1979 11 26 MNF Jets at Seahawks

[@scottbrown7497]

Jets Seahawks Patriots Falcons Giants Lions Buccaneers Miami Dolphins should all go.back.to their 1980 s. Uniforms

[@madcapper6]

Splitting hairs here but those aren't the exact uniforms the Seahawks used through most of the '80s. Two subtle but significant differences. They moved the jersey number up from the sleeves to the shoulders I think in '82 or '83 and they went to white cleats right around the same time. Back in '79, they were one of only two teams in the league that wore black cleats, going back to their expansion year. The only other team with black cleats were the Vikings while the entire rest of the league wore white cleats.

[@Mike-aka747]

Honestly the whole league excepting the Cowboys(but tone down the green home pants to more blue again)Raiders Packers Chiefs 49ers and Bears needs to go back to their older looks. Get rid of the Texans identity go back to the Oilers brand. Jacksonville has never been able to figure out how to utilize Teal Black and Gold. Steal the USFLs Bulls uniforms and name and you got that problem solved forever. Same with the Panthers. Use the USFL teams name and colors. Get rid of the Ravens and use the USFL Stars colors and identity. And get rid of the Titans and use the USFL Generals colors and identity and make Trump the owner again.

[@PaulAlexander-u6r]

I totally agree

[@Chris-ze4sq]

Frank Gifford was an under-rated play-by-play announcer.....

[@rossweather]

This was the second NFL game that I ever saw live in person. The first was the Vikings against the Seahawks. I remember seeing Howard and Fran up in the booth and being so excited to see Fran. He was my favorite player growing up.

[@SingleTax]

11:58 - First and only time I've seen/heard Richard Todd speak. Seems very humble and down to earth.

[@ericdagostino5682]

The NFL should make it mandatory all teams go back to their uniforms from 70s and 80s

[@sidDkid87]

and ditch reviewing plays 🙈

[@Mike-aka747]

Both of these teams’ uniforms in 2021 are horrendous!

[@grxracer-1606]

They look like hideous U.S.F.L. Arena Trump underwear.

[@grxracer-1606]

+@@sidDkid87 Are you NUTS!

[@sidDkid87]

@@grxracer-1606 *Y-E-S!!!*

[@rmartin7558]

0:28 I can't imagine any team sending their placekicker out to catch a pass in today's NFL.

[@michaelmapes4119]

That was a part of the Seattle playbook at the time. Until The Seattle hating league had the refs call illegal procedure on it because their was "...a attempt to deceive"

[@billsav57]

This was the first thing I watched after I bought my first TV that night ... I mean the first one that was just mine.

[@davidbrumfield158]

Love that jim zorn

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

We had excellent linebackers back then. Beeson, Gaines, Butler, and Jackson were all very good! Back in those days the Seahawks never sucked, but they just weren't that good. Not until Chuck Knox arrived at least. GROUND CHUCK!! I went to high school with Sam McCullum, but 4 years behind him. His team's won state championships in both football and basketball.

[@UncleTerry]

Chuck Knox's mantra was...3 yards and a cloud of Dust!

[@MaveRick-on2cm]

Great to see this historic broadcast!

[@shawndavis8802]

35:25 Gastineau sighting! 2 great pass rushers in this game, Carl Eller in his last year and Gastineau in his first year.

[@dmmamc]

I believe this is the game when Jets Coach Walt Michaels told his punter Chuck Ramsey, "I CAN FART FURTHER THAN YOU CAN PUNT!!!!"

[@alwaysbeclosing66]

I was 13, and so excited to Seattle on Monday night and we always got it on tape delay so we didn't miss KOMO news

[@seanmodun4369]

Yeah but you could listen to Jack Buck and Hank Stram call it on the radio live. 710 KIRO WAYNE CODY!

[@waynestell2808]

The only times KOMO didn't tape delay MNF and show the game live is whenever the Seahawks were playing, so chances are this game aired live in Seattle. Any non-Seahawks MNF game would be tape delayed. This was a practice KOMO (and sister station KATU in Portland, Oregon) ceased beginning with the 1996 season.

[@brianmitchell5906]

I wish they had audio of Pete Gross calling this game instead of Howard Cosell.

[@daves2058]

I'll watch this football. Forget today's pass happy...constant replay...too many graphics game!

[@g86jn1]

David Stewart too many graphics , so true

[@remmymafia3889]

I remember as a 24 yr old watching this game with my father in Las Vegas, where he was living at that time. He wanted to bet and asked who I liked, and I said Seattle, which he promptly bet straight up (covered easily), then he wanted even more action so he bet a two team parlay, playing Seattle laying the points, and over for the total. It didn't go over-one more td by either team would have done the trick. Good memories though.

[@MrBAMAFANATIC]

Not a fan of either team, just great to see real football again

[@tyrondavis6727]

Seattle's current navy, lime, and silver grey colors, just makes me sick to my stomach. Even with the super bowl appearances. I would really and have to be frank about this, bring back the '70s retro Bright English Royal Blue, Cascade Silver, and Apple Kelly Green vintage sweet colors, and bring back the 1978 New York Jets, Apple Kelly Green, and Creamy Vanilla White jerseys, including the green helmets (post joe namath era-and soon to be New York Sack Exchange era) too. Today's Jets are too dark (Cascade Forest Pine Green). Thanks 😎🇺🇸🍹🏈

[@derekpickering9111]

... And the black cleats for the Seahawks!

[@SingleTax]

It must have truly sucked being a Jets fan during the 1970s, because they didn't have even one winning season for that entire decade. The were the New Orlean Saints of the AFC.

