1982 - Bengals at Chargers (Week 15) - Enhanced ABC Broadcast - 1080p/60fps

Thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the broadcast recording of the 1982 Week 15 Bengals at Chargers Monday Night Football game. The game was on two separate discs and was already in very nice shape to start with. I ran all the footage through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to adjust contrast and color grading. You can see the original shots and post enhancement/color here -- imgbox.com/g/w...

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the broadcast recording of the 1982 Week 15 Bengals at Chargers Monday Night Football game. The game was on two separate discs and was already in very nice shape to start with. I ran all the footage through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to adjust contrast and color grading. You can see the original shots and post enhancement/color here -- imgbox.com/g/wBF7QHaFvv

[@SingleTax]

If Coryell's Chargers had merely had a mediocre defense in those days, they would have won at least two AFC Championships. Instead they consistently had one of the two or three worst in the entire league. The number of games they lost over a six-year time period despite scoring 24 or more points is mind-boggling.

[@Daddy-hc7jn]

This is week 7 not 15

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

@@Daddy-hc7jn It was the week 15-scheduled game that year, strike notwithstanding. Pro Football Reference uses that standard for 1982 and thus so do I -- www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198212200sdg.htm

[@michaelharrington75]

I was probably sitting in the living room floor, playing with my Star Wars figures while this game was playing on TV. Dad in his favorite recliner, sipping a beer watching this game. Would be great to go back to this time in life.

[@fiskin13]

Yes it would. You have no idea. lol

[@williampowell3378]

Cool

[@briannat1086]

Thanks for sharing that. I totally can relate. Life so fleeting, something i will never understand. Keep your memories alive. Share with little ones every chance. I hope you have Peace this day, and always.

[@johnliberty3647]

I was in bed since MNF started at my bedtime. But I was on the floor playing with my Dukes of Hazard cars up until game time.

[@gregjones2376]

Ken Anderson would dominate in today's NFL. Accurate, can throw deep or throw short passes on down the field. He should be in the HOF.

[@johnnyc5422]

Definately deserves to be in. The man also had at least 10 concussions in his career. Just a great player.

[@greasyflight6609]

For sure HOF...

[@aprylrittenhouse4562]

It's so weird that 42 yrs have gone by since I was 19. Time does fly

[@davidjackson2690]

So fast. I was 17.

[@paulwilborn185]

I was 19years old too.

[@louisfinley4631]

i was 17

[@ViceCoin]

Felt like 80 years for me.

[@rev.markcarrier1894]

I was 20.

[@D_poppins]

There is something about the simplicity of this broadcast that just makes me smile. I can just focus more. Information overload nowadays.

[@dantheman5745]

BTW, thanks for leaving the commercials in!!! What a time capsule this is. 2:07:38 These Miller Lite commercials were fantastic. This ensemble one played off of gags & punchlines from previous Miller Lite commercials and were loaded with ex-players & coaches (and umpires) from every sport.

[@hivicar]

Yeah, even a slasher at 46:01!

[@williampowell3378]

Yeah

[@bradleysides7526]

I remember this game very well. It happened during Christmas vacation so I got to stay up and watch the entire game. Normally I had to go to bed at halftime during school. I was a stats nerd and I especially loved the high scoring offenses. In the second half I had pen and paper trying to keep up with the two QB’s passing stats. I could not believe both of them ended up with that many passing yards.

[@chrisuncleahmad]

To say this game was an offensive showcase would be an understatement

[@paulsonj72]

Rematch of the previous season’s AFC championship game. And much better weather in San Diego than in Cincinnati.

[@BrianRoberson-k7g]

Like two brothers in their PJ's playing Madden before bed.

[@sirtype-alot3391]

And without all of the modern NFL rules that favor the offense!

[@newtheis]

The O/U was 50 that night my friend. They blew it away! After the 49er game the week before, they didn't hit an under the rest of the year (until scoring only 13, and losing to Miami in the playoffs). It was a nice run.

[@BrianRoberson-k7g]

They have to be inside thr runplastacy havkir gacw make won.@@newtheis

[@BaddogSports]

Put Kenny Anderson in The HOF!! Another AWESOME upload!!

