1997 AFC Championship Broncos vs Steelers Highlights (NBC intro)

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[@aggie7756]

NBC's theme back in the 90's was pure gold. Takes me back to my care-free days as a teenager.

[@andrewnash4530]

I'm with you. I feel the same way.

[@RotiPani75]

Even the pre 95 one is great. Both bring tears to my eyes.

[@nikrenoface3540]

NBC theme song dick enberg was tremendous

[@glally1]

Agreed

[@donttread5391]

Man, NBC playing their great original theme before going to every commercial is perfect

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever😊m

[@wiltongeorge8524]

Nothing like hearing Dick Enberg on NBC and Pat Summerall on CBS/FOX

[@nikrenoface3540]

Amen I get the chills listening to both of them and madden also,this was real footballl

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever❤

[@tperk]

Mile High Salute one of the classiest post TD celebrations ever.

[@bjblastyoass]

I really appreciate the editing to include the NFL on NBC theme after touchdowns before the commercial break. What a wonderful era for the NFL this was!

[@theeusthenopteron6483]

I decide to keep all the theme after touchdown on all my editing because they have been cut out on most other NFL videos.

[@ivansanta-maria1328]

Yeah and dick Enberg saying my! Oh!my!😄

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever❤

[@seaneskimobandman]

Man football back then was just pure gold!

[@mil182]

Kordell was my guy (along with the Bus, of course!) I was a young kid, we had our hearts broken a lot in the 90s and early 2000s before Ben arrived. Never was able to witness the 70’s teams, but I have fond memories of watching these Stillers with my dad and grandfather. Thanks so much for posting! (Wish they would’ve won tho lol)

[@JustMe-pc2ii]

I remember that football season like it was yesterday.

[@wardefiant]

I was there. Started going to games in 1992. Worked at Heinz Field from 2001 until covid. So I went or worked every Steelers home game for almost 30 years! Great times and memories with friends. Thanks for the Upload.

[@theeusthenopteron6483]

My pleasure !

[@Dud512]

Dick Enberg has such a way with words

[@tony84.]

1:43, that theme and Dick Enberg! OH MY!!! No one can top him. Please upload as many football intros that you have with the greatest ever.

[@jonathanwatson1908]

What's the name of the song from 0:00-1:43

[@tony84.]

@@jonathanwatson1908 I don't know. But it sure fits the opening. And Dick Enberg, OH MY! is the greatest network play by play announcer of all time, in my opinion.

[@josd6132]

@@jonathanwatson1908 Maybe is from a score from some movie which they usually did for those intros back in the day.

[@tperk]

Kevin Costner's The Postman (1997)

[@jcline87]

I vaguely remember these days but it was a great time to be a kid enjoying football!

[@supersexysega]

From 92-97 The Steelers averaged 11 wins a season. Made the playoffs every season. Three AFC Championship appearances and one SB appearance. All the while doing it with mediocre QB'S. The best of whom was Neil O'Donnell. The ultimate team sport and to this day we have people trying to break games/seasons down to one player/position.

[@joeyblowey3460]

This is precisely why Bill Cowher is in the Hall of Fame as a coach and Mike Tomlin, despite having a relatively similar resumé, may not be. Cowher's Steelers turned poo into gold while Tomlin's Steelers largely wasted one of the most talented and skilled offenses in the league, additionally Tomlin's playoff exits weren't usually AFC championships, rather one-and-dones vs teams like Jacksonville

[@lamongalbreath342]

Bill Cowher is overrated

[@marlonnicholson8410]

@@lamongalbreath342 Mike Tomlin is overrated he could only wish to have the success of 92-97

[@otaviofrn_adv]

@@joeyblowey3460 without mentioning that when Tomlin won, he had pretty much a team formed by Cowher

[@ivansanta-maria1328]

That's right and all with next to no quarterback average quarterbacking Uncle Donald was slightly above-average but nevertheless he was no Troy Aikman or Steve Young and they were hard smart aggressive they went into the playoffs they want playing games the divisional round was usually a formality for them it was at championship game where they struggled a couple times but they really were playing high-level football they just came up short that day and at the time the NFC had a monopoly on the Super Bowl they were very hard to be that didn't end till what like 9 8 when the playing field between the AFC and the NFC became more even is when the Steelers got one for the thumb and then one for the other thumb I can't even compare that 90s team to this recent team they got in Pittsburgh the team they got in Pittsburgh now and probably everything they've had since 2011 can't hold that 90s teams cleats that 90's team would have rip any of tomlins teams to shreds except for 08 and 2010 teams but ogh yeah that was still mostly cohwers team that's why I said that team they would had in the mid-90s in my opinion is a third best top three Steeler teams of all-time that's number three followed by the the Run they had between 2005 and 2010 I can see that 95 team playing the 2022 team and I just seen them all standing around like duh what just happened did we just got our ass kicked oops oh no we got 12 men on the field

[@TheCancerkilla]

Dick Enberg was awesome.

