NFL's Greatest Hits (1988)

Ripped from my VHS collection. Sports Illustrated's NFL's Greatest Hits from 1988. The tape that introduced me to the history of the NFL. Surprised I didn't wear it out.

[@bartpage5629]

Born in 85, not sure when my dad got this tape, but this defined my childhood in an all-American athletic family. Watched this at least 30 times before I was 10. Found this and haven't watched in 20 years. What a sport, what a tape.

[@thelighthasbeentaken2344]

I never thought I'd see this again. I love the commentator's voice

[@arnoldgarzajr1164]

Born in 82,I think this film was copyrighted in 1988 because the latest when this was made was the 1987 NFL season when the Washington beat Denver in Super Bowl 22 and the score was 42-10.I bought this video at Wal Mart in the electronics section in 1989 maybe 1990.I was 7 or 8 years old and I loved it I have been watching pro football since 1989-2023.

[@cipherpac]

I was born in 1990 and am 99% sure my dad got this from a gas station before I was born (he was an avid collector of gas station VHS tapes, so we had a lot of old WWF and Three Stooges tapes as well). My brother and I would pop this bad boy in anytime we had an hour to kill.

[@alecschneickert8829]

Born in 2002 and I watched this when I was only 4 years old, this video truly made me fall in love with this sport!

[@jamesonbirchall8722]

Same for me. Born in 84’ watched this countless times. Played 5 years of Pop Warner because of it.

[@Hauri1972]

From a time, when Football was still a contact sport. Had this on VHS and watched it over and over again. Great to get back in time with this.

[@thelighthasbeentaken2344]

This is when real men still played football for football. They got hit so hard

[@jhfaber23]

I've been looking for this since KZbin came out. Thank you so much! I wore this vhs out.

[@WalkingRoscoe]

Yeah, me too.

[@kalelxavier80]

Same

[@jeffnelson1186]

Same

[@TDH24Live]

My brother and I watched it this so much. We knew every word

[@akanke16]

Me too bro omg

[@tehuti_the_rebel]

I had the VHS tape of this as a kid. And i must admit it stayed in my VCR for a long time...lol. Watching it again brought me back to my childhood watching and learning about all these great players from back in the old days. This is definitely a classic NFL Films tape. I love it. Peace!!

[@jhfaber23]

I had this and super duper football follies from 88. Grew up on a farm 20 miles from town. I'll bet one of them was in the vcr at any given moment for 5 years 😂

[@Jason_Maier]

My father had this video .... I watched this a bunch as a kid. Those bleeped out language bits crack me up!

[@miami8089]

I used to have this on VHS back in the day. Probably watched it a thousand times. The best NFL highlight film made to date back then. Thank you very much for posting. Appreciate it.

[@dutchfan1]

Me too… watching this brings back memories It’s too bad that kind of physical play back then doesn’t exist anymore 😢😢😢😢😢

[@Lordslothable]

I watched this tape 11 billion times it’s all I had lol

[@codynevers51]

I still remember all the music! This is iconic

[@SunshineDeluxe]

I watched this all the time with my dad when I was about 5 years old. This and NFL Primetime are the main reasons I became a football fan.

[@jayrate8352]

Man! I used to watch this before my little league football games in the early 90's, and I would quote LT all the time from this film to pump up myself and my team on GameDays, good times! Great oldies never die! Watching it with my son now, it's a crazy blast from the past! Thanks for posting my childhood memories!

[@herrcobblermachen]

All I know from football came from watching this over and over in the 90s, and Tecmo Bowl. People start talking fantasy football today and its immediately what I start spouting and people ignore me vs wasting their time to roll their eyes at my outdated picks. Been looking for this for YEARS, and today, first try, bam, there it is. THANK YOU!

[@waynereedspkiniii702]

90% of those hits would be illegal today.

[@sirtype-alot3391]

Bill Lee you aint lyin

[@MrNuts70]

Now its closer to 95%, some pretty bad calls from even worse refs already in the season

[@depaola63]

NO SHIT !! These guys from this classic era took a POUNDING !!

[@williamdiemert2116]

That's true

[@robertvallejos9374]

Yep. Sad part is the old timers were paid crap and played a man's game. Now these players get paid through the roof and get babied. If anyone deserved the money, it was the guys in this film!

[@salokinleuname9929]

Literally would watch this everyday with my pops until I was about 12. Greatest football video ever.

[@danski6694]

I got this as a child for Christmas in like 1989 and watched it 100 times! Taught me about a lot of history! Thanks for the upload!!

[@TheIamPC]

same, came with my subscription to Sports Illustrated.

