The STUPIDEST BROADCASTING CONTROVERSY in CBS HISTORY | Redskins @ Saints (1982)

[@Tubewings]

The week after this game, the Saints hosted the Atlanta Falcons just 24 hours (give-or-take) after the Sugar Bowl, with the field still decorated for the college bowl game, including PENN STATE and GEORGIA in the endzones. Oh, and eight years later, the Saints hosted the Los Angeles Rams on the final Monday Night Football game of the season, just 24 hours before the Sugar Bowl between Tennessee and Virginia. However, on that occasion, the MNF game had the SAINTS text in the endzones and the Saints helmet at midfield, with the field being quickly changed for the Sugar Bowl overnight.

[@jeffpearljam1976]

The dome used to have Tulane in the end zone during the regular season

[@satanlaffing]

Because TULANE also played in the dome on saturdays.

[@markellzey1531]

The Superdome had a Saints endzone and a Tulane endzone for years in the 80's. You wouldn't know that if you weren't in the Saints broadcast area and your team wasn't playing at the Saints.

[@satanlaffing]

Because TULANE also played in the dome on saturdays.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

This is very similar to when in 1998 (in their first year as a franchise) the Chicago Fire played Colorado in the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs at Soldier Field in front of a national TV audience on ESPN2. However because the Bears had a home game that weekend, the field had all the football markings on it with the soccer markings painted in yellow. In fact one of the goals was placed inside the end zone that had BEARS text in it. ESPN along with MLS were absolutely livid by this arrangement because by airing this playoff game ESPN was giving FOX free advertising for the Bears game they were airing that weekend which was going head to head against a slate of MLS Cup Playoff matches on ABC. MLS demanded that the field staff at Soldier Field paint over the BEARS text to prevent any ratings damage from happening which the field staff actually did as they painted over the text with instant removal paint that could be wiped off at the conclusion of the game. As for the match itself, it went to PK's with Chicago winning 3-2 & taking 1-0 series lead (this was when MLS had a best of 3 playoff format which is coming for the upcoming season). Chicago would go on to win its only MLS Cup to date beating DC 2-0 & becoming the last team in the big 5 leagues (NBA, MLS, NHL, MLB & NFL) to date to win a title in their first year of existence.

[@brianstacey2679]

Today, during college football season, Hard Rock Stadium has a generic "Miami" in both endzones in colors that match up with both the Dolphins and Hurricanes. It's just cheaper and easier. That's why Met Life has the generic NFL logo at the middle. It costs a lot more and takes a lot more time to switch that out, so its easier just to have the shield.

[@tedharrington5432]

I watched that game live, and as a 15 year-old, I had no idea there was a controversy due to the Sugar Bowl logos. Useless Info - This game was the first time Washington Redskins played in the Superdome.

[@RCVictoryLane]

5:11 for one of our favorite catchphrases

[@KevinT7274]

The legendary Guido Merkens.🤣

[@tedharrington5432]

Guido Merkens played Strong Safety, Free Safety, Wide Receiver, Quarterback, Kick Returner, Punt Returner, and Punter...Jack of All Trades...Master of None. He even blocked a punt in 1987!

[@marcelotriunfo18]

@@tedharrington5432 How many different uniform numbers did he have to cover all those positions?!!😄

[@seancanova7396]

I remember Guido. I guess Kenny Stabler and Dave Wilson were both hurt that week.

[@michaeldemenchuk6988]

Did they have the technology to make quick changes to those old Astroturf fields in 1982? I remember when the Jets moved to Giants Stadium they basically had end zones that could be rolled up like carpets to change them for each team. What was done in Atlanta didn't exist then.

[@darrellmayberry7784]

I would expect this from John Mecom who has to be in the top 10 as worst Owners in NFL history and under his ownership the Saints never had a winning season but in two years Tom Benson as owner had the Saints in the playoffs and by 2010 a Super Bowl title so the bad at their job statement in this video describes John Mecom perfectly.

[@mccstory]

They had Tulane painted on that side for years. It was common for the saints to have that enzone something else that the superdome housed.

