The BIGGEST FAILURE in Sunday Night Football HISTORY 

You mean Steve grogans sorry ass throw that left stingly vulnerable

Thank you, Grogan's pass is rarely mentioned.

@@707Southpaw And Jack Tatum was a known head hunter back in the days when there weren't penalties for "defenseless receiver" or "helmet to helmet contact"

Is that an “also” or is it “the game he actually meant” because I thought he was talking about that game you mentioned but he accidentally said post season? Or is it two different games

@@oddballskull1941 Also, JG9 didn’t misspeak.

Seriously right :)

Tuck!

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the only people that think the Raiders victory over the Patriots in the 1976 playoffs was controversial are crybaby patriot fans and Raider haters. any reasonable person knows there was no controversy at all.

You are spot on. I watched that Steelers Rams game being a Steelers fan. But back then Sunday night was some of the higher rated shows. That game was going up against All in the family, the Jeffersons, the wonderful world of Disney, 60 minutes on the west coast. If you only had one TV as probably 70% of the country, unless you were a Steelers or rams fan, maybe a football junkie, you probably didn’t watch the game.

@@Biggdoom344 A few things also just culminated to a head in the late 80s/early 90s to help the NFL..1. the demise of "family time"..the family eating dinner and then watching tv declined as people became busier/both parents working, 2. Rise of cable TV availability 3. TV set prices declining leading to multiple TVs in homes, 4. Explosion of fantasy football..other sports have fantasy, but NFL is most easily followed with its shorter schedule 5. Other pro sports self destructing or otherwise declining

LOL! He's never going to live that one down.

I truly enjoy his videos very much but Starsky and Hutch is a truly Iconic 70’s TV Show.

Exactly. A show getting a 2 share is a hit today

Shows on premium channels and streaming services get the bulk of the hype these days.

I still cant

They avoided moving a game because none of the teams had a perfect "win and in" scenario in week 17 of that season. When thinking back to that week I initially thought of Atlanta and Carolina in primetime but it would have only made sense if Seattle won and the NFL had no idea what would happen. It made more sense to just move all the important games to the late window and let people celebrate New Year's Eve on a Sunday night for a change. 2006 had a Sunday night game on New Year's Eve because a clinching scenario existed for the Packers and Brett Favre's future was unknown at the time. Next time New Year's Eve falls on a Sunday is 2023 but I imagine that there will be a Sunday night game no matter what because there is an additional week of football as part of the regular season. Additionally, NBC used to avoid broadcasting primetime games in October at the time of the World Series but now the World Series schedules around the National Football League and avoids playing on Sunday.

I remember our family having a black and white TV and seeing opening credits say "in color" yet wondering why it was still black and white. Im showing my age now.

And also don't forget the NFL ended up playing every day of the week for maybe the first time ever, definitely in the modern era😎

Same. I watch highlights from others though on RU-vid.

NBC had the Disney show from 1961 to 1981. When it moved to Saturday night on CBS, my pastor assured his Sunday night hooky players they no longer had an excuse.

Me too.

When did they move it to night time? The earliest I can remember was after the super bowl in 1999 the Family Guy pilot aired at 10pm. None have ended that early since

I went to a flexed game once. 2015, Cardinals @ Eagles. Cards were about to clinch the NFC West so the league flexed them to Sunday Night. This was when I had Eagles season tix(my wife is an Eagles fan I'm a Cardinals fan). Coldest fricken game I've ever been to and I was wearing a heavy sweatshirt, my Fitzgerald jersey, Cardinals Santa hat over a wool skully, gloves, long johns, heavy woolen socks, and hand warmers and I still froze my ass off. We must have had 6 or so hot chocolates at $6 a pop each. Bitch of it was, the previous week when the Eagles hosted the Bills it was 70 degrees and we were in the stands wearing t-shirts and shorts. Incidentally it was the last game I ever saw live even though I had my tickets for 2 more seasons.

They actually do in recent years in October too, three years ago Rams/Niners was flexed out for Bengals/Chiefs (both were blowouts, not sure much was gained there)

@@mgb4692 That Bengals-Chiefs Game should have never been put on Sunday Night. The game I went to at 4 pm that same day, Saints vs Ravens, should have been the Sunday Night Game. I had a blast even though we lost on Justin Tucker's first missed extra point.

MNF will also be flexible late in the season starting with the new TV contract.

