack Lambert also wore long jersey's every game he played. The long sleeves were covered by his arm pads.
1:13:45 is one of my favorite throws of all time, come to think of it in my top ten throws of all time Terry Bradshaw has three of em in there, I just love the way he threw the rock, I would always see this in the highlights but to finally see it here is GREAT
I know this may not be extremely important BUT, I believe it's extremely rare...as a matter of fact I have never seen this before, and it just caught my eye when he caught the ball. I don't really know how long Rucker (#33 Browns) was on the field or, if what he was wearing near the end of the game was a replacement but, he had a 2 bar gray facemask, and in today's Football the NFL takes continuity very seriously. I figured the same would have been the norm in the '70s or any other time. Like I said, it's something I don't ever remember seeing watching games back in the '70s, and up until now....including College Football.
Goal posts were not cantilevered. Had to be because the Indians did not want the one on the south end driven into the mound. Look closely, and with the padding right on the line, the crossbar was apparently a foot behind the end line.
He merely needs to bring Bradshaw, Harris, Stallworth, Swann, Webster, Greene, Ham, Lambert, and Blount with him....and those are just the hall-of-famers.
@@ozzcooper, he could do it, if he was still around, with the current team. All they need is their lazy asses kicked and motivated. The Affirmative Action coach they have now just pats their ass and lets them get by with playing sloppily.
Late 1970s NFL football-where every team shifts 3 times and guys go in motion multiple times before every play is run - LOL. Started by Dallas Cowboys.
Dallas did all that shifting and the Steelers kicked their asses twice in 2 Super Bowls, beat them when Franco had his longest run ever and when LC Greenwood sent Staubach into retirement.
It's amazing just how many of these players I remember. You can see how much faster and bigger todays players are. This is like Div iii college fb today. Note: My wife's cousin played with Brian Sipe on the 1961 El Cajon, Ca LLWS Champions team. Back then they played only other US teams (I forget the team they beat-from Texas, I know that).
Would have loved to see Lambert, Skull slam that Ref off the Turf, and drag his lifeless body back to the Sideline. That is the beginning of "Don't touch the QB" and don't hit a receiver.
Wow..a trip down memory lane....Tony Dungy, Jack Hydroplane Deloplaine....all the classic Steelers of course....Randy Reutershan..sadly was killed in a training camp car accident the next year I believe....I got to see and meet a lot of these guys over the years as I grew up near St Vincent college where they still have their summer camp.....great times
Browns should have beat the Steelers the first game. They were looking game in this one but the KO return right before the half broke em. Steelers cruised from that point.
1997 It was when they changed companies and their jerseys were made by Nike. They did it basically for money The fans want them to change it back but they won't listen. But they do wear these classic jerseys at least once a year plus color rush and those are also blocked numbers.
At the 56:00 mark, the Steelers look a little bit troubled. But then Larry Anderson runs a kick off back 96 yards for a TD. Myron Cope: THAT'LL TEACH THE BROWNIES!
Man, this broadcast is hilarious, it is so much better than the game. There is righteous vindication from the crew when the Steelers run the kickoff back. Whoever these clowns are, their pictures are next to definition for “Homer” and “Bias” .
Hey dickhead...the broadcast team is Jack Fleming and Myron Cope the local Pittsburgh radio broadcast team...many people turned down the volume on their tvs and played the radio to hear these guys because they were Homer's as you put it....is another reason why the Steelers are still so popular to this day....Cope invented the terrible towel that you see everybody wave at steeler games and the millions generated in revenue by its sale go to a school for autistic that cared for his severely challenged son...I'm happy I was able to school you you smug dickhead millenial....
Broadcast is such a homer crowd. Lambert comes in late trying to spear the QB out of bounds, he charges the ref for throwing the flag, then turns and throws a punch at a Browns player on the sideline. The color commentator can’t believe it because he was reading the Steelers Program during the replay. Also, the homer broadcast never showed the full replay of the punch. Wait, finally the color broadcaster acknowledges, “maybe he threw a punch.” Too funny, what a broadcast crew.
That was the other game, at Three Rivers; this one was in Cleveland. And the Steelers never should've had the ball. Larry Anderson fumbled the overtime kickoff. The officials blew it. (hahaha, Browns fan, can you tell?). 8 years later, when Kosar to Slaughter TD in overtime beat the Steelers in Cleveland, Chuck Noll said it was the worst way to lose a football game. Much respect for former Brown Noll, but no Chuck, the flea-flicker was the worst way.
This is just old time hard hitting football. No BS. No half of the crowd and viewers worshiping Taylor Swift and that asshole Travis Kelce. That shit wouldn’t fly then. Oh for the old days
That was a MAD CHEAP SHOT !! Shipe was already down and out of bounds !! HEADFIRST here comes Jack !! The Oakland Raiders of the 1970's were the dirty players of ALL TIME , but Pittsburgh was a close 2nd for playing dirty too !! Mel Blount tried to kill Cliff Branch every chance he got that decade ! I am 56 now and remember so well and LOVED The NFL from 1969-1999...Heartbreak Hotel every year for me as a Minnesota Viking fan ! ....2009 too vs, The Saints !! I don't even watch sports anymore, again, The NFL, NBA & MLB of my days were THE BEST EVER !!
@@watchalay74 Nope. The BALTIMORE Ravens won 2 Super Bowls. CLEVELAND has won ZERO. Do people in Minneapolis lay claim to the LA Lakers rings since 1960, or does Philly claim the Oakland As world series rings? Sad man. Meanwhile, growing up as a kid in Pittsburgh the Steelers won 4 and they've played in a Super Bowl every decade of my life except the current one, which isn't even half over yet.
