love the intro, love the atmosphere, love the history lessons by Cosell, love the aged Snake Kenny Stabler with Earl Campbell. In 1980, I started to watch MNF and remember the games, always heard the both was lively during the '70s and so glad I got to hear Cosell, Dandy Don Meredith, and since '71 Frank Gifford. Well, we have the 20th Century NFL, it was not perfect but its was so much better than the shat we have seen since at least 2001 and especially since Goodell came in in '05
Yup. Bring back the Oilers. Get rid of the Texans brand. Texans shoukd BUY the rights from the Titans. Or the Titans should GIVE the Oilers brand to the people of Houston
@@erichhartmann9797 No way... If the city of Houston wanted the uniforms so bad they should have gave them support in 94-96. Titans own those colors. Texans are garbage.
You have to think that if they could have just gotten an average QB, a "game manager," they might have been able to get over the hump. I wish they had kept Pastorini. Stabler was horrible. And, their offensive game plan was sooooo lacking in imagination. That's why Bum got fired.
Die hard Steelers fan since 78 but a bigger fan of the game....love seeing greats and games from the past ...I absolutely love time travel via videotape. ..
When this game was over, if you had told either a Houston or Pittsburgh fan that Cleveland would go on to be the AFC Central division champions, they would have laughed.
Indeed. This was the Browns' worst start since 1975, when they began 0-9 and ended 3-11. They'd had fast starts the previous three years, but faded at the end. The opposite happened in 1980. The key was a comeback win over the Steelers in week 8. The Steelers had beaten the Browns 6 straight times and 11 of the previous 12, and ran up a 26-14 lead before the Browns rallied to win 27-26. That put the Browns 1 game ahead of the Steelers. Pittsburgh evened up the race when they won the rematch 3 weeks later, but the Browns lost only one game after that (on a Hail Mary at Minnesota).
Bum deserved to get canned after the way the Oilers finished in 1980. This same team came into Houston and took the division from us. The 1980 Oilers had a tendency of playing down to the weaker teams. Just look at the losses in 1980.
I know 1980 NFL was a different game but Cleveland accepting the penalty and not taking that interception at their own 2 yard line in hopes of getting better field position was a horrendous decision. Of course they roughed Stabler on the next play and Houston put it out of reach with a FG. So much fun to watch Campbell play. Miss these days
Recalls a good era, at least, for me. Good era for the NFL and for the fans. Those teams played like gangbusters. And, the atmosphere of that place - the turf, the lighting, old, old stadium, the boistrous crowd, the play-by-play and color commentary - just very genuine and down to earth, compared to the media circus it later became. And snazzy orange uniforms for the Browns. I liked the Oilers' silver helmets from long back (1970, 1971).
Chris Snyder + Whats up Bronco fan? Of course you have fond memories... The Drive! I was a diehard Oilers fan living in Cleveland. Loved old Muny Stadium!
Earl Campbell was an amazing player. He was a tough runner with a punishing style. Even though he was only 25 years old here it was obvious his body was beaten up.
brianbachmeier34 + He sure was beaten up. It always amazed me how long James Brooks played, and was still running all over teams 7 years into his career.
brianbachmeier34. He was so beat up after 15 games in 1980 he sat out the last week of the season 2 rest for the playoffs !! Even though he had 1934 yards and could of broken OJ s record of 2003 easily 👍 but he didn't really care about that either !!
Jj Pesty + In 1980 Earl Campbell didn't sit out last 2 games. I know he was injured in the 79 Playoffs but they still beat the Chargers. Not sure what season your talking about.
40 years later and both cities lost and got back their teams, yet still no Super Bowl appearance, both are deserving of a title. Sad to think that Frank, Don, and Howard are gone...Alzado late hit on Stabler also made me sad, both guys gone. Man I hope there's football in heaven.
Nah, not a fan of the Disco era orange pants regardless of their nostalgia value. I wouldn't mind them for occasional throwbacks, but I'd LOVE to see the Browns return to their iconic all-white uniforms that they wore for most of their history including all eight of their championships. I love Brian Sipe and the Kardiac Kids, but Otto Graham, Jim Brown, Leroy Kelly, and Bernie Kosar wore better uniforms.
