DVD Transfer 51 (Mid-Late 2000s NFL Films Recordings)

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(c)2003-2007 NFL Films-National Football League

DVD transfer 51; all of which are NFL Films highlights. The first two are transfers from VHS tapes recorded around 2003-2004. All but the last of these are under the 90-minute NFL's Greatest Games banner.

CONTENTS

1. NFL's Greatest Games: 1981 NFC Championship Game (San Francisco 49ers vs. Dallas Cowboys; best known for "The Catch" by Dwight Clark that provided the winning points in the 49ers' 28-27 victory over the Cowboys. Recorded around mid-November 2004 {not sure of exact date; but the ESPN BottomLine scroll includes a headline involving the resignation of Miami Dolphins head coach Dave Wannstedt during the Dolphins' bye week}. Also, a rare pre-2000s NFL Films clip in which the broadcast audio used was not the local radio broadcast; with the audio here coming from CBS Radio, which reunited Jack Buck and Pat Summerall {Summerall, normally the #1 play-by-play man for CBS television and who had been chosen over Vin Scully to retain his position as the top guy and thus the right to work alongside newly-promoted #1 color commentator John Madden, had worked with Buck from time to time as a color commentator - having called Super Bowl IV for CBS [the only time Jack Buck called a Super Bowl on TV] and the first half of the 1974 season after Buck was promoted to the #1 spot following the departure of Ray Scott; only for CBS management - feeling the two sounded too similar - to demote Buck and move Summerall to the #1 play-by-play spot alongside Tom Brookshier; with the two remaining the lead crew until 1980 - resulting in Buck leaving after the 1974 season for NBC and not returning to CBS until 1978; and then he would work exclusively on CBS Radio until the 1982 season. Calling this game on TV would be Vin Scully - who would himself leave after this game and would work exclusively as NBC's lead baseball broadcaster as well as golf in addition to his Los Angeles Dodgers duties - and Hank Stram {who usually worked with Buck on CBS radio coverage}. Scully had previously called the NFC Championship Games in 1975 and 1977 - as in 1981; all three of those seasons were years CBS had the rights to airing the Super Bowl as well)

2. NFL's Greatest Games: 1981 AFC Divisional Playoff Game (Miami Dolphins vs. San Diego Chargers; the thrilling "Epic in Miami" in which the Chargers won a 41-38 overtime shootout after nearly blowing a 24-0 lead. This game would be remembered for Chargers tight end Kellen Winslow catching a playoff-record 13 passes while - despite suffering from severe cramps in the humid South Florida conditions late in the game - managing to block a potential game-winning field goal to send the game into overtime. Recorded around January 2005 based on some college bowl game news and the scroll including a reference to the Anaheim Angels announcing their name being revised to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim {after seven years of that unnecessarily complex name; the "of Anaheim" would be dropped for the present Los Angeles Angels name starting in 2012)

3. NFL's Greatest Games: 1987 AFC Championship Game (Denver Broncos vs. Cleveland Browns; best remembered for "The Fumble" where Browns running back Earnest Byner - who had put together a superb performance up to then - had the ball stripped away from him by reserve Broncos cornerback Jeremiah Castille to clinch the Broncos' victory and second consecutive trip to the Super Bowl, as the Broncos won 38-33 in the rematch of the previous year's AFC Championship Game remembered for John Elway's game-tying 98-yard drive. Recorded around early 2008. This was also one of the first NFL Films projects that - instead of using the local radio broadcast audio as per the norm - made extensive use of the TV audio {in this case, NBC's Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen})

4. Super Bowl Highlights: Super Bowl XV (Oakland Raiders 27; Philadelphia Eagles 10. This game - played 5 days after the release of 52 Americans held hostage in Iran and on the day they reached American soil - would complete the rags-to-riches story of Raider quarterback Jim Plunkett; who finished the finest season of a career that saw him overcome injuries after his Heisman Trophy season at Stanford and being taken #1 overall by the New England Patriots in the 1971 draft, along with underwhelming play and poor teams with New England and later the San Francisco 49ers to getting his chance when starter Dan Pastorini {acquired in swap that saw the Houston Oilers get longtime Raider quarterback Ken Stabler} went down with an injury, by throwing for 3 touchdowns (including a then-record 80-yard strike to running back Kenny King} en route to winning Super Bowl MVP honors; with linebacker Rod Martin setting a Super Bowl record of his own with 3 interceptions, still the most in a Super Bowl by a single player)

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NFL Films-National Football League; NFL Network; ESPN Classic-The Walt Disney Company/Hearst Corporation

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