[@DNSKansas]

The Jets did go .500 four times, three more than the (S)aints. The Giants were just as pathetic as the Jets, although the NYG went 9-5 in '70 and 8-6 in '72

[@smitskee]

It was especially pathetic when Weeb Ewbank was still there. As a GM, he was cheap and stupid. Hiring semi-pro players off the street. They get John Riggins in the draft, and instead of building around him, they still prioritize wounded Joe Namath, which they did for fan interest. Ironically, Joe is gone after 1976, the emphasis becomes the running game, and John Riggins is no longer there. Props to the New Orlean Saints, because as pathetic as they were for years, under Coach Sean Payton, they've created a winning environment that the New York Jets have never had.

[@Xix1326]

It still sucks.

[@bernieudo4399]

Teams continually rebuilding: Chargers, Browns, Jets, & Lions. At least Jets fans can reminisce about Joe Namath & Superbowl III.

[@phillipcotton833]

You didn't have the over- analysis in that era of commentary. No 2 hour pre-game shows with 7 " expert opinions". No talk of betting odds,& extra time given to injury status. And yet....... I miss the HECK out of yesteryear's NFL.

[@rangers199487]

I remember watching this game. Somebody had a Todd is God sign in the stands. Go figure.

[@shanehowell8169]

27:17 Efren Herrera's receiving totals for the season

[@madcapper6]

Hard to believe this is the same Seahawk offense that was held to minus 7 total yards against the Rams, on that same field during that same season only 3 weeks before.

[@kidmack1121]

Like most of the comments on here about seeing these two teams that both had great looking uniforms, I have to add how different today's uniforms, players and the game itself are from what we grew up watching and playing. One thing I find strange is that today's game uniforms seem to use as little material as possible, with no sleeves, and many player's pants not reaching their knees, (let alone using pads) while they wear practice "shorts" that flap around down to mid calf, and big enough for two guys to wear at the same time. If that's style, I'm glad I don't have any.

[@johnmanier7968]

This was on Monday, not Thursday. They talked about a Thursday game later in the week, New England at Miami. Howard Cosell didn't work that game because he had boxing on Friday night, so Fran Tarkenton was with Don Meredith. Since Meredith worked a reduced schedule in that era, he did not work this Monday night game in Seattle.

[@classicnfl8200]

Noted. Thanks.

[@1959markie1]

I believe that the boxing that Howard was covering were the championship bouts between Marvin Hagler and Vito Antuofermo and Wilfred Benitez vs a young Olympic gold medalist challenger by the name of Sugar Ray Leonard!

[@DC----be1ld]

Correct John. You are right.

[@kidmack1121]

@@1959markie1 I remember that night, and the fight too. Hung out with the fellas from work at Howdy's in the City Of Industry. That was the end of an era, as a year or so later, Ronald Reagan would declare war on the blue collar workforce.

[@stardaddyo9]

Todd had a great arm. He should have stuck with pitching. He never had the mind of a good NFL QB

[@piznastypiznasty2600]

Richard Todd who never met a middle linebacker he didn't like

[@smitskee]

Richard threw the ball at Alabama, but not in any pro-set type of offense. He was a good football player, a good athlete, but no doubt, he was an NFL draft project. Inconsistent, was always the word to describe him, and it was true. I don't think he ever mastered reading pass coverage, and I always thought he did better with plays where the ball had to come out quick. Slants, hitches, quick outs. Five step drop stuff. I always said, when a game started, if Richard hit some good passes early, he was going to be ok. If he was off target, and missing big plays, it was most likely going to be a long day for the Jets. In his defense, he played on some shitty Jet teams.

[@nickalkire1187]

2:04:23 That’s gotta be Tina Louise of Gilligan’s Island fame watching the game!

[@funguy246]

Listening to these 3guys is a riot. So bad lol

[@victorkreitner754]

Someone need to do their homework on MNF. Bill Gregory has 2 SB ring and not 3. Fran should of known that as a player and corrected the stats guy in charge. Won SB 6 and 12, lost SB 5 and 10.

[@masterstumpy3583]

Why the Buzz in the background?! Lol!

[@victorkreitner754]

Gregory was traded to Seattle in 1978 so he wasn't in SB 13 with the Cowboys. The staff should of known Dallas had only 2 SB titles, not 3...ooops

[@johnnybananas1064]

Before the Jets had a pass rush, went from worst to best in 2 years.

[@starchild3443]

Looking for Patriots @ 49ers 1980

[@lordcolinb]

🥰👍

[@yowspisaac6113]

Week 13

[@masterstumpy3583]

Ugh... Stick'em

[@cmacdhon]

Back in the 1979, no one from Seattle even knew the city had a football team. It wasn't until 2013 when the word finally got.

[@lorenzoonsports247]

cmacdhon So tell me about the 64,000 in attendance on that night in 1979.

[@davidlafleche1142]

The Mariners couldn't draw flies.

[@jaymanix39]

To be fair the Seahawks broke into the playoffs in 1983,and they went onto the AFC Championship, only to lose to the then Los Angeles Raiders.

[@craigpaulsen9952]

They sold out every game clown

[@kidmack1121]

@@jaymanix39 The '83 and '84 SShwks were very close to being AFC champs. Very similar to the '86 and '87 Browns.

[@zairehammonds3826]

SMU

[@EDinWAState]

I disliked Howard Cosell then and I dislike him today. He was probably the most obnoxious commentator in TV Sports during those years. It is still difficult to watch any event where he appears as a commentator.

[@al.g.7125]

Todd sucked.