NFL Week 16: So we were talking about rules

Maybe 1978 or '79?
Colts won the AFC East in 1977 and lost in the "Ghost to the Post" double overtime playoff game against the Raiders.

 

1978

Buffalo Bills at Baltimore Colts - December 17th, 1978 | Pro-Football-Reference.com

 

Yes, thank you guys. 1978.

Weird that Memorial Stadium had 2:00 pm starts. Must have wrecked havoc with the tv schedule for the 4:00 game.

 

My first game was the 1976 playoff game between the Raiders and Patriots at the Coliseum. Still the best live sporting event I’ve ever seen.

Thought the Raiders were done but then came that roughing the passer call on Sugar Bear Hamilton. Stabler scored the winning TD in our end zone with 10 seconds left. First row seats $8.

Thousands of fans stormed the field twice, after the TD and then after the game. My younger brother ran on the field after the TD and got his picture run on the front page of the Oakland Tribune running between Tim Fox and Sam Hunt. Still hard to believe.

There wasn’t a Black Hole back then. Complete strangers were hugging each other. The bus ride back to Alameda was like a party.

 

About the 2:00 start - IIRC, Baltimore had some sort of local ordinance prohibiting earlier start times on Sundays so as to keep Sunday mornings available for religious services.

 

I don’t know what year the NFL switched all Sunday kickoffs to 1 ET/4:30 ET. I’m guessing before all the big national TV contracts, games not on TV just kicked off whenever.

 

If my mom ever went with us, she would have done the same. How old were you, 5? I can remember a little of my first Yankees game, mostly because Rudy May pitched and a few years later I went to a baseball camp where he was an instructor for half a day. First Giants game can't remember, uncle had tickets and would give us a game or two each season against Lions or Cardinals or whichever mediocre out of division team the Giants were playing.

 

I was five or six the first time we all went together. I remember being angry because I wanted to stay home and watch some Godzilla movie. I loved that crap when I was little and had zero interest in football at that age.

 

Well, the problem took care of itself in 1984

 

Oh, crap. I went to a Giants game at the Yale Bowl. I forgot about that.

 

My first NFL game was Jim Kelly's first win with the Bills:

St. Louis Cardinals at Buffalo Bills - September 21st, 1986 | Pro-Football-Reference.com

Bills games were awesome, especially when the weather was bad. Haven't been in a few years but they seem totally out of control now, beginning in the parking lots and then inside where I have seen plenty of fights over the years. Drunkest people at any Bills tailgate were almost always Canadians who can't do that at sporting events at home.

 

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