My first Super Bowl was Redskins v Raiders that season I decided to be Green Bay fan as saw one amazing high scoring game Lynn Dickey v Joe Theismann which Green Bay narrowly won, I had no idea were such a historic franchise or the small town underdogs. Was quite painful decision for first few years but turned out to be a complete joy and unlike my football team Leeds, my NFL Team are always near the top and win stuff.
Channel and the NFL and the start of my journey watching the Dallas Cowboys. Great times and my first ever super bowl was the Bears defeating New England. Late nights indeed. 2020 and have never looked back. Go Cowboys.
I too became a Cowboys fan thanks to Channel 4 coverage but my 1st game was the American Bowl at Wembley in 1986. Cowboys came up short against the bears that day and started a slide for the next few years until the Jimmy Johnson era! Played a bit over here until I broke my ankle playing in 09! Still love the game though and dropping dimes in the back garden with my kids!
Great upload. Love the nostalgia, altho i didnt get on board until '85. The highlight rundown is about as exciting as ceefax , but we all know that got a lot better with the two tribes track. Bills D held Bradshaw to 3 yards passing??.. hmm think that might be a typo. Was'nt this Raiders vs Redskins superbowl season with a strike shortened regular season ?
Another snowy game so tough conditions for passing so he went 2 of 13 for 3yds - 0tds, 2ints, 4 sacks. Replaced by Cliff Stoudt who wasn't much better with 2 of 10 for 29yds - 0tds, 1int, 1 sack. Bradshaw was suffering an elbow injury all year and only played four more games after this before retiring after the 1983 season.
There's some dodgy pronounciation throughout these 1982 shows by Nicky - not surprising though given no-one had ever watched the game before although you kind of hope Miles Aiken could have pointed stuff out
@@mrbbshorts Yes well spotted. The Ch4 annuals by Ken Thomas from this period were great if you don't have thrm. They can all be picked up online pretty cheap
@@housinauthority5258 I did all my reminiscing circa 2008-10 which is how this video came to be up. Copied all my VHS to digital and edited out the ads and put some of the good bits up before RU-vid overrcommercialised itself.
@@housinauthority5258 Picked up the 1983-4 Ken Thomas from a charity shop around that time which detailed the race for who would break Jim Brown's rushing record - would it be Franco or Walter. That's what I love about historical stuff - understanding the context and uncertainty. It's only by watching clips like this one that you realise how far American football coverage has come - it really was very basic back in the beginning but we loved it for what it was.
