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I still have some great footage of Bo Jackson from the knbc field cameras on videotape. Only problem is the technology is so old there are very few machines in existence to playback the tape.
I was born several years later and became a fan on December 21, 1974. I remember that day because it was my uncle's 30th birthday party and he gave me some money that day. The Sea of Hands game was later in the day. The emotions of my dad throughout the game made me adopt the Raiders and it's been uphill... then downhill ever since.
Me, being a New Yorker who eventually grew to love the NBC broadcasts of the AFC games, would've been a Jets fan or Chargers fan if my dad didn't interfere lol. The Jets because I met some of them when I was a kid through my dad's occupation and we saw them every week. The Chargers because the color combination they had was my favorite. Needless to say, I was saved.
Wore that Raiders cap for years thinking I was the coolest motherfucker in England.
Been watching them ever since.
First Super Bowl I watched was Steelers vs Cowboys in SB 13, that got me interested in Football but my memories are hazy.
Watched the 1980 team win the SB and didn’t like them as much because of an older brother who was a Raiders fan but throughout the game gave them more and more respect, really solidified in 1983. So at ten, two SB wins in a 3-4 year span, not bad I thought. Little did I know...
Through it all the good and mostly bad stayed with them hoping that once again I’d see their greatness, enduring the boasts of Bills fans about 51-3 as if it was their greatest achievements and hearing about the Tuck Game too (I live in western NY). These two explain why I can’t stand the Bills or the Patsies.
Also in 1983 in my third year of playing Pop Warner football our team changed its colors from red and white to silver and black, we were the Raiders before the color change but really became the Raiders! Still have my photos from that time, it was awesome, my number was 22 which worked as it’s my birthday number too, synergy I tell ya.
Either way, win lose or tie Raiders till I die.
My grandfather asks this 8yo kid, "So Who you Rootin For, Who do you want to win the Super Bowl?!!!!!" I replied, "I like the guys in the cool Green & Gold uniforms, Green Bay!"............My Grandfather, an Iron Worker for 40+ years, who's given IronWorker nickname on his hardhat was, "DEVIL", then yells at me: "YEAH?, YOU WANNA BET?!?!???????
"WELL?" , I cowered and looked into his pissed off that his grandson had not picked the Raiders eyes and very quietly stammered out, "uh...50cents???"
Well we all know what happened that day. Then at the start of the 1968-69 season, beginning in September, I found myself attending 4 to 5 Oakland Raiders games that year, been a Raider diehard since....., went to 3-5 games a year with Granddad and Dad for the next 10 years....great memories.
No spatula's were involved in said history.
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I would love to see the broadcast of the Sea of Hands game on NBC. I heard even NBC doesn't have that game on tape. Rumor has it someone in Mexico recorded the game and it's the only known copy.HITMAN wrote Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:41 am:Not many companies were recording games like today so year it will be difficult to find footage, the NFL has them, but won't reproduce them unless they feel it will make them money!
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Yeah you cant get full game. Some people sell a version put together later that is just the radio play by for parts that they are missing footage. Its pretty good actually. Even with just play by play for large parts you can tell how amazing it would be to see it live. All those great games lost forever. Makes me sad almost to realize that future historians or fans cant watch that game in its entirety to figure out who did what with their own eyes.swany65 wrote Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:25 pm:I would love to see the broadcast of the Sea of Hands game on NBC. I heard even NBC doesn't have that game on tape. Rumor has it someone in Mexico recorded the game and it's the only known copy.
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A travesty. It drives me almost crazy that to save some pocket change they erased recordings of classic football games. All these games should be in the HOF and available online for us all to watch. The afl once again got screwed.commode wrote Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:42 pm:most nfl/afl coverage was wiped by the networks, the process didn't fall out of favor until the mid 1970s.
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I still have some great footage of Bo Jackson from the knbc field cameras on videotape. Only problem is the technology is so old there are very few machines in existence to playback the tape.