[@riggodrill]

One of the best passing matchups in MNF history. Each at the top of their game at the time and delivered under the bright lights.

[@someperson8151]

The retro games automatically plays when I fall asleep, then I wake up, curious, and don't get enough sleep for work. I know I've seen most of these live, but those were great games.

[@Kusv583]

Typically watch the game and fast forward through commercials but this time I fast forward the game to watch the commercials 😊

[@coldcut8265]

I remember being at this game. It was a cold night by San Diego standards. I remember watching drunk Santas fighting in the parking lot. What a great game it was though! I’ve had many miserable experiences in that stadium (the McCree fumble, the wildcard game vs. the Oilers in ‘79, the Kaeding miss) but I will always remember the euphoria of watching those Air Coryell teams. This was a great way to travel back in time. Thanks for your hard work putting this together!!

[@vanessajazp6341]

Kenny Anderson, one of the best ever!

[@MatthewBaumgarten]

41 years ago…… this game was played 😮

[@mullaneymike79]

It’s amazing, it’s absolutely amazing to me to see guys like collinsworth and fouts

[@sicfrynut]

it is absolutely amazing to not have to hear collinsworth speak!

[@michaellavin6417]

@@sicfrynut Great comment! Bring up the player's skills as a color analyst 40 years later in order not to address the player's outstanding abilities as a wide receiver in a game that allowed so much more contact, especially between the secondary and a wide receiver. Give yourself an LOL, since no one else likely finds you funny!

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

A most entertaining evening at the Murph. Thank you Dave

[@curtisedriver]

" He looks like he's always got a headache!" Thank You Dandy Don, great line!

[@victorkreitner754]

This was Archie Griffins last season in the NFL. Only man to win the Heisman Trophy twice. (1974-75)

[@richardsiciliano7117]

Hope the Chargers move back to San Diego someday, it's where they belong.

[@mrtnt3462]

SHOULD'VE GIVEN SPANOS FAMILY THE STADIUM THEY WANTED!!

[@TheMancYank]

I’m a Rugby man myself yet it’s fascinating watching this game. There’s no yapping, dancing or talking shit on almost every play like now. This is much more enjoyable.

[@marine4lyfe85]

These men were team players. Now they're all narcisistic.

[@someperson8151]

No celebrating a first down. Dumb how today's players celebrate plays that are routine. Those players should be applauding the guys up front blocking for them. It's a team game. They didn't get it done on their own.

[@shroudeddragon5579]

@@someperson8151 I’d usually agree with you but this extreme narcissism comes from the chiefs. The nfl will crown them as winners yet they do not truly play like a team. They all have separate priorities, a lot of these lead down the line to players being cocky after amazing catches for a first down. Which is why I’d choose a Bengals or Patriot dynasty over a Chief or Cowboy one any day of the week. The TEAM can celebrate, not one person.

[@carspiv]

This game was a harbinger of what would happen to the Bengal defense in the playoffs. Freeman McNeil was a Bengal killer his whole career and saved his best for a 21 for 202 rushing performance in the’82 playoffs. The Jets ran up over 500 yards against a pourous Bengal D.

[@MaveRick-on2cm]

I'm very happy to get to see this game!

[@_Dave_S]

I remember watching this game back in 82, an instant classic. A ton of talent on that field! Great memories of Air Coryell! Thanks for posting.

[@mikewazowski350]

Holy crap! What a great time travel back to 1982. The commercials for the video games is awesome! And hearing Howard call a game again! I remember telling my dad that EF Hutton should have had a commercial where they are in the middle of the Superbowl. Final seconds. Hail Mary pass. Someone in the crowd does the EF Hutton comment and everyone in the stadium stops watching the game including the players, if the ball would have been caught, the team would have won, but the receiver stops running.

[@locutus1126]

what great memories. headed first to halftime highlites. Nothing better than Cosell's voice narrating the highlites

[@johnnygamecock2396]

Watching the halftime highlights, New Orleans had a QB named Guido Merkin? That is amazing

[@cbstevp]

Visine...gets the red out, so your parents don't know you are high! Oh, the 80s, what a time.

