The CRAZIEST CLUELESSNESS in NFL on NBC HISTORY | Oilers @ Rams (1981)

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In week 1 of the 1981 NFL season, the Houston Oilers played the Los Angeles Rams at Anaheim Stadium. NBC wanted to show the game locally in Los Angeles; however, the game was not sold out, so that wouldn't be possible just yet. And that's when NBC hatched up, quite possibly, the stupidest idea ever, as if they had no idea what they were doing
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Members of the 1981 Oilers:
Ken Burrough
John Reaves
Harold Bailey
Ken Stabler
Gifford Nielsen
Toni Fritsch
Cliff Parsley
Willie Tullis
Bill Kay
Rob Carpenter
Greg Stemrick
Rich Thomaselli
Vernon Perry
JC Wilson
Earl Campbell
Carter Hartwig
Mike Reinfeldt
Adger Armstrong
Tim Wilson
Ronnie Coleman
Daryl Hunt
Ted Thompson
Robert Brazile
Avon Riley
Gregg Bingham
Carl Mauck
Art Stringer
John Corker
David Carter
Ted Washington
Ed Fisher
John Schuhmacher
Elvin Bethea
Greg Davidson
Mike Stensrud
Andy Dorris
Ken Kennard
Leon Gray
Jesse Baker
Morris Towns
Angelo Fields
Nick Eyre
Mike Renfro
Tim Smith
Mike Holston
Carl Roaches
Mike Barber
Dave Casper
Billy Brooks
Daryle Skaugstad
Ed Biles (head coach)
Members of the 1981 Rams:
Frank Corral
Jeff Rutledge
Jeff Kemp
Dan Pastorini
Pat Haden
Johnnie Johnson
Nolan Cromwell
Jairo Penaranda
Lucious Smith
Wendell Tyler
Pat Thomas
Cullen Bryant
Jewerl Thomas
Ivory Sully
Kirk Collins
Mike Guman
LeRoy Irvin
Rod Perry
Jim Collins
Joe Harris
George Andrews
Jim Youngblood
Howard Carson
Carl Ekern
Doug Smith
Mario Celotto
Mel Owens
Dennis Harrah
Rich Saul
Bill Bain
Greg Meisner
Reggie Doss
Kent Hill
Phil McKinnely
Irv Pankey
Cody Jones
Doug France
Jackie Slater
Mike Fanning
Billy Waddy
Ron Battle
Willie Miller
Henry Childs
Walt Arnold
Jack Youngblood
Jeff Moore
Drew Hill
Preston Dennard
Lewis Gilbert
Fred Dryer
Larry Brooks
Phil Murphy
Robert Cobb
Ray Malavasi (head coach)

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@chrisguardiano6143 Год назад

This isn't the only time that NBC has done this with a Southern California based team as in 2006 during the Stanley Cup Playoffs (for Game 6) with the Anaheim Ducks (which were still known as the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim). Even though this game was an elimination game, the Ducks RSN , Fox Sports West (now Bally Sports West) refused to allow OLN (which later became the now gone NBCSN which was owned by NBC) to broadcast the game in the LA/Anaheim market due to the loss of ad revenue on their end from not televising the game. NHL blackout rules at the time even for the playoffs stated that an RSN had the final say on whether or not a nationally televised game could be shown in a local market. To prevent this from happening, NBC attempted to not only buy some remaining tickets (like this) even though the game was largely sold out but then sell those tickets to Fox Sports West employees in order to convince them to lift the blackout. This was essentially NBC committing bribery. It did not work at all as Fox Sports West refused to lift the blackout & Ducks fans in the area had to watch their team on the RSN. The Ducks won this game 2-1 to keep their season alive & then won Game 7 in Calgary 3-0 to advance. One quick note about Anaheim Stadium, in addition to the Angels & the Rams it was also home to the California Surf of the NASL from 1978-1981. Like many multipurpose stadiums that housed an NFL, MLB & NASL team at the time, Anaheim Stadium was absolutely awful for soccer, with players complaining of slipping in the baseball infield & having football lines painted over soccer lines.

@danielanderson4726 Год назад

Nowadays, both the RSN and the national network co-exist. For example, here in NC i can watch the Hurricanes-Islanders series on ESPN (Mike Monaco and AJ Mleczko) rather than Bally Sports South.

@WaltGekko Год назад

Comcast didn't own NBC in 2006. That happened in 2011.

