Mar122018

TV Ads – 1979 – KVUE Ch 24 News Brief + Bubblicious Gum + Burt Lancaster For MCI Long Distance

1970s, Austin, Austin Advertisements, Dog Commentary, TV Ads, TX, VideosLeave a comment

DOG COMMENTARY: KVUE Channel 24 is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Austin, Texas….and is owned by Tegna, Inc……and their studios are located on Steck Avenue just east of Loop 1 in northwest Austin…. with its transmitter being located on the West Austin Antenna Farm just west of downtown Austin (which it shares with KEYE-TV).  The station first signed on the air on September 12, 1971….and was originally operated by…

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Mar112018

Boxing – 1986 – HBO Post Fight Interviews – Heavyweight Title – Spinks Vs Holmes – Rematch

1980s, Barry Tomkins, Boxing, Dog Aside, HBO, Heavyweight Boxing, Heavyweight Boxing Champions, Heavyweight Boxing Title Fights, Larry Holmes, Larry Merchant, Michael Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard, VideosLeave a comment

DOG ASIDE:  In our opinion here at ImaSportsphile should never have lost his title in the first place to Michael Spinks…. but anyone and everyone who was a boxing fan during the reign of Promoters Don King and Bob Arum….. had some kind of inkling that many fights were fixed….if not actually choreographed and spliced…

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Mar112018

NCAA Football – 1984 – Red River Shootout – Texas Longhorns Vs Oklahoma Sooners – 2nd Half

1980s, ABC, ABC Profile, Austin, Austin Advertisements, Coach Barry Switzer, Coach Fred Akers, Dog Commentary, Football, Frank Broyles, Highlights, Keith Jackson, NCAA, NCAAF, Oklahoma Sooners, SWC, Texas Longhorns, TX, UT Austin, UT Football, VideosLeave a comment

DOG COMMENTARY: The Red River Rivalry….commonly called The Red River Showdown, Red River Classic or Red River Shootout….is truly one of the greatest parties to go to every year for the past 118 years….culminated by one of the best college football rivalries in the USA….is played annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas….during the third weekend of the State…

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Mar112018

NCAAM Basketball – 1980 – SWC Game Of The Week – Texas Longhorns VS Arkansas Razorbacks – 2nd Half

1970s, 1980s, Abe Lemons Interviews and Footage, Austin, Austin Advertisements, Basketball, Coach Abe Lemons, Coach Eddie Sutton, Dog Commentary, Henry Johnson, LaSalle Thompson, Mike Wacker, NCAA, NCAAM Basketball, SWC, Texas Longhorns, TX, UT Austin, UT Basketball, VideosLeave a comment

DOG COMMENTARY: Bone Daddy tells the story about taking Rags Murphy….only the best “fan ragger” in the history of sports fandom….to the Texas Longhons men’s basketball games at the University of Texas Erwin Center every time they played against the University of Arkansas Razorbacks from 1976 thru 1982….for these two teams were coached by two legends of…

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Mar112018

TV Ads – 1980 – Traffic At Lake Placid + Hammerin Hank Aaron For Kodak Film

1980s, ABC, Dog Aside, Hank Aaron, Olympics, TV Ads, VideosLeave a comment

DOG ASIDE: The first part of this video is a piece about directing traffic at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Games by police and state troopers….which is really interesting as an ABC newscaster conducts an “on the job” interview of a New York State Trooper….who is conducting traffice to the speed skating arena for the 1980…

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Mar112018

L E’s Stories – The Cosmic Convergence Of The West Texas Oil Business And Baseball

1950s, 1960s, Baseball, Dog Philosophy, L E Stories, Videos, West TexasLeave a comment

DOG PHILOSOPHY: For a lil old chiweenie dog…thoughts about “cosmic convergence things” are a bit too deep…..but in a funny sort of way, I kind of understand. As time goes by, you will see that my stories of BD’s collection will document a wonderful indomitable attitude which was spawned by the folks that were brought…

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Mar102018

NFL – 1960 To 1980 – Special – The Best Ever Teams – 1960s Packers + 1972 Dolphins + 1970’s Steelers

1960s, 1970s, Bart Starr, Bob Griese, Chuck Howley, Chuck Noll, Coach Don Shula, Coach Tom Landry, Coaches, Dallas Cowboys, Dog Commentary, Don Meredith, ESPN, Football, Forrest Gregg, Franco Harris, Great Sports Years, Greatest Plays, Green Bay Packers, Highlights, History, Jack Ham, Jack Lambert, John Facenda, John Stallworth', Larry Czonka, Legends, Mean Joe Greene, Miami Dolphins, Mike Webster, NFL, NFL Conference Championships, NFL Films, NFL Hall of Fame, Paul Hornung, Pittsburgh Steelers, Randy White, Rayfield Wright, Robert Newhouse, Rocky Bleir, Roger Staubach, Specials, Teams, Tom Landry, Too Tall Jones, TX, Videos, Vince Lombardi, Walt GarrisonLeave a comment

DOG COMMENTARY:  We have posted over 2100 videos here on our ImaSportsphile web page….with many that are absolutely “nuggets of gold” in our treasure chest of vintage memories….but none more than this nine minute NFL Films piece about the NFL’s Best Ever Teams is every bit as good as any of those other treasures….as the teams, the games and…

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