What are your first memories of the NFL?

[Southieinnc]

I worked summer camp for the soon to be Superbowl Champion Baltimore Colts - 1970 season.
At the end of camp, Bubba Smith invited me to a secret team dinner where I met the whole team.
Bubba gave me an NFL ball with autographs from the entire team.
Sadly, I was poor so I sold the ball......

 

[ducky]

my aunt,uncle and cousins went to a lot of games at the old met.he,s 95 and still goes to vikings games.

My true 1st memory of NFL football wasnt actually from a game.

It was from playing football with all the kids during tailgaiting at the old Met. My dad literally bought an RV not just but mostly for the tailgaiting.

That was back in the day when normal families could still afford season tickets.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

My true 1st memory of NFL football wasnt actually from a game.

It was from playing football with all the kids during tailgaiting at the old Met. My dad literally bought an RV not just but mostly for the tailgaiting.

That was back in the day when normal families could still afford season tickets.

he told my dad of nearly getting frostbite at the met more than once during games.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Raiders/ Steelers rivalry in the mid 70's and in '76, the Raiders finally getting past the Steelers and thumping the Vikes in the SB. Madden, the Snake and a bunch of mean, nasty misfits. Loved that damn team.

 

[Thruthefog]

my aunt,uncle and cousins went to a lot of games at the old met.he,s 95 and still goes to vikings games.

No he doesn't.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

Raiders/ Steelers rivalry in the mid 70's and in '76, the Raiders finally getting past the Steelers and thumping the Vikes in the SB. Madden, the Snake and a bunch of mean, nasty misfits. Loved that damn team.

should have beaten denver the next year.

 

[Wamu]

Don't remember exactly which year, '80 or '81, and freezing my ass off at a Browns game at old Municipal Stadium.

 

[Moab]

should have beaten denver the next year.

Denver's mugging of Casper pretty much dictated that game. I remember him not being able to get off the LOS for almost the entire game. Wasn't that the final part of the puzzle to make the NFL change the pass defense rules?

 

[redskinsfan1963]

Denver's mugging of Casper pretty much dictated that game. I remember him not being able to get off the LOS for almost the entire game. Wasn't that the final part of the puzzle to make the NFL change the pass defense rules?

i remember it being cold,madden in short sleeves and moses clear fumble not called.

 

[Debbie Does]

Remember, I make dirt look like some new-fangled invention.

Every Thanksgiving we would drive into Brooklyn, first for Thanksgiving dinner at my maternal grandmother's place and then a few blocks away for leftovers at my paternal grandmother's place. I was a little kid in single digits so this would have been the mid-50s. I had no team loyalties. New York's team was the Giants, long before the Jets.

The game that was on was Green Bay against somebody. The kitchen smelled better down the long hall, but I ended up enjoying the football games more. To this day, I still like the Packers. For most of my life I've been a Patriots fan, but the Packers have been in my heart as well.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

Remember, I make dirt look like some new-fangled invention.

Every Thanksgiving we would drive into Brooklyn, first for Thanksgiving dinner at my maternal grandmother's place and then a few blocks away for leftovers at my paternal grandmother's place. I was a little kid in single digits so this would have been the mid-50s. I had no team loyalties. New York's team was the Giants, long before the Jets.

The game that was on was Green Bay against somebody. The kitchen smelled better down the long hall, but I ended up enjoying the football games more. To this day, I still like the Packers. For most of my life I've been a Patriots fan, but the Packers have been in my heart as well.

great memories last forever.

 

[PatsFan2003]

I worked summer camp for the soon to be Superbowl Champion Baltimore Colts - 1970 season.
At the end of camp, Bubba Smith invited me to a secret team dinner where I met the whole team.
Bubba gave me an NFL ball with autographs from the entire team.
Sadly, I was poor so I sold the ball......

The Colts teams of that period were very good.

 

[PatsFan2003]

The NFL season I really began to watch football was in 1963 following the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas. They made it to the Championship game against the Jim Brown/Frank Ryan Cleveland Browns.


And lost.

 

[PatsFan2003]

I can vaguely recall the 1966 NFL Championship game (I do remember Dave Robinson forcing Don Meredith into a bad throw that Tom Brown intercepted pretty well). I vividly remember the ’67 Championship game - any Cowboy fan (and Packer fan for that matter) who was old enough to have a clue remembers that one.

And for the record - I remember the Heidi Bowl very well. Lived in CA so we didn’t get preempted and saw the entire thing (one of the craziest endings ever). It was the next day before I heard about the interruption on the East Coast.

The infamous Heidi bowl. Oh god. I'm watching this exciting game and suddenly Heidi is on the screen. WTF!?

 

[redskinsfan1963]

i remember how pissed my dad got at the dallas/skin turkey day game in 79 at the skins.he rarely got pissed too.

 

[Thruthefog]

The NFL season I really began to watch football was in 1963 following the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas. They made it to the Championship game against the Jim Brown/Frank Ryan Cleveland Browns.


And lost.

Better check the year.

In 1963 the Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants in the NFL championship game.

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

i remember how pissed my dad got at the dallas/skin turkey day game in 79 at the skins.he rarely got pissed too.

Cowboys played the Oilers on Thanksgiving in 1979. I specifically remember because we listened to it on Armed Forces Radio in England... Earl Campbell absolutely shredded the Cowboys defense for 195 yards.

 

[PDay8810]

Cowboys played the Oilers on Thanksgiving in 1979. I specifically remember because we listened to it on Armed Forces Radio in England... Earl Campbell absolutely shredded the Cowboys defense for 195 yards.

Big Earl ran through Cliff Harris. Freight train style.

Excited me and I loved Harris

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

Big Earl ran through Cliff Harris. Freight train style.

Excited me and I loved Harris

Watching Earl, Roger & Dorsett talk about that game during that Heisman/Hall Of Fame documentary was one of the highlights of the show… and watching the other Heisman / HoF’ers enjoy listening to them was pretty cool as well.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

No he doesn't.

mind reader now fool?