Blast From The Past: A Collection Of Old Flyers TV Intros
I was stumbling around on YouTube earlier this morning when I found myself listening to Bob Galderstein, an old studio host on PRISM Network, talking about such recent events as the 35-game unbeaten streak and that first Cup-winning season, just a decade ago.
That's the first game from the 83-84 season, and the television intro that went along with it. Pretty darn cool to see these things again, wouldn't you say? So I poked around on YouTube some more and discovered about 20 more of these things, spanning from the 70s to the 2000s. Some of them feature familiar faces, while some of them feature people most of us have never heard of.
Either way, I find them pretty damn cool.
I'm going to post all of the intros I found in chronological order. The first comes from April 11, 1978, a playoff game in which the Flyers beat the Colorado Rockies 3-2 in overtime. Are you ready for some incredible 70s tunes?
Did you know that Mike Emrick was a Flyers broadcaster at one point? He called this, the second game of the 1981 season, an 8-2 Flyers win over Pittsburgh, and that clip is here.
More Emrick, a 1982 season-opener -- "they've set their sights on the other 20 teams in the NHL" -- and a clip with some Cooperalls in it. The Flyers beat the Quebec Nordiques 9-5 on this night.
This clip features some now-vanished sponsors, and the first sighting of Gene Hart in these videos.
This one is a pretty special one: Bobby Clarke Night, November 1984. The Flyers kicked some Hartford ass that evening, by a score of 6-1.
The Stanley Cup Finals were broadcast by local TV crews back in these days, and that was the case in 1985 when the Flyers took on the Oilers. The Flyers lost this game, 3-1, on their way to losing the series (of course), but this clip mostly shows the great highlights from Game 1.
October 19, 1985: Flyers 7, North Stars 3 on PRISM -- with Gene Hart and Bobby Taylor
March 26, 1987: Flyers 3, Nordiques 2 on PRISM -- with Bobby Taylor, Mike Keenan, Gene Hart and Ed Van Impe
Old school HNIC here, in French with broadcaster Jean Page. The Wales Conference Finals between the Flyers and Habs in 1989. Pat Burns has a pretty amazing mustache if you stick with this one until the end.
PRISM gets some halfway decent graphics by 1990. And Mike Emrick (holy glasses) and Bill Clement are your commentators. The Flyers opened the season with six straight wins, as Doc points out in the clip, but they'd stop there, losing to the Caps 6-2 on this night.
The Flyers were already out of the postseason as they took on the Rangers on April 12, 1993. But any win where you end the Rangers season, too, is always fun. Emrick brings the New York hate on this one, and that's pretty incredible to see.
"Real Stories of the Highway Patrol will not be seen until 10:30." The Flyers were too busy beating the life out of the Sabres, 7-4, on WPHL.
The final game of a frustrating 1994 season was a win, a 4-2 one over the Devils. Here's the pre-game show with Ken Adelberger.
Pre-game ceremonies with Gene Hart handing out team awards at the end of the (successful, playoffs!) 1994-1995 season.
Our first JJ sighting comes from this 1997 clip. It's the last one we have on YouTube from the network, which went down the drain after this season. CSN took its place to start the 97-98 season.
The HNIC intro from Game 4 of the 1997 Finals. View at your own peril.
From the first season of CSN, this in April of 1998. Alexandre Daigle highlights?! The Flyes would beat the Leafs 4-1 on this night. And we get some "And stop it right there!" from Dorny.
Finally, two clips from ESPN in 2000.
So these aren't exactly hockey, but watching all of these clips certainly gave me my hockey fix today. Hope it did the same for you.
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Love this one:
"Can Geico really save you 15% or more on your car insurance? Is Mike Green really a forward in defenseman's clothing"
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Here’s the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6tX50kSAI
"Can Geico really save you 15% or more on your car insurance? Is Mike Green really a forward in defenseman's clothing"
I miss that old intro/theme song.
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I’ve found these in my own spare time as well. Some great stuff.
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Actually, one of the more interesting tidbits about Flyers TV broadcasts in the ‘80s is that there was a period of time where Galerstein (there’s no d in it — for some reason, all the videos with him have that in their description) was considered the “voice of the Flyers on PRISM,” so he did play-by-play for televised home games. Gene Hart or Doc did play-by-play for away games on 57 or 29.
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LOL Alexandre the Great , how’d that work out?
by historywillbemade on Jul 29, 2010 2:13 PM EDT reply actions
wow … I had to look at his stats again … I knew he was a former first rounder (Clarke loved getting former first rounders after all …) … but look at this:
January 17, 1998: Traded by the Ottawa Senators to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Vaclav Prospal, Pat Falloon and Dallas’ 1998 2nd round draft choice.
January 29, 1999: Traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Andrei Kovalenko.
