Regardless of how bad the Chiefs were in 1974, it’s hard to believe that their week 13 home game against the Oakland Raiders was not a sellout.
@Tryp-j9d5 ай бұрын
LOTS of their fans ALWAYS stayed home and DID DRUGS!!
@marquan19765 ай бұрын
Broadcast Controversy Videos are the best!!!!
@barbaracaroll5 ай бұрын
JG news is the best channel on KZbin i love it very much thanks JG!
@DavidDykes-dm9lc5 ай бұрын
I agree 100%!! I've been watching NFL football for over 50 years and a lot of these stories flew past my radar. Great story hunter JG!!! I look forward to every new video 😁
@chrisguardiano61435 ай бұрын
This is very similar to what happened a year earlier with CBS's coverage of the World Hockey Association or WHA during the playoffs in the LA area. For some context, the WHA was the rival league of the NHL during most of the 70's & the two leagues engaged in a war for players, TV contracts & new expansion markets. CBS had gotten the rights to cover the WHA after being dumped by the NHL in favor of NBC. Like what happened with the Chiefs, the LA Sharks were unable to sell out the LA Sports Arena for Game 6 of their first round playoff series with Houston which was going to be shown nationally on CBS & the game would be blacked out in LA. CBS's original plan was going to have the LA market get the other nationally televised playoff game between Cleveland & Philadelphia which was Game 5 of that series. However that series ended 2 days earlier when Cleveland won Game 4 so CBS decided that the LA market would get a rerun of the CBS Sports Spectacular (CBS's answer to ABC's Wide World of Sports) instead. However in a shocking twist, the CBS affiliate in LA decided to show the LA-Houston game anyway mainly because they wanted to support the Sharks in any way they could. There was also a sense of sticking it to the NHL's LA Kings since they had been rejected by them for a local TV deal. As for how the game would turn out, Houston would go on to win it & the series at the last minute 3-2. After that first season, CBS decided to step away from the WHA in favor of covering the NBA which they just acquired from ABC & wouldn't cover hockey again until the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals when they showed Game 6 between the Flyers & Islanders.
@danielbowden63305 ай бұрын
Thanks for your entry.
@chrispappa7045 ай бұрын
I've always hated the black out rule. Especially when I was a kid in late 80's and into my teens in the 90's.
@Jason_Maier5 ай бұрын
From what I've read, the blackout rule was put in place because many in Washington couldn't watch the Redskins/Packers 1972 Divisional Game.
@crowtservo5 ай бұрын
Yep, JG9 mentioned it in his video about the sold out 49ers game in 1981 that got blacked out.
@jackmessick28695 ай бұрын
When Washington politicians couldn't see the game, they started speechifying about removing the immunity from monopoly laws for the NFL. So the Redskins specifically needed to be playoff-bound before the NFL budged on the blackout rule. In fear, the NFL (Pete Rozelle) removed the rule "experimentally" for Super Bowl VII, so Washington residents couldn't watch the NFC Championship game either, unless they drove out of town.
@WaltGekko5 ай бұрын
Actually I believe it was the NFC Championship Game between the then-Redskins and Cowboys the following week.
@Hillers625 ай бұрын
I remember this...and I lived in Dallas and am a Cowboys fan...We always wished for a sellout. so we could see the game on TV..
@johnmanier79685 ай бұрын
I remember watching Falcons-Dolphins, and then CBS cut away to Giants-Chiefs when it became a blowout. CBS’s top game that week was at 1 pm ET, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, which was the second pairing for the broadcasting team of Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier.
@randytracy17425 ай бұрын
Regarding the chiefs in 1974-it was their first losing season since 1963 when they moved to Kansas City from Dallas and it cost Hank stram his job! 😮😮😊🏈🏈🏈👀💥😳☹️👍💥🔥
@barbaracaroll5 ай бұрын
I love your collection of Giants helmets
@Sith_dude5 ай бұрын
You can tell he loves to polish his helmet 😂😂😂
@micthekwik5 ай бұрын
I remember all the motels/hotels in town would advertise "Giants On TV" on Sundays in the 1960's/1970's. They had special rates for die-hard New Yorkers to rent a room for a Sunday afternoon.
