Raiders were beating the Oilers by 30, and the Astrodome had a few fans left by the 4th quarter. The camera zooms in on this fellow and the rest is history.
Dandy Don chimed in with "Howard, he's saying that ABC's Monday Night Football is Number 1!"
Posted on 12/26/2005 6:14:02 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
Holiday Bowl, Oregon plays Arizona Thursday night (5pm Pacific, I think.) That's it, just 1 game for them no matter what, since there is no playoff in college football, just a whole bunch of bowl games. In theory they'll take the 2 highest-ranking team in several arbitrary rankings and match them up in a single 'national championship game', but Oregon wasn't ranked high enough for that.
The system is really ridiculous and meaningless.
This is a response to potential ala carte cable programming.
threw for 399 yds
Not exactly right. The Patriots have a shot at the No. 3 spot instead of No. 4. They don't have total control over that, but they must have win tonight.
When the Houston-Garrison play didn't make the top 10 I started doubting myself that it happened on Monday night.
I was a Dallas fan back then (pre-J. Jones), but I still thought this was one of the 2 or 3 best plays in MNF histroy.
It's taken a lot of booze for me to forget that night. Thanks a lot. ;)
Dang straight brother! The day Howard and Don left, MFN died.
I gave up watching football for a long time...just got WAAAAYYY too emotionally involved in it. When I was in the Navy on board the USS JFK, I used to prowl the radio shack on Sunday nights, because they used to post the NFL scores outside...I used to spend literally hours on the flight deck with a transistor radio, going up and down the dial looking for action or scores...
Boy, I sure did waste a lot of emotional energy back then. Now, I have got back into watching it as a casual fan, and it is a lot more fun. No red faced yelling or throwing things. I live in Massachusetts and I watch the Pats, if they lose, I shrug my shoulders and go on with things. Course, they have done well, so it makes it easier to do...:)
I admit...I do miss the Dallas-Washington rivalry...it was so incredibly intense, every game was like the Super Bowl. I remember how dumbfounded I was in that game where Clint Longley came in and threw 4 touchdown passes...
My favorite play, not really a play, was the panning of the stands in the Houston Astrodome and a fan in an almost empty section was strcthed out and gave the middle finger wave high sign to the cameras. Merideth says to Cosell, "He thinks yo're number one Howard'> Cosell was speechless.
Raiders were beating the Oilers by 30, and the Astrodome had a few fans left by the 4th quarter. The camera zooms in on this fellow and the rest is history.
Dandy Don chimed in with "Howard, he's saying that ABC's Monday Night Football is Number 1!"
At least I posted the picture!
Great job. I didn't have it. But now I do thanks to you.
Howie and Don were the best!
Yes they were. What the younger generations don't grasp is how big MNF was in the days before cable and satellite TV. Monday night was the one night all week when we'd eat dinner in the living room.
The talk the next day was not so much about the game, but on what Howard and Don had said the night before. It didn't hurt that the games were often great.
Thank G-d!!! I won't be hearing John Madden saying " that's the thing" anymore!!!!
Actually, Oregen will play OKLAHOMA in the Holiday Bowl (not Arizona). After the Bowl game, the season is over for both teams, as it is for any team that plays in a Bowl game.
Oregen = Oregon
THanks for the info.
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