I was a bit younger at about 7 or 8 after my Sunday bath just before bed I would watch it with my dad. I was already playing full contact rugby and when I saw this I immediately thought OK we need to start playing a version of this game tomorrow morning on the schoolyard and luckily nearly all my friends had the same thought. When my Dad managed to get me a genuine NFL ball it was my pride and joy until our first dog ruined it 😂
15 years old.....Two tribes Nicky Horne jim McMahon and the Bears. Sunday evening channel 4 and then try to tune in to Afrts radio afterwards for the live Sunday night game. Memories.
Loved those Channel 4 early NFL days.Although the action was shown a week in arrears,a lot of us never knew the results and I would spend this entire results sequence on tenterhooks until Miami's score appeared.
CLASSIC! ,Nicky Horne and NFL Films. This made the NFL in this country. This is why we are on the brink of a NFL Franchise.[In London] According to today"s reports as early as 2017. Any full Sunday Night NFL Channel Four programmes from the early 1980"s with Niccky Horne and Miles Atkin? Great to see this again. 50 year old disabled NFL Fan and Carrer GOD BLESS!
dan fouts, montana, dan marino, eric dickerson man the sound of my youth....ch4 in the 80's and 90's..delayed coverage by one week..nothing live save the superbowl..american forces radio on medium wave....marvellous..happy days
baggies37 touche. Pretty much same for everyone else. Armed forces radio was a godsend once discovered. The 1990 championship game between Giants and 49ers was the first time they ever showed a live game the Wasnt the Super Bowl itself.
Yeah I Remer trying to tune in my old mw radio in to AFRTS for the football and laser 558 for the music on Sunday evening's in 1984/ 1985. Great memories
@@robparkinson9850 I'm pretty sure the second half of the1988 NFC Championship was shown live. The AFC Championship between the Bengals and Bills was shown as a full game, but time delayed because of Channel Four scheduling. They cut to Soldier Field to show a couple of first half TDs. The 1989 NFC Championship game between the 49ers and Rams was shown live; the West Coast meant a later kickoff time which Channel Four had no problems airing. Pretty certain the AFC Championship was shown full game delayed, or highlights of the first half with the second half live. The first ever live regular season game shown on Channel Four was the Week 12 Monday NIght game between the 49ers and Giants. Channel Four made the decision a couple of weeks earlier because both teams were undefeated and it was clearly going to be one of the biggest games of the year. Unfortunately, both teams lost the week before in upsets to division rivals: 49ers lost at homt to the Rams and the Giants lost in Philadelphia. Channel Four went ahead and showed the game and it was sometihng of an anti-climax, as defenses dominated. Watch here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l9PysPvJlko.html
@@BrendonChase2012 The first live regular season game on C4 was in week 1 mnf of 1988 between the defending SBXXII champs - Washington and the Giants. It was decided by an interception return (LB Gary Reasons?) in the 4Q - 27-20 to the Giants. Edit: here's the us broadcast ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j9AfOoBJMl4.html Turns out Reasons blocked a punt that was returned for a TD for the go-ahead score (20-13) and then jim Burt returned a sack fumble/int for a TD to make it 27-20
I realise I'm 12 years too late but thank you so so much for uploading this. I still love the NFL and it's thanks to this show that this 80's kid got exposed to it. Using a kickass song like Two Tribes certainly helps. I bet even American NFL fans would have liked that too
The days when the Raiders featured at the top of the graphics..ah they were the days...makes the hairs on my neck stand on end listening to Two Tribes.
Thanks for uploading this i used to love this programme one week behind with the coverage and as you got more into it was tuning into armed forces radio this format was by far the best nfl frogramme happy days this bit with all the highlights best bit of show
I was only 12 in 1985 - they were the days ! Loads of us used to play at lunchtimes at school - I was always a wide receiver ! I see on this video the Seahawks won - so no change =D
I remember Nicky Horne had a regular pundit sharing screen time with him who was about 6 foot 8...was he called Miles Aitken ? I got into American Football in 1984 and these videos are a great reminder of when the sport was getting very popular in the UK.
The Bucs wilted in the 100 degree heat? LOL I live in Tampa Bay and 100 degrees is a frosty morning here :-) it was probably the Bears crushing defense that did the Bucs in and not the heat :-) 1985 was a couple of years before I started following NFL on C4 so never got to see Nicky Horne present the show ('87 was the year I started watched with the ridiculous Vicious Boys) however Two Tribes is an absolute banger of a track for the results montage. Every time I hear that song it always reminds me of Sunday nights watching C4 NFL (They changed it to Duel's Propaganda the following year).
