The CBS Decision That Screwed NFL Fans Over (Week 2, 1980)

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4 ай бұрын

During week 2 of the 1980 NFL season, CBS had three games available at their disposal for the 4:00 later window. And not only did the vast majority of the country get the worst of the three, but CBS refused to change the game off to a more competitive game, with their explanation as to why they refused to do this making no sense whatsoever
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@HouseBowlrz 4 ай бұрын

In the 1970s heading into the 1980s, CBS really meant Cowboys' Broadcast Station which is part of what made people loathe them.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, today, they loathe them because they keep beating, The, Dead Seahorse, that is, NCIS, why is this still on, no, seriously, three, spin-offs, got canceled, Mark Harmon's left, David McCallum's dead, and, they've reached, The, Gunsmoke Threshold, Gary Cole deserves better, (btw, I'm aware of its, inexplicably-high, popularity, but, there comes a point at which you must end a popular show for the sake of artistic integrity, that time's long over).

@andykillsu 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes America’s favorite pastime, watching the Cowboys getting utterly destroyed on national TV. Honestly I understand why they don’t change the game!

@anthony0358 4 ай бұрын

I see that Denver followed that tradition of forcing the Cowboys to wear their blue uniforms. Some teams loved to do this as if the blue uniforms were a jinx for Dallas.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

To be fair, it kind of was, they've won exactly two Playoff Games wearing them, including Tom Brady's last Game, Dick Vermeil started making the Eagles wear white for this exact reason.

@marcus813 4 ай бұрын

It wasn't isolated to the Cowboys game. The Broncos did the same thing the following Sunday, when they hosted the then-San Diego Chargers.

@veggieoilerfan2940 4 ай бұрын

@@marcus813The Broncos broke the rules in order to force the Chargers to wear their blue uniforms in San Diego during the 2003 season. When the Broncos traveled to San Diego in 2003, they reportedly only brought their white uniforms. The Chargers ended up wearing their blue uniforms for that game even though they had originally planned to wear their white uniforms. The Broncos were fined $25,000 by the NFL over the uniform controversy. When the Chargers traveled to Denver later in 2003, the NFL gave the Chargers the choice of uniform color. The Chargers opted to wear blue in Denver.

@dionr1168 4 ай бұрын

I believe that jinx has lost strength within the last decade. Why else have the Cowboys been wearing Navy Blues for one or two home games a year in recent years?

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@@dionr1168More like they lose whatever the uniform looks like, still, and, all, I can't thank them enough for finally putting Tom Brady out of our misery, no doubt, just none.

@kyle1910 4 ай бұрын

Now i need to know if CBS pulled away from the MIN-PHI Week 13 game in 1985 early in the 4th quarter in secondary markets when PHI was ahead 23-0

@kyle1910 4 ай бұрын

Thinking about it further in that window the only other CBS games were TB-GB and LAR-NO, both blowouts. So maybe a better example was TB-STL 1987 - what happened when it was 28-3 TB early in the 4th? That weekend there was a competitive game at the same time - WAS-PHI

@marquan1976 4 ай бұрын

Brodcasting Controversy......YES!

@YourPalAlRetroGamer 4 ай бұрын

Also, if you were lucky to have an NBC late game at that Sunday, you can switch over to that game because both games available on NBC were tight games with the Raiders/ Chargers game going to overtime.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

The, 1980-1983, Raiders finally lived up to their potential because, luckily, they didn't have a coach who thought they'd win by showing up, the Chargers got obliterated by a completely indifferent owner, and, the Steelers got annihilated by a senile owner who passed on Dan Marino.

@CTubeMan 4 ай бұрын

You showed how CBS transitioned to the Cowboys-Broncos game from the Lions-Packers game. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about that Lions-Packers game, and how Lions Quarterback Gary Danielson overcame personal tragedy to lead Detroit to victory that day.

@kyle1910 4 ай бұрын

And with that, CBS still chose to send Lindsey Nelson and Sonny Jurgensen to Denver, while Summerall/Brookshier doing WAS-NYG and Gowdy/Stram doing STL-SF

@tommyparkerparker 4 ай бұрын

I still don’t understand why the below #5 announcing team to Cowboys/Broncos.

