End of an Era - What is your memory?

SupermanXx said:
wow okay how about you make a rule where the memories have to start AFTER 1990....

dang old-timers...
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Watch it......respect your elders... :D
 
I remember Howard, Dandy Don Merideth and crew, all the big games that Dallas played in over the years, and it was great to see Madden the last few years but ..honestly, my biggest memory is how ABC fell to Socialism.
 
One of my funniest memories was an Oiler Game. This is when the Oilers were terrible.......they panned the crowd and a man, I believe he had a sack in his head, shot the finger........Dandy Don said........He's saying his team is #1.
 
Favorite memory of MNF is not one of the games, although there have been some good ones. It's Dandy Don singing "Turn Out The Lights".
 
December 8th, 1980 when Howard told the world that John Lennon was dead.

Nothing football related touches that moment.
 
For you young guys (<33 or so), the Monday Night Football experience post Gifford, Dandy and Howard is miniscule in comparison.

The personalities, showmanship and entertainment value in those days was great.

Also remember back then the sports cable networks weren't so popular (or even in existence). I remember how much I looked forward to Howard's half time highlights hoping that the Cowboys highlights would make it on.
 
If it makes a you guys feel any better, ABC does own the ESPN Network. Or is it the other way around?
 
goshan said:
For you young guys (<33 or so), the Monday Night Football experience post Gifford, Dandy and Howard is miniscule in comparison.

The personalities, showmanship and entertainment value in those days was great.

Also remember back then the sports cable networks weren't so popular (or even in existence). I remember how much I looked forward to Howard's half time highlights hoping that the Cowboys highlights would make it on.
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I am 34 and did get into football at a young enough age to catch a few years of Cosell, Gifford, and Meredith. I did enjoy them and Howard's highlights, but I think the whole "in those days sometimes you could only rely on Howard's halftime highlights to see your team's plays from the day before" a bit overdramatized. I personally have fonder memories of watching Musburger and Irv Cross go over all of the games over the course of a Sunday on the set of the NFL Today, and you always saw Cowboys highlights on there.
 
CaptainAmerica said:
The debacle against the Cardinals in '70, (I believe), 38-0 or something like that, is a bad memory.

TD's 99 yarder was the best memory for me. Unbelievable to watch it live. I thought he would be pushed out of bounds around the Viking's 30 yard line.

Absolutly the best, just before that play Howard Cosell said..."These Cowboys think they can score any time they want". It was classic,TD took the ball and ran it up the middle for a 99 yd score,,Cosell hardly said a word the rest of the evening
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jcblanco22 said:
I am 34 and did get into football at a young enough age to catch a few years of Cosell, Gifford, and Meredith. I did enjoy them and Howard's highlights, but I think the whole "in those days sometimes you could only rely on Howard's halftime highlights to see your team's plays from the day before" a bit overdramatized. I personally have fonder memories of watching Musburger and Irv Cross go over all of the games over the course of a Sunday on the set of the NFL Today, and you always saw Cowboys highlights on there.
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I loved NFL Today in that era. It was clearly the best pregame show of all time, IMO. But one thing about it is they showed in-progress game breaks etc, and complete highlights of the early games, but they usually went straight to 60 Minutes after the late game. They would flash the final score and then you would see that ticking watch. There was no Sunday night football either so if Dallas played the late game and was not on TV, you would not see any late-game heroics until Monday night.
 
I didn't see it on tv as I was at the game live but hard to top last year's comeback against the Seahawks.
 
lurkercowboy said:
I loved NFL Today in that era. It was clearly the best pregame show of all time, IMO. But one thing about it is they showed in-progress game breaks etc, and complete highlights of the early games, but they usually went straight to 60 Minutes after the late game. They would flash the final score and then you would see that ticking watch. There was no Sunday night football either so if Dallas played the late game and was not on TV, you would not see any late-game heroics until Monday night.
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Who cares about Brent, Jimmy and Irv, Phyllis George was the star of that show.
 
CanadianCowboysFan said:
Who cares about Brent, Jimmy and Irv, Phyllis George was the star of that show.
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phyllis george........................yummy!!
 
Tony's 99 1/2 run by far. I've never forgotten that game and that we still lost it even after that awesome display of running.

Earl Campbell's game against the Browns where he went hog wild is a close second. Back in the day I had to have some love for the Oilers simply because Earl was from Texas, went to UT, and he was a joy to watch crushing defenders in his wake.
 
lurkercowboy said:
I loved NFL Today in that era. It was clearly the best pregame show of all time, IMO. But one thing about it is they showed in-progress game breaks etc, and complete highlights of the early games, but they usually went straight to 60 Minutes after the late game. They would flash the final score and then you would see that ticking watch. There was no Sunday night football either so if Dallas played the late game and was not on TV, you would not see any late-game heroics until Monday night.
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Here in South Florida we got our fair share of Cowboys games throughout the 80s, as long as the Dolphins playing a home game at the same time didn't make that impossible. However, I especially valued Musburger and his game breaks during those weeks in which the Cowboys didn't show up on my TV. The NFL Today music would play briefly and then you'd hear Musburger's trademark "moments ago" to start the highlight.

My apologies, I know this was intended as a thread for MNF on ABC memories, but I kind of got some flashbacks to the CBS of yesteryear!
 
Some of my memories was begging my mom to stay up to watch MNF. If the Cowboys were playing she'll let me stay up to halftime.The 92 opener against the Skins when we beat them 27-17 they just won the SuperBowl and we let the whole world know were going to be something to reckon with
 
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