To kick off its big day of sports programming today, CBS Sports will air a special produced by NFL Films called “They Call It The Playoffs.” The special will focus on some of the best moments in the NFL postseason including the Miami-Kansas City double overtime game from the 1971 season, “The Catch” from the 1981 season and the “Tuck Rule” game between New England and Oakland that transformed the Patriots into a Super Bowl Champion team.
Peter Coyote will narrate the NFL Films special. Writing the last paragraph has made me interested in the program and I may watch it to get read for the playoff games today.
Here’s the CBS Sports press release.
CBS SPORTS BROADCASTS “THEY CALL IT THE NFL PLAYOFFS” ON SATURDAY, JAN. 14
CBS Sports broadcasts the NFL Films Presentation, THEY CALL IT THE NFL PLAYOFFS, on Saturday, Jan. 14 (2:30-3:30 PM, ET). This special returns to the NFL post-season not simply to see who will be crowned champion, but hoping, along the way, to see in the beauty and sting of winter football something we never have before: a title for a long-suffering player, coach, or city; a matchup in which two teams provide a singular sudden death drama; a play so magnificent that we come to know it by one simple name, like, “the Catch.”
From their little known origins to their unexpected results, great moments from the rich history of pro football’s annual second season come to life in the NFL Films presentation THEY CALL IT THE NFL PLAYOFFS. A celebration of the winter ritual of playoff football, this one hour spectacular will revisit the Tuck Rule Game that propelled the team of the 2000s to its first title; the double overtime classic played 40 years ago this season between the Chiefs and Dolphins; and on its 30th anniversary, the moment that forever altered the NFL’s most bitter post-season rivalry. What were the coldest, longest, dirtiest and greatest playoff games in history? Which city is the NFL’s best for playoff weather? And which is the greatest playoff franchise in history? Learn all that and more through NFL Films signature images, sound and access in THEY CALL IT THE NFL PLAYOFFS.
Though the NFL post-season is as unpredictable as winter weather, what’s certain is that this year’s Playoffs will deliver moments unlike any we’ve ever seen. And when they happen, it’s also certain those new moments and milestones will stir and inspire just like those relived in THEY CALL IT THE NFL PLAYOFFS. Peter Coyote serves as host.
That’s it for this post.