@@vincesmith2499 Nope.

Same here. Usually one of the local teams was on and I believe there is a broadcasting rule that all local games must be on a broadcast (Non cable) company.

Yep, MNF used to be something to look forward to, but it seems like as soon as ESPN took it over, it went downhill for some reason. Gotta give NBC credit. The Sunday night games are usually something good

@@leogetz3570 The NFL deliberately gave NBC the better games. ESPN is just cable.

You hit the nail on the head. Cable TV has allowed people to see many more games than before and now people will watch less morning games and more evening games. In the 1970s Monday Night football also gave people the ability to see highlights from games on Sunday. Now there are multiple different networks that show highlights from Sunday after the last afternoon game. The truth be told, ESPN was smart to have the Sunday night game as they mixed the game with highlights. Great personalities like Chris Berman made the highlights more fun too!

@@leogetz3570 It went downhill because SNF became the primary prime time package and that was because of flex scheduling.

ESPN has destroyed MNF. ABC was a lot better. I'm too young to remember the Cosell era, but definitely remember the later Gifford era and of course Madden and Michaels. New commentary is terrible. I actually like the Collinsworth Michaels pairing, as well as Nantz and Romo. Buck and Aikman are awful.. they're "disgusting" acts not by Randy Moss lol 😆😂

Uh, what exactly do you suggest to fix that problem? You want games to be on at 2am? Whining does not equal valid criticism

That's why they moved up the MNF kickoff time from 9pm to 8:20pm. Now people on the west coast could argue that working 9-5, they might miss the beginning of the game. It's kind of no win situation, unless you're in the central or mountain time zone

Did not know that everyone on the east coast has to work 'early'. Dear NFL: Stephen Wilson needs to schedule all of your games around his particular schedule so you do not lose his money. If your game watching is that important why not get a job that accommodates it? Lastly, former long haul trucker here, so fuck you and your whining.

@@miless.9429 simple, start games by 4pm. Not whining, just stating facts

@@leogetz3570 you missed the point, the NFL only cares about the ratings from the leftist coast, not about the fans

LMFAO.... I remember his Star Sky comment!!!

To be fair, most of the content is already here on RU-vid

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was not a Disney film.

That's what caused the Heidi problem. They insisted on starting the show on time, and so you missed the comeback

Pretty sure the wonderful world of Disney was on NBC Sunday nights?

@@andrewbarker2422 I think so but I was saying it was a ratings powerhouse not that it was on that channel

I remember it

More nuanced than that. Due to unattractive matchuos on MNF in the mid-oughts, and due to the fact that the existing TV contract was to expire, the league brought in flex scheduling starting in '06. Before then the MNF games were supposed to be, in the aggregate, the more attractive prime time matchups. Starting in 2006 that switched.

@@kyle1910 the ratings on MNF were on the decline long before SNF became the main attraction. ABC did try to bolster ratings by hiring Lisa Guerrero from "Best Damn Sports Show, Period" as sideline reporter (which actually helped), however once she was let go, MNF went into a tailspin (with ESPN's version SNF, starting at 8:00 pm instead of MNF's start at 8:45-9:00 pm on ABC made the former more attractive, thus the NFL making the deal that saw SNF go to NBC and MNF go to ESPN, with those whose teams are playing, but not have CATV, have access, via similcast on the local ABC station).

Because TNT now has NHL TV rights.

@@americangiant1003 True, I know the NHL is on Wednesday

It was also New Year’s Eve and in a year where ratings were generally down.

About that Bengals game winning against the Ravens w/ Dalton to Boyd, the Ravens were upset that the game was moved from the 1pm slot to 4pm. Their New Year's Eve plans were superceded by the NFL'S need to have games with the same playoff spot at stake at the same time. Which is why the Bills/Dolphins game was also moved from 1pm to 4pm.

True, if you want to count a preseason game as an actual meeting.

@@matthewdaley746 Agree 100%! Wilson single-handedly cost us the 1985 play off game against the Patriots with his terribly inaccurate passing...

The great majority of NFL viewing during the regular-season, then and now (especially Sunday afternoons), is to games of the local team by fans in the local team's market.

@@altfactor - But the explosion of Fantasy Leagues has changed the outlook of watching football beyond the local markets. But the real hardcore fans are only interested in a few teams. Some teams like Dallas, New England, Pittsburg, San Francisco are big draws (in their heydays) are the most hated to watch for a casual fan.