So you trade Prospal, Falloon, and a deuce (Chris Bala) for a guy who gives you 12G and 19A in 68G … then you turn him over for Kovalenko who gives you 1A in 13 games before moving onto Carolina and putting up 6G 6G in 18 G
So … yeah … Alexandre the Great … maybe Alexandre the Great Trade Bust …
Why isn’t Clarke in charge still? Novel idea … Two-headed GM (I know Dallas did it already) … have Homer trade … have Clarke sign … they might actually make a good combo as long as they don’t jump and do the other role ….
remember that other former first round pick that Clarke got for Lindros? Brendl. man that guy was a bum
by historywillbemade on Jul 29, 2010 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Brendl was an overweight 60 goal scorer for the Hitmen. He had great hands, but didn’t have the work ethic.
Kovalenko was a good 3rd line player in my opinion. I liked him alot. But more was expected from him because, well I guess because Daigle was still semi highly regarded.
But man, Prism……..I have to say I still appreciate not having to buy a channel just for the sake of watching my local team play. I remember that was the only reason we had Prism growing up in my house.
I think the Flyers have a lot of former #1s that they keep aquiring … Fallon, Daigle, Brendl …
Jeremy Roenick #8 ‘88, Rod Brind’Amour #9 ’88, Petr Nedved #2 ’90, Keith Primeau #3 ’90, Derian Hatcher #6 ’90, Turner Stevenson #12 ’90, Karl Dykhuis #16 ’90, Shawn Antoski #18 ’90, Eric Lindros #1 ’91, Pat Falloon #2 ’91, Peter Forsberg #6 ’91 (adding him just because he only played here after he signed as a free agent), Dean McAmmond #16 ’91, Mike Rathje #3 ’92, Jason Smith #18 ’92, Alexandre Daigle #1 ’93, Chris Pronger #2 ’93, Chris Gratton #3 ’93, Nolan Baumgartner #10 ’94, Martin Biron #16, ’95 Denis Gauthier #20 ’95, Jason Ward #11 in ’97, Pavel Brendl #4 ’99, Scott Hartnell #6 ’00, R. J. Umberger #16 ’01, Scottie Upshall #6 ’02, Joffrey Lupul #7 ’02, Steve Eminger #12 ’02, Ben Eager # 23 ’02, Braydon Coburn #8 ’03, Andrej Meszaros #23 ’04
Not to mention their first rounders and all those people I missed along the way … I think I figured out the Flyers trade strategy finally ….
Most value of all those people was probably Dykhuis based on what was given up and what we got for him; Forsberg being a close second I’d thing … did you know Boucher was a first rounder? … and did Shawn Antoski ever play after that like 80 PIM tirade he had during that one game?
Here is a nice chain …
Flyers traded Martin Špaňhel, and a #1 and a #4 in 1996 for Pat Faloon (ouch!). That #1 pick was traded to Phoenix which they used to take Danny Briere with the #24 pick (which was the Flyers natural draft pick) can’t figure out how Phoenix got that pick from San Jose just yet … that year they Flyers had two and ended up taking Dainius Zubrus at #15 … of note: Zdeno Chara was taking #56 Pavel Kubina #179 Tomas Kaberle #204 … over all a very weak draft that year imo
I loved that Game 5, Round 3, 1999-2000 video. Shocking, I know.
Man-crushin' on Boucher since 1999
Broad Street Hockey - Makin' it look mean since 1967.
by Geoff Detweiler on Jul 29, 2010 6:12 PM EDT reply actions
Sigh. Even Steve Levy was convinced the Flyers were going to the Final that year… “His game 3 save might be the save I’ll [all?] point as the one that propels Philadelphia to the Cup Final. Boucher and the Flyers finish off the Devils, next!”
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by historywillbemade on Jul 29, 2010 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions
TV needs to get back to using Fuzak and serious, newscaster-y narration for sports promos.
Two people I never thought I’d look at again: Ron Flockhart and Bob McCammon. The Flyers won one playoff game during his hallowed tenure.
“Flocky Hockey” was traded for Rich Sutter, who was subsequently traded for JJ Daigneault. Therefore, Flockhart was essentially traded for one of the most famous goals in Flyers history.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
And by “his hallowed tenure” I mean McCammon’s.
Pronoun-antecedent agreement, or lack thereof, brought to you by the letter “M” as in “McCammon” and “mikefive.”
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
I still remember Gene Hart’s excitement in saying “Flocky Hockey” – it seemed like he almost creamed himself while saying it…
I also remember the chant “BOB MUST GO!” resounding around the Spectrum during McCammon’s tenure here. (It also makes you wonder why he got two go-rounds here as well, as if we needed confirmation that he was actually as bad as he was…)
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by Orange and Black Forever on Jul 30, 2010 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks again for posting these – they were great to watch! :)
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by Orange and Black Forever on Aug 1, 2010 12:57 PM EDT reply actions
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