NFL Films - The Oakland Raiders - The Complete History
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: Warner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 229 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 39898
Color: Multi
Studio: Vivendi Entertainment
Product features:
- Number of discs: 2
- Run time: 229 min
- MPAA Rating: NRClosed Captioning: Yes
- Subtitles: English Aspect Ratio: Original Aspect Ratio - 1.33 Sound Quality: English: Dolby Surround Stereo 2.0
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DVD Reviews of NFL Films - The Oakland Raiders - The Complete History
DVD Review: I wish I could have given this 5 stars!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have been a Raiders fan since 1973 (I was in 6th grade), although I didn't really start following them until the 1975 season. I just purchased this DVD last month. I found it to be both thrilling and annoying. In short - a missed opportunity!
I was thrilled that, for the first time on DVD, we can see highlights of some of the greatest moments in Raider history! I was annoyed, as I have been by all of the NFL DVD releases, because great football (even games that took place decades before) is NOT just about the highlights.
Imagine, if you will, if all you could buy or rent was the highlights of the James Bond movies. Sure, we've seen the featurettes that show us clips of the great moments in history by Sean Connery, Roger Moore and company. But WHAT IF THAT WAS ALL THAT WAS OFFERED ?!!
What if, instead of being able to buy/rent a DVD of "Goldfinger" or "The Spy Who Loved Me" and watch the entire film, unedited, uninterrupted, in stereo sound, wide-screen (and someday, high-definition!), we had to settle on just a few highlights, (with not even the original audio, but rather the voice-over of some generic commentator), in some made-for-cable compilation ?!
It would be UNACCEPTABLE !
And I feel the same way about this DVD. These classic games simply loose all of their original excitement and energy in these lifeless compilations. It is time to bring these games back, in their original splendor. With the original network commentaries. JUST AS THEY WERE ORIGINALLY AIRED (minus the commercials, of course). No present day commentary or highlights (except, perhaps, as separate special features menue items, if there is room on the DVD). No interruptions. No editing. Just as it was originally aired. Isn't that, after all, the goal when we watch "Goldfinger", for example, on our home theatre system? To recreate the way it felt (or must have felt) when it was first viewed years ago?!
And the way the so-called "Greatest Game" was presented on Disc 2 was little better than the highlights of disc 1. It feels more like I'm watching a high school game that some parent filmed on their home movie camera. Where is the original network broadcast?!!! And put the current-day commentary WHERE IT BELONGS, on a separate special features menu item (or separate audio track that can be disabled, if one so chooses). A game looses the momentum and feeling of live action when they cut out the suspense-building intervals in between the plays and interrupt with present-day commentary. I want to see EVERYTHING! The huddles. The side-lines moments. The penalties. Just as it was. UNINTERRUPTED!
In short, come on NFL. GET WITH IT! Use some common sense. When I set down to watch a classic game, I don't want an asinine and tedious history lesson. I want to re-live that game, all of the original energy and excitement, just as it was when it was originally aired! If you want to include some featurettes with highlights and commentary, that's fine. I am as big a fan of special features as the next guy. However, if your going to include irritating commentary by the opposition players, please include it on a separate menu item from the Raiders' commentaries, so I can ignore it, if I so choose. (By the way, one special feature that would be welcome would be an interactive menu of team and player statistics for the games on the DVD.)
Let me finish by giving my plug for the games that I believe should be FIRST in a new DVD series of COMPLETE GAMES.
I vote for box sets with COMPLETE, UNEDITED, games from the team that put the Raiders on the road to its first World Championship - the Madden and Stabler team of the 70's. Personally, I would like to see a box set including any and all Raider playoff and championship games of 1972 thru 1975 (including the ones that they lost). Then a box set of the best games of the 1976 season (arguably the best Raiders season ever), (or better yet, 2 or 3 box sets of ALL of the games of the 1976 season), including, of course the classic September 12, 1976 game* against the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, and the playoff and championship games that led to Oakland's Super Bowl IX appearance. (The actual Raiders Super Bowl victory over the Vikings would be included in one of a new series of COMPLETE Super Bowl games box sets).
* I consider this to be the greatest Raider comeback (and one of the greatest GAMES) of all-time, where Stabler led the raiders to a 31 to 28 come from behind victory, including 17 unanswered points in the last 2:38 of the game. This game is great not just because of the dramatic come-from-behind victory, but because it was the first victory over the Steelers since the Steelers began their Super Bowl dynasty of the 70's, defeating the Steeler team that had kept the Raiders from going to the Super Bowl two years in a row. And it was the game that started the 1976 Raiders team on their way to their best record ever (16-1-0) and their first Super Bowl Championship ever! See [...] for as more complete description of this game.
Description of NFL Films - The Oakland Raiders - The Complete History
This Warner BrothersŪ History of the Oakland Raiders 2-disc set celebrates the glorious history of the Raiders, from the inception through training camp 2004. The bonus disc is the NFLŪ Films production of the 1977 "Ghost to the Post" game, in which the Raiders beat the Colts in a playoff overtime thriller. The collection includes tons of bonus features on the greatest Raider moments, games and players.Bestsellers in DVD
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