@kyle1910 4 ай бұрын

@@tommyparkerparker I'm not entirely sure. I do know that for much of Summerall's time at CBS (not so much at Fox) it was "when in doubt, assign him to the Giants". That may not explain this particular weekend, or why the #5 crew was assigned to the marquee DH game. I don't have an answer for Week 2 of 1980, but I think it explains many other weekends.

@tommyparkerparker 4 ай бұрын

@@kyle1910 If it were these days, it would be like FOX if they had the doubleheader Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen getting Giants/Commanders, Kenny Albert/Jonathan Vilma getting the feature game Cowboys/Broncos. Or CBS cross flexing Nantz/Romo Giants/Wash , Andrew Catalon/ Tiki Barber/ Matt Ryan on Dallas/ Denver.

@kyle1910 4 ай бұрын

@@tommyparkerparker these days that would not happen. Networks are much more persnickety about their announcer hierarchy now than they used to be. In 1975 CBS had four different crews working their four postseason games.

@tommyparkerparker 4 ай бұрын

@@kyle1910 Yes I remember. On the years when CBS had the Super Bowl, they used the #2 announcing team on the conference (NFC) championship game. Notably Vin Scully but when CBS hired him in 1975 supposedly Scully was promised to call Super Bowl but never came about.

@chrisguardiano6143 4 ай бұрын

It isn't just the NFL that CBS did this to as earlier that year (April 6th to be exact) they did this with their NBA playoff coverage. Before I go further, I should point out that this was one of the first times they had aired NBA playoff games live as previously, they would air them on tape delay during this time period often as late night programming at midnight or 1 am. CBS's plan was to air a doubleheader of playoff action with everyone getting Game 3 of the Spurs-Rockets series in the Eastern Conference (very weird to say that) followed by regional playoff action from one of 2 series in the West, Blazers-Sonics or Kings-Suns. For most of the country, they got Kings-Suns which by the start of the 4th quarter was a blowout with the Suns leading 93-69. However like with this, instead of flipping to Blazers-Sonics so that the rest of the country could see how the defending NBA champions were doing, CBS refused to switch games because they thought the Sonics were not as popular nationally as the Suns were even though the Sonics were the defending NBA champions. Then to make this even more crazy, CBS decided to cut off coverage of Suns-Kings with about 3 minutes left so that they could show show highlights of the US GP from Long Beach in F1 that had taken place a week before. Now if you lived in Seattle, Portland or anywhere else in the PNW you got to see Sonics-Blazers in its entirety which the Sonics won 103-86 advancing to the Western Conference semifinals where they would beat Milwaukee in 7 games then fall to the Lakers in the Western Conference finals.

@clydemiller4776 4 ай бұрын

This would be the last time a major network forced viewers to watch a lopsided game involving the Cowboys when a closer game was available

@CTubeMan 4 ай бұрын

I see where you’re going with this, but I don’t know the punchline.

@marcus813 4 ай бұрын

I had no idea that CBS was losing the NFL ratings battle to NBC back then. This mess didn't help CBS' cause. All the criteria for switching those outside the Dallas and Denver DMAs and other markets that requested constant feeds were met, so CBS had no excuse for an inability to isolate certain DMAs. Even FOX, which has long had far more limited switching capabilities than CBS or NBC (able to switch out only its primary games in regional windows to this day), never had this issue. As for that St. Louis/San Francisco game, it was a lot more competitive than Dallas/Denver was, but it sure was sloppy.

@veggieoilerfan2940 4 ай бұрын

When Broncos quarterback Matt Robinson threw the ball at the 2:44 mark, he intentionally threw it at Cowboys defensive back Aaron Mitchell. Robinson was given an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

@georgeblangfordjr.1771 4 ай бұрын

The defending Arena Bowl Champs the San Jose Sabrecats were ahead in the 4th quarter against the Rattlers in Phoenix that was Week 1 of the 2003 AFL Season and it was switch to the New York Dragons vs. Dallas Desperados game, this was NBC first airing of Arena football and the 2003 Arena Football season started the week after Super Bowl 37

@tombradley37 4 ай бұрын

Broncos Playing The Cowboys In 1980! Next Year, Dan Reeves (who was the Cowboys Offensive Coordinator in 1980), would replace Red Miller as Broncos head coach!