And add in going forward with gambling now legalized in almost every state in the US, that will also bring it more “casual viewers” as well.

Speaking for myself, this wasn't true for me in 1978. I started actively following the NFL and AFL as a kid back in 1969 in the Washington, D.C. area. This was back in the era of the local television blackout of your home team, so for several years, I only got to see the Redskins on local TV during the regular season just 7 times per year for their road games. For home games, I was stuck listening to Redskins games on radio (As an aside, I recently realized that the only time I probably saw the Redskins in their home Burgundy uniforms during 1969 and the early 1970s was when they played at Dallas or Cleveland or in highlight reels). So, a typical Sunday for me back in those days, was to listen to the Redskins game from 1 to 4 PM and then watch the late game on NBC (AFL/AFC) which was often a home game for an AFL/AFC West team. It often felt like I was able to watch the Raiders more often during the season than the Redskins. Even when the NFL lifted the blackout for sold-out home games (which, back in the day, the Redskins home games always were), when they broadcast a Redskins home game, the Redskins home game was usually on CBS (except for the one or two games each year that featured an AFC away team), which by NFL rules, meant that the second game that day had to be on NBC. Because the Redskins usually played at 1 PM, this meant that, the the game on NBC was often a 4PM EST home game for an AFC West team. So by 1978, I was used to following not only the Redskins and the NFC East but also the AFC West. Although I don't remember the Sunday night games back in the late 1970s, I'm somewhat surprised they weren't more successful given that at the time, my understanding is that in the New York TV market, both then and now, if the Giants and Jets play on Sunday afternoon at 1 PM and 4 PM, those are basically the only two games available to that market, because one of the two teams will be playing at home, which invokes the NFL blackout rules preventing a competing game on TV against the home team being broadcast. Especially back in 1978, when both NY teams had not been in the playoffs for years, I would have expected some decent ratings generated by NFL fans in the NY market starved to see other NFL teams play.

@@markguttag4363 - Back in those days in Minnesota. I was a Minnesota Viking fan. Same rules apply for blackout games. So if the Vikings were blacked out. We usually get a Detroit Lion game. Back in those days the Lions were a terrible team. Then at the end of 1970's. Was stationed (in the military) at Fort Leavenworth, KS. Home market of Kansas City Chiefs. For two seasons, they were 3-13. Terrible teams. So they shown AFC teams on NBC. On CBS, it was an AFC Vs NFC or CBS game of the week (Dallas, New York). Chiefs road games usually in West coast time zone (late). So early game on CBS was whatever. Lost interest in football when I went into the military since I was overseas for six of the eight years I was in.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was wondering. The affordability of VCR's in the 80's/90's, to DVR's made it a whole lot easier to watch multiple programs when you wanted to watch them.

The younger sibling was the caller ID. They would answer the phone and we would quietly Whisper to them, ask who it is. Ask who it is.

Two of My favorite channels! Yes please! 🙂

I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't. From what I remember he didn't exactly light up the field in SB V either.

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I think that ESPN Sunday Night Football was actually pretty good. Mike Patrick wasn’t that bad of an commentator.

@@matthewdaley746 That was a fluke very different.. if the Patriots played them 100 times they would have beaten them 99 times... plus there were 2 TDs scored by the Eagles, that for the previous decade would have been incomplete; however, for the SB the NFL kind of came to its senses on what a catch is....

Just for your info, John Elway was 17 years old when Super Bowl XII was played

@@davidcobb2693 I know but you know how it is with this generation just thought I would educate a few people.

@@karlcooper8460 You also could have mentioned that Craig Morton had spent 10 years with Dallas so the Cowboys knew what to expect from the Broncos.

@@davidcobb2693 My point wasn't to get that deep.

and not Payton Manning either.

Like bolts didn't get hosed by the fake fumble/holy roller play vs. raiders. And vikes not boys would have played in s b x if not for a horrible call on boys hail mary play.

The Raiders should have been eliminated by the Patriots in 1976.

@@stevenbauer4799 - The holy roller play, (which as a more or less Raider supporter, I'll admit was B/S), had no playoff implications direct or indirect.

“The Wonderful World of Disney” was on NBC around the time that the Sunday edition of “Monday Night Football” was on ABC which was a disaster. NBC had Disney on hours after the game.