Product Details

• Actors: Barry Switzer
• Directors: a&e
• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Run Time: 698 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0018GZYZ6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,889 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From its start in 1895, Sooners football has rolled from the plains to the mountains and coast to coast to establish Oklahoma as the preeminent powerhouse. This one-of-a-kind collection of complete game broadcasts honors Oklahoma football from a magical, unforgettable era under the leadership of Coach Barry Switzer, and provides countless remarkable moments as they unfolded through the years.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most amazing sports box sets out there, September 4, 2010

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Derrick Anderson (LaFollette, TN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: University of Oklahoma Sooners Greatest Games (DVD)

I am a fan of classic sports broadcasts and this DVD set is one of the best out there. I am really amazed at how they chose these games.

I love all the discs but I am going to choose three favorites:

The first disc features one of three Orange Bowls featuring Oklahoma. It involves the Oklahoma Sooners and the Michigan Wolverines from January 1976. It is the NBC broadcast with Jim Simpson (before he left in 1979 for the new ESPN) doing play-by-play and John Brodie with color commentary. The broadcast even includes Jim Simpson mentioning the new NBC logo that debuted that year. This DVD includes Sooner Illustrated's The Best of the Switzer Shows with Barry Switzer. This is a nice touch because it includes clips from both shows that Barry Switzer did in Oklahoma. What amazed me was that they mentioned the "Playback" show. The "Playback" show aired all across the nation for Oklahoma Sooner fans. This has to be one of my favorite DVDs on the box set.

The fourth disc features the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns in the Red River Rivalry. It was a regular season match-up that aired on CBS in 1987. It features Brent Musberger doing play-by-play, Pat Haden with color commentary, and John Dockery reporting from the sidelines. This DVD includes the original pre-game and original post-game. That's not all...a sponsorship bumper is included and features the booming voice of Don Robertson who was the voice of CBS Sports at the time. Also...it includes a few cut-ins with Jim Nantz reading scores from various games in college football. What's interesting about this was that Jim Nantz was updating a football game where Wyoming would have wrapped up a Holiday Bowl berth by Halloween 1987. I have seen this disc three times and it has to be one of my favorites including disc one.

The fifth and final disc features the Oklahoma Sooners and the Nebraska Cornhuskers in what is called "The Game of the Century". It was another CBS broadcast from 1987. It features Brent Musberger doing play-by-play, Pat Haden with color commentary, and John Dockery reporting from the sidelines. It doesn't include the sponsorship bumper but it includes at least one cut-in with Jim Nantz. This is another one of my favorites on the set.

Those are my favorites.

Discs two and three featuring the remainder of their Orange Bowl games that aired on NBC. Disc two features Oklahoma and Penn State at the 1986 Orange Bowl while disc three features Oklahoma and Arkansas at the 1987 Orange Bowl. At the announcing helm during the 1986 and 1987 Orange Bowls were Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy.

All in all...this has to be one of the best sports box sets I have ever come across.

I sure hope they do make another Oklahoma Sooners football DVD box set. This one is the best!!!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the OU video collector or general OU fan, January 19, 2009

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C. SCHMIDT (Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: University of Oklahoma Sooners Greatest Games (DVD)

Each game dvd has a chapter at the start of each quarter & sometimes if any pregame/postgame coverage.

1976 OB- 134 minutes long. An additional 35 minute video called "Sooner Illustrated's The best of the Switzer Shows is included on the dvd. The single sold dvd of this game has more related to this game than what was provided in the dvd set. There is additional 14 minutes of pregame, 25 minutes of halftime & 28 minute highlight film included in the singly sold dvd. The singly sold dvd does not have the "Best of Switzer Shows" video. Both dvd versions of the game have the best color, picture & sound I've seen of this game.

1986 OB- 142 minutes long. The single sold dvd of this game has a little more related to this game than what was provided in the dvd set. There is an additional 6 minutes of pregame, 6 minutes of halftime analysis & 2 minutes of postgame that is provided in the singly sold dvd. Both dvd versions of the game have the best color, picture & sound I've seen of this game.

1987 OB- 125 minutes long. The dvd is missing 6 minutes of NBC's pregame coverage. Overall this dvd has the best the color, picture & sound I've seen of this game compared to privately recorded versions.

1987 Texas- 154 minutes long. Includes CBS' original pregame & postgame coverage. Overall this dvd has the best the color, picture & sound I've seen of this game compared to privately recorded versions with the exception that the picture is jittery in some areas.

1987 Nebraska- 136 minutes long. Missing the 1 minute or so of the CBS opening where they ask Oklahoma & Nebraska people their thoughts on the rivalry. Footage ends with the sideline reporter talking to Switzer. Missing about 1 minute of footage of the broadcast (the signoff) at the end. Overall this dvd has the best the color, picture & sound I've seen of this game compared to privately recorded versions with the exception that the picture is jittery in some areas.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars memory lane, November 21, 2008

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Mark Alexander "mldlalex" (california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: University of Oklahoma Sooners Greatest Games (DVD)

Wow...what a trip down memory lane. Seeing Bosworth, Holiway, Keith Jackson again brought back the goosebumps. Video quality ranges from above average to excellent....the only two things missing is the '71 game against the Cornhuskers and the 2001 Fed Ex Orange Bowl victory over FSU...packaging is steller, opens up to an aerial shot of what was then Owen's Field, filled to capacity, then continues to fold out into a tryptich with the OU ensigna to the left and the list of games to the right...could have come with a small handbook with game stats, etc...overall a definate must have for any Sooner fan...