1975 - Giants at Bills (Week 5) - Enhanced ABC Broadcast - 1080p

[@davidb8872]

I actually was at this game, It was my first year of college. Thanks for bringing all these memories back 👍

[@3243_]

Did you see the guy who tried to climb the wire above the field that night?

[@theholyvineofdavid647]

Man, I miss these days

[@phfighter9465]

This version of OJ is sooo smooth and charismatic 🔥

[@PredatorKingdom]

This is magic being to watch OJ in his prime, I believe this was the best season of his pro career. I actually loved the Giants blue pants look, I would love to see this uniform combo get rebooted in the future. Great enhancement, Dave.

[@acornsucks2111]

Wasn't Howard great?

[@EdsterIII]

One more incredible game you did. I have RARELY seen this Giants team. I'm probably one of the few who actually didn't mind the Double NY logo. I always hoped to get that I'd get a chance to see them play. You really nailed another classic game. THANK YOU so much for your dedication and hard work with these games! This will be a great game to just chill out and watch! Awesome game !

[@kaadorixjeremy5459]

OJ slicing through the defense like an assassin.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

He fit that Buffalo offense like a glove.

[@kaadorixjeremy5459]

13:55@@davevolskysbackdoor5673

[@kaadorixjeremy5459]

13:55

[@EdsterIII]

​@@davevolskysbackdoor5673Okay that was so bad it was good. Ba-dum-bump! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@grabham59]

Norm Macdonald would be proud of that one...

[@michaelskurski912]

Love how the mnf logo at the beginning looks like something from HR Puffinstuff

[@travisa7669]

What a bummer of a game for Bills fans; your beloved team is undefeated and then you stumble and drop one against a hapless Giants squad with their disco helmets. Great video, I never get tired of that very short lived NY logo re-design.

[@michaelskurski912]

Not as much of a bummer of a game for those bills fans as a bummer of a game bills fans are experiencing now

[@mxxjss]

That NY logo could’ve been all over the Saturday Night Fever album cover and not seemed out of place.

[@patgalvez4563]

the Bills could never win a big game

[@SlugCult718]

The Giants beat the Bills, and then boogied on down to Studio 54 and shook their booties all night long.

[@RaoulDuke504RC]

That kicker for the Giants had larger shoulder pads than most current defensive linemen 😂

[@patgalvez4563]

no shit....Football players are starting to look like soccer players

[@TexasWildheartsFan]

LOVE those Giants helmets 😎

[@gregstreuber]

Another great game. Thanks for the effort to get these posted. Really appreciated!!

[@dantheman5745]

Disco Giants! I don't know what's more astonishing about this game...that the Giants fumbled NINE times...or that they somehow only lost 2 of them.

[@couleewildflowers]

Thanks for another great MNF restoration! Good game despite the Giants 1975 struggles - the last effective rushing game of Ron Johnson's career

[@ctoph75]

The uniforms are perfect negatives of each other.

[@brianb.5473]

I wish the other 1975 Bills MNF game existed. Ken Anderson lighting them up for over 400 yards. I wish one of the 10 wins from the Bengals 1976 season existed. All you ever see is the Pittsburgh Snow game loss and the MNF loss to Oakland. @Dave Volsky's Back Door I absolutely love this channel. Thank you. I wanted to make it clear my complaining about lack of Bengals games has nothing to do with you. This channel is amazing.

[@3243_]

I wish ALL the games from that era existed.

[@brianjaeckle2658]

Go Bills!

[@EdsterIII]