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Mike Ditka was another assistant that became a head coach, the worst moment of his head coaching career was when Buddy Ryan ran up the score against Tom Landry in 1985, that was the moment that guaranteed that their working relationship couldn't be salvaged.

@tombradley37 4 ай бұрын

@@matthewdaley746 Ditka became the Bears head coach in 1982

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@tombradley37 I know, Buddy Ryan treated him like dirt because he forever believed he should have been head coach, and, he was the first head coach of the Bears not promoted from within, he spent the rest of his career making Mike Ditka look like Vince Lombardi.

@jab1289 4 ай бұрын

It doesn't make sense, because Dallas was their main product, and I don't know why they would want to show them losing by much as they did. The next year, they didn't show the Dal@SF blowout on MNF halftime highlights because the Cowboys were going to be on MNF soon.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Speaking of which, they had the best record in the NFL from, 1980-1983, but, came up empty, because, for all of his talent, Danny White was just no Roger Staubach, awful.

@denniscatanese4846 4 ай бұрын

Even if the 2 pointer was in play, it was STILL a 4 possession game!! It meets the criteria even today!!

@Musicradio77Network 4 ай бұрын

WCBS-TV (channel 2) did aired Giants-Redskins instead of Cowboys-Broncos depending if you live in New York City to watch a local team played. No problem!

@thomash.schwed3662 4 ай бұрын

That's because WCBS-TV is in New York city, the home market of the New York Football Giants. Channel 2 had to show the local team in that time slot. Similarly, WTOP-TV (now WUSA-TV and still a CBS affiliate) showed the same game as Channel 9 is in Washington, the home market of the Washington Redskins. Consequently, as far as New York city and Washington were concerned, there was no issue. The same holds true regarding KMOX-TV (now KMOV-TV) in St. Louis and KPIX-TV in San Francisco in connection with that game.

@Musicradio77Network 4 ай бұрын

@@thomash.schwed3662 But in New York City, WCBS-TV did not get Cowboys-Broncos, but the Giants-Redskins were played instead, because channel 2 was the flagship for Giants football at the time.

@hrtvfan2870 4 ай бұрын

@@thomash.schwed3662Excellent analysis. One minor note: By 1980, channel 9 in Washington was using the WDVM call letters.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 4 ай бұрын

There was no phone texts in the 1980's an there was no internet. Oof.

@Wildcat_Media 4 ай бұрын

So it’s just like today, when the NFL pretends that Dallas is still “America’s Team” and shoves the Cowboys down everyone’s throats on Sunday Night Football. To paraphrase my dad when he complains about commercials that over promise their products: If you have to constantly call yourself “America’s Team,” you are anything but.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Their record in the SB before the 1990s was, 2-3, one of those losses came to a Colts team that had lost to Joe Namath, this was also, despite, outscoring their opponents by, twenty-seven, points in those five SBs, The, People Rest.

@thomash.schwed3662 4 ай бұрын

It's also like appointing Tony Romo as color commentator on your No. 1 broadcast crew. It underscores how CBS has such an undying loyalty to the 'Pokes-even after losing the NFL contract to Murdoch and Company and now having the AFL contract-that CBS has gulped down the Flavor-Aid and is convinced that the 'Pokes can do no wrong.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@@thomash.schwed3662Speaking of which, Tony Romo leads the Cowboys in every significant passing category, having taken over from Danny White, despite, neither, ever winning anything, their two best QBs had numbers curtailed by, naval service, and, concussions.

@AnimalClans 4 ай бұрын

"Cowboys Broncos Snoozefest"

@sjchevalier07 4 ай бұрын

This past season our local CBS affiliate in Sacramento aired the Dolphins-Broncos game that ended with Miami winning 70-20 and did so in its entirety. I even called the station to ask why and even they were baffled.

@drewzuhosky6826 4 ай бұрын

Even more baffling is the fact that the game took place in the early window at 10 am PT. Had it been a late game at 1 pm PT with it being the lone game in the time slot for CBS, it wouldn't have been an issue. Perhaps their directions were to not cut away...?

