1979 NFC Playoff - Eagles at Buccaneers - Enhanced CBS Broadcast - 1080p/60fps 

My thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the broadcast recording of the 1979 NFC Div Playoff between the Eagles and Buccaneers. I ran the game through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to adjust a very dark picture and pretty drab color. Game is still on the dark side, especially in the second half, but I didn't want to push the lighting and color too much where it looked unnatural.

I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I love those Bucs jerseys. 😁

I was 14 in 1979; I ate, slept, and drank NFL football. Man...I missed those days!

Creamsicle jerseys 4 life. I never get tired of these enhanced games. This is my offseason tradition now!

HANK STRAM was such a fantastic commentator.

Very nice addition to your collection......there are a number of games (regular season and playoffs that would look great "enhanced" with your methods. Thanks for these gems....

I was 17 at the time. Remember getting to Al Lopez park at 6 in the morning to tailgate. I think it was called Horizon park back in the day. 61 now. Good times.

Oh man, Jayne Kennedy!! I had a thing for her when I was a kid. I love watching these old games with the old school CBS pregame shows

Jayne Kennedy 😙💘

This is fantastic. I've dreamt of being able to watch all these classic games the way it would have looked on my T.V back in 79 when I was 7.

Amazing job Dave. I literally watched this game about 2 weeks ago. WHAT A HUGE difference. What a game Ricky Bell had. So sad we lost him so soon.

Awesome game, love those old Bucs uniforms! I remember seeing this game on TV back in the day. Great memories. A lot of these players and coaches are long ago retired and many now passed. Even the old Tampa Stadium is long gone. Time sure does fly, especially the older you get. Thanks for posting!

many years ago i bought a vhs tape of this game on ebay for 20 bucks. Wasn't even watchable. This is awesome. thank you !!

Impressive. As a collector, I remember this game video being a not so good copy of a copy of a copy that was circulating for many years. It looks great here.

I call this the Ricky Bell game. He was unstoppable carrying the ball 37 times. John McKay didn't believe the ball would be too heavy for him.🏈

Bucs diehard lifelong fan here in Vancouver Canada. The good ole days! Loved this time and era growing up as a teenage boy here in Vancouver and attending a football powerhouse high school(Notre Dame Senior Secondary) here in East Vancouver. Lee Roy Selmon was my idol and I actually got to personally meet him in Tampa in 2005 while vacationing there.

truly miss these days, this is football not the garbage it’s now devolved into

Doug Williams was a great quarterback. At the time he was the only black starting quarterback. He could've been with the tampa bay organization for years had they paid him the money he deserved and probably wouldve won a couple super bowls with him. He later went on to become the first black qb to start and win a super bowl. He was truly a pioneer

This was the biggest victory in franchise history up to this point. I loved those uniforms. I went to the '79 NFL championship. It wasn't meant to be, 9-0 loss.

This is one channel on RU-vid in which the comments are as priceless as the game videos. Thank You Dave!

Brings back memories. Watching football on Sunday afternoons @ Mom cooking noon dinner!!

Those creamsicle Bucs’ jerseys were fire, my fav TB jerseys.

Jayne Kennedy. I'm a teenager all over again. WOW!

The ‘79 Bucs were such a Jekyll and Hyde team. They started 5-0. Finished 10-6. Won this exciting game then a week later played in one of the most memorable boring NFC championship games ever.

Thanks for another very nice restoration- appreciate the pre-game features, thought CBS & NFL Films were very good at production in late 70's

Was hoping for this one! Shine on "Florida Orange" Buccaneers. 1979 was a special year. Wish I still fit in my Rickey Bell jersey.

Both the video and audio on this is incredible. Nice work, and thanks for posting this! ✌🏻

i was six years old in a philly suburb of levittown. i remember the old man next door neighbor was pissed off over this game. He couldn't believe they lost to an 'expansion team"

Yes the creamsicle unis!!