[@nerdsoftheasylum]

Oh! I can kinda answer why the turf in the clip was the way it was in the 49ers/Saints game, from the opening til the early 90s or so, there was always one endzone painted for the Saints, the other for the Green Wave. I think it only ever got switched for the Super Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Saints playoff games during that era. Edit : Make that from after the Jazz moved out til the early 90s, as the comment below pointed out.

[@tedharrington5432]

Not during the 1977 season. The endzones were actually blank (just plain green turf).

[@nerdsoftheasylum]

@@tedharrington5432 You're right, i forgot about that, I probably shoulda said after the Jazz moved from the dome instead of opening.

[@sarahr3113]

Great vid as usual! Did you get a new mic? Sound is *chef’s kiss*

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Thanks! Amazingly enough, it's the same mic I've been using. Only difference is that now, I put the audio file after I record into an AI tool (Adobe Podcast), and it does everything for me. Makes the sound better and allows me to get more videos out

[@sarahr3113]

Oh nice call!

[@anthony0358]

I love this video! I remember that Sugar Bowl but I don’t remember the staff at the Superdome starting to paint the field for that game prior to an NFL game

[@BlueOpinion]

I know now that you got 3 channels, possibly 4 to deal with... dam sun!.. but I would love a indepth review of the '82 season by each playoff team and how they got there past the strike weeks.

[@jamesrobertson9761]

The history that building is associated with is mind boggling.

[@stevengrvp]

Friday story oh yeah that's 4 videos in 24hours

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

We've got a JG8 video dropping at 6 PM ET tonight too Make that 5 videos in a 31-hour stretch

[@stevengrvp]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 that's great love the work. Shout out from a met/jet fan from new York city. I know there's a met/jet story coming

[@mrmoose6619]

@@stevengrvp There should be at least one great story since they shared Shea for all those years. There was once a JG video about the Mets and Football Giants playing at the same time.

[@shifty1927]

Rip Dave Butz

[@johncaparulo4800]

1986 AFC Championship: Denver at Cleveland (The Drive)… Cleveland Municipal Stadium painted one end zone for the Browns and one end zone for the Broncos (a la the Super Bowl)… Never seen that before or since.

[@leogetz3570]

I think the double overtime game between the Dolphins and Chiefs in the 71 playoffs had both helmet logos on around the 35 or 40 yard lines. Not sure if that was an NFL thing or if some teams decided to do it as a show of sportsmanship

[@bobscott2429]

@John Caparulo Denver's end zone was very crowded, with the old NFL shield (which I like better than the current one), the BRONCOS wordmark (which, oddly, appeared in the same Optima font the Browns used), and their old helmet logo.

[@bobscott2429]

@@leogetz3570 It was a George Toma thing. Toma was the longtime groundskeeper at Kansas City's former ballpark, Municipal Stadium, home of football's Chiefs and baseball's Athletics and Royals, and their current stadiums, Arrowhead and Kauffman. He was the one who put the visitors' and the Chiefs' helmet logos on either side of midfield at Municipal from 1969 to 1971, including the Dolphins-Chiefs playoff mentioned earlier. (In New Orleans at SB 4, Toma put the Vikings' and Chiefs' logos on the Tulane Stadium field.) TRIVIA: At Arrowhead in 1973, Toma began using "directional arrows" as field markings.

[@ghostchili100]

In pre-merger days that was common in a lot of NFL stadiums, even in the regular season. It occasionally popped up post-merger; in the AFC championship game following the 1972 playoffs, the Steelers hosted the Dolphins (no seeding back then); one end zone had “Dolphins,” albeit in black and gold and in a non-team-specific font

[@johnliberty3647]

5:19 one of the more controversial Redskins TD that season.

[@CTubeMan]

From that angle I can see why. However, JG9 showed another angle later where we can see the Saints defensive back deflected the ball before Brown caught it.