There are some people who didn't or don't like Howard Cosell, but love him or hate him, Howard Cosell's knowledge was undeniable. Plus he always had access to some of the most iconic and most important athletes of our generation. Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, and more. Plus this Monday Night Football broadcasting team is easily the most amazing broadcasting team Monday Night Football has ever seen. This used to be a CAN'T MISS football game. Each member had intelligence, football knowledge that was again undeniable, some really dry humor, but overall they KNEW the game of football. They avoided the ridiculous or the worst aspects of the game, focusing only on what they knew the fans wanted to hear about. The NFL Today Pre-game and Post-game shows were the same way. Yes they entertained us but they almost always stuck to the game of football or highlights of Baseball or other high profile sporting events. I used to really love watching these shows. My team, the Green Bay Packers, weren't the best team in the 70's. Honestly they had a stretch where they were flat out awful.....lol. That being the case I had early on developed an appreciation for football games, good football games and it didn't matter who was playing. I just enjoyed watching the games. Of course back then it was nothing like it is nowadays with 400+ channels, ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, etc., plus add all of the online options and sites, not to forget the actual NFL Network itself, there are well over 50+ different places, channels, sites to watch football. Back then we had 4 main networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, & PBS. Plus some places had multiple unaffiliated local channels. Not affiliated with ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. In the 70's we had one, WVTV Channel-18, & then later into the late 70's we got one more, WCGV CHANNEL-24. We also had 2 PBS stations 10 & 36. So watching games back then was simple. CBS had 1 or 2 games on Sunday, and NBC had 1 or 2, depending on who had the Double-header. Then on 🌚Monday🌚Nights🌚, ABC had 🌜🏈🌛Monday🌜🏉🌛Night🌜🏈🌛Football.🌜🏈🌛. Back then one network covered the NFC while the other network covered the AFC. If I remember correctly CBS had the NFC and NBC covered the AFC. The one certainty was this, the games were always professionally done, they were always fun to watch, the announcers knew their stuff, and the Pre-game show, the Half-Time shows, and the Post-game shows were also always well done, entertaining, and informative. Football was by far, so much better than the broadcasts they air nowadays. One more reason why I am so thankful for this channel, it's hard work, and dedication. Now multiple generations will be able to see some of the best players of the 70's and 80's, and that is a incredible gift! Thank you!

[@markdeviney7307]

This is a rare post , any MNF from mid 70s in this condition (of course you had something to do with that) is a gem. Thanks for the memories!! Anymore like this would be great

[@Rockhound6165]

It felt like Joe Ferguson played forever. Almost 20 years.

[@bajikimran2304]

I remember this game. The Bills came in 4-0 and the Giants were a terrible team back then. The game had a surreal moment in the second half when a fan climbed on a wire overlooking the field and they had to stop the game. Weird.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

I've enhanced the 1975 Week 5 Giants at Bills Monday Night game. This recording had a lot of fuzziness and compression artifacts, plus it was very drab in color. I ran it through Topaz and it did its usual great job getting rid of all the crud and sharpening edges. The picture was also upscaled to 1080p. I used Resolve to bring back some pretty good color. You can see the before/after shots here -- imgbox.com/g/jbe8m7khdj

[@chrisruth7057]

O.J Simpson is the 3rd greatest running back NFL runner ever behind Jim Brown & Barry Sanders

[@leedeloach2802]

I would love to know the settings you use on Topaz for all of these NFL videos…I have a similar project where I am restoring old marching band videos using Topaz, but I don’t know the best settings to use…Dione DV, Dione TV, etc? Interlaced or progressive? De interlace 1x or 2x? It’s all so involved, but exciting at the same time

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Hi Lee - I always start with collector DVD images of games so that I'm working with the best possible first-generation source. I rip each disc's content to an MP4 file using Handbrake. I de-interlace the video in this first stage, set Constant Quality to 18, use H.265 encoding, framerate set to same as source and Constant, and use the Slow encoder preset speed. I then will run those rips through Topaz. I will set the picture to crop out any videotape noise along the bottom. I set my output resolution to Custom and set Resize Method to Prioritize Height, then type in 1080 for the Height value (it will adjust the width automatically) - you obviously only do this if you want to upscale your video. I leave Video Type as Progressive since I already de-interlaced it when I ripped the disc. And I always just use Proteus set to Auto, with Recover Detail set to 0. After the render is finished, I then bring THAT into Resolve and work on Contrast, Color, and editing. Hope that helps :)

[@leedeloach2802]

Thanks Dave! I'm trying to figure out whether I should deinterlace first in handbrake, or use topaz to deinterlace and use their Dione models. Still a work in progress...thanks so much again@@davevolskysbackdoor5673

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

@@leedeloach2802 You're welcome Lee :) I've never tried to deinterlace in Topaz. Have always done it in Handbrake and I've been just fine with the results. You can certainly run tests though on small samples between the two programs to see if you spot any differences.

