NFL78 Update: Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath)

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Previous and future NFL78 reports:

-- NFL67 wrap (as posted Jan. 13, 2013)
-- NFL68 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2014)
-- NFL69 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2016)
-- NFL70 wrap (as posted Jan. 17, 2017)
-- NFL71 wrap (as posted Jan. 16, 2018)

-- NFL72 so far (as posted Jan. 17, 2019)

-- Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta) (as posted Jan. 31, 2019)
-- Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath) (as posted Aug. 5, 2019)

-- Super Bowl XIII revisited (as posted March 22, 2014)
-- Earl Campbell's Restaurant in the Austin, Texas Airport (as posted June 25, 2016)

-- NFL14 so far (as posted Jan. 28, 2019)

-- NFL15 so far (as posted Sept 13, 2015)
-- NFL16 so far (as posted Jan. 8, 2017)

NFL78 Update: Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta)

Everybody's 0-0. Well, everybody but the Giants and Buccaneers, who opened the whole NFL78 season in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday night (but finished too late for me to read about in the morning papers of Sunday, Sept. 4, 1978).

The defending-champion Cowboys host the Colts (with rookie Mike Kirkland starting in place of injured Bert Jones) on the NFL Monday Night Football game. The AFC-champ Broncos host the (O-VER-RA-TED! clap! clap! clapclapclap!) Raiders in a late-afternoon Sunday showcase. Among the noon Central kickoffs is the Dolphins at the Jets (with Don Strock starting in place of Bob Griese, who was hurt in an exhibition game), and we can only hope Channel 6 chooses to air that one.

I, however, am at Atlanta:

And so are rookie Earl Campbell and the Oilers ...

Week 1, 1978
Earl Campbell makes his debut in Atlanta.
Earl had a great preseason and the 3rd time he touches the ball he goes 73 yards for the TD.
Little known June Jones gets the start for the #Falcons
Despite Campbell’s 137 yards on the ground, #Falcons win 20-14 pic.twitter.com/NKXacZMRRm

— Old Time Football (@Ol_TimeFootball) January 31, 2019

Previous and future NFL78 reports:

-- NFL67 wrap (as posted Jan. 13, 2013)
-- NFL68 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2014)
-- NFL69 wrap (as posted Jan. 11, 2016)
-- NFL70 wrap (as posted Jan. 17, 2017)
-- NFL71 wrap (as posted Jan. 16, 2018)

-- NFL72 so far (as posted Jan. 17, 2019)

-- Week 1 (Dateline Atlanta) (as posted Jan. 31, 2019)

-- Week 10 (Thanks for the Tip, GoHeath) (as posted Aug. 5, 2019)

-- Super Bowl XIII revisited (as posted March 22, 2014)
-- Earl Campbell's Restaurant in the Austin, Texas Airport (as posted June 25, 2016)

-- NFL14 so far (as posted Jan. 28, 2019)

-- NFL15 so far (as posted Sept 13, 2015)
-- NFL16 so far (as posted Jan. 8, 2017)

Earl Campbell's Restaurant in the Austin, Texas, Airport

Here are some pictures. If I had bought one of Matthew's cameras, the pictures would've been better than these I took with my phone.

Super Bowl XIII

Thank you, NFL Network, which at this moment is airing the original NBC telecast of Super Bowl XIII, which the defending champion Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers contested Jan. 21, 1979, at Miami's Orange Bowl.