[@johnliberty3647]

@@CTubeMan I am not taking any side on the call because it involves multiple confusing rules, I am just saying it was the most controversial TD that year for the Redskins. I know if I was a Saints fan and saw that I would be angry. But I was a Redskins fan so I am cool with the call lol

[@CTubeMan]

Since you mentioned the 49ers-Saints game from the year before this unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how the CBS affiliate in Shreveport didn’t show that game.

[@seancanova7396]

I'm from New Orleans and I went to Louisiana Tech in Ruston in the early to mid 90s. I remember the Shreveport affiliate showing the Cowboys over the Saints on a few occasions. Luckily, Ruston was in between Shreveport and Monroe so we got both CBS affiliates, and Monroe always showed the Saints.

[@kwbjlive3863]

Guido Merkins was Bum Phillips' version of Taysom Hill, except Hill is an All-Pro calibre QB compared to Merkins.

[@Rockhound6165]

Merkens was one of the Eagles strike QB's.

[@Raykibb1]

Thanks, I had totally forgotten Guido Merkens, thanks for the memories.

[@jamiewiesner135]

Less than a minute I knew what the controversy was going to be when I saw the sugar bowl logo.

[@bas3q]

This entire video could have been a minute long and communicated the same information.

[@mdoerty13]

The Superdome always had one Saints end zone and one Tulane end zone during this era.

[@anthonyjkenn6319]

To be fair, Tulane at that time also used the Superdome for their home games, so I suppose the staff at the Superdome were too lazy to change out the end zones for every college/pro game.

[@greensfarmland]

Interesting take on this story, I actually have a little memory of this game back in the day. Back then we only had four channels of television; CBS, ABC, NBC and PBS. Don't recall anyone ever talking about who was better, we all just watched what we liked. College football wasn't near as popular as it is today, and for the most part everyone was outside doing stuff during college games, at least out in the country. Rarely even heard anything about who won in college in conversation. Do remember however during this time there was a push to promote college sports over television, so that could be the reason, but it's also possible that guy was just more competitive in against the other networks. Just seems to me that it wasn't a big deal to most back then, because each of the four networks had their role in entertainment, and it all worked great. Few years later came Fox, then a few years after that came cable, and it seems like television was far more entertaining with only four channels, then the 50+ channels today. Lol

[@mikepuleo9375]

I like the "because they were very bad at their job " explanation.

[@ianjones6910]

The exact opposite situation occurred for the 1988 Sugar Bowl; both end zones (and I think the midfield logo) were for the Saints, because 2 days later, the Saints hosted a wild card game, their first appearance in the playoffs. I think the technology for stripping paint and repainting wasn't as good back then, or was prohibitively expensive, because it was typical to have the Sugar Bowl logo at midfield late in the Saints' season.

[@ianjones6910]

My memory was faulty; I pulled up a video of that Sugar Bowl, and only one end zone was the Saints. The other end zone was a generic "Sugar Bowl" end zone, and the Sugar Bowl logo was at midfield. Auburn played Syracuse in that game. I do remember Keith Jackson mentioning the Saints and their first playoff game during the Sugar Bowl.

[@bjnt92281]

The artist formerly known as Heinz Field has PITTSBURGH in the Steelers colors in one end zone and parking lot hash marks in the other end zone. I guess that has something do with the University of Pittsburgh who shares the field with the Steelers.

[@jeffpearljam1976]

Guido!

[@tombradley37]

In 1993 48 hours after the Sugar Bowl between Alabama & Miami (FL), was an NFC Wild Card Matchup between the Eagles & Saints

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

Before I even watched this video I thought it had to be from 1982. The thumbnail was showing the 1982 version of the Redskins logo.

[@MichaelPiz]

That was my senior year at Penn State. I don't remember this thing but I _do_ remember that we won the national championship! 😁

[@raymondhopwood9393]

Yeah, unfortunately.

[@DNSKansas]

In the Saints' 1985 season finale vs. the Falcons, the Sugar Bowl logo was at the 50-yard line, and the end zones were painted for Tennessee and Miami.

[@Tubewings]

Actually, only the TENNESSEE endzone was painted. The rest of the field was decorated for the Saints.