[@romelovesdan]

You see it all on classic MNF !

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

0-4 NYG at 4-0 BUF? That's.............. why they play the games

[@StatsRob1975]

1-3 Giants

[@turtle19dad]

Loved Coach Arnsparger. 1992-94 Chargers “Arnies Army.” Our DC.

[@darrenfarion2079]

Gifford the only one with any brains on the Monday night crew!

[@greg6363]

Come on now. Cosell was an Ivy Leaguer (Yale).

[@phfighter9465]

The world deserved a Karras-Simpson buddy cop movie in the 70s

[@patgalvez4563]

That movie would have bombed big time...

[@phfighter9465]

@patgalvez4563 if Rosey Grier sharing a body with a white man can become a cult classic who knows what would have become of that buddy movie...OJ was actually good in Capricorn One.👍🏾🤣

[@MrSdrb70]

Hard-hitting game

[@gregjones2376]

I'd love to see those helmets used as a throwback at some point for Giants.

[@RichardSleyster]

The Juice was a great CUT back runner

[@smokey77able]

Love those cheesy Helmets of the New York Giants

[@dantheman5745]

43:24 Check out the pantomime buffalo mascot walking beneath the goal posts! 🤣🤣 1:24:26 Some things you just can't un-see. 1:28:26 What are the odds this guy had more than just 2 or 3 beers in him?

[@TucoIlCattivo]

Boy, I didn't realize how bad an announcer Alex Karras was. What the heck is he talking about? Lets play a game where no one attempts field goals and only goes for touchdowns. Either that or he had the Bills at +13.5 in this game. 2:23:43

[@larrymelman]

The 75 Bills were a terrible disappointment. A league-best offense and a nearly league-worst defense. This game was the beginning of the end. After sneaking into the 1974 AFC Wildcard at 9-5, then starting 75 4-0, the wheels came off, they finished 8-6 with no playoffs. Then in 76, Simpson held out for all of preseason, Wandering Lou Saban wandered away five games into the season, and then it was straight into the cellar for the next few years.

[@bravefalcon1970]

Both head coaches were members of the same college fraternity. Sigma Chi.

[@gabrielgonzalez4894]

God Dave I can't believe what I am watching !!!! I was 12 and instead of doing my homework,was on the floor watching Monday night football on my 28 inch zenith color t.v dreaming about being a pro but what happened those fantastic pop historical commercials? Any way it's just like going back in time.I n my mind it's 1975 again with Howard,Alex,frank Ferguson, Kotar,Morton,Jennings,Hill God damn O.J so damn sad he turned out like he did I copied my running style after his as well as the czonk God bless

[@smokeysdad8627]

The greatest gift any of us will ever have is youth. I was 11 when this game was played. Everyone loved OJ in 1975. None of us knew he would murder a innocent beautiful girl 15 years later

[@_Dave_S]

I had totally forgotten Craig Morton played for the Giants. He'd probably like to forget as well lol. The Giants with those blue pants almost make it look like Buffalo against Buffalo. I miss this era of football, and jerseys with normal sleeves!

[@acornsucks2111]

Pat Hughes, great triva question. Who wore 56 before LT's arrival?

[@Mark-xl1ze]

Super Bowl 25 preview

[@3243_]

Including the Giants winning!

[@jjgillmen]

I'll say this much, even as a Cowboys fan. OJ Simpson had a God-given ability to slice through defenses like they were nothing; he was truly gifted at the running back position, and I respect him for that. It's such a shame that, now and forever, his life and legacy will be forever marred by a certain event that took place in 1994 and its aftermath.

[@KENDZIification]

If this were today, the way this game started and the way the Bills stunk it up in the second half including two missed field goals fans would be screaming “fixed”. This was indeed a weird one.