[@leroystover1062]

Same here 1989 still have it 😅😅

[@davidsekowski1710]

Man I used to watch this on VHS 📼 everyday after school and before football practice. If you spent the night at my house you were watching this and lifting weights in the basement. This got me so pumped for practice and games. I went out and thought I was LT!!!! Loved smashing some people up.

[@IIICASEIII]

Thought about this earlier and decided to do a youtube search. SO GLAD I DID! Thank you for posting this! Like a time machine transporting me back decades.

[@codynevers51]

Brings back great memories of my childhood. Instant classic!

[@atbsigma]

Good to see this available here. Thank you for posting it. With so many changes (for better or worse) in the NFL this is now a historical document.

[@Skazellino]

49:04 "Above all else, Gentleman, Pro Football is a game of great impact" Oh how the times have changed. Miss those stellar hits!

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Finally a robot voice that doesn't piss ya off

[@ddsnyder1979]

Would watch this over and over as a kid. Still great after 30 years.

[@drewmillz1]

Thanks for uploading this! Wow, what a great blast from the past! Back when football was pure sport. Not tainted with all of the rules, replays, and politics like today. I'm falling out of love with the NFL, but I'll always love this video from my childhood.

[@ruprechtwilliams9306]

Big Bad John 365 Classic

[@gerorozco]

This is my fav NFL films video ever. I used to have this on VHS and I've been looking for it forever! So glad you put this on here. Great memories of when I was a kid!

[@trionsundermeier6340]

Me too! 25 years I have been looking!

[@ghettoquality4649]

I still got this vhs... I 1st seen this 17 yrs ago

[@davedrabczyk2773]

The vhs I'm looking for came out in 91. Winning plays and whacky wonders. My wife got through avon, i wore that vhs out lol.

[@jermainesnyder2375]

90% of these hits would send you to prison today! 😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@toypianos469]

Had this VHS as a kid too, it's crazy how much even the score and dialogue is entrenched in my subconscious. Wild watching it decades later.

[@jhfaber23]

The music 🤌

[@korriemcintyre5166]

I can’t express how much I loved this film. I had the tape until it stopped working. It belonged to my grandfather before I was alive

[@Imgutc2]

MAKE FOOTBALL GREAT AGAIN

[@lamontsanford6330]

Imagine hitting a QB like this nowadays... They'll have the police come out and arrest you on the field

[@WalkingRoscoe]

"Show him, Felix".

[@dougmartian6854]

This is like the best video tape ever

[@McKnightMania]

Oh my God my favorite VHS tape of all time. Would take this to family reunions to watch it when I was 6 or 7. Love for songs without words was started here. Would love to identify and label tracks. Need helper!!

[@westonstevens3239]

Back in the day of gladiators killing eachother for our amusement. Great times.

[@josephgalvan998]

I wasn't born until 93 but I do find all this info very intriguing. I do enjoy some old school era before me

[@Ben-eh3ff]

My mom got me this for my 7th birthday in '90. Probably watched it a solid 200 times as a kid. Got a couple other ones too. NFL's greatest games was one. Ah I miss those day's.

[@ryants56]

Can I tell you one thing? That's three holding penalties on one football team in a quarter and a half. It ain't funny.

[@cprealone]

Me and my friends used to watch this tape all the time!!! This tape was the best of all the nfl film videos

[@jorgeguardado6015]

I got the vhs for free, because I subscribed to sports illustrated.

[@MarvelousWesty]

Music at 12:43 has been imbedded in my brain for over 30 years

[@michaelmartinez2500]

Performance by John Devereaux for KPM Music kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3S6qoiBfNKSgLM

[@michaelmartinez2500]

Performance by John Devereaux...a great one

[@Opry99er]

10:40 "No one did it like the Juice." Well said, sir....

[@majordbag2]

He sure did it, did it like no one else could!

[@SPACENOMADMALEV]

Really cool to see how beloved this video was too others as kids, I watched this weekly when I was a little kid and watching it again as an adult I can see why. This is just well made stuff! The editing and just overall feel of the video is really great. Thanks for uploading this gem

[@dsolid]

I remember renting this VHS many times at my local video store when I was a kid! haha

[@LarryShakeshaft]

Thank you for uploading this. I watched this VHS as a kid over and over. brought back great memories.

[@Skazellino]

Love these classic tapes. I had a few and some NBA ones.

[@bmarkprime9886]

Great to find this. Still have the tape. Lots of quotable moments

[@junkbuilds5973]

A carton of Winston smokes and you got this vhs for free. Thanks grandad. Love the 80s!

[@derrickennemer5050]

Ches Blake I got this from Sports Illustrated, when I was 8.

[@codynevers51]

Mine came from SI as well!

