NBC Sports: MLB 1981- NLDS Gm 1 Philadelphia Phillies @ Montreal Expos: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports– the 1981 NLDS at Montreal Olympic Stadium.

“1981 NLDS Game 1 – Phillies vs Expos”

From Classic Phillies TV

I wish MLB stuck with the 1981 playoff format with the divisional series and extra wildcards. Five-six teams in each league.

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NBC Sports: FBS 1968- Rose Bowl- Columbus Buckeyes vs Southern California Trojans: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports– coverage of the 1969 Rose Bowl.

“The 1969 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1969. It was the 55th Rose Bowl Game. The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the USC Trojans, 27–16. Rex Kern, the Ohio State quarterback, was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game.

From Wikipedia.”

From John Quinn

1969 Rose Bowl, at one point this was a regular matchup in the Rose Bowl, to the point that they met several times in the regular season in the 1970s and 80s with a home and home series. And they brought that series back again in the 2000s once both programs were national championship contenders again, at the same time.

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NBC Sports: FBS 1984- Fiesta Bowl- Miami Florida Hurricanes vs Los Angeles Bruins

Source:NBC Sports– the 1985 FBS Fiesta Bowl.

“1985 Fiesta Bowl — UCLA 39 Miami 37. #13 Miami vs. #14 UCLA.”

From Wasted Century 

This Fiesta Bowl was interesting because, yes, it was a 39-37 shootout and for people who are allergic to defense when it comes to football, at least, this is like a perfect football game for you, but the coaches with Jimmy Johnson for Miami Florida and Terry Donahue for the Los Angeles (as I call UCLA) two of the best head coaches in division 1 college football in the 1980s and both coaches are in the Hall of Fame.

1984 was Jimmy Johnson’s first year at Miami and he inherited the national champion Hurricanes, so I guess a lot was expected of him during his first season, even though he was coming from Oklahoma State where they weren’t a national power and the Hurricanes finished 8-4 during JJ’s first season in Miami and that was a disappointing season for the Hurricanes during the 1980s.

Terry Donahue is one of the last head coaches to beat Jimmy Johnson in any big college football game. So that’s what really makes this game so important, because the Bruins playing the Hurricanes right before they were about to just take over the 1980s in college football.

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JS Milla: MLB 1981- ‘The Montreal Expos Win A Playoff Series!’

Source:JS Milla– The Montreal Expos, winning their only playoff series ever.

Source:The Daily Times

“Let’s say it now: The Montreal Expos were winners. True, they never won a pennant, and they never got to play in the Serie Mondiale thanks to an errant fastball in 1981 and a called (player’s) strike in 1994. But the Expos won a heckuva lot of games in the 80s and even the 90s. And they even won a playoff series—the 1981 National League Division Series—thanks to some terrific pitching from Steve “Cy” Rogers, who beat Steve “Lefty” Carlton twice in one week, giving up one run in 17 2/3 innings of work.

If Major League Baseball had introduced the modern wildcard playoff format in the 1970s, you would have seen half-a-dozen additional playoff appearances from the Expos…and perhaps more celebrations like this one from October 11, 1981.”

From JS Milla

The Montreal Expos winning a playoff series in the expanded MLB playoff format in 1981. The Montreal Expos were winners in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, and to a certain extent in the early 1990s. And this guy is right that if the wildcard was around back then and you have 5 teams from each league make the playoffs every year. the Expos would’ve made several more playoff appearances in the 1980s.

But that could be said for a lot of other MLB franchises: the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, etc. So I don’t think that alone makes the Expos special.

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