Yep. Here’s some aerial coverage
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Monday Night Football from the SCG back in the 80s was very special. It certainly had that big-game, prime-time feel to its production, even if the games themselves didn’t live up to the hype.
From the switching on of the lights.
The fake crowd noise. The pounding drums.
Pure razzmatazz.
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Appanely clubs hated having to give up a home game for it. Wasn’t until thevsecond year of it that they went away from having all Monday Night games at the SCG.
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Yes. Specially if it’s only going to attract a small crowd. A bit different to having a match of the round at VFL Park where you’re probably going to make more money on game receipts.
What other grounds had sufficient lighting in the mid 80s to host Monday night football - Leichhardt and Parramatta?
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Belmore eventually got them. In fact i think it was there during a Monday nighter some idiot in the crowd threw a piece of fruit at Ray Warren. But yes they were indeed limited.
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Nine
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Just a follow up to my last post. Found a video of it
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i apologise for the quality of these uploads but the tapes i got them off were recorded in long play so there’s not much i can do, here are the news reports for the 2002/3 AFL Grand Finals both between Brisbane and Collingwood:
Are there any clips of this anywhere? I always thought Aus had never hosted an NFL game…
Thanks great find
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Capped just now via a FOX Sports League replay from 1997.
Who/what was ‘Sports Australia’? Was that Optus Vision?
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Sure was.
They also had ‘Sports AFL’. That’s when ESPN was on Optus Vision too.
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Preseason/exhibition
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It was the original sports channel on Optus - it was run by a company called Sport Vision which Seven and Optus were partners in (amongst others from my hazy memory). When they ran into financial difficulty, Seven stepped in and acquired them, rebranding them as C7 Sport.
Sport Vision used Seven to create the AFL sister channel too
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Might be of some interest - Fox NFL Sunday’s debut opener from 1994. I post this not for the NFL content/US-centric content which we don’t really do in this thread, but for the fact it’s a somewhat rare broadcast tape quality version from that era, rather than a VHS lying around somewhere.
It actually hurts my brain a little bit seeing it in that quality lol.
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Only just dropped on YouTube three days ago.
Sports broadcasting history with Terry Bradshaw and the first ever NFL on Fox.
What an iconic theme tune. Amazing coverage and some great names: Randall Cunningham, Brett Favre, Warren Moon, Buddy Ryan and the Bus - Jerome Bettis.
James Brown (now on CBS) is there, and so are Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson (both still there after 31 years!)
This is the first time I’ve seen this with such great picture quality! Thank you Fox.
haha snap! @1323ZM
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You have to always be ‘On Air’ to get in first @1323ZM !!
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