1976 Dec 31 - Bluebonnet Bowl - Nebraska vs Texas Tech

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@theknowitall4090 3 жыл бұрын

The Bluebonnet bowl. The last bowl before the New Year. Bowl season seemed so much better then. No players opted out, You wanted win your bowl game. ESPN screwed everything up. Now with 40 bowls, it doesn't mean as much. Everybody blames the CFP. NO... the reason they dont mean anything is because there are too many bowls. Cut the bowl down to 12 like in the 70's.

@derekcabanaw1789 3 жыл бұрын

20-25 bowls should do it. I'm a football junkie, but 43 bowls is just overkill.

@jeffreyk5734 Жыл бұрын

Boy, this is really good quality. Much better than most of the 1980's Nebraska games on KZbin. Those usually look like copies or copies of copies. This looks like a first generation recording. Curtis Craig for those who didn't know, Roger Craig is his younger brother. He was a good player. Awesome getting to see Ferragamo and Rick Berns. Thanks much for this upload! I was 10 years old in 1976.

@SchafferPlasticSurgeryDrChrisS 11 ай бұрын

Curtis was older than Roger.

@jeffreyk5734 11 ай бұрын

@@SchafferPlasticSurgeryDrChrisSYes that is what I meant to say that Roger Craig is Curtis Craig's Younger Brother.

@remmymafia3889 Жыл бұрын

This Tech qb ran the option like almost no one else I've seen- totally forgot about him. Of course back then, if you weren't on national television, (three networks only by the way) it was tough to be familiar to the viewing public. Love how he at times carried the football with one hand like a loaf of bread. (drove the coaches nuts of course)

@johnharman9560 6 жыл бұрын

How about those opening graphics? Man I miss 1970s football

@ernestharlen31 5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@DanStrayer 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently, it was the Seth MacFarlane Bowl: Team Quagmire vs Team Stan Smith.

@martyhowell4043 Жыл бұрын

I miss player intros.

@johnmanier7968 9 ай бұрын

I think TVS recycled the graphics they used for WFL games a couple of years earlier.

@TheNathanScot 2 жыл бұрын

And later that evening, Elvis would hold his last kick-ass NYE concert in snowy Pittsburgh, PA.

@wampuscat1340 Жыл бұрын

The next year Nebraska would play in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN. The halftime entertainment was a tribute to the recently deceased Elvis by Roy Orbison.

@carsondyle6116 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Osborne said many years later that he was told immediately after the game by an Nebraska Official that he was very fortunate that Nebraska had won the game, 27-24, because had they lost, Coach Osborne would have been fired despite an overall 9-3-1 record for the 1976 season.

@sarasarah1810 4 жыл бұрын

where is this interview, in which he said such? or article?

@carsondyle6116 4 жыл бұрын

@@sarasarah1810 Go to Bill Callahan got fired!!!! Form Nebraska 1 of 2 on KZbin and watch the 10 minute press conference of then Athletic Director Tom Osborne as he explains why he let Coach Callahan and his entire coaching staff go following a dismal 5-7 season. Between the 5:00 - 6:00 mark is where Tom Osborne makes the assertion that a Nebraska Official told him immediately after Nebraska's 1976 Bluebonnet Bowl win over Texas Tech that he would have been fired had Nebraska lost that bowl game; despite a 9-3-1 season.

@sarasarah1810 4 жыл бұрын

@@carsondyle6116 ty.

@Ken18710 2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting. I just watched 1986 Neb @ Okla, and the commentators on that broadcast mentioned that there was some truth that Osborne would be moved "up" to AD or some other position . Funny how a coach with so much success, so many great players, so many wins could be doubted.

@mwduck 2 жыл бұрын

@@Ken18710 By the close of 1986, his teams had beaten Oklahoma 4 times in 15 tries, which probably didn't sit well with the NU administration.

@randydubin7118 6 жыл бұрын

It is so amazing on the opening drive of the game, Nebraska converted *FIVE* straight 3rd downs en route to a TD. Now, that's something you don't see anymore in this era of up-tempo, quick-strike spread offenses.

@jimbosc Жыл бұрын

Tech's defensive coordinator for this game was none other than Bill Parcells - that's right The Big Tuna was running their D. This was Monte Kiffin's last game as DC for Nebraska - both went on to celebrated NFL careers.

@remmymafia3889 Жыл бұрын

Actually, Parcels was the linebacker coach. My brother-in-law attended Tech and was a team manager, who was assigned for this game, as Parcell's personal assistant.

@thegefster1988 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for posting. Makes me want for yesterday :]

@jonathanjeter9708 4 жыл бұрын

19 plays,80 yards, takes 9:18 drive. I would love to see that today

@richardblaine1130 4 жыл бұрын

Watch Army football

@ernestharlen31 4 жыл бұрын

Ron Franklin Before he was on ESPN

@TexasWildheartsFan 5 жыл бұрын

Wow - the same intro TVS used for the WFL 😎

@byrd56 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the summer of '74 (when TVS showed WFL), that theme music had a certain football feel that today's equivalents can't match.

@fullervisiondotnet 10 ай бұрын

And the same announcers, too.

@atariforever2002 3 жыл бұрын

There's about a 10min blank spot around the 56 minute mark... This looks like a studio copy. Pretty cool.

@markmoore4237 4 жыл бұрын

Can't watch the whole thing, but keep on the lookout for a young linebackers coach for Texas Tech by the name of Bill Parcels. Document the time if you see him.

@sundevilpeg 3 жыл бұрын

And the opening production credits featuring Eddie Einhorn, founder of TVS, and later the minority owner and vice chairman of the Chicago White Sox. Gone now, but lived to see that four-game Sox sweep in the 2005 World Series. RIP, Mr. Einhorn!

@larrygro 4 ай бұрын

At 2:41:41?

@RadioFanBoy 4 жыл бұрын

Seen live everywhere on the West Coast that New Year's Eve 1976...except Los Angeles! Apparently, KTLA's Early Prime lineup of Bonanza/Star Trek/The Liar's Club was too much of a ratings money maker to pre-empt!

@glennlaird2899 Жыл бұрын

In the 1970s those of us in SO CAL were often SHAFTED when it came to LIVE SPORTS.

@davekroeger9571 5 ай бұрын

Merle Harmon worked at NBC and Alex Hawkins was at CBS. Ron Franklin would later work at ESPN

@bloqk16 5 ай бұрын

The youth of college students frozen in time with this video, as they would all be of around grandparents ages as of 2024.

@williamdunphy352 5 жыл бұрын

Commentators: Merle Harmon, Alex Hawkins & Ron Franklin

@byrd56 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the same Ron Franklin who, back then, worked at Channel 11 in Houston, went on to do radio for the old Oilers, followed by the Univ. of Texas Longhorns, before taking the Saturday night college football play-by-play job on ESPN from 1988-2005.