@sjchevalier07 4 ай бұрын

@@drewzuhosky6826 Well, as JG9 said there was a thriller between Indianapolis and Baltimore that they could’ve cut to instead of staying with a 50 point blowout that was decided before it started. My friend who is a big Ravens fan wanted to see it and he couldn’t. So outrageous that they stayed with that game!

@reno145 4 ай бұрын

Hopefully everyone has recovered from that travesty of broadcasting. After all, it has 43 years………

@mattrodriguez7933 4 ай бұрын

Wait, isnt that 49ers/Cardinals game the one where Steve DeBerg had to wear a speaker system on his back because he had damaged vocal cords???

@randytracy1742 4 ай бұрын

Blowouts in NFL games are no fun-especially if the home team does it-like the chiefs did it to the bears in the 2023 seasons! 😮😮😮😅😅😅

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Bears are frequently, obliterated.

@shoob7979 4 ай бұрын

Why didn't the league or coaches tell the Dallas players they were playing The Broncos that Sunday in 1980. Cuz they appear as if they had no clue!!!!

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

This was the first time we learned that, The, Stage Was Too Big For Danny White, sadly, we'd be learning that repeatedly in the years that followed, a horrible pattern.

@shoob7979 4 ай бұрын

Did I hear that correctly??? MVP Kicker in what world do those 2 belong in the same sentence???? Apparently 1980s world and I was only born the yr prior....wow

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

So was I, (and, Drew Brees), but, to be fair, it was only nine Games long, and, the alternative was giving it to perpetual underachiever Dan Fouts, Mark Moseley went to two SBs, winning one, that truly counts for something.

@shoob7979 4 ай бұрын

@@matthewdaley746 certainly aware of when Brees was being a lifelong New Orleans native and Saints fan

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@@shoob7979Saints', greatest, truly, unquestionably.

@markgraham2312 4 ай бұрын

You are forgetting an important issue. American likes seeing Dallas get its ass kicked in!

@higgy04 4 ай бұрын

12:57 - Rochester, NY (or as Jim Rome called the Flower City 'Crap-chester') being shown again with a Democrat and Chronicle news clipping. Nightmares of living in Ottawa, ON reappearing again thanks to cable viewers having to suffer through watching three network affiliates notorious of pre-empting prime time programming with garbage programming. A couple of examples include Channel 13 showing Deliverance instead of regularly scheduled PRIME TIME programming, or Channel 10 pre-empting a CBS Special Presentation of a Charlie Brown special to show an AHL Hockey game from St. Catharines between the Amerks and the Saints. Channel 8 wasn't much better either.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Ottawa's nightmares go way beyond television, I'm convinced Jimmy Carter's kept himself alive just so the, recently-deceased, Brian Mulroney couldn't use his funeral to toot his own horn, he did that at the funerals of, Reagan, Thatcher, and, Bush, there was exactly one good thing about him, period, he wasn't Trudeau, the question being, "which one," the answer being, "yes."

@higgy04 4 ай бұрын

@@matthewdaley746 What does your obscure political view have to do with this video?

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@higgy04 Nothing, but, whenever a thirsty man finds a spring, there's nothing he can do, but, drink, so, he correctly does.

@thomash.schwed3662 4 ай бұрын

@@matthewdaley746You're absolutely right about Mulroney. However, regarding the Trudeau family, I actually prefer Pierre to Justin. And I prefer the Liberal Party to the Tories (by whatever name they choose to call themselves every few years or within each province, which I think they do specifically to confuse the voters). At the same time, however, I definitely prefer the NDP to either of them.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@thomash.schwed3662 Thank You, unfortunately, The, Bar, Was, The, Floor, the next, PM, is going to be better simply by virtue of not getting the job by nepotism, I visited Canada when, Jean Chretien, and, Paul Martin, were in office, it's really true, you truly never know what you have until it's gone, pitiful, no doubt, that's all.

