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1969 Ole Miss vs Alabama game was NOT the first nationally televised night game
Posted on 4/13/17 at 10:52 am
Posted on 4/13/17 at 10:52 am
First ABC Primetime college game It was actually the year before in 1968 when Alabama beat Miami-Fla, 14-6 at the old Orange Bowl. In fact that very year in '69 ABC opened its TV season with Air Force vs SMU at night.
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Posted on 4/13/17 at 10:57 am to I-59 Tiger
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:00 am to I-59 Tiger
Archie Manning thread?
Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:16 am to I-59 Tiger
So Alabama played in the very first televised night game and the first televised game the next year. Or could say, the first 2 televised games.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:17 am to jatebe
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So Alabama played in the very first televised night game and the first televised game the next year. Or could say, the first 2 televised games.
Big. fricking. One.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:21 am to I-59 Tiger
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I-59 Tiger1969 Ole Miss vs Alabama game was NOT the first nationally televised night game by I-59 Tiger
Was that the 33-32 game between Archie and scott hunter that I have heard about ??
Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:27 am to jatebe
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So Alabama played in the very first televised night game and the first televised game the next year. Or could say, the first 2 televised games.
No, 2 of the first three.Article says Air-Force and SMU was a night game in 1969 to open the ABC TV schedule.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:34 am to jatebe
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So Alabama played in the very first televised night game and the first televised game the next year. Or could say, the first 2 televised games.
Primetime games.
"Actually, the first Alabama football game ever televised occurred on October 7,
1939, when the Crimson Tide visited Fordham in New York City. That game was televised
exclusively in New York City (only a few hundred television sets were in existence at that
time in the city), the second known sporting event ever carried on American television.
One week earlier, Fordham’s game with Waynesburg College was televised, the first sporting
event in American history known to have been televised. The following season, on October
5, 1940, the first commercially televised game between Maryland and Pennsylvania
was broadcast by Philco."
Pg. 188 in the link
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Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:47 am to I-59 Tiger
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It was actually the year before in 1968 when Alabama beat Miami-Fla, 14-6 at the old Orange Bowl. In fact that very year in '69 ABC opened its TV season with Air Force vs SMU at night.
I was watching that game with my brother-in-law at his neighbor's house. During the game one of them asked what big pro games were on the next day. I immediately said Raiders-Jets and was laughed out of the house because they didn't consider the AFL as "pro" football.
I got the last laugh. The Raiders-Jets game the next day is still considered the most famous regular season pro football game of All Time. It was The Heidi Game.
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Posted on 4/13/17 at 11:55 am to ALA2262
now that is a CSB. 
I was so bummed in 2013 when November 17 was on a Sunday, that NBC didn't lead into Sunday Night Football--or whatever their pregame show is called -- with the old NBC peacock and the start of Heidi. Would have been great. 
I was so bummed in 2013 when November 17 was on a Sunday, that NBC didn't lead into Sunday Night Football--or whatever their pregame show is called -- with the old NBC peacock and the start of Heidi. Would have been great. Posted on 4/13/17 at 12:18 pm to I-59 Tiger
It even got better the next year. My brother-in-law was a Colts fan. How sweet it was when Joe and the Jets kicked their a$$ in the Super Bowl. I watched that game at his house. In Center Point BTW.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 12:25 pm to I-59 Tiger
Wasn't the Bama-Texas Rose Bowl in Namath's senior year a night game?
Posted on 4/13/17 at 2:12 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Wasn't the Bama-Texas Rose Bowl in Namath's senior year a night game?
It was the 1965 Orange Bowl, which was the first bowl game played during primetime for a national telecast. NBC and Jim Simpson.
If you're limiting it to regular season, it doesn't count. Otherwise, it does.
This post was edited on 4/13/17 at 2:15 pm
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