DOG ASIDE: Super Bowl XIV was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Los Angeles Rams and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1979 season. The Steelers defeated the Rams by the score of 31–19….becoming the first team to win…
DetailsDOG ASIDE Super Bowl XIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1978 season. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 35–31. The game was played on January…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: NBC’s Bryant Gumbel and Mike Adamle provide highlights of Super Bowl V with the Dallas Cowboys….led by QB Craig Morton and RB Dan Reeves…..playing against the Baltimore Colts….led by QB Johnny Unitas and TE John Mackey…..followed by highlights of Super Bowl VI with the Dallas Cowboys vs the Miami Dolphins…..as the Cowboy defense…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY” It was sometime during 1958 that Bone Daddy and his dad and two brothers started a tradition around their household of watching pro football on Sunday afternoons after returning from church and having Sunday lunch at Midland’s favorite Chinese restaurant….the Blue Star Inn (another family tradition). These were the early days of televised…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: John Madden and Pat Summerall sat at the top of the heap for NFL game sportscasters….as they formed a perfect combination of “color with emphasis” and “elegance and eloquence”….which was welcomed into the homes and hearts of American pro football fans all over the country….and their work on the All Madden Team was…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: First of all, this video is narrated by Burt Lancaster….now that was a MAN….I mean, capital M A N….his looks and that voice…..from this lil ole Chiweenie’s perspective…I sure did like the man and his voice. Big Game America is a wonderful video piece regarding the development of the sport of pro football…..as…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: Western Pennsylvania with the Pittsburgh Tri-State area (including parts of Northern West Virginia and Eastern Ohio)….along with the entire state of Texas….a big place…..are known to be football hotbeds at all levels. When Bone Daddy was in high school (1961 – 1965)….one of the biggest rivalries in high school football was The Big…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: In this video, the preview of the upcoming 1979 season in this special on the “Road to Pasadena”…..takes the fans to New Orleans led by QB Archie Manning and RB Chuck Muncie…..then to New England led by QB Steve Grogan….with the next stop being at the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp with QB Terry…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Prior to the formation of the Dallas Cowboys….there had not been an NFL team south of Washington, D.C. since the Dallas Texans folded in 1952. Oilman Clint Murchison Jr. had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas (as was Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise)….but George…
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