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What are some memories you have of the NFL in the 1980s?

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember Mike Ditka, an intimidating presence.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Super Bowl shuffle!

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    William "Refigerator" Perry.

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  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The 49ers. You can mark the decades by the dynasties
    1970’s Pittsburgh Steelers
    1980’s San Francisco 49ers
    1990’s Dallas Cowboys Ugh
    2000- present I can’t think of any team

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 18, 2021 2:26PM

    @doubledragon love the new avatar 😂😂😂

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was born in 1976 in Massachusetts. Always rooted for the Patriots. But for a stretch of my childhood I had an NFC team that I loved. The Redskins. I think I've told this story before, about being at a SB party as a kid and seeing the Redskins beat the Dolphins. I was probably seven at the time. That game, for whatever reason, got me hooked on the NFL, and that's how I started liking the Redskins. Of course I loved the Patriots. And thank you, @perkdog, for that image. That is a great memory for me. That buildup to the SB against the Bears. Then the loss. I did still follow the Redskins, and enjoyed their second SB win of the 80s. But I fell out with the Redskins, and went all in with my Pats. By the early 90s, hope was renewed with Drew Bledsoe.

    I am excited for next year, when the Pats should be able to use the throwback uniforms again.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:
    I was born in 1976 in Massachusetts. Always rooted for the Patriots. But for a stretch of my childhood I had an NFC team that I loved. The Redskins. I think I've told this story before, about being at a SB party as a kid and seeing the Redskins beat the Dolphins. I was probably seven at the time. That game, for whatever reason, got me hooked on the NFL, and that's how I started liking the Redskins. Of course I loved the Patriots. And thank you, @perkdog, for that image. That is a great memory for me. That buildup to the SB against the Bears. Then the loss. I did still follow the Redskins, and enjoyed their second SB win of the 80s. But I fell out with the Redskins, and went all in with my Pats. By the early 90s, hope was renewed with Drew Bledsoe.

    I am excited for next year, when the Pats should be able to use the throwback uniforms again.

    Love it 👍👍

  • blurryfaceblurryface Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    all of it. i know im biased, but best decade of football in the grand scheme of things. think it was these years that solidified the nfl as becoming the professional league powerhouse that it did. and a much different league today.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Air Coryell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Steve

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    @doubledragon love the new avatar 😂😂😂

    I figured it was time for a change, and I've become obsessed with Urban Meyer!

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:

    @perkdog said:
    @doubledragon love the new avatar 😂😂😂

    I figured it was time for a change, and I've become obsessed with Urban Meyer!

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    --- Sam Rutigliano, Brian Sipe and the Kardiac Kids.
    --- Marty Schottenheimer, Bernie Kosar, Kevin Mack and Earnest Byner.
    --- John Elway!! :s

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Eric Dickerson's goggles.

  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    His best years were the 1980s though this particular play wasn’t…

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 19, 2021 8:19PM

    JOE MONTANA.

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 20, 2021 1:42PM

    As far as Dickerson is concerned..... I never figured it out. Lots of yardage....but not a winner.....maybe on another team but with the Rams........wasted talent.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember Hog Hannah smashing people

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember Marino carving up the league as well. when throwing for 3000 yards and 20 TDs put you among the league leaders, Dan was destroying those numbers. I often wonder what he would be putting up in today's nfl

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://247sports.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/Article/Remembering-Dolphins-Killer-Bees--74988343/

  • Historicalwood71Historicalwood71 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    What I remember..... Jerry Rice and Montana. Good ole NFC hardcore football! The Hogs, the Giants and L. T. Primetime Sanders that could lock up Jerry Rice. This era was the best of any football. Defense of the bears. I could go on.... I'll cry if I do.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    remember boomer and ickey woods. they were the hot thing for a minute.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I also remember Bo railroading the Boz on monday night football.

    Bo was so cool...