[@RexBernard-kr7md]

My introduction to NFL football and the reason I was first a Chargers fan!

[@nickpaul1565]

The over the shoulder pass. Nothin' like the old days.

[@nathankaiser3245]

The quality is amazing, please do as many 80’s games as possible!!

[@ciesaro]

I just turned drinking age and living in Cincinnati. I'm sore this was the game in which Howard Cosell pushed me over the edge

[@Yardbird68]

Another great QB Dan Fouts, who NEVER went to the Super Bowl.

[@meherenow793]

made the HOF and never even won MVP

[@rev.markcarrier1894]

My brother and I watched this game mostly standing up in front of the TV, it was such an exciting game. My brother was a staunch Charger fan and even when they got behind early in this game he knew that as long as Fouts was the QB there was nothing to worry about.

[@topoftheapple8139]

This is an amazing upload. Hope we can get more 80s games. Love this channel.

[@cmitchel35]

Chargers couldn’t stop a cold back then. Lol the offense was fire though

[@mrtnt3462]

ZICAM CAN STOP A COLD!!

[@exposethenwo6491]

Fun game. I enjoyed watching the Bengals and Chargers play each during the 1980's

[@Romans219]

I watched that game live and I love these videos! Thank you!

[@dalebechtel8904]

Excellent quality for 40 years old

[@okee63]

Thanks for the video. Brings back memories of the NFL and America.

[@gilbertgiles]

WOW-- another outstanding upload

[@germandelgado8371]

Looks great. I thought they took it down, but its back.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

They did take it down, all because the first 90 seconds of the game (the MNF intro) was flagged for copyright. I had to cut that out and re-upload it 15 hours later. Major pain in the ass :)

[@shanetrimble9265]

​@@davevolskysbackdoor5673Thanks for doing it. Looks fantastic

[@marine4lyfe85]

Lol @ Burt Reynolds strangling that kid.

[@jeffeverhart8464]

Love the commercials!

[@louisfinley4631]

1982 america's absolute peak. if we only knew it then.

[@jrizzo7874]

The women in the commercials, sure were prettier and sexier than what we get today!

[@cjs83172]

This was actually a pivotal night in San Diego sports history. Not only did the Chargers complete their sweep of the previous season's Super Bowl teams with another dominant offensive showing, but this was also the night that the Padres effectively agreed to terms with Steve Garvey, pillaging him from the Dodgers, and two years later, Garvey would put the Padres on his back in the NLCS, and lead them to the World Series on the same field this game was played on. The acquisition of Garvey was the sign of how serious the Padres were, and the next off-season (after the 1983 season), acquired both Graig Nettles and Goose Gossage from the Yankees to give more veteran leadership to a young team on the rise. And by the way, when the greatest seasons by a wide receiver are brought up, one that's almost never brought up is Wes Chandler's 1982 season, but Chandler's 1982 season may arguably be the greatest by a WR in NFL history. In fact, his average of 129 receiving YPG in 1982 remains, to this day, the highest YPG average for a WR in NFL history for a single season. Had they played a full 16-game season that year, he might have had the first 2,000 yard season for a WR, a mark that, to this day, has still never been achieved. To beat that receiving YPG record today with a 17-game season, a WR would have to have about 2,200 receiving yards in one season.

[@dr.awkward9075]

It was so pivotal the Chargers & Padres still haven't won anything meaningful. 🤣🤣

[@ernestogastelum9123]

@@dr.awkward9075 the Chargers at least have won an AFL championship before the merge, thats a meaningful win

[@whataboutrob442]

I had no idea that Bruce Coslett goes back to the Forest Gregg regime.

[@Jelperman]

He played for the Bengals in the 70s.

[@whataboutrob442]

@@Jelperman I didn't know that.

[@elbob17]

This channel is a gold mine.

[@whataboutrob442]

These videos are really good!

[@sugabearchiraq5755]

Great Upload Thanks!

[@sicnarf423]

nfl looked so gritty and dirty in the 80s. love it

[@smoothALOE]

Watching Ken Anderson versus Dan Fouts was a little bit of a predecessor to Brady versus Manning: one was more efficient, the other was more prolific.

