ABC Network - NFL Monday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs. Detroit Lions (Excerpt, 10/6/1975) 🏈

Here's a nearly hour-long excerpt of NFL Monday Night Football from within its heyday on the ABC Network, here aired over WXYZ Channel 7 in Detroit, MI. While Don Meredith was not part of the announcing team at this juncture (he was pursuing an acting career at the time), Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford were joined here by Alex Karras in the booth (in-between the end of his playing career and the start-up of the sitcom Webster).

The game highlighted this evening is the matchup between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys at the Pontiac Silverdome.

(NOTE: The scoreboard at the Silverdome was powered by American Sign & Indicator Corp.)

We start this clip with 7:43 left in the 2nd quarter; station ID voiceover at 2:06, score at that point shown at 2:08, and a few seconds of the announcing trio in the booth starting at 3:31; this segment ends after a 2-minute warning develops

Commercials for:
FSLIC - Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. - "IRSA" (had to be edited - full version posted separately here: https://youtu.be/_ystlO3AkQk)

Zenith Chromacolor II color TV

Play continues in 2nd quarter, but not for long

Commercials for:
JCPenney Battery (posted separately here: https://youtu.be/iFR4VI9gQRY)
Sheraton Hotels & Motor Inns

Brief shot of Cowboys cheerleaders assembling as 1:56 is left in 2nd quarter; a plug for Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell is snuck in (3-1/2 hours before another "Saturday Night" show would debut on NBC); segment ends with 1:01 left

Commercials for:
Norelco Coffee Maker (with Danny Thomas)
1976 Capri II

Play resumes with mention made and shots of Tom Landry in his iconic hat on the sidelines (and plug for NCAA Football game of Michigan vs. Michigan State), first half finally ends and we get to see the groovy Dolphin Productions-made video bumper that was produced with Scanimate

Commercials for:
Skoal smokeless tobacco
AMF Voit rubber football

ABC promos for Baretta and Starsky & Hutch

Promo for Action News at 11pm with John Kelly - "Alex Karras gives us a candid look at sex in sports"

Commercial: Manufacturers Bank - "I'm glad That's my bank"

"7 in sections" station ID / promo for "Revenge" on tomorrow's 4:30 Movie

Halftime show with Apache Belles from Tyler, TX, followed by prior day's football highlights from Howard

Commercials for:
Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Life Savers candy
Polaroid SX-70 cameras (voiceover by Cliff Robertson?)

Promo for 1976 Olympic Winter Games and special emblem (voiceover by Jim McKay)

More of prior day's highlights, followed by sponsor billboard (voiceover by Frank Gifford) for Gillette Trac II and Goodyear Tires

Another MNF animated bumper

ABC promo for Happy Days

Commercials for:
Bank of the Commonwealth - "BC...ing you under the Big Umbrella"
Timken Tapered Roller Bearings - "Wherever Wheels and Shafts Turn" (showing various old-time banks) (this is a thing? And there's a commercial for it?) (voiceover by Doug Jeffers)

"Zooming 7" station ID / promo for AM Detroit with Dennis Wholey (and aerial photo of Tiger Stadium in background)

3rd quarter starts, and segment ends with a player injury

Commercials for:
Gillette Trac II shaving cream
Right Guard double protection anti-perspirant - "Protects You. Protects your clothes" (featuring Arte Johnson as his Tyrone character from "Laugh-In")

Continuation of 3rd quarter play; segment ends with touchdowns and a man in a lion suit doing physical acrobatics

Commercial: Mercury Bobcat (sung to tune of "Tiger Rag") (voiceover by Michael Bell) (recording ends just as ad is about to)

This aired on local Detroit TV on Monday, October 6th 1975 within the 9:00pm to 12 Midnight (Eastern) timeframe.

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