I was at this game...20 years old. We lost in the NFC Championship the next week but we left this game happy.

Dave, Another masterpiece. Love that NFL Today is at the start. Best pregame intro to any Pregame show in any sport. Brent and the crew at Tampa Stadium was great. Fortunately the legend Curt Gowdy was doing the call. Helluva game, and fabulous enhancement. It is great to see games from the NFL's greatest decade.

What a great trip down memory lane, it's really too bad the Bucs were completely shut down by the Rams the following week ending their dream season. And I'd be remiss not to mention that watching this reminded me again of just how incredibly beautiful Jayne Kennedy was back then too!

Curt Gowdy doing CBS? Never knew that.

Every sports event sounds much better when Curt Gowdy is announcing.

It’s impressing how articulate all the athletes are in the opening interviews. These guys are professors compared to today’s athletes. What happened?

1:21:49 Jimmie Giles and the Bucs got screwed out of a touchdown. I don't see where he juggled the ball.🤔🏈

Thanks so much for sharing this. I was at this game and it is one of the most memorable days of my childhood.

Remember this game like yesterday. it was broadcasted on a Saturday afternoon. Rickey Bell ran wild. Very big upset win over Philadelphia.

Coach Vermeil didn't do much to get the ball to Harold Carmichael. So many drops by the Eagles WRs. I was seriously wondering why the Eagles didn't use the shotgun formation to get Jaws more time to get rid of the ball. Then I remembered that this was 1979 and not 2023😂

Stupid observation but I love seeing Dick Vermeil wearing a white undershirt under his unbuttoned, collared, t-shirt. My dad use to always wear a white undershirt under his Munsingwear t-shirts. It was a classic look for the time.

After a very rough franchise start, the Bucs got (temporarily) good in a hurry in '79. Bell was a good runner.

IMO, the Eagles uniforms of the late 1970s were their best version. They always looked like they were see-through tear-away style jerseys for some reason.

Thank you for these videos - love them. John McKay was hilarious too.

The old Ford commercials were the best... Hahahahahahaha!!! My first car was my moms old 1977 Ford Granada... LOL

I was a freshman in high school and became a Buccaneers fan when Tampa Bay drafted Doug Williams. No matter what their record was before and after, because of the culture of the perception of the black quarterback was then... Tampa showed courage... and I was sold.

Is it just me or is the pregame show so much better than what we have today some 44 years later.

Ricky Bell could've been Great 👍🏼.!! RIP RICKY UR NOT FORGOTTEN

It’s refreshing to watch a game with not a single text or graphics on the screen.

A huge missed opportunity for the Eagles considering what happened on Sunday in the other NFC game

Celia- perez.... mamacita

It's all about Jayne Kennedy! Was there something about a game?

notice how opposing players used to help each other upoff the ground after a play``` dont see that anymore- rarely

Miller lite commercial with the QUARRY BROTHER OUT OF BAYONNE, NJ WAS GREAT AND LESS FILLING😂😂😂❤

Good timing, Dave!

Excellent job. You can see every detail of Hank Stram's fake hair.

Looking at these old games, the commercials, the intro to the game is so iconic. The way they commentate now with the exception of a few these days is sickening, the overload of drug commercials or useless insurance ads, or trashy car shield water down games, the fake celebration after every play is maddening.

I don't know about anyone else but I loved the old Converse "star and chevron" cleats many players wore in 1979, with the tongue flap on the outside of the laces.

Strange that CBS with Brent did a talk-up about the Pittsburgh/Denver playoff game from the year before, as that game was televised on NBC.

Hey Dave. I really appreciate the hard work you do to bring these old games back alive. I was only 9 years old when this game was played but it brings me right back to that special time. I was wondering if you have any games from 1971?

This Tampa Bay offense was so basic yet the Eagles had no snswers whatsoever

Great game but I love the old commercials!