[@edwardoutlawjr8154]

Last AFC Title game played on NBC. Steelers couldn't get out their own way in this game.

[@Wolf_3125]

If only Days of Our Steelers was a thing back then 😂😂😂😂 Their playoff chokes in the 90's are comedic gold

[@otaviofrn_adv]

a man of culture

[@ivansanta-maria1328]

But they were real they had an identity blitzburgh they led the league in sacks they went deep into the playoffs every year not losing the Wild Card or first round like they do every time in recent years when they have made the playoffs they just played like shit that team in the 90s was much better than this current Steeler team this current Steeler team couldn't hold that 90 steam cleats

[@POMPLP72]

Fag

[@wardefiant]

How did they not win a Superbowl with that Blitzburg D? Cowher always strategized and went for it when conservative run game would have won the day or was too conservative when in hindsight he should have went for it. If you rewatch the games and pinpoint a play here or there had such a strategic turn to a playoff game. And The Steeler identity was run game and D in those days and it seems like they botched it with their first year QB rather than ride the Bus pre halftime in this game.

[@mae2759]

Man, the Steelers loved to break your heart in the playoffs in the 90s and early 2000s. Winnable games too.

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever😅

[@josem.7183]

Yeah I remember watching my broncos beat the steelers in the playoffs @ denver 1990 Elway , here in pirrsburgh 1998 Elway, @ Denver 2012 Tebow, 2016 @ denver Manning,but I try not to think much about the 2006 Plummer 🐍 afc title game loss vs steelers..(t.v.)

[@tony84.]

3:30, 9:01, Great post! with the music, and the greatest of all time OH MY!!! Dick Enberg!

[@andrewnash4530]

Agree, it's like a warm hug from the past

[@chasetullar2732]

Dick Enberg sure had a way with words just magical!

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever❤

[@manuginobilisbaldspot2]

As of now, the last AFC Championship Game on NBC.

[@nikrenoface3540]

Wow wat a ride in the 90s nbc enberg fox madden summeral,this was the good ole days I get chills listening to this game these guys made u wanna watch football wat a treat

[@youtubin222]

i wish they kept this music forever lol

[@americankulak2294]

Terrell Davis: the greatest postseason running back in the 102 year history of this great game. Steelers fans, you got beat by the better team this time.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot2]

Wrong. Enabled by dirty ass cut blocks and lineman who smeared cooking spray on their jerseys so defenders couldn’t engage them. Broncos were dirty AF. Shanarat took after the 49ers who had to cheat to beat Dallas.

[@CElliotGonzo]

If Ben Roethlisberger was with the Steelers a decade earlier, they would’ve been a dynasty smh.. Kordell was so damn inconsistent, the rest of the team was solid af!

[@demetriusjohnson2240]

r.i.p charles johnson

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Broncos with those dirty cut blocks opened up huge holds for Terrell Davis. For example, look at Gary Zimmerman completely take out Kevin Henry at 3:07 by diving at his knees, paving the way for an easy touchdown.

[@ajbahus]

They cut block Levon Kirkland too. Kirkland: Man, why you cuttin? Griffith: I don't know. Why are you 300 lbs?

[@pens87668]

I was four years old when this game happened.

[@efl3249]

Everyone got their licks in on the Steelers in the 90's. Other than the 90's Buffalo Bills, quite possibly the most disappointing team in any decade to not win a Super Bowl

[@cowboyschad5x778]

I remember watching this game at a bowling alley with my friends. Good times

[@JohnnyHads]

Wow. That missed FG came back to haunt us like we all knew it would. And what an awful pass interference call on Lake. Steelers shoulda been in the Super Bowl. Kordell & The Bus on the big stage woulda been so fun to watch!!

[@tomsawyer5736]

Great game even though my Steelers lost.Dick Enberg is also my fav play by play man ever.

[@Mathtron5000]

Today I learned there was a storm in Burlington, Vermont on the day of the 1997 AFC/NFC Conference Finals

[@theeusthenopteron6483]

It was a major ice Storm in the northeast of the US and Canada. Haven’t anything close to that since.

[@Vjl5280]

Today Kordell would be an elite qb. Back then he was a jag.

[@dodoubleg2356]

I was at this game. That missed FG REALLY hurt the Steelers. THANKS NORM, JAGOFF!!! Take your place next to O'Donnell & Stewart on the all-time blunders list.

