New York Giants linebacker Gary Reasons delivers a big hit on Denver Broncos running back Bobby Humphrey in week 14 of the 1989 NFL Season. All rights property of the NFL.
I get absolutely nostalgic when I hear Pat and John. No one since has had anything close to their chemistry. Pat's voice will always be NFL football for me.
@@patrickflaherty6586 I totally agree. And being honest about it all, I've actually stopped watching or having any interest in the NFL. The rules, especially about this subject, have changed so drastically it's really turned me off. I grew up in the 70's and that's just how you played football. That was the game, and what we expected. It's a violent sport, no doubt. But it's supposed to be. That's the risk you take on if you want to play the game. What's next? Telling armies that you can't hurt the enemy in war?
@@mnamhie I haven't watched any games live in years, maybe close to a decade now. The product literally gets worse every season and sometimes even DURING seasons.
Remember when they would draw the plays on the teleprompter during downtime in the game??? Now they play a commercial. It really ruined the games for me.
In my 5 decades of watching football this hit is the most memorable. The Giants with that monstrous linebacking crew were notorious for goal line stands back then. And to think they did it without LT, who was injured. Greatest tackle I've ever seen. The snowy field, and great sound engineering by CBS make it seem even more dramatic. CINEMATIC, even. Epic.
@@mikekinsela7210 todays “football” isn’t football. It’s patty-cake. We used to hit harder playing two hand touch. It’s pathetic. RIP coach Madden. You will be greatly missed.🙏🏻
growing up in Jersey during the 80's and getting to see this Giants defense every sunday was a blessing I could not fully comprehend or appreciate until much later in life.
@@MrRoses0806 That was a really special time in the NFC East. Week after week you had Bill Parcells matching wits with Joe Gibbs, and Buddy Ryan and Tom Landry(and soon Jimmy Johnson!).. not to mention the Big Tuna had a fairly decent Defensive Coordinator in Bill Belichick! You pretty much had a stranglehold on the Superbowl as long as you could get past the mighty 49ers with still ANOTHER monster Head Coach in Bill Walsh(soon George Siefert!). Halcyon days indeed for the NFC East and the NFC in general.
Myacono You're 100% right my man. Nobody knew the game better than Madden and he was as entertaining as you can get. As far as Summer's conserned, his understated style matched perfectly with big John. Brookshire? Good not great, plus he was a former.Eagle, need.I say more, Haha
Makes the 49ERS dynasty that much greater as time passes. To win 4 Super Bowls in an era with some of those Giants, Redskins & Bears teams and the Defenses they had was no joke. It's why Montana is the true GOAT.
There's also a dark side to the older more violent style of football shown in this video, and many men ended up sacrificing their quality of life to play for a few years in the league. There is a lot to be said for making the game safer for all players, and while there's nothing wrong with enjoying the older style of football, it doesn't mean we should go back to the days where leading with the helmet was SOP.
Phil Rion People will always look at the past and have some form of nostalgia for it. 30 years from now people will say the same thing about today’s style of football
@@barryhendrix9401 the way things are goin the nfl wont be nearly as big as it is today and alot of fans are tuning out because the softness of the new nfl
No shit i cant stand listening to guys like chris collinsworth bitch and moan about how this and that needs to be eliminated from the game that guy was a pussy when he played and still is to this day
In the mid to late 80s I remember watching them practice this in training camp, usually with Taylor coming over the top. They did it in full pads! Today they won't even take off their dresses in training camp.
Hell, they're handing out fines for literally _everything_ now. If you don't fluff the QB's pillow and lay out his blankie and turn down the light before you sack him you're getting 15 yards and a hefty fine. Their charity fund must be running low.
No and it's getting harder to watch with each passing season. 100% QB-centric with ridiculous salaries, no team loyalty under salary cap, just go wherever you can get paid; have a couple bad games the HC is fired or the QB benched, and defenses can no longer play defense -- not unless they wanna get fined for daring to lay a hand on a receiver or a QB. I've been watching since the 60s, and THAT was friggin' FOOTBALL. Anymore I don't know why they bother putting anybody else but a QB and a receiver on offense; the other 9 players mean nothing -- until an overworked, underpaid offensive lineman commits a false start or a holding call, then suddenly the whole city is calling for their head on a platter. And if your quarterback isn't rating 158.3 every single game, he stinks and get rid of him. I almost LIVE for these archived games I remember watching -- before UFA and salary cap. THAT was friggin' FOOTBALL.
