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A fact from Announcerless game appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 35 years ago today, NBC broadcast an entire NFL game without any announcers?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Announcerless Game.

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As the article refers to parallel occurrences, what about Jerry Lawler's on-air heart attack in the middle of a Monday Night Raw episode and the decision to continue the program without any commentary during the matches? RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 14:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't aware of that since I'm not a big pro wrestling fan. If there are sources we can find, let's put it in. Daniel Case (talk) 16:28, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Trust me, there's plenty of sources related to Lawler's heart attack, as it occurred within fairly recent memory on one of the highest-rated programs in all of cable television. I remarked back when it happened that the amount of attention given to that episode amounted to undue weight. Lawler was getting national media attention for being the "King of Memphis" years before he ever met Andy Kaufman and appeared with him on Letterman, yet little to none of that has been properly reflected; roughly six times more space is given in that article to the latter half of his career than to the first half. I'm not big on reading news on the web, but I'll bet that a mention on WT:PW could arouse interested editors. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 21:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At any rate, I'll have to see if any non-sport-centric media attention is given to this today. The 35th anniversary of Howard Cosell's announcement of John Lennon's murder on MNF was all over mainstream media. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 14:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering about that, too. At the very least NFL on NBC should mention it. Daniel Case (talk) 16:28, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"A failure"? Really??[edit]

In the second paragraph it's stated that the broadcast of the game was "widely regarded as a failure since it did not provide sufficient context for viewers." Where is the documentation or inline citation for this statement?

You answered your own question in your next graf. Daniel Case (talk) 22:55, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's difficult to believe the statement when later in the entry it's stated that there was a 60% approval rate from the people who called in (even though the number of callers was considered to to be small -- but is that 'consideration' accurate for then or now?). In fact, the only negative statements in the entry were made by so-called experts.

I was limited in my ability to find sources from that far back. I do remember that the vast majority of TV sports critics at least ate a little crow and admitted it was not as easy without the announcers as they had sometimes suggested.

I happen to be one of those viewers who watched this game on TV and enjoyed it. It was nice to not have to listen to announcers who feel that something must be said every second and can't stand any length of silence (I can't stand constant/incessant gibberish when there is really nothing to be said and the announcers fall back on trite, overused phrases that do not add anything to the situation at hand). In fact, the broadcast made it feel like being at the game; any "context" is up on the scoreboard/screen. Most game-goers don't need, or care about, all those TV graphics/context -- if they did, they'd stay home to watch the game on TV. For those who feel they need more than what's up on the scoreboard/screen, they use a portable radio/device (I have, especially when there has been an onfield incident that was not explained by either the refs or stadium announcer).68.231.86.200 (talk) 21:13, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this really falls into the area of "commentary on the subject" rather than "commentary on the article," so I'll just leave it at that. For myself, as the creator and primary contributor of the article, I will say thank you for reading it. Daniel Case (talk) 22:55, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At this particular point in time, we did not own a television. Additionally, in Alaska, almost all network programs aired on a 1–3 week tape delay until 1983/4 (following Alascom's launch of the Aurora satellite), excepting the nightly news and select sporting events, because special arrangements had to be made to air network programming live or same-day. So in its stead, I usually listened to the Seahawks games on the radio every week; I miss Pete Gross and "Touchdown Seahawks!", which was quite rare back then compared to nowadays, and likely would have been even rarer if they didn't have Steve Largent. Anyway, before this becomes too tangential, what football games I remember watching from back then had very little in the way of on-screen graphics compared to games these days. I just may have to search for footage; a quick search of YouTube only brings up a Jets–Dolphins game from 1986 which may or may not have referenced this game. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 01:06, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fix reference [2] for end of paragraph about Peacock[edit]

x 72.196.141.110 (talk) 02:23, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]