@altfactor Год назад

NBC's lead NFL broadcasting tandem at the time, Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen, lived in the Los Angeles area, so that too may have been a reason they were assigned to this game.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

The game was a "nationally televised" game, so that's why Enberg and Olsen got it.

@DolFan316 Год назад

ACTUALLY...randomly declaring that something is real or not real is exactly what a certain political group does, and it seems to work just fine for them. Just sayin'.

@jasonfischer8946 Год назад

You're just saying? Nothing else? What else could you do?

@ProfessorGamez Год назад

🤣

@JayTemple Год назад

Having been a regular TV watcher in 1981, I'm not so sure that Michael Scott WASN'T running NBC.

@TheSonicsean Год назад

It should be noted that this isn't some little podunk NBC station in the middle of nowhere owned by Sinclair. This is KNBC, one of the original owned and operated stations for the network. One that's been continuously owned by NBC (or their parent company) since NINETEEN FORTY NINE. If anyone should know better, you would think it were the stationed owned by NBC.

@sjduges67 Год назад

Earlier in the week, I thought, “Not another blackout video,” but I then heard that it was the theme of the week, so I said 38.6 mea culpas and enjoyed the videos. Idiotic blackout rules were prevalent in the MLB, too, well into the late 80s before RSNs. In 1988, KTTV, the local Dodger station, didn’t show the game where Orel Hershiser broke Drysdsle’s scoreless inning streak. I called the station and was told the game wasn’t on their schedule to broadcast. Strangely, the game was in San Diego. I really enjoyed the theme this week.

@stephenking8104 Год назад

Was this the Rams first season in Anaheim? If so, that might have been a part of the problem. I know they played at the Coliseum in 79, but I can’t remember where they played in 80.

@johnmanier7968 Год назад

They were in Anaheim in 1980.

@scott6828 Год назад

This was a fascinating lesson in "black-out" rule of the 80's and how networks cover NFL games. I never really understood this or why...until now. Great video and wonderful explanation!! It all makes sense now!! 😂

@stevensmith7439 Год назад

Why would this game have been considered NBC’s best late game on paper that Sunday? The other game featured the opener for the Super Bowl champ Oakland Raiders on the road against their arch rivals and perennial power Denver Broncos. Since the Raiders were suing the league at the time trying to validate its relocation to LA, one would be forgiven for assuming that Raiders-Broncos would even be the preferred matchup for the Los Angeles market.

@johnmanier7968 Год назад

NBC was a *very* distant third in the ratings in 1981, so this seems on par with many of their other decisions. However, Oilers-Rams was a classic uniform game, even though both teams were pretty bad in 1981 and even worse in 1982. I moved to LA in 1986, and for the 9 seasons when the Rams were still in Anaheim and the Raiders in LA, it was rare for either to have home games televised.

@CTubeMan Год назад

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian declares he has commented on all 10,000 history videos you have made reminding people of each video.

@finngamingyt3199 Год назад

Let's goooo. I am a big fan of Official Jaguar Gator 9 too. What history do you have?

@CTubeMan Год назад

@@finngamingyt3199 I feel like in order to answer your question I’d have to explain how the whole “This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator historian” schtick got started.

@DanStrayer Год назад

You’re the Washington State Cougars flag on JG9 👏

@finngamingyt3199 Год назад

It is ok. I would like to hear how the whole thing started

@robertsprouse9282 Год назад

@@finngamingyt3199, narrator: " I WAS BORN IN A LOG CABIN THAT MY FATHER BUILT, one where and I am not making this up, my dad used real toy Lincoln Logs to make our house. Talk about a GEORGE COSTANZA from SEINFELD move. NATURALLY, THE HOUSE FELL DOWN., DUH!!!".

@jokersinurface Год назад

This is a crazy story that I had never heard. How dumb do you have to be to announce the game is sold out but not realize you have to buy the tickets?

@notoriouseagle1074 Год назад

The 3 NBC shows I watch: Seinfeld, the Office, and Sunday Night Football.

@RicoBurghFan Год назад

Thank God the ridiculous blackout rule is dead and buried, may it continue to roast in hell.

@Cooltimes2000 Год назад

constructive criticism: these videos are WAY too long. this video goes in circles. maybe warrants a 3-minute video. subscribed the other day because of the redzone video, however the other videos are painful. let's make multiple michael scott analogies. let's make cake analogies. let's talk about how NBC made a mistake for 5-minutes while never getting to the point. so superfluous, dude, but i guess ad money talks.