[@Jelperman]

3:00:06 I remembered this when I watched this game as a 12-year-old. Great memories!

[@42NORRIS]

Thanks Dave!!!😀

[@nickphillips4559]

GOD BLess YOU ALL!!!!!!!

[@MrGenXer]

I can remember those awesome Fall nights in the early 80's and MNF was a part of it. That decade had great films, great music, great football and Reagan was president. Wow!

[@206Vin]

Wes Chandler

[@rogeliocalderonmare1]

It's nice to see Kenny Anderson protected by Max Montoya and the great Anthony Muñoz...

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

I would rather watch these old NFL games than the present s--t...even if Howard Cosell is announcing

[@mrtnt3462]

IN TODAY'S WORLD YOU HAVE THAT OPTION!!

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

@@mrtnt3462 Thnx be to God!

[@LaiSteve66]

Never thought I'd see Cris Collinsworth on MNF as a player.

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

Collinsworth was legit

[@scottvaldes70]

Has anyone noticed that most pass catchers of this era were waiting for the ball to come to their body rather than catching with their hands?

[@someperson8151]

They didn't have the high tech gloves that the present NFL players have.

[@frankpropri540]

If San Diego had any kind of defense. Wow What an offense.

[@mrtnt3462]

1979 CHARGERS HAD TOP NFL DEFENCE, LOST TO OILERS WITHOUT CAMPBELL & PASTORINI, FOUTS PLAYED LIKE SHIT {IN BIG GAMES} WHEN IT MATTERED MOST!! DAN FOUTS & DON CORYELL DIDN'T DELIVER OFFENSIVELY IN THOSE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES!!

[@wimsele]

That Blue Stratos commercial got my temperature rising 😅

[@kokoken1]

For those who never saw Cris Collinsworth play before he became a color commentator, this is a pretty good indication. Wide receiver, #80 for the Bengals.

[@Boogenhagen100]

47.00 for a goddamned battery? sign me up I'll take 3. 😮

[@krisscanlon4051]

DonFrankHoward were in their prime...ten years in...well oiled machine of broadcasting...amazing

[@georgeduarte8627]

I didn’t get to see this game, just left for the army.

[@miami8089]

Just noticed that Ken Anderson had a silver facemask while the rest of the Bengals team had black facemasks.

[@jackmessick2869]

Sponsored by Revlon!? Edit: D'oh! It's 1982, the strike-shortened year, so it was already December.

[@teddyjackson1902]

It was a better time.

[@donsemo4804]

I was there!!

[@kellynorton]

29:17 Chevy was offering 10.9% financing. Damn.

[@williamhicks7736]

Great game! This was a painful loss for the Bengals though … they got their clock cleaned by the Jets in the playoffs… didn’t make the playoffs again until 1988….

[@texasag6297]

Damn...155 to 148 INTS for their career? I could have played QB back in those days....after 4 INTS today your benched

[@jrizzo7874]

In those days defensive backs were allowed to play defense against receivers and quarterbacks could be crushed. Not like the two hand touch football of today.

[@mrtnt3462]

PEYTON MANNING ONCE THREW 6 INT IN A GAME...HE WAS NOT BENCHED!! IF ANY QB IN TODAY'S NFL ISN'T A LEGIT FRANCHISE QB HIS WINDOW CLOSES VERY QUICKLY!! JOSH ALLEN THROWS MANY INT [ BY TODAY'S STANDARDS]

[@A-FrameWedge]

I don’t know how the Chargers trust Chuck Muncie with the football, the way he is just palming the ball when he is running instead of tucking it away, no wonder he fumbled so much.

[@scottl.1568]

I would have been 6 when this game was on 😮

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

1:28:52 Don Meredith is the intellectual author of the no-huddle offense.

[@montanaelkwhisperer1744]

one of the players in this game went on to be a host of "Wheel of fortune"

[@brianbachmeier34]

Excellent

[@coachmac6811]

this is great thanks

[@kd6844]

IDK how I listened to coesell. Now I understand why everyone mocked him in those days. Helps to have the bloodline.

