1990 - Browns at 49ers (Week 8) - Enhanced NBC Broadcast - 1080p 

After just watching the first quarter I seen about 6 penalties that would be called today. Man I miss this smash mouth football.

VERY nice enhancement here. Was able to take a dark greenish picture fairly riddled with compression artifacts and bring it full circle. You can see the before/after shots here -- imgbox.com/g/YyG3GyQUhz -- I used Topaz to clean up the garbage in the picture, to sharpen it, and to upscale to 1080p. Resolve was used to brighten the picture and tone the contrast down, and also to perform a major color correction - again, see the screenshots! I also addressed some major hiss and distortion in the audio. My thanks to Craig Stevens for providing the DVD files used for this project

This was almost the Super Bowl XXIV match up but the Browns lost the Broncos for the third time in four years.

The surviving members of the AAFC.

54:50 Kosar got pegged as a QB without a big arm, but he had a better one than realized. Here he throws a 42 yard pass pretty fast.

Thanks again Dave!!

Hated the 49ers growing up in the Bay Area. Accidentally kicked a hole in the wall of my apartment after this game 😂

What a great slant pass from Montana to put them in field goal range to win it. Joe Montana is the greatest quarterback to play the game. Go 49ers!

Yeah the 49ers went 14-2 (the 49ers only loss is to Rams in Week 12 and Saints Week 16) in 1990 and came close to going back-to-back-to-back Super Bowls

It is so weird seeing Steve Young on the bench.

All I remember is could never rely on Mike Cofer to make a kick when it mattered

Excellent

Still have my Bernie jersey...

33:18 nice

The Buffalo rolled the Browns 42-0 in Cleveland the following week leading Art Modell to fire Bud Carson.

I mean it's like Christmas everyday getting to my 49ers teams from yesteryear....thank you for the versions in such pristine quality! Love seeing Joe with the white sleeves...the Master of the game

Another great game, best team of the 80s so close to that 3 peat. I still can't watch the 1990 NFC championship or see Leonard Marshall's face w/out cringing.

John Tesh’s theme. The whiskey-voiced Charlie Jones on a late game. The way it should be.

The great Charlie Jones on the call for this game along with Bill Walsh. NBC version of Pat Summerall and John Madden. Great work Dave.

Watched this from start to finish last night. Excellent game with intelligent and insightful announcing.

Fabulous. Awesome comeback win by Joe Montana in the final minute. Bill Walsh was the co-broadcaster here, and I'd like to think he had a twinkle in his eye when his student sealed the deal for the win.

WOW I forgot Bill Walsh was in the booth 😂

Back when 3rd and 1 was almost always a running play straight up the middle.

Thank you for uploading this game

Wow Lethal Weapon after a Joe Montana comeback win. What a Sunday NBC!

Another classic. Great job man, the time you spend doing these is so awesome! Thank you

Thanks for this enhanced broadcast. It was like being on the sidelines.

Gee, let’s have Bill Walsh commentate for a Niners game. He won’t be biased. LOL

This is another fantastic job Dave! Are you sure you can’t perform this kind of magic on every game? Haha. I am kidding (or maybe half-kidding 😆) I understand the limitations on many of them but this & the 1981 Giant game from earlier in the week are ones where my original copies did not look very good at all. So both were very pleasant surprises ! Also great job on restoring the poor audio that was evident for much of the game So…thanks again & am very grateful for all of the content.

Hopefully not showing my 49er bias but I always thought that Bill Walsh did a very good job breaking everything down during his 3 years at NBC Actually I couldn’t be showing any kind of bias because I can definitely say that Joe Montana & Ronnie Lott were borderline disasters during their studio jobs with networks in the mid 90’s & I always found Randy Cross, and to a lesser extent, Brent Jones to be incredibly annoying during their long careers as analysts The only other Niner who did a fairly good job in broadcasting was Steve Young at ESPN. But ESPN to me when “attempting” to cover Sunday & Monday night games was always an amateur hour clown show in the studio & in the booth for the better part of 4 decades. So I almost never watched much of the pre & postgame work that Young did for a decent amount of years.

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Been waiting for this..Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!

Geez, I tried so hard to forget how bad of a play caller Browns Off-Coordinator Shofner was. This was painful to watch…1st down run, 1st down run, 1st down run, 1st down run, wash, rinse, repeat. It’s like he was forfeiting 1st down and only giving the offense 2 downs to play with before they had to punt. He totally tied Kosar’s hands behind his back. Pagel did a nice job but I would have liked to have seen Kosar have a chance with an actual playbook. Kosar liked to say that he liked offensive offense, not defensive offense. That’s exactly what this was…defensive offense, again painful to watch. You can also tell that Kevin Mack had lost a step by 1990, and that didn’t help matters. Three or four years earlier and that game would have been a lot different. Oh well, gotta give credit to Montana. Not his best game but he was great when he had to be.

should have been a 3-peat

The REAL NFL on NBC, the AFC version. I wish NBC could get back the AFC ASAP.

Kosar was nasty with the Browns: one of the very best QBs(maybe top 5) to play during this era!

Oh my god finally a 90s upload

Bill Walsh should not be able to cover a game on tv of his former team. Too much favortism .

Another great one Dave. Thanks!!!!

I wonder how much grumblings were going-on with the TV audience back in Cleveland for this game? Having Walsh in the announcing booth, with his praises towards his former players, may not have sat well with the Browns' fans in Ohio.

11:12 nice

The Browns really did the 49ers a favor calling a timeout right before the 3rd and 14 pass.

Did the 49ers often use Young as a WR?

1:59:50 is the game I remember. Now we got Tony Romo telling us that Patrick Mahomes is the Michael Jordan of the NFL. Michael Jordan took harder hits wearing shorts and a tank. Mahomes doesn’t even know why he’s wearing that bobble head helmet and tiny pads.