1985 - Week 02 - San Diego Chargers - Seattle Seahawks

High scoring entertaining game early on in the season!

[@goldenthug9]

#29 Hendy that's me rookie year 0:42 beginning of game. RIP to Lionel Little Train James. It was an honor to be his teammate.

[@shanetrimble9265]

Hearing Charlie Jones call a 4pm Chargers game reminds of the most comforting time of my life. Lazy Sunday afternoons watching Football. Especially if my mom didn't make me go to Sunday night church service. I'm thinking maybe I should have went to more of those though looking at the world today.

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

It is not a mess because of you

[@zenpaganwarrior]

So comforting to me to watch these '80s AFC West matches as well, Shane (as a Seahawks fan but who appreciated our very formidable opponents Fouts, Joiner & Co.). This is the football of my youth. I'd rather watch these old games than the weird video game-over-commercialized, over-politicized crap the NFL is peddling today.

[@shanetrimble9265]

@@beaubbyvagnert7035 Thanks Beaubby

[@shanetrimble9265]

​@@zenpaganwarrior You said it. I missed a lot of these games. We only got 3 games a week including MNF back then. Football on YT is like Christmas!

[@aaazzz090]

thanks for posting these Seahawks games from the 80's really enjoying them...Thank you...

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

No problem, glad you like it!

[@timothygathings1531]

I love Dave Krieg he was our first Russell Wilson

[@strangerinwhite]

Glad to see a fan of the Seahawks before the 2012-onward era.

[@aquawavefist]

met dave krieg, really nice guy

[@eijiroinouye4115]

​@aquawavefist Where? I think I saw him at a Fred Meyers his rookie season

[@joewilson4561]

Freddie Young was a stud

[@briankady1456]

Seahawks 49, Chargers 35. This was also the year the Seahawks alternated every two wins with two losses, finishing 8-8 and out of the playoffs.

[@h.h.6171]

IIRC, they could still have made the playoffs if they had won that last game. I can still see that final attempt at a FG miss in the closing seconds. I believe it was against Denver.

[@terijennings4598]

"When you field a kick or punt it's very important to catch the ball". I learn something new everyday.

[@nbk4dv9]

"Seahawks will now just bleed the cock er clock" 😝

[@maxkol4380]

Good ol' fashioned football. This was well before the same people who ruined the NBA ruined the NFL.

[@vektorog]

then again those chargers offenses during this era were pretty ahead of their time

[@leifrausch9517]

Wym 😂

[@williamstocker584]

Truth

[@Robert_J528]

Every Chargers game in 1985 was like this. Score a ton of points and give up two tons. One of the most entertainingly average to bad teams ever

[@jasonwalker9091]

Man what a cool rivalry back in the 80's the Seahawks and Bolts always be blood boiling and mostly high scoring especially with Dave Kreig. 😊 Espically the thriller in the Kingdome on MNF in 1986. Charlie Jones and Sam Rutiligo on the call for this game on NBC at 4pm in 1985. Good ol Jack Murphy

[@ihateapplebeeswa]

Krieg not Kreig

[@shanetrimble9265]

What an excellent game. I have watched it twice. Of course Charlie Jones is a legend but Sam Rutigliano was pretty entertaining as well.

[@h.h.6171]

I remember the game on Monday night, thinking it was '82. Dan Doornick with that crazy long TD run. And the fact that Hawks whooped up on the Bolts.

[@Huuudge25]

Wasn't #50 wayyyy offside on the initial kickoff ?

[@nbk4dv9]

Watching the nfl in chronological order. These Seahawk teams in the early 80s had the burden of being in the afc West. You had Denver L.A. and San Diego in your division ouch. And to make matters worse a garbage KC spoils there number 2 seed spot in 84. This game was a case of exploiting a rookie cb.

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

The Seahawks won something like 4 times in KC in their entire history. And the AFC West was insanely tough!!

[@thisistheend_777]

Thanks again!

[@thisistheend_777]

PS. Kinda wish the commercials were included haha, but I understand that would be way too long.