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Dont get rid of it! How much footage do you have? or just that Bo footage. I used to buy or trade old vhs tapes of old games with guys who had somehow put some 70s games on them. Some are available on youtube but some are not. Its crazy to me no one thought perhaps we should record and keep some of this stuff for prosperity.swany65 wrote Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:04 pm:Exactly. I worked at KNBC in the late 80's early 90's and the sports department would record every NFL game. It would take 3 and sometimes even 4 tapes for each game. We would save those tapes for 1 week but needed them for the next weeks games to record on. So I would take them to a magnetic erase machine and run them through twice because the magnets weren't strong enough. We would then write on the tape cassette it was erased. After 10 passes we were supposed to throw out the tapes .
I still have some great footage of Bo Jackson from the knbc field cameras on videotape. Only problem is the technology is so old there are very few machines in existence to playback the tape.
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I was born several years later and became a fan on December 21, 1974. I remember that day because it was my uncle's 30th birthday party and he gave me some money that day. The Sea of Hands game was later in the day. The emotions of my dad throughout the game made me adopt the Raiders and it's been uphill... then downhill ever since.
Me, being a New Yorker who eventually grew to love the NBC broadcasts of the AFC games, would've been a Jets fan or Chargers fan if my dad didn't interfere lol. The Jets because I met some of them when I was a kid through my dad's occupation and we saw them every week. The Chargers because the color combination they had was my favorite. Needless to say, I was saved.
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Wore that Raiders cap for years thinking I was the coolest motherfucker in England.
Been watching them ever since.
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Michael Caine says hello....just kidding, Collin Firth says helloEnglish_Raider wrote Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:40 am:I started watching the Raiders after visiting family in Santa Barbara in 1991. My uncle gave me an LA Raiders hat and told me the greatest person I've never heard of is a chap called Marcus Allen.
Wore that Raiders cap for years thinking I was the coolest motherfucker in England.
Been watching them ever since.
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First Super Bowl I watched was Steelers vs Cowboys in SB 13, that got me interested in Football but my memories are hazy.
Watched the 1980 team win the SB and didn’t like them as much because of an older brother who was a Raiders fan but throughout the game gave them more and more respect, really solidified in 1983. So at ten, two SB wins in a 3-4 year span, not bad I thought. Little did I know...
Through it all the good and mostly bad stayed with them hoping that once again I’d see their greatness, enduring the boasts of Bills fans about 51-3 as if it was their greatest achievements and hearing about the Tuck Game too (I live in western NY). These two explain why I can’t stand the Bills or the Patsies.
Also in 1983 in my third year of playing Pop Warner football our team changed its colors from red and white to silver and black, we were the Raiders before the color change but really became the Raiders! Still have my photos from that time, it was awesome, my number was 22 which worked as it’s my birthday number too, synergy I tell ya.
Either way, win lose or tie Raiders till I die.
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My grandfather asks this 8yo kid, "So Who you Rootin For, Who do you want to win the Super Bowl?!!!!!" I replied, "I like the guys in the cool Green & Gold uniforms, Green Bay!"............My Grandfather, an Iron Worker for 40+ years, who's given IronWorker nickname on his hardhat was, "DEVIL", then yells at me: "YEAH?, YOU WANNA BET?!?!???????
"WELL?" , I cowered and looked into his pissed off that his grandson had not picked the Raiders eyes and very quietly stammered out, "uh...50cents???" Well we all know what happened that day. Then at the start of the 1968-69 season, beginning in September, I found myself attending 4 to 5 Oakland Raiders games that year, been a Raider diehard since....., went to 3-5 games a year with Granddad and Dad for the next 10 years....great memories.
No spatula's were involved in said history.
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Yep, I was there, Big Ben Davidson was my first, favorite Raider! Was such an awesome time to be there and be witness to all that great football! A helluva lot of fun and heart attack moments in those years!! especially in the House of Thrills!getovahit wrote Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:11 am:Is there anyone on this board who was there for this? Anyone a fan of the raiders here who remembers the 1967 Raiders?
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