@@briane173 *HA!!! PREACH AWN, BRUTHA!!! OUT HERE TELLIN' IT LIKE IT IS!!!* Also you forgot the now obvious corruption and game-rigging because gambling.
Same here, haven't watched a full game since LT retired because I knew I'd never see another. And these pansies now , who is calling games now? Who do they use on MNF, ohhh and TNF. THEY commercialized the godzilla shit out of this game, they ruined it. Halftime shows with supafreaks....GTFOH
If your childhood didn’t have Keith Jackson and Bob Greise on Saturdays and Pat Summerall and John Madden on Sundays I feel sorry for you. You got cheated.
@@makula5543 .... that's a helluva trio. Two Hall of Famers, Jack Lambert & Jack Ham, if I'm not mistaken. And the Steel Curtain D-fence is the best group in my lifetime giving a slight edge to them over the Bears group of the mid 80s.
Crazy to think that Gary Reasons was considered to be the fourth best of the Giants linebacker quartet and still makes what has to be one of the greatest tackles in NFL history. That's why that unit gets my vote over some of the other linebacker crews(Sorry Chicago Bears)
ccth22 Gary & Pepper played inside, LT & Banks outside. Some 3-4 group Huh? Here's the real question in my mind. If the Giants played the 4-3, who's the mlb, Reasons or Pepper? Yes you rotate them some but who start's? I go with Gary only because he called the signals ( replacing Carson) . Either way they were fucking awesome at lb.
1989: "That is great football!" 2022: "Personal foul. Gary Reasons is ejected from the game for hitting too hard. $180,000 fine. Half the distance to the goal. First down, Broncos."
I remember this like it was yesterday, my brother Gary and our friend Dave watched every Giant game and this moment will never be forgotten...one of the greatest hits I've ever seen...Gary Reasons was underrated, he was a phenomenal LB
This 2 minute video represents everything we used to love about football. Great plays, great announcing, great coaching. Today, the game is a shell of what it once was.
Like looking thru the old Sears Christmas Catalog as a child...brings back great memories when foot ball, football announcers where about the game...and the game only...the only time a player took a knee was to run-out-the-clock...
Fully grown men actually choke back a tear watching this. The memories of the great days of football are so thick, they have to brush them away from their faces. (Thank you, Terrance Mann.) "That is GREAT FOOTBALL!". Yes it was, Mr. Madden. RIP
Why back then he and Pat were my two favorite announcers. Listening to Madden explaining play at the line of scrimmage, "Now THIS is football! The stuff going on in the trenches! Blood and mud and boogers, teeth knocked out and stuff, that is what _real_ football is all about! That's where games are won or lost!"
guess you guys don't understand that half of these guys have brain damage now. That is the reason for the rule changes. Is seeing more hits like this really worth more players getting CTE. This style of play is the reason why the players you grew up loving are dying slow and painful deaths.
This was our game of the week here in the UK. I remembered all the first names of all the players immediately who were called by Madden and Summerall . To me it seems like this game was played only yesterday can't believe it's was over 30 years ago . Go Hawks
@@latkagravas986 Don't forget Joe "Not My Daddy" Buck! Football, baseball, whatever, that guy is the most boring and nauseating sports announcer I've ever heard.
@@latkagravas986 Pro Packer Aikman? Are you high lmfao? You mean former anti Packer Cowboy quarterback. You are probably from shitcago so who are you calling a lefty loon?
@@crocodile1313 👍, gonna look for tape on him to recall him. His son sucks big time as Play by Play ---'he's big time follower' mainstream football instead of staying on the mantra of 'any given Sunday' (balance reporting)
Those days of football are gone for good or worse actually! Hearing Madden and Summeral just gives me goose bumps . Those were the real days of broadcasting g by real commentators.
I remember watching this play as a kid and thinking “oh this is how highlights are made!” It felt surreal to witness the making of what I knew immediately would be marveled at decades later, and, here we are
I used to love watching the Giants for 4 "Reasons" - Lawrence Taylor, Carl Banks, Pepper Johnson and Gary Reasons...... with Steve Deaussie as Dartanion - best group of backers on one team in NFL history! Coached by Belicheck!