@jasonlinz20075 ай бұрын
Love those Giants uniforms
@WasMachenSieHier5 ай бұрын
JG, a suggestion: every video you say some version of "before we talk about X, we need some context about Y" and it kinda really drags on for something very obvious. Of course we know we need context, that's why we're watching a video on the topic. You could literally just start at "in 1974, Chiefs head coach Hank Stram had missed the playoffs in back to back years, and his magic was starting to wear off." It keeps the pace up and keeps your videos from sounding the same, especially since you post every day. Keep it up man!
@Mahomie_155 ай бұрын
Respectfully, the man literally uses that statement in every single video, and it doesn't hurt the quality of the content. I've been a subscriber of his since his early days.
@WasMachenSieHier5 ай бұрын
@@Mahomie_15 I know he does, that's why it gets repetitive for me. You're welcome to disagree
@ShawnieMac5 ай бұрын
JG needs to tighten up on his narrations, and use better background music on his videos. I like learning about these obscure anecdotes about NFL broadcast history, but the droning on and repeating certain things takes away from the quality of these videos.
@JayTemple5 ай бұрын
You may as well ask the Fonz to stop saying, "Aaaaay."
@marcus8135 ай бұрын
Lawrence and Overland Park, Kan. are already in the Chiefs' primary DMA, so they were in the same situation as Kansas City, Mo. even without secondary DMAs such as Topeka, Kan. being blacked out. I wish CBS erroneously flipped the switch to give WTVT more Buccaneers home games when I was a kid.
@Musicradio77Network5 ай бұрын
Over in New York City, WCBS-TV (channel 2) ran the Giants/Chiefs game instead of Dolphins/Falcons game, because the Giants are a local team, but it never blacked out another team.
@kevinmadden16455 ай бұрын
The victory over the Chiefs was one of two games that the Giants won in 1974.The other was against Dallas((14-6).
@WaltGekko5 ай бұрын
That Giants-Chiefs game was always airing in New York because it was a road game.
@Musicradio77Network5 ай бұрын
@@WaltGekko That’s because for three reasons, WCBS-TV (channel 2) has the Giants, WNBC-TV (channel 4) has the Jets, and WABC-TV (channel 7) has “Monday Night Football” where it has two New York City teams.
@WaltGekko5 ай бұрын
@@Musicradio77Network Right. We know this. That has been the case and continued when FOX took over the NFC and CBS the AFC. Now, however, neither network is tied to a conference and you have many more cross-flexes.
@ASMRPeople5 ай бұрын
It's sad how few of games the networks saved recording of prior to the late 70s. Video of the telecast would be great here.
@toddbiesel42885 ай бұрын
Just weird seeing another Chiefs player wearing #15.
@JayTemple5 ай бұрын
Once they realized the mistake, they might have feared that if they switched, they'd be fined for BOTH errors. (or whatever penalty they face in these situations)
@aarond235 ай бұрын
Into the 90s or even 00s this 'sell out' or blackout rule was still in effect, used to happen in Indianapolis pretty often until Peyton Manning era
@CTubeMan5 ай бұрын
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following: 1. Why Kansas City didn’t get to see a Chiefs home game that sold out in 1973, the year the blackout rule was changed. 2. A Chiefs game in 1985 CBS “was not supposed to air”.
@lesliebell41895 ай бұрын
9:02 Which is worse than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play. These games occurred on November 3, 1974.
@msarzo5 ай бұрын
So? The point is, if you throw an incomplete pass, your passer rating is 39.6. If you throw 800 incomplete passes in a season without a single interception, your passer rating is 39.6.
@Bruce128675 ай бұрын
Talk about being asleep at the switch.
@WaltGekko5 ай бұрын
Actually, the "six-hour window" was not true before 1979. That occurred after in Week 12 of the 1978 season, the Jets (against the Patriots) and Giants (against the Eagles in the infamous "Miracle in The Meadowlands" game), both playing at home at Shea Stadium and The Meadowlands respectively led to where viewers in New York DID NOT get a 4:00 PM ET game since neither game was expected to sell out in time (for the Giants, it was the closest they came to ending a long streak of sellouts that continued until the 1987 NFL strike while for the Jets, they had already failed to sell out one home game that season, something outside of the strike games hasn't happened since). After that season, one of the Jets or Giants would ALWAYS be scheduled for 1:00 PM and the other at 4:00 PM (except when the teams played each other) as the six-hour rule took effect for the 1979 season. One video I'd like to see JG9 do is about the infamous December 14, 1980 game where the then-winless Saints beat a 3-11 Jets team at Shea. This game was notable because on CBS it ONLY aired in New Orleans (and by all accounts, it was isolated from even The NFL Today halftime show from the game being on KZbin) because WCBS-TV (Channel 2) in New York chose NOT to air that game even though it was a sellout, choosing instead to air a then-St. Louis football Cardinals-Eagles game (that they did break away from in the second quarter for a moment of silence for John Lennon, who had been murdered the previous Monday night where near the end of regulation Howard Cosell told the world Lennon was killed). The close proximity of Philadelphia to NYC was why WCBS-TV chose to air the Eagles game in that instance, the last time that ever happened as the NFL changed the broadcast rules for 1981 where a home sellout had to be televised in the home market (with one highly notable exception in 1981 when an Oilers-49ers game on NBC could not be shown in the Bay Area because the Raiders played in Miami I believe that week that JG9 went into a while back).