@creeksider248 Год назад

Hilarious! What would've been funnier is: "Oh this is NBC calling, we are gonna buy your remaining ickets," and have it be a prank call! Subscribed and Thumbs Up! - Todd C (Creek Sider1)

@mountaineernews2 Год назад

Honestly, I think NBC creator shows just make fun of themselves

@markgraham2312 Год назад

This video only has 3.9K views as of this posting. Not a million.

@altfactor Год назад

I think there were only two late afternoon NFL games on that opening weekend of the 1981 NFL season, both carried by NBC. The reason was that CBS broadcast the men's final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at 4 P.M. EDT, and as a result, all of the NFL games broadcast on CBS had 1:05 P.M.EDT starts in order to show tennis across the full network at 4.

@johnmanier7968 Год назад

NBC had three 4 ET games; this one, Oakland at Denver (Charlie Jones, Len Dawson) and the Jets at Buffalo (Don Criqui, John Brodie). Their top 1 ET game was KC at Pittsburgh (Bob Costas, Bob Trumpy).

@danielanderson4726 Год назад

@@johnmanier7968 Nowadays, with the current TV rules, the Jets at Buffalo (Don Criqui, John Brodie) would be at 1pm, while NBC would have had 2 games with Oilers-Rams being seen everywhere expect from KRON in SF and the Moutain Time Zone, which would see Oakland at Denver (Charlie Jones, Len Dawson).

@WaltGekko Год назад

@@danielanderson4726True, though back then the 1:00 to 7:00 PM rule required one of the Jets and Giants (unless one was playing an ABC game) to be at 1:00 and the other at 4:00. That was put in after the 1978 season when a Cowboys-Jets game could not be shown on CBS (even though it was sold out) because the Giants had a road game at the same time, also on CBS.

@jmed412 Год назад

I wonder what the affiliates do with the tickets after the buy them

@marcus813 Год назад

Was this on NBC's people in NYC or KNBC-TV in L.A.? Either way, they should've known the blackout rules by that point. Also, there's no way any of this stuff happens if the Rams remained in the LAMC, which was cavernous and difficult to fill to capacity.

@skkahl3400 Год назад

Quite frankly, I would never go to a game unless it was in a VIP box or somewhere like The Hawks Nest at Lumin Field. Obviously, I'm a Seahawks fan. But o live in LA. The new SoFi Stadium is cool, but I'd rather be able to see everything on TV.

@ricknibert6417 Год назад

The Rams also had a Monday night game that year on ABC.

@danielbowden6330 Год назад

Here's a follow up question: Who did NBC then give the tickets to? or did they just keep them and those seats went empty.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

lol...yep, I was waiting on that as well!!

@rfarris1217 Год назад

That's why they left to st. Louis and back to LA with a new owner and new stadium in Inglewood. Coliseum sucked also, look at the raiders 2 lol without a owner willing to spend, LA stadiums suck. A's stadium is the worse to almost the worse(raiders left there also) good stadium makes a big difference

@VerveQuest-zc4ri Год назад

Before you got to the NBC buying the tickets I was thinking Why didnt broadcasters just buy up the tickets for blackouts back then

@farmasyst Год назад

I declare," Pat Haden did not have the makings of a varsity quarterback!"

@daleburrer1546 Год назад

I went to this game and Pat Haden, who won the QB job back after Vince Ferragamo left for the CFL, threw a couple of interceptions and was sacked several times in the Oilers 27-20 win and after that the Rams finished 6-10 missing the playoffs.

@eoj6568 Год назад

@@daleburrer1546 8:35 Number 8 is Dan Pastorini (who wasn't much better that year). Number 7 was already retired for Bob Waterfield.

@daleburrer1546 Год назад

@@eoj6568 #8 is Jeff Rutledge as Dan Pastorini joins the Rams later in the season.

@Hangryoldman 4 месяца назад

No he wasn't. fritch was kicking away from the oilers best kick returner.

@CTubeMan Год назад

On a genuine note, this unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how in 1976 NBC wanted to buy the remaining tickets to a game in which the Cowboys hosted the Colts so they could broadcast it to the DFW Metroplex. Maybe Cowboys President Tex Schramm was on to something when he refused to sell the tickets to the Peacock network.

@robertsprouse9282 Год назад

If I am not mistaken, SCHRAMM had once been CBS chief of sports programming pre- DAL. COWBOY DAYS.

