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The STRANGEST Kickoff in NFL HISTORY | Jets @ Chargers (1983)
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2020
- In a 1983 week 1 NFL game between the San Diego Chargers and New York Jets, a kickoff happened that was so bizarre that nothing like it has ever happened since. This is the story of Rolf Benirschke and the strangest kickoff in NFL history, courtesy of NBC and an ill-advised commercial/highlight break
NOTE: Due to copyright, a very small section at the start of the video had to be cut out
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I remember that game. I was listening on the radio in my car in San Diego. The Chargers announcer screamed “Score one for the Peacock!!”
lol...
Imagine if they had to replay the end of the "Heidi Game" because of this
Thats's exactly what I was thinking.
@@thadtheman3751 How would they even do that? They couldn't just bring everyone back so easy......woulda been impossible logistically.
Yeah, the infamous Heidi fiasco.
Re-kick during the first Super Bowl, the Heidi game, the Chargers getting shafted in this game... all 3 due to NBC coverage
This reminds me of when NBC covered the first iteration of the XFL in 2001. In Week 2 they were covering a game between Chicago and Los Angeles. The NBC signal was out for about 45 minutes because the generator for the truck hadn’t been topped off.
The game went into multiple overtime periods, which delayed the start of Saturday Night Live. SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels was livid because he was anticipating great ratings, since the host that night was Jennifer Lopez.
Not only that, but it caused big changes to XFL coverage after. The clock ran more often if I recall from then, and NBC would cut away from games no matter if the XFL game was done or not at 11pm. Fucked the league over before it could get off the ground.
Knowing J-Lo was involved makes me glad that show was ruined 😈
You would think the original play would stand and NBC would have just shown a highlight/replay. Re-kicking was extreme here just because of a commerical/highlight video from NBC.
I mean, it was just a routine kickoff! Literally nothing special happened at all.
My father worked for the Union-Tribune at the time and was at this game. This is the 'play' that made my father stop watching the NFL and I've been hearing about it for 35+ years...
Well, the TV audience saw a better play, especially in New York.
@@k3D4rsi554maq I guess that depends on your definition of 'better.'
James - I actually respect your Dad for feeling that way, and I'm not a Chargers fan.
This sounds like the most Chargers thing to happen, especially as a fan.
Why do weird things happen in Chargers games LOL
Ill never forget the back-and-forth scoring in the 2014 game between the 49ers/Chargers when Kaepernick ran a 90 yard TD run. (49ers fan here.)
@@NoSlow78 Raiders vs Chargers “Holy Roller”; the San Diego Chicken’s reaction was priceless🤣🤣🤣Go Raiders!
It's nice to see wierd things happen in football. It's part of the spectacle.
I suspect that this was the play that cursed the Chargers special teams forever.
Video request- the reverse Heidi game (1975 Oakland/Washington), a game that ran so long it delayed the broadcast debut of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
As a life long Jet fan, I read the title and thought...How did the Jets get BEAT again? Imagine my surprise
Final Score 41-29 - > scorigami
Wow. There was an obvious, simple, fair solution to the problem: Official timeout, televise a replay of the kickoff and return, end official timeout and resume play. Coryell was completely justified to be pissed.
Mad propz for the Colecovision commercial. I have two Colecovisions and a Colecovision Flashback. Back when they came out, they were crazy awesome. I still love Frenzy, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior, Venture, Lady Bug, and a bunch of the old Colecovision classics.
I was at that game (I was sitting near the Marlboro sign.) People in the stands had no clue what had happened and needless to say were PISSED.
Surprised there wasn't some sort of riot honestly. Seems NFL dodged a bullet......imagine if this happened in say Philly or Chicago......it woulda been UGLY.
@@ajk Rioting wasn't officially sponsored by the deep state back then.
Seems that the officials were caught flatfooted with this delay, and decided a rekick was the right choice. I don't feel that it was; if the home audience missed it, just have Dick Enberg explain and show a replay, but don't punish the Chargers (some would say they're punished enough:-).
Hah, hah, they really goofed that one.
You could see some of the players that heard the whistle....that was the issue. Once a whistle is blown its over
Gotta love the shadowy league figures dictating the outcomes
As opposed to the public figures not even trying to hide dictating the outcomes now.
Video request: about 20 years ago the Steelers radio team got caught using a gadget to imperceptibly alter the live broadcast of a game to squeeze in extra commercials. I think they were fined by the NFL for violating the terms of their broadcast rights.
I actually remember reading up on that and researching that. Finding footage from the game was the tough part, but I’ll give it a second look because I already have some notes on that
Wow. The Jets and Chargers are always involved in strange moments
Long may it continue.
Go Jets.
Chuck Muncie might have been the most wasted HoF-level talent in NFL history.