[@Musicradio77Network]

10:35 is the clip from “The Black Stallion”, the best horse movie ever along with “National Velvet”. WCBS-TV (channel 2) in NYC did ran the movie during New Year’s Night in 1983 while WABC-TV (channel 7) ran the “Sugar Bowl” and WNBC-TV (channel 4) also had the “Orange Bowl”.

[@classicrockbeagle]

I forgot Guido did some QB work as well. He spent most of his career playing WR and ST

[@ATCguy1973]

5:13 for the trademark line 😁👍

[@marcus813]

I don't think CBS had much more than the Sun Bowl back then as far as bowl games were concerned, so it wasn't even that deep for CBS to cry about. CBS had to air the game regardless of how the field was decorated.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

CBS aired the Cotton Bowl on January 1, but that was in the afternoon at 1:00. It would not have interfered in the slightest bit with this bowl game

[@michaeldemenchuk6988]

CBS aired the Cotton Bowl for decades, but it was always played during the day. Eventually, when it was left out of the BCS, the rights changed to Fox. Now it's part of the playoff rotation ESPN package.

[@marcus813]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 I don't know how the hell I forgot about the Cotton Bowl given that I watched it on CBS when I was a kid. Oops...😆

[@mgb4692]

@@michaeldemenchuk6988 They also aired the Gator Bowl for a few years, their last one was also Bobby Bowden's last Their first one was the final collegiate game of Megatron and Roman Reigns--making the latter even better, it was WVU and Pat McAfee

[@keithbrown8490]

Being a big Skins fan in those days I saw the game on TV live and probably didn't give a hoot what was painted on the field just the Skins won and went on to the Super Bowl. In fact I didn't care about the outcome of the Sugar Bowl the next week I was probably going to watch "The Black Stallion" again which was a great movie I saw in the theaters and still love that movie .

[@CinemaDemocratica]

The Redskins lost exactly one game that season: The MNF opener against Dallas. The 'Skins never lost again that year.

[@AdamJ617]

A link you could’ve included is the one about ABC affiliate in Rochester, NY, WOKR (now WHAM) airing a CBS game bc the now-Former CBS affiliate, WHEC (now NBC-affiliated), decided to air a Taped Delayed HS game, telling Rochester to Go To HEC.

[@CTubeMan]

Ready for a Cognac?

[@johnliberty3647]

I live in Rochester during this time period, actually it was North Chili but same TV Market. I Remember the NBC ABC 10/8 switching, mid to late 1980's. I recall 13 taking turning into WHAM (1180 talk radio letters) about the time I left the area. Drove back recently after about a 20 year period of not being there and my oh my that place changed more in the 20 years after I left than it did the 20 years I lived there.

[@barbaracaroll]

1982 and 1987 seasons should not be counted in any records be it team or individual because of the strikes

[@chuckyo7541]

The reason why this happen bcuz the state of Louisiana is supa cheap! It seems like every team from that time has had a new stadium accept the saints. I blame the state of Louisiana!😂😂😂

[@buhbuhjaychampagne1706]

The Superdome wasn’t that old at the time. It was opened August 3, 1975.

[@MatthewBaumgarten]

I believe 1982 was the year Washington won the Superbowl, they were really good that season

[@fromthehaven94]

9:32 HA HA HA HA!

[@benjaminfeige7986]

In 2011, the Washington Football team honored both Army and NAVy by keeping their respective names on the endzone for the New England-Washington game that was played 1 day after Army-Navy. 4:37 mark of following clip. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6Wxd5WOibKIfc0

[@Rockhound6165]

They were the Redskins. Stop being a woke fool and call the team what it was at the time.

[@frankez99]

More Redskins videos please! HTTR4LIFE

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Why are you rushing your extra information? Relax, Jag, relax. A post is always better when the scene setting is not running ahead of itself. Otherwise, darned good job, Jag.

[@dr.roberts4508]

82 Fox not up and running yet

[@Ben-eh3ff]

Just get to the freakin point!

[@jodeboyd8386]

11:13 "if you are a fan of football" ... immediately goes to ad saying "BASKETBALL is back"