@CatsClaw44 Год назад

Nice! Didn't realize that expanded into baseball!

@rngfootball759 Год назад

Anaheim stadium was originally built for baseball. They expanded for football in the late 70s completely blocking off the view of the large A scoreboard and the mountain views in the distance.

@mrmoose6619 Год назад

Remember the WESAYSO company from the show Dinosaurs... that's a bit of what NBC sounded like there.

@PAGoTribe1963 Год назад

WE HAVE CAKE!

@leogetz3570 Год назад

12:00 "Letter from Fred Dryer's attorney".... ah shit, now you got Sgt. Rick Hunter involved!! And Ken Burrough out there with the "00" on his jersey, I wish the NFL would let players have both Zeros and not just one Zero next year.

@CTubeMan Год назад

That Fred Dryer attorney letter has “Future Official Jaguar Gator 9 Video” written all over it.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

@@CTubeMan lol....probably!!!

@stevenbauer4799 Год назад

'how exactly does mud get in the tires?' leo getz things done.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

Didn't NBC screw up with the 49ers in 1981? Something about scheduling an away Raiders game at the same time as an AFC team played the 49ers in SF, so NBC couldn't show the 49ers game locally. Sometimes it just boggles my mind how these networks ever kept NFL contracts

@CTubeMan Год назад

I think that was more the fault of the NFL.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

@@CTubeMan oh yeah, NFL definitely screwed up, but I would think NBC would have noticed it way ahead of time and tried to fix it with the NFL. Either way, it boggles my mind how some of these errors were made back then

@stevenbauer4799 Год назад

'how exactly does mud get in the tires?' leo getz things done.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

@@stevenbauer4799 I swear to God, I don't need this right now, I got a judge who wants to throw me in jail, and an idiot who wants to fight me over $200!!

@stevenbauer4799 Год назад

@@leogetz3570 ha ha.

@GoDarkHorse Год назад

On mobile devices there never is a card in the upper right corner. It's like the Easter bunny. Never seen it.

@williambryant6175 Год назад

Odd, I always get them on my iPhone. . .

@CTubeMan Год назад

I see them. It’s the whole lifeline of my schtick.

@OfficialJaguarGator9 Год назад

That’s odd. I link all the vids in the description just in case

@Musicradio77Network Год назад

Thankfully, WNBC-TV (channel 4) in New York City did aired the Oilers/Rams game at 4PM with no problems at all.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

The blackout rule only applies to the host city (75 mile radius), so every other city in the country would have access to this game as it was nationally televised

@Musicradio77Network Год назад

@@leogetz3570So instead of showing the Oilers/Rams game, they showed the Colts/Patriots due to the Rams being blacked out on WNBC-TV (channel 4), and it was at 4PM.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

@@Musicradio77Network You sure it wasn't the Bills/Jets game that was shown at 4pm?

@marcus813 Год назад

@Leo Getz Any official secondary markets would be affected as well. Such markets would be obligated to air their assigned clubs' away games and when blackouts were a thing, black out said clubs' home games that weren't sold out by the deadline.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

@@marcus813 Usually, secondary markets are outside of the 75 mile black out radius, so a black out wouldn't affect them.

@DanStrayer Год назад

Jerry/JG9 on Blackout videos this week: “Yeah, you’d better give me the insurance because I’m going to beat the hell out of this thing.” Attendant/JG9 fans: (pensively) “Please…fill this out.”

@charleswilliamsjr Год назад

Know why Los Angeles got blacked out Did not sell enough tickets!

@johnwiesner9590 Год назад

Amazing since Los Angeles is the second biggest city in America. This was the year before the Raiders moved from Oakland to LA.

@leogetz3570 Год назад

@@johnwiesner9590 well black outs were real common with the Raiders as they played in the Coliseum with about 90,000 seats. In fact, the SB year of 1983, they may have only sold out the 2 playoff games

@Musicradio77Network Год назад

WNBC-TV (channel 4) at the time did aired the Oilers/Rams game, and it was around 4PM eastern and at 1PM pacific.

@MikeyKaos716 Год назад

@@Musicradio77Network I'm not sure what WNBC (NYC's NBC affiliate) has to do with a game that would be blacked out on KNBC (Los Angeles' NBC affiliate). But I know Raiders games had problems with blackouts due the capacity of the Colosseum when I lived in California, i didn't even think about the Rams possibly being in the same situation.