America's Game

[RamziD]

On the NFL channel now. It chronicles the 1992-1993 Dallas Cowboys team. Anybody else watching? Man, I almost forgot how much I loved and missed Aikman, Emmitt, and Irvin. Irvin was pure emotion and really rallied those teams together.

 

[removed_20241105]

It's a beautiful thing to watch. I also forgot how physical our D was. What a difference from then to now.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I own the whole set of the Cowboys 5 Superbowl wins. It's a beautiful set of DVDs.

 

[mldardy]

I own the whole set of the Cowboys 5 Superbowl wins. It's a beautiful set of DVDs.

Yeah I own the box set of all 40 champions(thru 05 Steelers) and they are all great. The NFL really did something special with America's Game. I keep waiting for other sports to duplicate this at some point.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Yeah I own the box set of all 40 champions(thru 05 Steelers) and they are all great. The NFL really did something special with America's Game. I keep waiting for other sports to duplicate this at some point.

Oh man I'd love to own all of them. I'm going to have to look into getting that.

I wouldn't mind owning the Missing Rings series either. The few I've seen of that were darn good shows as well.

 

[mldardy]

Oh man I'd love to own all of them. I'm going to have to look into getting that.

I wouldn't mind owning the Missing Rings series either. The few I've seen of that were darn good shows as well.

They have a real good deal on amazon right now for $80(regular $200).

 

[DallasEast]

Yeah I own the box set of all 40 champions(thru 05 Steelers) and they are all great. The NFL really did something special with America's Game. I keep waiting for other sports to duplicate this at some point.

The other major team sports (NHL, MLB & NBA) will all have a hard time matching the quality of the America's Game series prior to 1960 or so. For example, I've seen replays of the Boston Celtics games from that era and they're not all that awe-inspiring to watch in my opinion.

The NFL has greatly benefitted from the excellent color documented filming of the Super Bowl era. The other leagues just can't top it's overall quality if it were to be compared to a similar format showcasing their champions from earlier decades.

 

[mldardy]

The other major team sports (NHL, MLB & NBA) will all have a hard time matching the quality of the America's Game series prior to 1960 or so. For example, I've seen replays of the Boston Celtics games from that era and they're not all that awe-inspiring to watch in my opinion.

The NFL has greatly benefitted from the excellent color documented filming of the Super Bowl era. The other leagues just can't top it's overall quality if it were to be compared to a similar format showcasing their champions from earlier decades.

Yeah that is true I didn't think of that. Maybe they can do from the 70's on or something like that. Can you imagine doing some of those Big Red Machine teams, Oakland A's teams with Reggie, Rollie, Charlie O, or the Yankees of the late 70's. In the NBA, the Lakers and Celtics in the 80's and Bulls in the 90's

 

[DallasEast]

Yeah that is true I didn't think of that. Maybe they can do from the 70's on or something like that. Can you imagine doing some of those Big Red Machine teams, Oakland A's teams with Reggie, Rollie, Charlie O, or the Yankees of the late 70's. In the NBA, the Lakers and Celtics in the 80's and Bulls in the 90's

I can see that happening with baseball and basketball. There is excellent MLB television footage from the 70's to present. And you hit the nail on the head when the NBA became highly visible.

I used to be a huge Philadelphia 76ers fan (short version/Charles Barkley was forced out and I soon discovered that I really wasn't a true Sixers fan after all). I can remember when CBS aired the '81 (I think) Eastern Conference finals (Sixers/Celtics) after the 10 o'clock evening news.

During the sports segment, the sports anchor told his audience to cover their eyes or leave the room for a few seconds while he flashed the final score of game six. He was doing so to protect viewers who hadn't heard about the score and were waiting to see the game. Of course, I peeked.

That didn't make watching the game very enjoyable, but what I'm getting to is that it wasn't until the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era that the networks thought of the NBA as can't miss television. Games exploded onto the networks afterwards and the rest is history. The NBA broadcasted tons of games which would equal the quality of the NFL's America's Game series.

 

[Vtwin]

It was interesting listening to Norton and Irvin talking about how uncomfortable JJ made it for the team after a loss. Even if no one gave him a reason to go off he would pick a "leader" and go off on him in front of the team just to set a tone.

 

[SLATEmosphere]

I sat through and watched them back to back. It seemed like it was only 10 minutes watching it, it was so good. Irvin really got those guys going and was demanding at the same time. Jimmy was such a hard ***!! but the players really respected him for that.