[@zontacorn1944]

I’m ecstatic this was put up. I watched this vhs 537,000 times as a kid

[@TheJobtate]

Funkydunkleman, that was truly inspirational. I am a better man for having seen.

[@jhfaber23]

😂

[@rogerguzman5206]

I was 7yrs old when we bought this on VHS. And still know the words. Best video ever made.

[@ajstimac2489]

“...SOMETHIN’ FUNNY ABOUT MARK BAVARO?!” As a kid I thought he was legit angry and I dared never laugh at anything Mark Bavaro 😂

[@jhfaber23]

😂

[@QueenReliableRenea85]

Rip Jim Brown. He definitely was the greatest Cleveland browns player.

[@cisco509]

As a teenager, this video on vhs tape introduced me to the legend of Jim Brown. RIP

[@QueenReliableRenea85]

@@cisco509 watching this as a kid introduced me to him as well

[@charleswronge4743]

I know this word for word, from the 80's to now

[@codynevers51]

This is what made me fall in love with the NFL!

[@sirtype-alot3391]

Its more entertaining to watch these old nfl videos than it is too watch modern day football

[@werewolf10011973]

Finally found this one!!! Thank you for uploading it!!!

[@artielaw5569]

Yooooooo I'm remember watching this as a kid.!!! 🙌🏾 good stuff mane

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

Larry Wilson SS from the Cardinals would've been fined for 70% of his biggest hits

[@LeighMet]

When he calls Johnny Untias the Greatest QB of all time 3:08 one must remember when this was released Tom Brady was 11 years old that October.

[@paulfloyd123]

No quarterback from nowadays can compare to the quarterbacks from the 60s through the 90s. They used to get slaughtered.

[@LeighMet]

@@paulfloyd123 Are you saying today's are better or yesterday'd were?

[@paulfloyd123]

Like I said the rules nowadays are advantageous to the quarterback... So I will take anybody from the year 2000 and back over anybody from this era.

[@AlabamaNationalChampionsOf2024]

Brady isn’t better than Unitas or Montana anyone else is a fair debate

[@j-fpilote1576]

Brady himself would admit he couldn't hold his idol's jockstrap... Joe Montana.

[@JamesJames-st2jn]

I watched this a thousand times. "Like LT, Howie Long , and Andre Tippett. I'm telling you!"

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

None of this is even allowed anymore.

[@Jts2192]

Damn I haven't seen this in years. so awesome

[@AnalogWolf]

Thanks for posting this, I've never seen this before. I do love vintage NFL, but personally I am glad they changed some of the rules to minimize these repeated blows to the head and after tackle body slams the defensive backs did on the QBs especially. The game is inherently brutal and that's part of the appeal honestly, but like anything there are limits.

[@depaola63]

@4:58 BAM !! One of the hardest hits ever ! and @5:34 that would be a $1 million fine today ! I remember when Joe " Turkey " Jones did that, could have killed Terry !! ALSO @49:47 Mel tried to kill Cliff on that play ! ( By the way #21 for the Oakland Raiders BELONGS in the HOF ! Branch has the #'s + 3 RINGS !! ..I am not a Raider fan , but respect GREATNESS ! Come on now !

[@isaacshaver6218]

Only 3 tackles/sacks In this video are actually still legal in today's NFL

[@karlooo79]

Me too, used to have them back in the 90s from my loved aunty and watched some good documentaries of NFL, Giants and Falcons teams. Loved and followed most of the NFL teams too, however my favourite were Bills, 49s and Giants, I used to take my school friends and played some cool games too…. Back in my childhood there was no football games in poland as they are now.

[@rubenavila1966]

Wow...it's finally on KZbin!...NICE! ...I watched this a thousand times on VHS cause I'm old school and I also used to make my kids watch it lol. Thank you for putting on KZbin :) Back when the real men played !

[@DYNAMITEKID54]

Been looking for this for years...Thanks for the upload

[@TDH24Live]

I didn't know it's been up here for four years

[@Loukas81]

Good old classic American Rugby! I used to watch this religiously as a kid!

[@staples069]

I got this VHS tape when I subscribed to Sports Illustrated and my brothers and we watched it over and over. I have been looking for it forever.

[@CHENOTV]

I guess felix is Siri’s dad 😂

[@realMartinHamilton]

I'm surprised mine didn't wear out too. When I moved I have all of my vhs tapes away. So glad you uploaded this. Haven't watched it in over 10 years. Wow talk about flashbacks!

[@gerorozco]

NFL AI in the 80's...

[@TornadoHound]

33:49...hahaha Thanks for this video. I had this VHS and wore it out. Fond memories.

