Let's fire up the Way-Back Machine!!

Let's get this thing going!

The other day at Uniwatch there was a link to the first Monday Night Football game on YouTube. It was some ISWT gold!! First, note the length of the grass, you can barely see the tops of their shoes. By the way, this picture is from where they re-enacted the coin toss. Back then, it would take place about 30 minutes before the game.

This game was September of 1970, late in the season of the Cleveland Indians who shared Municipal Stadium with the Browns. Overall the place looked pretty good, including the Browns end zone:

Astroturf was widely used back then, and speaking of artifical turf, Howard Cosell.

By the way, the third man in the booth was Dandy Don Meredith. Here's a shot from his playing days. The Saints played at Tulane Stadium and the ground looks a little...rough.

Before we go, remember sponsors from the good old days?

While watching this game I noticed link on the side to the video of Super Bowl I and got some great shots.

This was the best shot of the midfield. No NFL shield at midfield because it was still two leagues at that point.

The end zones were painted but weren't done with the teams customary design as they are now.

The Packers did have the NFL shield in their end zone:

And the Chiefs end zone had the AFL logo:

I'll keep nosing around YouTube and other places for more finds like this.

Until next time.

Last Sunday of the NFL

Football season, you go by so fast!!

Now that college football is over, the Joe Robbie crew added the Dolphins and NFL logos to the end zone

It was snowing in the rust belt yesterday. Cleveland got a little

Buffalo got a lot, this shot is from the first half:

The grounds grew got busy to clear the field at halftime:

Things looked better (for a while) in the third quarter

The Texas Bowl was played December 31, 2009 at Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans. As often happens, some hard work was done to replace the bowl logo:

with the Texans logo at midfield:

Until next time.

Main Street

The Cleveland Browns replaced the 'Main Street' of their field recently. It doesn't look as they replaced the end zone. They don't use it much. HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Until next time.