[@ronniewoodinsteadofmt2615]

Seeing the promo for the sugar bowl as my UGA lost 27-23 on a lucky doggone pass from black ledge to Garrity . Still sick about it

[@dantheman5745]

Epic battle between 2 HOF QBs. (somebody needs to wake the lazy, myopic HOF voters up...Ken Anderson's exclusion is pathetic) This game cost Cincinnati the #1 seed, as they finished 7-2 having beat the 8-1 Raiders earlier. (this was the 2nd time the Bengals handed the Raiders their only regular season loss...they also did it in 1969 to the 12-1-1 Raiders)

[@thefrase7884]

Anderson is borderline HOF at best

[@dantheman5745]

@@thefrase7884 So based upon your depth of knowledge and expertise, how would you compare Anderson to the other Hall of Fame QBs of his era? (Tarkenton, Namath, Griese, Staubach, Bradshaw, Stabler & Fouts) Were each of them superior quarterbacks to Anderson? And if so, what's your basis for that assertion?

[@mrtnt3462]

🤣🤣🤣🤣KEN ANDERSON HOF'ER

[@scottl.1568]

Sweet

[@turtle19dad]

And then we send Brooks to the Bengals😡😡😡😡

[@clifforddriver9434]

Don Correll walked as if he was trying to hide a stick up his Keister. A not so friendly place.

[@herecomesforego1787]

14:55 Hank Stram was absolutely correct about Chuck Muncie 🎉

[@johnliberty3647]

Probably the best 2 QBs in the league at that time. Montana was still an up and comer. Theismann was on his first great season. Marino and Elway were still at the NCAA level. White was good but not at the Anderson/Fouts level. Bradshaw was starting to fade. Others at that Time, Kramer, Jaworski, Lomax/Hart, and Bartkowski just weren’t at the same level as Fouts and Anderson.

[@jacktorrance2633]

New England should've never let Haynes and Fox go.

[@styven77]

In the 80's all the good defense's were in the NFC. Made for entertaining AFC football but blowout Super Bowls.

[@fitcwebb]

The Raiders won the Super Bowl the season of this game

[@styven77]

@@fitcwebb I remember

[@JRM2024]

Week 15?

[@turtle19dad]

Yep. They say “SD never supported the. Chargers.” You hear all those “Bengals” fans?

[@jrizzo7874]

The stadium was always sold out when the team was competitive.

[@BrianRoberson-k7g]

25:12 this reminds me of "Seinfeld".

[@UNCJerry77]

RUSTY!😁

[@shanetrimble9265]

Beef-a-roni

[@mikekenner9218]

Cincy lost but we got revenge in the ice bowl a few months later

[@apex_prowler95]

The Ice Bowl was the season before Championship game.

[@wessleymcgrath9768]

Week 7? Frank says the Chargers are 4-2.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

1982 was the strike-shortened season. This was the 'Week 15' game on the schedule for that year. Weeks 3-10 were lost because of the strike. Pro Football reference sticks strictly to the schedule week when listing 1982 games, and thus so do I -- www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sdg/1982.htm

[@wessleymcgrath9768]

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 D'oh !! How could I forget? I landed in LA on the Sunday before they announced the strike. It was my dream holiday, coming up from Australia, and NFL games were on the agenda. All we got to see was the MNF game the next night on TV. Had to settle for two high school games as we travelled across the country. Damn. Also, when we got to SF the cable cars were shut down!! Bad timing. And I was a year early for the USFL! Which I loved back then.

[@davevolskysbackdoor5673]

Hey it's cool - I always get confused for a second with 1982 and those missing weeks :)

[@chrisrhoads8256]

It's not the freezer bowl 🥣 this time ⌚/ the chargers be long in San Diego/ not LA / yes I know they was in LA long time ⌚ ago 🏈

[@davegenther6877]

The chargers belong in SD

[@clifforddriver9434]

Chuck "cocaine" Muncie was one hell of a running back. Until he would eventually find himself totally consumed by the drug. Much like the rest of US.

[@carspiv]

Speak for yourself, sniffles…..😉

[@kevinharrissr5255]

Cmon y’all use common sense. Public highways with traffic especially at night. Just one wrong move and it could result in the death of someone possibly even yourselves.