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just keep thinking of memories. maybe because it was during my youth and they all seemed like super heros to me.

    remember the fog game Randall Cunningham played against the Bears? so incredible.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,099 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Charles Martin - Jim McMahon

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  • Historicalwood71Historicalwood71 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    I just keep thinking of memories. maybe because it was during my youth and they all seemed like super heros to me.

    remember the fog game Randall Cunningham played against the Bears? so incredible.

    Yep!!! Awesome lol. I just loved the whole atmosphere from viewing, to the people in the stands... Everything! In a corny way .. it was like heaven without all the technology lol. I do Soo miss it! It actually hurts lol

  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    .

  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love the pathetic 'Stick'* in the 80's. Even better my two tickets cost $600. Scalpped Monday night games(usually the Giants) and the Rams game to Harrah's sports book for my season cost. My wife lasted two games. Half the guys were smoking cigars, she looked around and said; " what is this place, a contractor training class?"

    It was free for 5 or 6 years. !!!!

    *Candlestick Park

    Have a nice day
  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a Cowboys fan I got many chances to watch this guy totally dominate through the 80's.

  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LandrysFedora

    I had posted these earlier in the thread but in the first one you can almost tell the instant Rich Gannon recognizes LT coming for him; it’s like a total body panic. The man was a beast.

    PS - Glad this isn’t a 90s thread as I still have Emmitt Smith nightmares…

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mike Singletary was a beast, and he had those crazy looking eyes.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    Mike Singletary was a beast, and he had those crazy looking eyes.

    BEAST

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:

    @doubledragon said:
    Mike Singletary was a beast, and he had those crazy looking eyes.

    BEAST

    Definitely a beast, the Bears were very entertaining!

  • DarinDarin Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember being a senior in high school, graduated in 82 so this happened in the fall of 81 I
    argued with a classmate that the Chiefs should be starting Steve Fuller at QB instead of Bill Kenney
    because Fuller was a lot more mobile. As usual as the years went by I appeared to be wrong as Kenney
    had a much better career.
    How I remember such mundane things I have no idea, but I've got tons of seemingly pointless stories just like this one.

  • coolstanleycoolstanley Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭✭✭



    Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!

    Ignore list -Basebal21

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Darin said:
    I remember being a senior in high school, graduated in 82 so this happened in the fall of 81 I
    argued with a classmate that the Chiefs should be starting Steve Fuller at QB instead of Bill Kenney
    because Fuller was a lot more mobile. As usual as the years went by I appeared to be wrong as Kenney
    had a much better career.
    How I remember such mundane things I have no idea, but I've got tons of seemingly pointless stories just like this one.

    And your lucky to have them, less doors to our youth are opened as we get older, the memories just disappear

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ^^^^ those are very true words perk. very true...

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish the 1987 strike wouldnt have happened. there were a few all time great seasons that we just missed out on.

    Jerry rice scored 22 touchdowns in only 12 games

    Reggie white had 21 sacks in 12 games.

    had both of those two players been able to play a full season, those would be record setting seasons still.

    they may have ended up with 30 TD and 30 sacks.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Warren Moon deserves a mention.

    For Techmo Bowl alone…but also for being a Hall of Fame talent.

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  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Also?

    Techmo Bowl

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1951WheatiesPremium said:
    Warren Moon deserves a mention.

    For Techmo Bowl alone…but also for being a Hall of Fame talent.

    I mean Bo Jackson was unstoppable in Tecmo. FACT

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1951WheatiesPremium said:
    Also?

    Techmo Bowl

    😍

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    oh my gosh, i spent hour after hour after hour on Techmo. and yes, warren moon was great on it. as were the buffalo bills. they were almost unbeateable with thurman thomas, jim kelly and bruce smith.

    bo was the fastest RB.

    you could also put up huge passing numbers with Marino and the marks brothers.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think Moon threw the prettiest deep ball i ever saw. just an effortless perfect arcing spiral.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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