What's a general piece of football watching nostalgia that you'll always cherish?

[PJTHEDOORS]

Hands down Monday Night Football with Madden and Summerall. They had great chemistry. It was an event to watch those games with them calling it.

 

[Tabascocat]

1. Any game that Madden/Summerall called
2. North Dallas Forty

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

That was a 10.0 on the Richter scale

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Let's Say we have a 33% at making the super bowl. Would you drop those odds to 32% if it meant madden and a reincarnated summerall called the game

 

[Bleu Star]

Staubach's beautiful passes to Pearson & Hill. Just the most incredible arc I have ever seen. Right up there with Carson Wentz.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Before the Internet and 24/7 cable sports cycle/fantasy age....1230..est....CBS 30 pregame show...Brent Musberger...famous intro featuring a live look at the biggest game...."YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE....."...Irv Cross...Phyllis George and crew...

 

[noshame]

Seventies and eighties Monday Night Football was just a event

 

[Manwiththeplan]

member????

 

[JohnsKey19]

Great topic.

1. The old NFL on CBS studio crew. Irv Cross, Jimmy the Greek, Brent Musberger, etc...

2. Pat Summeral previewing the upcoming episodes of "Sixty Minutes" and "Murder She Wrote"

3. The old "Inside The NFL" with Len Dawson and Nick Buoniconti. And all the fantastic music NFL films put with the game highlights.

 

[Temo]

Loved madden. He did such a great job of educating fans and pointing out the grunts in the trenches who don't always get the praise they deserve

This so much. The younger generation (I'm 30) thinks of him as a joke guy who says silly things because all they have is a few youtube clips where Madden went a little silly.

But the guy made play diagramming into something analysts do, made sure the "big uglies" got their due, and was way more involved in making the Madden NFL games into what they are now than people realize.

I would argue that he's done more for educating the general public on football than any man has in the history of the league.

 

[JohnsKey19]

The NFL Today open and the crew - Musburger, Cross, Phyllis George and Jimmy The Greek.

Monday Night Football with Frank, Howard and Dandy. Howard's halftime highlights.

Summerall and Brookshier, then Madden.

Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen. Bryant Gumbel doing halftime on NBC.

Forgot about Enberg on NBC. The guy doesn't nearly the amount of credit he deserves as one of the best to ever do play-by-play.

 

[vicjagger]

I really miss Rush Limbaugh.



j/k

 

[scottsp]

For me, a couple of things stand out:

Big game Sunday, usually Dallas at Washington, flip the switch to CBS in time to hear Musberger with the call, "YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE AT RFK STADIUM..." That show, NFL Today with that cast was just magic.

Also, when Monday Night really was Monday Night, there was nothing like Howard's Halftime Highlights. You would gladly soldier through the first half just to see if the Cowboys might be among the 3-4 games he would review.

I can still hear Pat Summerall, too. "And Tony Dorsett gets six on the play. Tackle by Rich Milot."

Glorious times.

 

[Seven]

Forgot about Enberg on NBC. The guy doesn't nearly the amount of credit he deserves as one of the best to ever do play-by-play.

Add Bob Trumpy...........he and Enberg were good together, IMO.

 

[Plankton]

Hands down Monday Night Football with Madden and Summerall. They had great chemistry. It was an event to watch those games with them calling it.

You do realize that Summerall and Madden didn't work on Monday Night Football together, right?

 

[DFWJC]

Anyone remember Madden describing Vince Ferragamo's name and how he was lucky he had broad shoulders or the name wouldn't fit....or they'd have to put it on at an angle.
lol
Always entertaining

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

You do realize that Summerall and Madden didn't work on Monday Night Football together, right?

Probably thinking of Michaels and Madden when he did Sunday Night Football. That was a great tandem as well.

 

[DogFace]

Steve Sabol and all NFL films. Nfln is run by morons sitting on all this film not knowing it would do better than all these rebooted attempts disguised as top 10 countdowns. Not to mention all the others crap and repeated crap they show.

 

[calicowboy54]

for example I really miss bermans fastest three Minutes. I fondly remember watching the highlights with the epic music and the drama they'd build(Bc back then you really don't know all the results already)with the "tiiick tick- tick- tick - tick- tick -tick


And the old fox graphic and music with summeral and maddens voices is just football to me

Madden on the Telesrator going woop woop

 

[Risen Star]

You do realize that Summerall and Madden didn't work on Monday Night Football together, right?

Other than that though I cherish those memories.