[@gabrielgonzalez4894]

I believe dandy Don Meredith had left to continue his acting career,and Alex Karas took over the Job, he'll even welcome back Kotter got a Shot to talk !!! I forgot about that show coming up on Tuesday in the same time slot more or less thanks for re.inding me Howard !!!😅

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Actually Don had moved over to NBC and paired with Curt Gowdy in 1974

[@gabrielgonzalez4894]

@davevolskysbackdoor5673 oooh ! I didn't know for sure.I thi k you have a few videos posted with Don Meredith on NBC which I did find odd but I just thought that he really loved to work a lot being on NBC and ABC Monday night football too. I had forgotten that Alex Karras also hosted MNF for a while. Don Meredith I believe did return to the MNFline up after Alex Kara's left. I thank you for all those wonderful recordings I got to enjoy them again and reminisce about those days and how life was. Marvelous work 👍👍👍👍👍

[@kyland2394]

Not much in sports sounds better than Howard Cossell talking over the Monday Night Theme music. Those were the days!

[@chilledmonkeebrains]

So weird to see #56 worn by someone other than LT. (Pat Hughes)

[@1968-b3n]

Oj Simpson is Infamous iconic

[@acornsucks2111]

Tucker was like Bavaro ten years earlier.

[@cornucopiaofcool2144]

The 1975 JINTS on National TV? These games were strictly Adult only on the east coast. All Kids were in bed by Nine in those days.

[@indiansack5524]

OJ delivered a killer pregame interview!!! 🤪

[@swami1]

The 1975 MNF intro was weird. The guy spazzing out in his chair!

[@p44r]

By any chance Dave can you get the 1972 Redskins Packers playoff game

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Doesn't exist.

[@p44r]

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 sadly I thought so clips of it though kzbin.info/www/bejne/naDXnoiKidKlhLcsi=a4GH1AhAyY9uphXs I would love to see the real game……..kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2WWgmuJpMeUgqMsi=gF6kmN2iXbYFfik6

[@dennisrichards-ds9vu]

Had injuries not derailed their defense, this team could have gone to a Super Bowl.

[@kevinrcolvin6301]

Great picture! Is this the only year that the Giants had that logo?

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Yes

[@NOcode]

Great shot 3:56

[@lamontbradford4630]

Nicole and her crazy German family made him crazy.

[@SlugCult718]

2:11:00

[@acornsucks2111]

Morton's best years were mostly on the bench.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

HOGWASH. Morton's 73.5 career QB rating is well above average for the NFL of his day, and either bests or is comparable to the career QB ratings of his contemporaries such as Bradshaw (70.9), Morrall (74.1), Brodie (72.3), Kilmer (71.6), Lamonica (72.9), Plunkett (67.5), Stabler (75.3), Hadl (67.4), Gabriel (74.3), Unitas (78.2), Hart (66.6), and Namath (65.5)

[@douglasbagshaw807]

The juice is loos

[@worldsgreatestride]

What machine was the original recorded on Betamax?

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

I seriously doubt it as the Betamax first came on the scene in November 1975 and this game was played a month before. No, this is most likely a transfer from some sort of network master videotape, the quality of which though wasn't the best.

[@worldsgreatestride]

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 I knew it was not VHS because it was not out yet. And I did not know the month Beta came out in ‘75 but I knew it was ‘75 when it came out. And it’s not Cartrivision because I can’t see the skip field effect. So must be what you said from a network machine. Interesting you had that game because it helped me figure out something that happened on that night right at the end of the game back in 1975.

[@patgalvez4563]

anyone know what OJ's waist size was back then? 28?

[@edscottable]

About as narrow as Marcus Allen or Dorsett

[@edscottable]

OJ was the coolest

[@johnbailey3478]

Buffalo should had been ahead at half time 28-7

[@_Dave_S]

1:24:26 🤣🤣🤣

[@SlugCult718]

The Giants look like a generic football team from a movie who's producers didn't want to pay to use the rights to an actual pro team, so they made up their own fake team w/ fake uniforms. 😂

[@MMAALL]

George Papadopoulos announcing a murderer. Who knew at that time?

[@nflhighlights8672]

59:15

[@nuffsaid783]

What a terrible game on both sides.

[@Jean0987654321]

PBP: Frank Gifford