Thanks Dave can you someday put out the rebroadcast from the same year the week before the 1979 NFC Wildcard Playoff Game the Chicago Bears @ Philadelphia Eagles which is the game that the Bears were robbed & jobbed because of poor officiating as the Bears really had them blown out but the officials made several terrible calls including a Walter Payton beautiful 85 yard Rembrandt that was called back because of a phathom illegal motion call on WR Brian Bashnagel but when you look at the play he did not move forward until after the ball was snapped, horrible , horrible call as it cost the Bears a playoff win

I remember watching this game with my dad when I was 11 years old. I was very angry that the Eagles lost.

The automobile commercials in this video where fuel mileage was emphasized . . . I recall that time in 1979 when gasoline prices in the US reached the one-dollar mark per gallon. It was also the time when a mini-fuel shortage was happening in parts of the US.

My god, that hairpiece, Hank...

Wow…just one year before, Curt Gowdy was announcing SB XIII on NBC…where he was their number one broadcaster for 13 seasons…so strange to see him on CBS

Interesting that Curt Gowdy the season prior was at NBC and announcing the Super Bowl XIII and moves to CBS to the second team

Am I goin crazy or are the highlights of the other division round playoff games at beginning of this from the 78 season while this game is from the 79 season? Philly had already lost to Atlanta and Bucs were not in those playoffs. ...this is the best thing on youtube either way :)

Watched the game on TV live. Devasted my Eagles lost that day...

Don't remember Curt Gowdy working for C.B.S ,do remember this game though, and the 9- 0 buc,rams championship the following week

The Eagles and Bucs rivalry will never die...FIRE THE CANNONS

@0:38 Great intro. with many shots from NFL Films. I did a double-take when I saw 83 in Bears unofrom, as Willie Gault was in the 83 or 84 draft? Looked it up and 83 was Golden Richards--wow!

Did you add music to the highlight clips during the NFL Today or are they on the original broadcast?

❤

I miss those days 1980 PLATOFFS WOW

Great music

Celia Perez looks gooood

Why can’t I find anything on this Celia Perez at the start there like no record of her existence

43:10 The world was changing drastically and we didn't even know it.

Thanks for memories

I love Bob Newhart calling the game, just wished he’d do his bomb disposal routine.

Jimmy "The Greek " was great.

What in the “Eva Mendez but my last name is Perez” then Jane…🥵the jerseys weren’t the only things pretty back then plus the guest Philly player getting dissed for a handshake from her😂💯

To this day, I thought the Eagles had the better team.I had a huge crush on Jayne Kennedy.

Nice rug, Hank.

The 1970s were awesome on Sundays. Except when I had a math test the next morning.

Great days

1:03. LOL I forgot about that gem

Oh my goodness Jane Kennedy is so beautiful ❤️

The knock on Doug Williams was that he threw the ball too hard. Granted, there was times where he needed to put some touch on the ball and he would fire a bullet. The ball spent less time in the air, so that was a good thing. And the other good part was he threw the ball so hard that the DB’s couldn’t intercept it, either. However, despite their excuses, Jimmy Giles could catch his passes. And like John McKay said, the receivers could catch his throws in college, so why couldn’t the pros?

I saw this game I was 14

Bucs uniforms were awesome!

Heartbreaking that they mention SD in the playoffs. Great years except Fouts being awful in the playoffs in 79-80. Cool seeing TB first playoff run.

Its crazy to think but the Bucs and Eagles have met 6 times in the Playoffs, there have only been 8 other matchups with more meetings in the Super Bowl era. Bucs lead 4-2.

There is no prettier woman in human history than Jayne Kennedy on CBS in the late 1970's.

Im so delusional that when i watch theseI feel like i wouldve been a star back then

Can the commentators sit any closer? Lol.

Sweet...!

Very few penalties and a lot of running the football. I don’t see a lot of vicious hits either . I think the game is more violent now

Thank you for posting this game I really love those old Tampa Bay uniforms