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

No problem! Yeah I know most games I have are "ad-free" :)

[@benashworth687]

14:00 awesome

[@michaelgeisler9145]

25+ years before Brees eclipsed Marino's 5084...Fouts may have done it only a year later if he'd stayed healthy

[@paulevereklian]

do you have the 84 road game at denver or any other games from 86 that you haven't already posted

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

I have some other 1986 games I'll probably upload.

[@benashworth687]

59:29 very nice

[@benashworth687]

20:10 nice out

[@MultiBrian1986]

Seattle needs to go back to those old unis, pay homage to the Pacific Northwest.

[@ihateapplebeeswa]

They can now that different colored helmets are allowed.

[@tomgrader9189]

Nothing like playing in dirt.

[@benashworth687]

23:00 damn

[@paulevereklian]

or the 84 game against kc where they had all those pick 6s at home

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

Idon't have this one but would love to!

[@maxkol4380]

Wasn't that 45-0?

[@paulevereklian]

@@maxkol4380 something like that

[@g.r.x.racer-1737]

Seattle would go 8-8 and the Chargers as usual would flop in 1985. Was use to Chargers flopping since 1979.

[@robkeel100]

Lionel James woulda, coulda and/or shoulda been a HOF’er. Unfortunately his knee(s) wouldn’t allow it.

[@benashworth687]

1:08:14 nice

[@funguy246]

Who the hell is this east coast old fool calling the game with Charlie? Everyone is a number and he always screams “BLITZ!” I didn’t think I’d dislike anyone more than Merlin Olson calling a Hawks game. This guy proved me wrong. I always liked Don Crickey & Bob Trumpy calling the game.

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

Sam Rutigliano apparently.

[@shanetrimble9265]

I think Sam does a good job and I grew up on Merlin Olsen. Thought he was great.

[@furnitureconsortium]

@@beaubbyvagnert7035 yep! former head coach of the Kardiac Kids Cleveland Browns in the early 1980's. Don Criqui & Bob Trumpy were a good tandem, but I almost always never saw them call anything other than AFC Central games in the midwest during their time with NBC. I liked Merlin Olsen! So what if he did FTD Flower commercials xD lol, that dude was a phenom with the Rams back in the 1960's. He definitely knew a thing or two about playing defense. I would have loved to have heard Deacon Jones do color commentary on a few of those west coast games. That dude was glib as hell and would have been entertaining! Thanks for the upload!

[@SingleTax]

The Chargers' pathetic excuse for a "defense" gave up 34 or more points *six times* that season. A high school football team could have moved the ball up and down the field against them. Tom Bass is easily one of the worst defensive coordinators in NFL history.

[@beaubbyvagnert7035]

They fixe this a decade later! One of the fiercest defenses you'll see.

[@SingleTax]

@@beaubbyvagnert7035 But no longer had one of the best offenses you'll ever see, as they did in the early to mid 80s. If they had merely had a *mediocre* defense in those days, they would've won at least two AFC Championships and at least one Super Bowl. But instead they had one of the worst defenses ever, and so never even appeared in a Super Bowl. Over the course of a six-year period, no team in NFL history has lost anywhere near as many games as Coryell's Chargers did *despite* scoring 24 or more points. And then there's the amazing number of games they just barely managed to win despite scoring *34* or more points.

[@goldenthug9]

Coach Tom was fired soon after and Dave Adolph took over. In week 7 Adolph replaced rookie cornerback Wayne Davis #20 with another rookie John Hendy #29. Adoplh simplified the 3-4 defense and there was a marked improvement in defensive play. Rookie safety Jeff Dale #37 and rookie cornerback John Hendy #29 were both named to many NFL All Rookie teams. I know I was there. I'm John Hendy. Next to having my son, it was the time of my life!! Also "F Seattle" hahaha I had friends on that team. We still talk s*** to each other to this day. Jeff Dale and I have done well post football careers btw also Wayne Davis (RIP) Danny Walters and I were sh*t this game. Wayne peaked in the backfield too much, Danny had a bad groin and I only had one week of training camp and zero preseason. That was a brutal home game --

[@shanetrimble9265]

@@goldenthug9 very interesting.

[@johnn9977]

Chargers were a joke on defense.

[@GeorgeConner69420]

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