1983 is my favorite NFL season of all-time
This same thing happened in the Redskins-Seahawks game, in the 83 season, on CBS. It happened to Mike Nelms of the Redskins, it was an average return but it had to be done over again. Another average return
I can't understand why someone ( like the Commissioner or one of his staff ) couldn't overrule the stupid oversight of a meaningless commercial and say the original play stands, period.
Someone's error in programming should not mean the players and fans have to suffer!
Because then you'd have to undo everything that happened after that point. Good luck with that.
@@DolFan316 Wrong.
Red Cashin was a bad ref. In a 1987 game between the Bills and Oilers, Bruce Smith of the Bills and Mike Munchak got into a fight and Smith threw Munchak into Cashin. Every game since then Red would call 30-40 penalties on the Bills in each of his games. Red was so bad he called a roughing the passer on Thurman Thomas, even though Thurman was a running back.
Jets vs Chargers will always lead to weirdness.
Oh, well, the right team won anyway.
NBC gonna NBC.
Uhhhhhm…. Seattle didn’t play Denver on opening day, they played Kansas City in Curt Warner’s debut game at Arrowhead…………..
which we 😞 lost
Chuck Muncie every game was a “ snow “ game.
This happened at the very beginning of super bowl 26 and you can hear Jerry Markbreit say on his mike that he thought CBS was still in commercial, so he made the Bills kick again.
Hey! For once a weird play involving the Jets that didn’t go against them !😁
One thing I'm sure of is that NBC wasted its time with that Packers/Oilers clip considering it was an early game and that NBC didn't even show the game-winning play.
This was actually the first game as a kid I ever remember watching as a 7 year old kid back then. At least the Jets won the first game I ever watched them...hasnt been a usual thing the proceeding 37 or so years.
Things are looking up for the Jets, maybe, in four years they'll be contenders.
Once the Brady nightmare ends.
Why did they cancel the original kick-off? Why not just join the action in progress?
Interesting that within 10years of this networks were regularly interrupting games, totally skip play footage, to show gulf war updates!
Not to mention skipping plays altogether because it was far more important for "sideline reporters" to yammer on about some random player's backstory.
Because of course it had to involve the Chargers
That may explain their subsequent special teams woes. “We make a great play and it doesn’t count? Why bother?”
"Waaaaaah, We didn't get the kickoff on film! Redo it, Redo it!!!1!!1!!!"
And the NBC tried to blame the refs and completely absolve themselves of any responsibility 🙄🙄🙄
I did not know about the referee with the red hat.
Have you noticed that games from 1982 and 1983 are unusually and disproportionally common on your channel?
Dick Enberg sighting
"OH MYYY!"
NBC 1983: Hey let's skip plays due to commercials/highlights
FOX and NBC in 2021: Oh, this is standard auto racing coverage...
Seriously. I'm jealous. NBC being in commercials is kind of a meme at this point over on the auto racing side of things. At least for NASCAR. Indycar's fairly good with it, you don't miss any action, and their other sports are pretty good with commercials...
EDIT: Oh yeah and FOX being all let's go full screen promos while the event is on and miss out on any potential action...I miss the ESPN 90s 'and on Sunday the Chargers are at the Broncos on NFL Primetime' type stuff that had the theme music and in the corner of the screen and a quick promo then right back to whatever was being broadcast. Always get a kick out of Paul Page, the auto racing legend, being ...and /my/ Chicago Bears. Circa 90s Bears, too. Paul was around in '85 too working for NBC of all people doing Sportsworld, IIRC they'd toned down the commercials for that by then, but I'd need to rewatch the 85 Indycar and NASCAR and so on seasons to see how many commercial breaks there are.
See. I don't get commercials in the NFL. In baseball. Commercials between each half inning make sense. In the NFL it's just shove a commercial in whenever, it feels like. Ditto for NASCAR, too. Looking at you, FOX 2021...
I believe this happened to the Chargers to start a game when they ran back the opening kick-off for a TD and they had to redo the play for the same reason, check around the mid 80s, you may find something.
That's a corruption of the game to allow NBC to dictate the game, if they missed it they missed it, Referees messed up should have continued with the game.
Yeah the stupidest rule in the NFL was moving the touchback to the 25 yard line. Statistics have shown that kicking teams are kicking short of the end zone to increase the chances of stopping the recieving team behind the 20. Supposedly this new rule was for "safety reasons". But so far there has been an increase in number of run backs due to deliberate short kicks. And an increase in number of injured players because of it.
The players getting their way about less practice time has also ironically led to more injuries than ever. Hoisted by their own petard.
Coryell had a point, NO reason for that re-kick. Re-kick wasn't really necessary in Super Bowl I, either.
Reminds me of how what’s possibly the biggest play in Super Bowl XXXIII (Elway to Smith leaving Robinson in the dust) was nearly missed because FOX was running a trailer for The Matrix. Whoa.
Well there you have it.