[@elinovak3770]

I miss this time area of NFL flims presents on TV 📺 and VHS 📼

[@michaelhirt3330]

Born in 1990 watched this so many times on vhs great video

[@joshuaguillory1070]

Wonderful spiral by Williams! This whole video was and is perfect forever 😀🤗🤩👍😍😗😃😚😊☺❤

[@ender3360]

This VHS 📼 was on repeat in my house. Still get all the feels from it. Thanks for a wonderful childhood, Felix.

[@williehill47]

I had the VHS tape too

[@MVuke84]

16:15 Couldn't help but see the huge Marlboro cigarette sign over the stadium lol. We've come a long way since the 80's. Kids don't smoke now, we have a smart generation

[@Snk13_ty]

I remember my Uncle had a subscription to Sports Illustrated and got this VHS. I was in the 5th grade at the time and he let me borrow this. I finally gave it back to him after a year! I loved watching the highlights on this back in the day!

[@nickbillups3151]

20:37 to 21:06 22 illegal hits in today’s NFL.

[@NickolaiVolkov]

Absolutely loved this VHS. Watched it all the time at the daycare I went to back in elementary school. The song which starts at 3:44 has been stuck in my head for the past 30 years. Thank God for the Internet and modern apps! :) Monkey Business by Network Music Ensemble. In my head, I remembered it played at the part with LT, but, alas - I was wrong. :) Thanke for the upload!!

[@shahidwilson4313]

Wow.. childhood throwback... Does anyone remember see How They Run or has the upload?

[@insanelionfanify]

Brought to you by CTE.

[@broncosbreaks]

When I was a junior in high school, I took this video to a pregame pump-up. The whole team laughed at how silly this is. I got completely pumped. I watched this so much that it gives me tears after all these years

[@psusuxcox]

Then you went out and got your asses kicked.

[@broncosbreaks]

@@psusuxcox sure, maybe. I wouldn’t remember. It’s a good thing high school was not the highlight of my sports career

[@jhfaber23]

​@@broncosbreaksare you in any of the broncos card groups on fb?

[@ericwilliams6432]

I remember this myself it was awesome I'm surprised they hadn't take it off for being so violent you know the political correct crowd kids don't need to see these type of hits crowd

[@funkydunkleman]

If anyone can identify the track at 6:16, I'll give you 10,000 internet points.

[@McKnightMania]

I am with you brother!

[@frankwhite1895]

Isn’t that from Hoosiers

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

Stallworth catches a touchdown vs LA Rams Super Bowl 🏟 XIV In 1980 6:16

[@depaola63]

Terry threw a perfect pass there ! That was also a GREAT Super Bowl ! ( January 1980)

[@depaola63]

@@dumisatonyjohnson8145 #49 FS Rod Perry just missed it !!

[@c55411]

I remember watching this in vhs when I was a kid 😂

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

4:57 is a five-game suspension now.

[@jaw847]

Getting this tape as a young kid would heavily influence how I played football and even other sports. The jack Lambert highlights most specifically gave me an appetite for defense and delivering and taking hits from pee wee to high school And Thanks to this tape I did the step over once after a tackle in pee wee and got into a decent amount of trouble. The parents thought I was crazy and my dad/coach was not pleased

[@CHENOTV]

I would like to see how they edited videos in the 80s lol

[@aledaandytaylor2613]

God is good all the time amen!!!

[@REXX399]

0:01 I love that intro since I was a kid

[@cipherpac]

I watched this VHS so many times as a kid that aside from John Madden, Harold, Reggie, and FELIX were the most influential figures in my NFL fan experience.

[@joshuaguillory1070]

The musical composition (or score) is perfect! Everything is perfect! The runs, hits, passes, catches, flair, everything...

[@mattpillon8430]

This made me want to play football, and also want to be a high impact DB. Love the hits. Watched this on VHS hundreds of times as a kid growing up in the 80s/90s

[@alexamerling79]

old school football I love it

[@chazgordon9713]

So many memories just brought up. My fav tape as a kid along with Michael Jordan come fly with me

[@ironroad18]

Roids and coke, the unofficial sponsors of the NFL from 1974-2003.

[@samtrifecta4561]

OMG I remember having this on VHS ...

[@tiddiesattic]

Damn near every hit(especially on the QB's)would be a penalty in today's soft ass game

[@ryanboyd100]

NFL Greatest moments was my childhood favorites

[@jeromewilliams591]

I remember when this came out me and my older cousins watched this constantly

[@dogface1911]

Awesome! I used to watch this vhs ALL THE TIME when I was a kid. I've looked for it on here before but never found it. This is so good. Thanks