@eddiecharlie775 ай бұрын
Back in 1974 if the networks CBS or NBC had a NFL doubleheader schedule, the home market team playing a home game, that city would not get a second game do to a rule that was placed for decades but It was changed i think around 2010
@ricknibert64175 ай бұрын
During the 1980s CBS would have aired a game at noon and NBC at three.
@gluserty5 ай бұрын
My parents went to the first Monday Night Football game at Rich Stadium in Buffalo back in 1973, and it was against these fading Chiefs (Bills won handily). Minus that note, I KINDA get the draconian rule with blacking out home games so fans attend games, since if everyone just stays home to watch.... it's a "If a tree falling in the woods does it make a sound?" deal I guess, since the whole system breaks down if no one goes to the games, but we all have television for a reason as well. I don't know.
@101southsideboy5 ай бұрын
you forgot a 4th . Having a super tall antenna Where i am in Chicago suburbs . to carry a bears home game my dad would aim the antenna towards Milwaukee which was only 50 miles to the north . although chi from Milwaukee is 90 miles
@benjaminrealy56615 ай бұрын
As for not switching back once mistake was realized, it wouldn't have negated the fact that the mistake happened. The rule was still broken. Breaking another rule to switch back would mean now 2 rules were broken. As for why no punishment, no party suffered financially from this error. It was a relatively new concept, mistakes happen. And it was a city closer to the 75 mile radius as opposed to the stadium.
@alanstrong555 ай бұрын
A remaining ticket buyout got a Cowboys game on TV roughly 1991.
@anthony_rivera47355 ай бұрын
These days, cbs airing nfc vs nfc games is wrong.
@WilliamBrown-vg8zv5 ай бұрын
Get used to it
@marcus8135 ай бұрын
Making all games "free agents" was the right call and I had been wanting the NFL to do that for many years. It gives the NFL more flexibility in giving the best matchups the most visibility possible. Having the constraints of conference affiliation would limit the league in many ways.
@ricknibert64175 ай бұрын
If you have a doubleheader week, you want the best games. I'm still trying to understand if VHF channels outdraw UHF today.
@barbaracaroll5 ай бұрын
I don't think the Giants won a game at Yale bowl
@marcus8135 ай бұрын
They definitely didn't. I knew the Giants were awful for most of the '70s, but I didn't know they went winless at Yale until now.
@reluctantuser69715 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it have been the local affiliate that selected the wrong game and not the network. The network sends all their games up to satellite and the local affiliates are supposed to select the correct satellite&channel for rebroadcast. I would think the network would be uninvolved in this error, unless this Topeka station was one of the few stations that was owned by the network.
@mariosnum1fan5 ай бұрын
Hey! Was wondering if you could do a deep dive on stories since realignment (2002). I notice almost all of your videos are like before the 90s anyways.
@bigwillietheb5 ай бұрын
you know I live in the Tampa Bay area & during the 80's & most of the 90's all Tampa bay's home games were blacked out so it was nothing new for us cause the Bucs Sucked , never could do shit until Tony Dungy came along , but his first season they went 6-10 & I was like same ol Bucs , & then 1997-98 season they got the new uniforms & I thought they still gonna suck but then first game of the year they beat the 49ers & I said wait a minute we might have something here & then they went 10-6 that season & I also went to a game with my job that November on 11/16/97 they beat the Patriots 27-7 & almost had a shutout that day but New England got a touchdown at the final minutes of the Game , but still a good game
@rushbroussard53995 ай бұрын
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@owencrater70895 ай бұрын
After four minutes, I got tired of build up. Thumbs down