I remember being so hyped for this game, mainly because I hated both teams and one was guaranteed to lose 😈 And then the game and both teams turned out to be complete duds.
How do you not bring up the Heidi game?! Also, isn't it a guy with giant orange gloves that's on the field for media timeouts??
Back then, it used to be a guy in a red hat. As for the Heidi Game, I already made a video about that: czcams.com/video/iqygvnEtYoc/video.html
For the first 30 years or so of the NFL, this would not have been a problem!!!
It's the Chargers...Par for the course
05:17 A Charger should have made the tackle here, but for some reason doesn't even try. He let's the Jets runner go right by him. My old high school coach would have told him "You're a spectator. You need to buy a ticket next time like all the other spectators"...😂🤣😅🤣😂😀👍
I clearly remember this game
Idve bet the farm there'd be a commercial on CZcams at that kickoff!
I think I was at this game with my dad.
it would have been no big deal if the repeat kick off was a normal kickoff between 20 and 30 yards, it's only remembered because it was a breakout that almost went to for a touchdown.
I thought at first it would go for one, not knowing the story. Imagine if it had...backlash woulda been even worse.
That was so wrong for the refs not to count the kickoff
Why that hurt the chargers nothing hurt the chargers more in the 80s than their defense that always cost them games
38 Years Ago
No franchise has ever been cursed like the Lions have been.
J
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JETS! JETS! JETS!
Let's go, Jets!
The following had nothing to do with televised screw-ups but it was beyond bizarre nonetheless.
In 1969, the Browns annihilated the Cowboys 38-14 in the Eastern Conference playoff. After the Cowboys scored a meaningless touchdown near the end of the game, Cowboys kicker Mike Clark attempted an onsides kick and MISSED THE BALL. After being penalized 5 yards for "illegal procedure", Clark tried a 2nd onsides kick and MISSED THE BALL AGAIN. He finally gave up and kicked what was about a 35-40 yard lollipop.
I'll never forget it because I had become an avid Cowboys fan in 1967 and watched the game with my brothers who were avid Browns fans. I wondered if that game would ever end.
I forgot to mention that the Cowboys closed out a hideous ending to the 1969 season by getting leveled by the Rams 31-0 in what would be the last Playoff Bowl that the NFL played at the Orange Bowl. So much for having a great regular season with an 11-2-1 record.
It's the Chargers way
blame the refs. it isn't in the rules. they made up a rule to give the Jets better field position
The jets could have easily fumbled the kickoff too. No way to know for sure it would help the jets but it was still stupid.
The Broncos played the Steelers not the Seahawks to open the 1983 season. 4:00
That is one of the dumbest things I've heard in my years watching football
Where was split screen commercials when you really needed them?
Yeah that's a painful one. At was this play that made Eli Manning decide never to play with the Chargers as well. Although I will never understand how he missed that FG attempt Rolf Benirschke had/had one of the greatest names in football ever. If he was a linebacker for the Bears he'd own a restaurant & be in the Hall of Fame.
No
Break for the
Chargers
The NFL is always against The Chargers
Chargering....hopefully they can change that with Coach Harbaugh.
As usual, the NFL has NEVER liked the Chargers, and will do anything to keep them from winning. Example, the 1982 playoff game against the Bengals (the Freezer Bowl). Every time SD was playing toward the closed end, the doors were opened creating a fierce “into the wind” effect. There are many others, but you get the idea.
Oh quit yer whinin'. That's nothing compared to the Fins-Chargers playoff game at SD where the lights in the MIami locker room just 'happened" to go out at hafltime, and the Chargers pretended it was an accident 🙄 This was after they refused to let the Dolphins practice on the field the week before.
The NFL just likes fucking with the Chargers.. always have.. always will
This is only the second-worst debacle that Rolf Benirschke has been part of. In 1989, Pat Sajak left the daytime Wheel of Fortune, on NBC, to start his late-night talk show on CBS. Benirschke replaced him for the few months that the show survived on that network. (It returned on CBS with Bob Goen, but it fared no better there.) I won't say that the game show community regards him as the worst game show host ever, but I doubt you'd find anyone who thinks there's ever been a worse replacement.
Still think they can't change an outcome of a game? Still think these games are not scripted?
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Can someone explain the incident at the 0:44 mark? Thanks.
C'mon. If the Chargers somehow recovered a fumble on the 2nd kickoff, there would ZERO complaints. So what if they had to re-kick. It happens. Just like a penalty or injury or whatever. The Chargers are just being bitches for losing that game. Oh yeah, they did lose the the LA Raiders in the AFC Championship game later that year anyway. So this loss was meaningless.
Good job screwing thing up NFL just like always n they still say NFL ain't rigged
Let me show you the strangest kickoff in history but before I do let me give you 10 minutes of useless background so I can throw in an extra couple commercials.
Get to the point!!!