That old-school CBS NBA title was far better then, and meant good basketball better than anything that ABC/ESPN ever has done these days.

For me… this was my peak NBA watching. I still care about the Bulls and their spectacular Mediocrity now, but nothing compares to the 90s NBA. I couldn’t get enough back then.

Howard cosell is the greatest of all time of hyping anything up

As much as I enjoyed this game as a Giants fan. Probably my most joyous non-SB game aside from the 90 NFCCG maybe…listening back now and hearing Pat and John makes it all that better. They were a treasure. As a team no one was or will ever be close.

There was less football available on TV then, but it was better.

Wow that is actually a lot better it's not even close

This was the only game scheduled on that day due to the Super Bowl.

Primetime just passed the torch to Bailey. 🔥

The Jets and the Browns playing a dramatic playoff game with everything on the line. Man the 80s were a weird decade.

This game was played on Monday September 19, 1977 as the closer to Week 1 of the new NFL season.

Oh' hurt my feelings really.. you must be a progressive communist!!

NBC knew how to sell NBA as a product, ESPN is so flat and emotionless by comparison.

I remember this opener and this series. Those Knicks games were tough. Great rivalry

He was awesome for his time

0:27

Context: When Reggie hit the 3 score was 96-94 Pacers up. But it was 0.7 seconds left in the game. Bird KNEW it was enough time for MJ to put a shot up to sent it to OT or win it. Luckily MJ missed.

RIP Greg Gumbel

Jordan gets pushed, his man hits the shot, Jordan misses his shot, walks off.....no bitchin........

I had liked those mics , and the blazers they had , at the time...

The 70s era of Monday night football was the best.

What was he fired for?

If Only that was the Series

2:01:47, the twin towers make one of their final showings on an NFL broadcast. I know the Jets played at home on Sunday 9/9/01 but I’m not sure if the CBS broadcast showed them or not

The Greek was fired for speaking the truth

In Spades lol

I loved seeing Brian Sipe throwing to Paul Warfield, who came back from the Dophins to finish his NFL career with the Browns.

Poor Giants: I was at the upcoming Ravens@Oakland AFC game, hoping for a Raiders win, but Ny ran into that 34-7 Baltimore buzzsaw in a mere 2 weeks.😢

Thomas admitted Jordan Greatness

I loved these intros back in the day purely for their use of NFL films footage along with the MNF theme.

That might be considered cheating by Reggie Miller but I like that,. It shows you are willing to win by any means necessary. Even Jordan was inspired by it but did it with more finesse in Utah.

Market Square was a different building. The fieldhouse is an amazing building, but MSA had soul. Juice. Chtuzpah. That energy could NOT be matched.

amen , old school

Interesting clip from a nyg game

Jimmy wasn't a racist...he just said stuff that was politically incorrect to bring up.😮

Cosell was the best of all time. The only highlights we had back in the day

RIP John robinson

RIP John Robinson

Sports Commentators are boring today🥱Mr. Cosell was & still is the BEST Commentator that ever lived!🎉😂❤🏈🥊⚾🇺🇸🎆🥇👍

Bulls lovers never talk about this series!!

Thomas was absolutely right about Larry Bird. What a professional and such a cool customer who had been there before. One of the greatest of all time...

Bring this theme back

Howard one minute your Biden trash next your a fantastic player after good play. Fuck Howard

This new world could NEVER!!!!!🥺

Montana to Rice! Like no other combination. If Rice saw daylight, fuggit-about-it!!!

i fan of that team and i born with that team whether yall like it or not.because i am somebody from billion of years ago with that jenny taft person.

24-25 Jokic Luka Tatum Bron ANT SGA AD Steph

I was born in 2002, wow they dont do intros like this anymore. Really wish I was around for this era

NBC AFC package > NBC Sunday Night Football package

You needed to live thru this time to ynderstand how epic the nba on nba broadcasts were. The presentation gave the games a larger than life feeling.

It looked like it was supposed to be way more time on the clock so I put it on .25 speed and he made it with 1 second on the clock actually