@BobatBG 4 ай бұрын

There was a belief that that the Cowboys would be your best bet for the playoffs. Also, the old farts making the programming decisions still believed the NFC teams mattered more (despite all the recent history since Super Bowl 3)! So, to sell advertising - you always show the 'Boys. I know, as I still remember being pissed off not being able to see that Washington-NY team (I am 65 yrs old). To this day, as a result of this kind of BS, my favorite team is any team playing the Cowboys. That arrogance still exists to this day.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

To be fair, beginning in 1984, the NFC Championship Game became the de facto SB for over a decade, and, the Cowboys were also your best bet for disappointment, their only SB wins were against, a, Dolphins team that were a year away, and, a, flash-in-the-pan, Broncos team, plus, Danny White turned into Danny DeVito in the Playoffs, this was, merely, our first look.

@thomash.schwed3662 4 ай бұрын

@@matthewdaley746Actually, Danny White turned into Dan Patrick (the current lieutenant governor of Texas) in terms of arrogance. Patrick's arrogance was on full display when he expressed willingness to sacrifice "grandma" just to force businesses to reopen during the pandemic. White's arrogance was on full display when he for whatever reason thought that he could be the next Staubach for the 'Pokes.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@@thomash.schwed3662Arrogance justly rewarded, unquestionably.

@Musicradio77Network 4 ай бұрын

WCBS-TV (channel 2) in NYC had Giants-Redskins game during week 2 in 1980 instead of Cowboys-Broncos game.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@@Musicradio77NetworkEventual, great, match-up, unquestionably.

@gmikegaines 4 ай бұрын

Umm the Steelers were the most popular team in the league in 1980

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

Which is hilarious because they went from, Dynasty, to, Dumpster Fire, practically overnight, but, seeing as they chose the corpse of Terry Bradshaw over Dan Marino, they really had only themselves to blame, simple as that.

@gmikegaines 4 ай бұрын

@@matthewdaley746In 1980 Dan Marino was still at Pitt. In 1980 The Steelers were the defending champs and in 1980 Terry Bradshaw was still a very good QB.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@gmikegaines 1979 was a mirage, the fact is, the Steelers would have lost to the Chargers, and, should have lost to the Rams, Chuck Noll knew that a, drop-off, was imminent, and, exactly on cue, their core began to retire, and, they missed the Playoffs in, 1980-1981, and, only reached the Playoffs in 1982, because of, "The, Strike," instead, of seeing that year for the fraud that it was, they believed Terry Bradshaw when he lied to their faces, and, stole one last paycheck, thus, passing on Dan Marino, Art Rooney was a senile old bat who didn't deserve Chuck Noll, their demise was swift, and, totally through their own making.

@mgb4692 4 ай бұрын

@@gmikegaines He went like 22 of 50 with two touchdowns and five picks in two games against the Oilers, including the 6-0 Thursday night loss. If they were listening to him two years after *that* they deserved everything that came to them.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

@mgb4692 Damn Right, The, Rooney, Family, are a bunch of morons who would have put the Steelers out of business had they not lucked into Chuck Noll, and, their, legendary run, was exactly eight years long, the, Raiders, and, Cowboys, won less, but, they had far greater consistency, and, the same thing happened again, when they never beat Tom Brady in the Playoffs, and, rarely beat him, period, simple as that.

@jaybrown7811 4 ай бұрын

💤

@markphelt6395 4 ай бұрын

Sssss-cummy?

@mgb4692 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes the "let's make the Cowboys wear blue on the road" craze. Sometimes it worked, even with teams who don't normally wear white. Cowboys totally look like the Seahawks here, so naturally with how the Hawks were at this point Tony Dorsett throwing the handoff about ten yards at 2:47 might have been a window into what his career would have been if he'd have gone there. By the Turkey Day massacre they were down to a washed Lawrence McCutcheon (having lost Sherman Smith early in the season), which you can find out more about that game by clicking the card in the upper right hand corner. Curt Warner made his unofficial debut in a preseason game at Mile High three years later with the Broncos also busting out the whites and MHS in full baseball dress.

@matthewdaley746 4 ай бұрын

This also shows that essentially the same team that made three SBs in four years, from, 1975-1978, wasn't good enough to overcome Danny White, despite, having the NFL's best record from, 1980-1983.