[@wardefiant]

I always thought with second and 2 in FG range and Kordell throws the Int in the endzone was the blunder of the day. Ride the bus - run down the half time clock and kick a FG or rush for a TD and you are up by 7 or 10 with Elway not getting the shot to score the 2 TD's before the half. That pre half game management by the Steelers took them away from the run game and thus, the eventual defeat. I always felt like the game turned on the Int before the half. But Cowher was never a good strategist. I'll take a half time lead and run game and defense and take my chances in that era of Football. It's why you traded for Bettis and then when he could have place you in the Super Bowl - you were forced to not use him because you were so far behind. Oh My! Dick Enberg was great!

[@omar10213245]

@@wardefiant agree 100%. that interception changed everything, steelers were on their heels for the rest of that game

[@redpillfreedom6692]

The last Conference Championship shown on NBC to date.

[@joncaparros4211]

Saddest dsy of my Life. The game was ours

[@Jonathan-oy4zy]

RIP Dick Enberg

[@gilbertescobedo9712]

Man I tell you,it makes me feel good seeing the Steelers get beat. Hahahaha.

[@bstove24]

How frustrating must Kordell Stewart's play have been for Steelers fans?

[@demetriusjohnson2240]

you have no idea man can't tell you how many time wtf are doing Stewart

[@dirkdiggler2865]

You have no idea….

[@mae2759]

He had many great plays, but followed them up with many "WTF are you thinking?" plays, which outweighed the good plays (see first INT in end zone in this clip). Very inconsistent. 97 and 01 were his best years.

[@gilbertescobedo9712]

Love seeing this kind of game, Steelers Getting Beat, 😂 What a Beautiful Day.! 😆

[@alexcharles2716]

Kordell threw this game away for the Steelers.

[@josd6132]

Around 4:00 Dermonti Dawson just pancacked the crap out of somebody on the big TD run by Kordell. Oh My!

[@danieldougan269]

I want to know what happened to this TV station that required them to conserve generator power.

[@theeusthenopteron6483]

It’s NBC WPTZ Burlington Vermont. There was a freezing rain storm in the northeast in January 1998 that lasted a week and destroyed the grid for many days and even weeks in some area. That’s why

[@jonathan_tong93]

©1998 GMA Network, Inc., Television and Production Exponents, Inc., SilverStar Communications, Inc., and NFL Productions LLC

[@nickcurran3105]

I was at this game. I sat in my wife's friend's luxury box.

[@eduardocazares2119]

Lo bueno que la revancha llego muy pronto en el 2005 #HereWegoo

[@Davidjon1946]

How did steelers fans feel about Kordel Stuart as there starting quarterback going into the season?? Where they excited ??? What were the thoughts about him as the face of the franchise?

[@bologna470708]

Another blown afc championship. It should’ve been Super Bowl appearance number three in the Cower era. Horrible pass interference call in second quarter set up a Denver TD. Missed fg by Steelers and an int in the red zone by Kordell was the difference.

[@l.l.e.8590]

The Denver Broncos always win in key games over Cleveland, Pittburg and Kansas City.

[@ncnuggets]

The game could've been tied with a fg attempt from Denver in the final seconds to win. If, ifs and buts were candy and nuts...

[@skittleluva4]

Garbage PI call before half to give Denver a free 7 points, and the missed field goal early did the Steelers in.

[@jonnycolt3124]

Got enough ads running, bro… geez

[@brypete]

Im a die hard Steelers fan and I have come to the realization the most of my fellow Steelers fans are morons and are delusional. Football is the ultimate team sport and to blame solely cowher or slash for this loss is just dumb. Norm missed a fg and carnell lake got called for a phantom pass interference call that gave denver a ton of yards on a key 3rd down. Same thing in 01. We gave up 14 points on special teams and we lost by 7 and started the bus coming back from a calf injury that sidelined him for weeks. Then we hear in the comments how much they hate Tomlin, get real, If Tomlin was let go by the Steelers he would have a head coaching job the very next day. I mean I heard last year fans were saying we were going to go to the super bowl with Mitch after beating Cincy in the opener.? Our fan base is starting to sound like the cowgirls in that aspect. I love my Steelers and always will but I despise most of the fan base.

[@Someweirdpet]

like for Three Rivers Stadium

[@Knightmessenger]

What source is this recording? It definitely looks too sharp and detailed to be regular vhs.

[@theeusthenopteron6483]

It’s was recorded on regular VHS at SP quality in January 1998. Then it was recorded on DVD in 2002. All my 80’s and 90’s VHS SP recording didn’t degrade from 2002 on because they were digitally recorded.

[@Knightmessenger]

@The Eusthenopteron you must have used a good vcr for taping and playback. So much vhs footage I see doesn't do either.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

I predict Denver gets rolled by Green Bay. The Packers are too good.

[@spinner9057]

When the Squealers lose, everybody wins

[@utahsilvey5930]

Game was fixed refs held john Elways hand