I am a Cowboy fan, and those Giants were great! I miss that, what a defense, love that parcell! Such a colorful coach! Man I wish I could watch all those games again.
Redskins had a very strong linebacker and defensive line corps back then in 88 and 89, Neal Olkewicz, Monte Coleman, Mel Kaufman, Wilber Marshall, Dave Butz, Darryl Grant, Dexter Manley, Charles Mann.
I remember watching that game. I saw Gary Reasons hit, and even being a kid, remembering what a great, vicious hit, to stop the runner dead in his tracks... That sold me on football - nothing else even approaches the intensity of that stand, especially with Summerall and Madden calling the action...
@@Gallagherfreak100 Yeah, we Philly fans loved to hate Cosell. He would literally change his allegiance to whichever team was winning during course of the game.
Agreed. They would do a much better job than NBC or even ABC with the MNF telecasts. Their sound engineers were absolutely amazing. You could hear everything when they were broadcasting.
I defintely like the more conventional replay angles than today with all the extreme close ups and super slow motion. Unless it's necessary to review a play, it just seems more fitting for an expanded highlights film than a live broadcast in real time.
Of course, nowadays (well, nowayears), the screen is plastered with advertising and channel logos, it's amazing one can actually what's being shown. Back then you watched and you paid attention. I miss 'em.
So great to hear pat and madden. Instantly i go back when football was football and what an incredible play. That might get flag today. Gives me goosebumps, and im an Eagles fan
Brady is the reason Belichick made it. Without him, he would have never made it as a head coach. He would have been demoted to defensive coordinator once again.
Reasons was an underrated player in those great Parcells defenses. He took on the FB's and TE's that allowed LT, Carson and Banks to make all those impact plays. Solid football player who doesn't get enough recognition
They played a 3-4 so dont forget #52 Ohio States Pepper Johnson getting everyone lined up and making plays while hiding behind Jim Burt on the weak side!
For those of use who were die-hard Giants fans in those years, who had suffered through the 60s, 70s and early 80s, we loved those linebackers...all of them. Sure the core of Banks, LT, Pepper and Carson got most of the press, but the Giants 2nd tier linebackers in those years would have been starters on any other team. A guy like Reasons, who could play all situations and all special teams, would have been a perennial all-star. Other guys like him from those years. Andy Headen, Byron Hunt, Stever Deossie, Robbie Jones, Johnnie Cooks. Glorious times
Growing up in the suburbs of NYC , I was very lucky to not only watch them every week but listen to Madden and Summerall! My parents literally bought a new TV on THIS day and I remember watching that Reasons hit Humphrey in the snow!!!!! “This is football!”
@David Fuller , Yes, old football was great but inherently deadly. The brain trauma is real. Why haven't they released the cause of death on Kevin Greene..?
Yeah....I guarantee if players then were somehow shown what we know now about head trauma related to this style of football most would hopefully change. Some wouldn’t but I think if they actually knew what they would go through in their years after the NFL they would definitely change things. football is still hard hitting and the people that think that this was football’s best years have never played a single down in the league. It’s not their head, the NFL evolved
@@jamesvenable6370 most football players who played have all said they would still have played despite the consequences. It is definitely not the same game and it has been wussified. It's millennial ball now
My childhood here, early teens. AMAZING play by Reasons here. Unreal. Classic commentary by the best duo of ALL TIME! Madden and Summeral. (Cowboy fan grew up close to NY, so watched a lot of Giants games) I miss this era of football badly.
This is my therapy at 58 years old. Listening to the greats of madden and summerall is peaceful. No woke crap no women refs or broadcasters no one kneeling to our anthem in protest. Just good old hard nosed football. Awesome players were on the field that day!!!
Hey, gotta keep them Swifties tunin' in. Tackles? We don't need no stinkin' _tackles!_ We need PFs for breathing on QBs, ejections for talkin' smack, useless banter from Aikman and Buck. Charging to watch a game being streamed on a service no one watches.
was watching this live as a kid about 5 years before i moved from NY to Denver. Reasons #55 was such an underrated cog in that giants machine in the late 80's
Anyone else who grew up watching Football from this era feel like the game is not the same. My opinion, it was better in this era than today. Don't know why.