As a life long Houstonian, 1980 would mark the end of the "Luv Ya Blue" era as Bum Phillips would be fired after the season & the team would enter a 7 year playoff drought. The Oilers (RIP) would finish 11-5 but have to settle for the wildcard as, surprisingly, the Browns would win the division that year. The Oilers would lose to the eventual Super Bowl champion Oakland Raiders in the playoffs as would the Browns (any Browns' fans remember "red-right-88'?). Btw, 1980 would also mark the height of Earl Campbell's career as he would win his 3rd straight & final NFL rushing title by rushing for a career high 1,934 yards including 3 200 yard games that season. Given that he sat out the 2nd half of this game & still had over 100 yards rushing he might have gone over the 2000 yard mark for the season had he played the whole game.
A time when pro football was really great just look at the uiforms after the game Oilers truly deserved Superbowl appearance Earl Campbell was true warrior.
What's with you mental midgets who always claim everything was so great just because you grew up in that era [I did too, btw] in sports, etc, but conveniently omit all the shit that was going on in the world as if it was some kind of utopia or something...THE WORLD HAS NEVER ALWAYS BEEN SUNSHINE & RAINBOWS!! and football is still a man's game [Modern day Safety Rules or Not,] so put your big boy pants on & stop your bitching about today's NFL vs yesterdays NFL.
GERALD WILHITE wore #47 for Denver from 1982-88. STEPHEN DAVIS and DARYL JOHNSTON both wore #48 for their entire careers. Why are you guys giving this comment a 👍??
Dude I have been requesting this game forever. Did I ask you? Probably did. This was my 2nd NFL game I attended, I was age 11. I remember the injury that held up the game in the 3rd or 4th quarter. It was obviously removed from this video. This was like 15 minutes with someone laid out.
Classic NFL + Oh yes, I watched it in its entirety the day I made that comment to you. I was at this game, I was 11 years old. I live in Cleveland, but Earl Campbell was my favorite!
@@kevin2400 Along with cookie cutter stadiums, ugly ass uniforms, high definition tv, rubber pellet grass fields, instant replay for microscopic calls, too many penalties and officials determining games, insane relocation of teams: (Colts go from Baltimore to Indianapolis then Baltimore is given the Cleveland Browns who change their name to the Ravens, then Cleveland is given back the Browns. The Cardinals move from St Louis to Phoenix, then the Rams go from LA to Saint Louis then back to LA. The Raiders go from Oakland to LA then back to Oakland and then to Las Vegas. The Houston oilers move to Tennessee and become the Titans then Houston is given the Texans.) Then the classic and wonderful NFL Films are ignored until you can't tell if they even exist anymore.. But hey the NFL's great, right???
Howard: “ There is Roy Rogers on the sideline.” Don: “Looks like Bum Phillips to me Howard!” LOL 😂 PS they try to link Sam Rutigliano with a Brooklyn connection to Bum Phillips. It took them a while to correct it and link it to Lyle Alzado 😉!
Impressive watching Stabler the magician, looks like a statue, but still moves his pegs enough and he gets ball out quickly with sidearm sling. He may have retired before kosar started with browns, but would like to see the 2 of them play head-to-head in their primes-the battle of the unorthodox QBs. The Oilers dominated the 3rd quarter, so hoping to see brian Sipe work some magic in the 4th. This was Sipe’s MVP season, as he had an incredible year. Ended sadly with loss to Raiders in playoffs. Update: no Sipe magic from the Kardiac Kids-Oilers just dominated this game at the line. Browns hardly had the ball in 2nd half.
Just finished watching. Never saw such a one sided time possession game like this. And wow did they destroy that field. Ground crew must have been like damn where do we start?
@@tonyiacomi4822 playoffs 71, 72. 9-5 in '76. In '78 and '79 they started 4-0 but injuries kept them back. '73 was 7-5-2. '74 and '75 team got old and started rebuild. Not too bad of a decade.
@@MeIn321 The question would be what Browns you were watching. Here are their records from that era: 1975 3-11 And you call this damn good? 1976 9-5 1977 6-8 1978 8-8 1979 9-7 1980 11-5 1981 5-11 1982 4-5 1983 9-7 1984 5-11 1985 8-8