Nicky Horne was and still is a radio dj. He chose the music the show used and his taste was excellent. Not sure how to do it, but I'll have to find out how you put old videos onto RU-vid because I have weeks 11-16 from this season plus some playoff action on video. This was Channel 4's best season imo. A real shame Horne was replaced before the '86 season.
He was replaced frank gifford, then Frank was replaced by the worst presenting due ever, the beastie boys (think thats the name, then mick luck hurst for about 4 years then Gary imlach
@@Staceyatkinson4496 The Viscious Boys were their name going by memory. A more unfunny comedy duo you couldn't ever imagine. Channel 4 should have brought back Horne after Gifford imo but didn't unfortunately.
@rcviolet6 Yes Channel Four was and still is accessible to all in the UK. They had the rights to show the NFL from when C4 started in 1982, until they lost the rights to show games in the mid 90's. But, now they are showing from this season(how long for, I do not know), the NBC Sunday Night games in the wee small hours live. It is great to see the NFL back on its spiritual home channel.
I watched this, it week 1 of 1985 season. I really believed that with the return of Curt Warner, the Hawks could win the SB. But the inconsistency that would plague the Hawks for the rest of 80's started that year. Go Hawks
@mononokehime316uk yeah that would be great to see that documentary. At least C4 have some NFL action again. I do not have SKY sports, so good old C4 is keeping me well entertained. Although being a Cowboys fan and 1-3 at the moment is making me cringe!!
Thank you for putting this up. I have it on vhs somewhere. This is from week 1 right? Main game was my Redskins getting thumped by the Cowboys. Anyone have any footage of some of the end montages available?! 🤞🏻
Wow great days with Nicky Horne, who then passed the C4 coverage to Mick Luckhurst and then to Gary Imlach. I got to see the Jets - Dolphins game last night on C4. Great to see the NFL back on C4. Does anyone know if they have the rights for years to come. C4 had Gary Imlach and Mike Carlson doing the game and used the NBC coverage with Al Michaels and Cris Collingsworth. What happened to John Madden? I remember these results sequences using Two Tribes. Thanks for uploading!
Frank Gifford took over from NH in 1986, but it proved a mistake, not least because he looked and sounded bored and tired all the time. Then, the Vicious(ly unfunny) Boys hosted in 1987 and nearly haemorrhaged half the audience with their embarrassing goofing around. Mick Luckhurst took over in 1988, and although he was a bit uncomfortable in front of the cameras, he restored some dignity to proceedings. Gay Imlach joined as a reporter in 1989, and they then let him host the new Saturday morning 'magazine' shows a couple of years later, and realised he was really good at it. So when Mick stepped down from the main show in 1993, Gary Imlach, smallest man in television, took over that as well and became the UK face of the sport with the biggest players in the world.
@@martinodoni8943 Yeah Martin, Giff took over from Nicky Horne. 1986 was my first season as a Cowboys fan. And you are right, the Vicious Boys the next season were downright embarrassing. I liked Mick Luckhurst doing the job. A bit raw at first, but got better. Gary Imlach was great too. Good days to be an NFL fan. 🏈
a bit of a bugbear to hear Brits prounounce dee-fence and not the normal way. Defence is a word of English language and doesnt need different prounciation to give it a different meaning as many foreign language words do. still, nice memories of the 80's
The American football term is "defense"(with an S) so they're quite welcome, in my opinion, to pronounce it how they want and us Brits should respect their sport terminology. As for "defence" (with a C), I 'd have to suspect it's originally a French phrase "de fence" and us English have bastardised and repronounced it !!
This was the time when some TV CHANNEL got it right Loved CH4 American Football Nowadays we have GAMEPLAN which is ok but wish could mute the ADS and the army of Commentators. If only UK PREMIER LEAGUE could take note of how a top sport is done. Camera use. Officials doing their job right(mostly) Etc A proper contact sport. Not over paid grass trippers and former over goal rugby players. Little boys pretending to be worth millions, cheating and playing like a bunch of pansies. The referees corrupt its so obvious. Soccer totally correupted by money.
I remember seeing Channel 4's coverage of American Football and millions of people watching it for the first time with the weekly show's format being a game of the week being shown in a very condensed form and the rest of that weeks NFL games being shown in highlights and it was very popular and exciting to watch for those new to the sport. Then Channel 4 made the huge mistake of actually showing a whole complete game with that years Superbowl and it was then that these millions of new fans discovered that the sport in reality consisted of very short bursts of action followed then by even longer periods of no play and no action with with each game lasting on average for 3 hours with only 10 minutes of actual play so millions discovered that this was slow and boring.