Charles Vokrachko honestly my interest in the NFL has waned since 2010. To the point where I may only watch a handful of games the entire season... Couldn't care less about the highlights and maybe catch about a half of the super bowl unless it's a good game at the half
Fantasy Football brought a new element to it that changed it. I don’t like the NFL now, but this was when it was so awesome. I would always make time to watch any game.
Not only that he builds his defenses the same way. Big thick linebackers. Big lineman. Just big interior backers and linemen. Guys who have length too.
Lord Helmet Yes dumb ass Carl Banks who said as much doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Hey moron if the head coach tells him he doesn’t like it, guess what? They don’t fucking run that defense. Have a seat goober.
Pat Summerall's voice as well as John Madden's will always make me think of many Thanksgivings at my aunt's house.... always a great dinner then retreat downstairs to watch the afternoon football game. Those are moments I took for granted and I wish I could go back to 😪
It’s Thanksgiving Day evening as I write this. I was 19 when this game was played. Diehard NFL fanatic until a few years ago. I didn’t even turn on a game today. The game is a pathetic shell of what is was. And now I have to suffer thru the likes of Joe Buck and his ilk as broadcasters.
Cowboys fan here....those Giants were salty back then.....they were good....hearing Coach and Pat ... what a time to be a football fan.....wishing everyone a Merry Christmas ✝️
The Giants also made a great goal-line stand against the Bears around 1991 in a playoff game that was the turning point for them. I like that one as much. And, in the 1958 Championship Game, in the third quarter, trailing 14-3 and in trouble, the Giants made a goal-line stand against the Colts. After that, they rallied for two touchdowns and nearly won the game, losing in overtime.
I sure miss those days when the Giants were great and had the best linebacking crew of all time and the greatest team calling the gane. RIP Pat and John. You 2 were absolutely THE BEST.
One of Pat and John's running gags between them was when Summerall, toward the end of the game, would announce the promo for _Murder, She Wrote,_ which typically followed the game on the East Coast, and Madden would dare him to hold "she wrote" longer each time he announced it. Toward the end it was getting comical. "So tune in tonight after the game for Angela Lansbury in _Murder......................................................................................................................................................She Wrote."_
Pat and John make this highlight a legendary piece of NFL history. Worthy of the title "THE hit." Anyone else tries this call and analysis... and it's just "a hit."
Couldn't agree more. It always made me happy when a commentator would point that out during a game. He was overshadowed by guys like L.T., Carson, Banks, etc....but real football fans recognized his worth.
eh, regular season, nonconference game, kind of carried away from a historical standpoint. When I think of Reasons I think of him running untouched and pointing at John Taylor 30 yards downfield. That gave the Giants another 3 points and set up the Roger Craig fumble.
RIP John Madden 2nd best winning percentage as a head coach All time great commentator Massively successful videogame franchise A genuinely good and likable guy A legend all around. You'll be missed
Word on the street is that the utterly immortal fake punt near the end of the Jan 1991 NFC Championship game was called by Reasons himself once he saw only 10 Niners on the field. He had a huge hole to run thru, so he got about 30 yards! Between that play and the Marshall hit on Montana, and the Craig fumble (forced by Howard and recovered by LT) watching that game never gets old.
@@Torgo1969 Amen on Reasons! Quarantine is great, just rewatched 49er game two days ago. Watched actual game 30 yrs ago with my bro and his son after a day of skiing in Vermont. Pat's "there will be no threepeat!" sent us outside for a delirious roll in the snow.
@@mikemaletta6817 I was in my last year of college in Upstate NY, watching it in a house I shared with my NYG-loving buddies. We were crushed when Hoss went down, that was the low point, the pit of despair. But our roars were something to hear when Reasons ran thru that huge hole and got 30 yards, and Hope was Rekindled! (Like the Beacons of Gondor.) Ditto for seeing Taylor prancing around with the ball (popped right into his hands after he got excellent penetration) after recovering the Craig fumble forced by Howard with his big old coconut. It's cool that you remember details and happy memories of that day with your family! I rewatched it last week in its entirety and the memories came flooding back...someone cutting onions in my place.
